Cryptocurrency offered to the global underprivileged in exchange for biometric data; a fragmentary ‘common sense’ on Gramscian lines produced by training generative AI. Hito Steyerl reflects on the hegemonic relations of new tech models.
An artist considers a new form of machinic representation: the statistical rendering of large datasets, indexed to the probable rather than the real of photography; to the uncanny composite rather than the abstraction of the graph.
Hito Steyerl on Julian Stallabrass, Killing for Show. Analysis of the changing role of war photography—witness for the defence, or aide to the prosecution?—from Vietnam to Iraq.
Have algorithms and data-farming short-circuited relations between computers, games and the economy, to create a world of involuntary play—and can critical art practice suggest ways to turn the tables?