Against Gardening

By patricia, August 12, 2021

this essay is published in On the Necessity of Gardening: An ABC of Art, Botany and Cultivation Against Gardening: Moments in the Life of a Gardener by Patricia de Vries The story is the schoolbook example of Joseph Campbell’s monomyth template: a protagonist encounters a decisive moral challenge and, after some struggle, learns an important [...]

Design for Care? Narratives of Climate Care in Design

By patricia, August 8, 2021

this article is published in Press & Fold Magazine Design for Care? Narratives of Climate Care in Design by Patricia de Vries May you live in interesting times, is an expression you may have heard over the past year. Some use it as a blessing — something you may wish for others. Others [...]

Slanted Magazine #37 AI : Algorithmic Anxiety in Art & Design

By patricia, August 8, 2021

Slanted Magazine published an excerpt from my book Algorithmic Anxiety. You can find their #37 AI issue here Here’s the PDF of the article: Slanted_AI#37_Patricia-de-Vries

Dividual Privacy in the Era of Algorithmic Profiling

By patricia, September 22, 2020

This review was first published in the journal Global Media and Communication. You can find it here. Review: John Cheney-Lippold, We Are Data: Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves, New York: New York University Press, 2017, 315 pp; $ 27.73, (hardback). ISBN: 978-1-4798-5759-3. by Patricia de Vries One might say, in the spirit of Langdon [...]

The Speculative Design of Immaculate Motherhood

By patricia, June 24, 2020

This article was first published by DigiCult by Patricia de Vries In the next five years, the artificial womb will become a medical reality. Ectogenesis, outside-the-womb gestation, is increasingly viable for human embryos. Will it lead to a feminist utopia, or is it the newest manifestation of an age-old male fantasy? This question has occupied [...]

It’s a book!

By patricia, June 15, 2020

Algorithmic Anxiety in Contemporary Art: A Kierkegaardian Inquiry into the Imaginary of Possibility by Patricia de Vries Available as open access E-pub here. Over the past decade, a growing number of artists and critical practitioners have become engaged with algorithms. This artistic engagement has resulted in algorithmic theatre, bot art, and algorithmic media and performance [...]

Algorithmic Anxiety: Masks and camouflage in artistic imaginaries of facial recognition algorithms

By patricia, October 15, 2019

This paper discusses prominent examples of what we call “algorithmic anxiety” in artworks engaging with algorithms. In particular, we consider the ways in which artists such as Zach Blas, Adam Harvey and Sterling Crispin design artworks to consider and critique the algorithmic normativities that materialize in facial recognition technologies. Many of the artworks we [...]

‘Het Internet’, in real life-fetisjisme en Søren Kierkegaard

By patricia, October 15, 2019

Waar de cyberspace eerst de mogelijkheid van een utopische ruimte leek voor te stellen, lijkt het internet vandaag de dag meer op het paard van Troje. Van de talloze internetkritieken is de meest voorkomende dat een handjevol socialemedia- en techgiganten het internet domineert en astronomisch rijk is geworden door onze persoonlijke gegevens te verzamelen, op [...]

Conjuring Spirits in the Black Box of Finance

By patricia, March 21, 2019

Conjuring Spirits in the Black Box of Finance by Patricia de Vries This essay appeared in State Machines: Reflections and Actions at the Edge of Digital Citizenship, Finance, and Art. Order a free copy or download the epub here. The whole terrible fight occurred in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of [...]

Drones & Dreams: A Speculative Sprint Story Collection

By patricia, January 17, 2019

This sketch appeared in Drones and Dreams: A Speculative Sprint Story Collection, produced by Digital Asia Hub. The book can be downloaded here. A day in the life of Bennie, a gatherer of stray nanobots: “It’s crazy this time of the year. I feel burned out. We get about 500 calls each day and we [...]