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TECHNOLOGY & GRAPHIC DESIGN (COMPUTER GAMES (PERFORMANCE (Live…
TECHNOLOGY & GRAPHIC DESIGN
NETWORKS
SOCIAL MEDIA / NETWORKING
CAPITALIST REALISM, inescapable resignation to the current situation. 'There is no other alternative' – Margaret Thatcher
PERFORMANCE
60s Performance art was a way of escaping the commodification of art. But has since been commodified in its forms of documentation. Can you escape this?
Online Performances
Amalia Ulman
ONLINE vs OFFLINE performances
Is the physical still a space to privilege?
Is this changing?
COMMODIFICATION OF THE SELF
Data-self
Rights over data
Jennifer Lyn Morone™ Inc
Data lives on
Data as a form of control
Selfies
Digital make-up
AR Filters
Society of the Spectacle – Guy de Bord
Personal Branding
SMARTPHONE: A PROXY FOR PERSONAL IDENTITY
MEMES
Sincerity VS Irony
NETWORK CONTROL i.e. providers/monopolies
PLATFORM/DIGITAL FEUDALISM
UBER / AIR BNB / ADOBE
AESTHETICS
TRENDS
Image aggregators
'trending'
WEB 2.0 / 3.0
RELATIONAL DESIGN
PERFORMATIVE DESIGN
CONDITIONAL DESIGN
AESTHETICS
ALGORITHMS
Real time web
LIVE
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
DEGROWTH
FLORIAN CRAMER: EMPHASIS OF THE DESIGN ON THE PROCESS AND ON THE MAKING (WORKSHOPS, ETC.)
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Against Individualism / in favour of collective activity
anti-consumerism
BITCOIN MINING
SERVER SYSTEMS + DATABASES
'THE CLOUD'
All smartphones are built with raw materials (cobalt, lithium) mined by a ruthless extractive industry.
SCHOOL / UNIVERSITY
The Neoliberal Institution
Increased responsibilities / functions
Instituional branding / online presence
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
AUTOMATION DESIGN
ALGORITHMIC PERFORMANCE
Good Old Fashioned Artificial Intelligence (GOFAI)
MACHINE LEARNING
Voice assistants
performative utterance – action to surface 'alexa' 'ok google'
performing for machines. Gestures, commands, voice
Human Condition
BLACK BOX
IDEAS OF 'THE NEW'
ACCELERATIONISM
As an aesthetic
VAPORWAVE as critique of Capitalism. Attempts to show the lifeless, dead shells of consumer “culture” that capital has left behind
Neo-classicism
baroque capitalism –UX / typography as decoration / accelerationism aesthetic?
Rudnick
Oswell
Is it possible to seperate the urge to produce the 'new' from what can be seen as a neoliberal imperative?
Why?
What is 'progress'
CAPITALISM
CAN TECHNOLOGY BE SEPERATED FROM THIS
WHAT ARE THE ALTERNATIVES?
Aaron Bastani – Fully Automated Luxury Communism
Circular economy
Co-operatives
Shared ownership
Technological supply chains
The Black Stack
Planetary-scale computation
Multilayered impact of production and effect
Amazon Alexa diagram wins Beazley Design Award
labs.rs
ai now institute
PROSUMERS – producers and consumers – Alvin Toffler
Techonologically Enabled Realities
Virtual reality
Hito – Goldfish bowl vision – individualism
Augmented reality
Mirrorworlds
Google Earth
COMPUTER GAMES
1st person perspective
Individualism
3rd person perspective
Narrative
PERFORMANCE
Live streaming
Twitch
Shared live experience
GLITCH ART/AESTHETICS
Revealing the underlying materiality / so long as a viewer is engaging critically
IMMERSION
Politics of Play
Situationist tactics
Play as means of inquiry
SCALE
2.2 billion 'players'
AS ART OR 'HIGH' CULTURE
Difficulty in displaying video games within an art or exhibition context
ONLINE
democraticisation of gaming via devices, internet etc.
MMORPG
ECONOMICS
Indie vs Big studios more accessible tools
Ideology
Alfie Brown – Playstation dream worlds
ECONOMICS
FUTURE OF WORK
Digital / neoliberal precarity
Entreprecariat
Flexible working hours 24/7
immaterial labor
'Being social is part of my self‑ presenting performance, it’s part of my occupation.' Terreza
Playbour
Data self
algorithms based on our previous behaviours
Labour arrangements behind
every technology we use (low cost of Chinese labor)
UNIONS
The machines would make us work less but in fact we have been working more hours than ever before.
POLITICS
PRACTICE
TOOLS
McLuhan – We shape our tools and then our tools shape us
CUSTOMISATION
Consumerism
SOFTWARE
MEDIUM / FORMAT
medium is the message