User:Emily/NOTES for Own Research & Resource 10
NETWORKS WITHOUT A CAUSE 2001
Geert Lovink
P134-145
8 ONLINE VIDEO AESTHETICS OR THE ART OF WATCHING DATABASES
- We no longer watch films or TV; we watch databases.
- snack culture of the multitasking prosumer: watch a clip and move on
- what dose it mean that our attention is guided by database systems?
- searching vs finding (why has searchability become become such an essential organizing principle)
- ?? why do we encourage a personal relationship with the relational databse? Are we really in dialogue with the Machine?
- Are there editors in the background recommending the "most popular videos"?
- Cultual awareness of how algorithms function is still a long way off
- Italian artist Albert Figurt, Notre Dame Cathedral
- Beyond the often moralistic critique of gadget fetishism and the praise of technology-free watching, we need to upgrade and focus our "ways of seeing"(Jon Berger) and ways of describing the composition of our contemporary culture