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Finity of lists
Creator	Nikos Voyiatzis
Year	2015
Bio	Nikos Voyiatzis' work explores information organisation in its political and aesthetic dimensions, particularly in the networked context. He has a background on Library Science and Information Systems and has been working as an art librarian, information literacy instructor and workshop designer.
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The web is the world of classified information. Individuals as information collectors operate within databases and their lists in order to access information and gain meaning of the world. This research explores the effect of the list on the online information collector by looking at its political and ideological dimensions. It focuses on online lists of search results and how they enforce a flat online experience. Finity of lists is a work that constists of versions of audiovisual interfaces to a distributed collection of online sources. The collection's content refers to the problematics of the list and their effect on the online man. From the modernist notions of universal language and classification, to their critique and notions of topicality and subjugated knowledge, to the contemporary explosion of the cultural technology of the list in the web .The main elements of the work are a subjective taxonomy and a playful online space, which attempt to form a response to the flatness of the list.

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-|Bio=Nikos Voyiatzis' work explores how information organisation constitutes the (online) self. He has a background on Library Science and Information Systems and has been working as an information literacy instructor and workshop designer.
+|Bio=Nikos Voyiatzis' work explores information organisation in its political and aesthetic dimensions, particularly in the networked context. He has a background on Library Science and Information Systems and has been working as an art librarian, information literacy instructor and workshop designer.
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 |Description=The web is the world of classified information. Individuals as information collectors operate within databases and their lists in order to access information and gain meaning of the world. This research explores the effect of the list on the online information collector by looking at its political and ideological dimensions. It focuses on online lists of search results and how they enforce a flat online experience.
-The work is an audiovisual interface to a distributed collection of online sources. The collection's content refers to the problematics of the list and their effect on the online man. From the modernist notions of universal language and classification, to their critique and notions of topicality and subjugated knowledge, to the contemporary explosion of the cultural technology of the list in the web .The main elements of the work are a subjective taxonomy and a playful online space, which attempt to form a response to the flatness of the list.
+Finity of lists is a work that constists of versions of audiovisual interfaces to a distributed collection of online sources. The collection's content refers to the problematics of the list and their effect on the online man. From the modernist notions of universal language and classification, to their critique and notions of topicality and subjugated knowledge, to the contemporary explosion of the cultural technology of the list in the web .The main elements of the work are a subjective taxonomy and a playful online space, which attempt to form a response to the flatness of the list.
-|Catalog-Text= I am interested in the list as a construction of culture that affects the act of (information) collecting through the enforcement of order. This order could be numerical, chronological, alphabetical, even random. Still I see order as an ideological construct, an outcome of ideologies of effectiveness and productivity within a certain economical system based on knowledge, which demands order in the vast amounts of information that surround us. To me the use of the list brings somehow something wrong in the way it makes us see and construct our selves and the world while it enforces a very particularLy navigation within information. here is a political dimension in the list. While the online environment offers many possibilities to create dynamic and interesting information spaces, the lists through which we access databases , so the way our search results are presented to us , doesn't seem to invest in these potentials. The popular search interfaces we use online and their lists of results are extremely predetermined, they destroy the sense of play and of the hunting of information, they even destroy the sense of (online) space. The results of a search could be displayed in a much more playful way that would emphasize collecting of information online not as picking items from a list but more as exploring a world of possibilities. Alltough lists and classification systems are widespread everywhere in the whole of our lives, at least in library science, the political dimensions of classification are somehow overlooked, while its aesthetics are totally ignored. They are both taken for granted . Exploring the list effect on the user of the internet is important to extract insights that would be taken into account in the design of different search interfaces, and their possibilities of providing a different online experience as a response to the established one.
+|Catalog-Text1= I am interested in the list as a construction of culture that affects the act of (information) collecting through the enforcement of order. This order could be numerical, chronological, alphabetical, even random. Still I see order as an ideological construct, an outcome of ideologies of effectiveness and productivity within a certain economical system based on knowledgE. To me the use of the list brings somehow something wrong in the way it makes us see and construct our selves and the world while it enforces a very particularLy navigation within information. There is a political dimension in the list.
+|Catalog-Text2= While the online environment offers many possibilities to create dynamic and interesting information spaces, the lists through which we access databases , so the way our search results are presented to us , doesn't seem to invest in these potentials. The popular search interfaces we use online and their lists of results are extremely predetermined, they destroy the sense of play and of the hunting of information, they even destroy the sense of (online) space. The results of a search could be displayed in a much more playful way that would emphasize collecting of information online not as picking items from a list but more as exploring a world of possibilities.
+|Catalog-Text3= Why has  the internet  been kept so normalising through the materiality of the list? Focused on efficiency and clarity? It has become a tool against serendipity and ambiguity.
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