Shephard, M. (2013). Minor Urbanism: Everyday entanglements of technology and urban life. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 27(4), 483-494.
This article covers ways that artists are using "technology" or commenting on the use of technology.
technicity - the productive power of technology to make things happen
transduction - the constant making of a new domain in reiterative and transformative practices
"practicing minor urbanism involves reconfiguring, recircuiting and redirecting these normative systems and infrastructures in ways that open them up alternate social and political dynamics."
"Also indicates trend towards increasingly mobile actors and the role of technologies of convince as an indicator of contemporary culture."
I really enjoyed the Corner Convenience work. The video and the book are both good works that push us to think about things in different ways.
Gates, K. (2004). The Past Perfect Promise of Facial Recognition Technology (pp. 1-16). Urbana, IL: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Kelly Gates Paper is about the use of Facial Recognition software, and particularly looking at it in a post 9/11 world.
technostalgic - Thinking something would have happened differently if a technology we have currently existed in the past.
"Other questions that are considered relevant to development of automated recognition concern how children recognize faces, what role facial expressions play in recognition, the role of race and gender, and our ability to recognize faces in ages of varying quality." - 8
"Computerized forms of bodily identification are in many ways consistent with these earlier state efforts, and similarly tied to cultural preoccupations with constructing the limits and possibilities of the nation-state." - 5
Something that this article made me think of was a TED talk about how screens will be able to read our emotions.
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