Yesterday, the influential Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen published what he titled The Techno-Optimist Manifesto, an anti-regulation anti-ethics hyper-capitalist growth-obsessed screed that, sadly, highlights the thinking that’s led to so much exploitative toxic tech. Instead of writing a point-by-point …
Video: Benjamin Grosser presented his work, Facebook Demetricator, at the Institute of Network Cultures’ Unlike Us #3 conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
The English text of my recent interview with Roboteknia, a Mexican robotics mag. We discuss my painting machine, the role of technology in the arts, whether robots have ‘souls,’ and where things are headed in the art/tech world.
How Facebook transforms individuals into instruments of capital, limits self-description, and controls one’s visual presentation of self identity.
Our everyday interactions are increasingly mediated by technology, be they mobile phones, chat systems, or social networking sites. These systems are designed to anticipate and support our needs and desires while facilitating those interactions. As these systems grow in complexity, …
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Watch my latest work run live at this exhibition space in downtown Champaign, IL.
Personal Depersonalization Systemcustom software2011 Every phrase you search, every link you click, and every path you follow is databased, profiled, and indexed so that Google and other data tracking companies can develop a refined portrait of who they think you …
Do we really need to hear more fake clarinets or to see more computer-drawn portraits? What about something new?
Is temporal media affecting our ability to store memories? Consideration of this idea and others in the context of Paul Virilio’s The Vision Machine.
If you don’t speak will anyone see you? Do surveillance technologies modify the way we speak or think about ourselves in public? What happens if we can see conversation dynamics? Will it change the conversation? This work, titled Finding Your …
The pace of cuts in reality TV has been steadily increasing, and now often obfuscates the content it presents. In fact, this increase is common throughout temporal media and has been accelerating for years. I’m interested in the potential effects …
I’m interested in the ways that communications technologies are changing human interaction. Whichever technology one chooses, that mode cannot avoid altering both the content and connotation of the messages it is meant to deliver. In the world of employment, the …