Anja Groten – The Aesthetics of Power

By martaburugorri, November 11, 2013

In this third session Anja Groten presents “The aesthetics of power”. Unfortunately Anja Groten was not present at the conference, instead, she replaced her physical presence with an audiovisual presentation. Anja Groten is a designer and researcher based in Amsterdam who presents for Society of the Query her project called “Machina recordatio“. Machina Recordatio gives [...]

Astrid Mager – Is Small Beautiful? Big Search and its Alternatives

By martaburugorri, November 11, 2013

Short interview with Astrid Mager from network cultures on Vimeo. In the first session Astrid Mager tells us about search engines, pointing out that Google is not the only search engine that is using personal data for commercial interests, or for instance, collaborating with the NSA. She holds that we shouldn’t blame only Google as there are many other [...]

Kylie Jarrett – Search for the Google God: Metaphysics and the Social Imaginary of Search

By martaburugorri, November 11, 2013

Short interview with Kylie Jarrett from network cultures on Vimeo. In this first session of Friday Kylie Jarrett talks about the history of search, going back to metaphysical desires on historical information technologies but focusing as well on Google and contemporary search engines. Kylie highlights two sources of deep importance in the history of search; past practices that are [...]

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Anja Groten – The Aesthetics of Power

Astrid Mager – Is Small Beautiful? Big Search and its Alternatives

Kylie Jarrett – Search for the Google God: Metaphysics and the Social Imaginary of Search