User:Emily/NOTES for Own Research & Resource 10
NETWORKS WITHOUT A CAUSE 2001
Geert Lovink
chapter 8
P134-145
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
After the Fall of the Grand Narrative
- Attentive watching and listening give way to diffused multitasking
- the moment we sit behind a computer, we are susceptible to ADHD
- we must take database-watching seriously, not only just dismiss it as "consuming video clips" That the way how people occupy themselves
- The interface inherently keeps us going and going, and the clip chain continues forever
- Allowing oneself to be led by an endlessly branching database is the cultural constant of the early twenty-first century.
- Time is the message. As Maurizio Lazzarato writes in his Videophilosophie, "video and digital technology machines, like the spirit, crystallise time." With online video we consume our own lack of time.
- The continuous technological revolutions have the dangerous potential to numb us. B-S-B: Boredom-Surprise-Boredom.
- so far there is no evidence of a dialectical turn form quantity into quality.
- It is time to leave behind "reality video," ehich is the candid camera level of spectacular television, and move toward new and yet unexplored forms of dialogical visual culture.