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Dark Matters: Critical Theory Fall 2018 / School for Poetic Computation
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FA.B134.3162
36 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
2018
Activism, Education
Softcover. Staple bound. Anthology containing works by students from School for Poetic Computation critical theory of technology class. Yellow, gold, and raspberry inks on black paper.
"The title of the class was 'Dark Matters: Blackness, Surveillance, and the Whiteness of the Screen; and included readings from authors Simone Browne, Wendy Chun, Audre Lorde, Donna Haraway, Carmen Papalia, Mia Mingus, and Jackie Wang ...
Sharing a namesake with Simone Browne's Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness, this class sought accountability to our mutual histories, taking a critical focus on identity, visibility, opacity, obfuscation, and automation, and how one reckons with the contention of their own body in public and private. Together we questioned how to remain critical of legacy power structures that are embedded in the devices we interface with daily."--from introduction by American Artist and Nabil Hassein
Table of Contents: Confirm. Deny. Existence. Nonexistence. / Neta Bomani & Galen Macdonald -- Scripture / Ilona Brand -- Erotic Hardware / Tim Burcham -- Susie Fu -- Digital Typography in Culture / Lynne Yun -- Kate Chanba -- A Mirror that Reflects Desire / Tomoya Matsuura -- Vagina Vortex / Sonia Boller -- Objections to Facebook's Automatic Alternative Text / Patrick Steppan -- Flags / Thor B. Jakobsen -- Don't Call My Computer Sexy / Marcus Fleming -- Meg Dholakia -- Digitizing the Body / Elizabeth Lin
"Contributors: Edgardo Milla; Eli Muro; Elizabeth Lin; Galen Macdonald; Ilona Brand; Kate Chanba; Lynne Yun; Meg Dholakia; Marcus Fleming; Neta Bomani; Patrick Steppan; Sonia Boller; Susie Fu; Tomoya Matsuura; Tim Burcham; Thor B. Jakobsen. Special thanks to guest faculty Melanie Hoff and Shannon Finnegan, visiting artist Sondra Perry, zine designers Lynne Yun and American Artist, and Daniel Kent and Pioneer Works for allowing us to print this zine. Cover image from Vagina Vortex by Sonia Boller."--from colophons
"“Dark Matters”, an anthology zine, grew out of the class “Dark Matters: Blackness, Surveillance, and the Whiteness of the Screen,” taught by American Artist at sfpc. Its design embodies the tactility of some of the projects on display, as it requires a black light to clearly read its text."--from December 4, 2018 article by Megan Liberty in Hyperallergic, accessed July 23, 2024
"School for Poetic Computation is an artist run school in New York that was founded in 2013. A small group of students and faculty work closely to explore the intersection of code, design, hardware and theory -- focusing especially on artistic intervention. It's a hybrid of a school, residency and research group."--from inside cover
"The title of the class was 'Dark Matters: Blackness, Surveillance, and the Whiteness of the Screen; and included readings from authors Simone Browne, Wendy Chun, Audre Lorde, Donna Haraway, Carmen Papalia, Mia Mingus, and Jackie Wang ...
Sharing a namesake with Simone Browne's Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness, this class sought accountability to our mutual histories, taking a critical focus on identity, visibility, opacity, obfuscation, and automation, and how one reckons with the contention of their own body in public and private. Together we questioned how to remain critical of legacy power structures that are embedded in the devices we interface with daily."--from introduction by American Artist and Nabil Hassein
Table of Contents: Confirm. Deny. Existence. Nonexistence. / Neta Bomani & Galen Macdonald -- Scripture / Ilona Brand -- Erotic Hardware / Tim Burcham -- Susie Fu -- Digital Typography in Culture / Lynne Yun -- Kate Chanba -- A Mirror that Reflects Desire / Tomoya Matsuura -- Vagina Vortex / Sonia Boller -- Objections to Facebook's Automatic Alternative Text / Patrick Steppan -- Flags / Thor B. Jakobsen -- Don't Call My Computer Sexy / Marcus Fleming -- Meg Dholakia -- Digitizing the Body / Elizabeth Lin
"Contributors: Edgardo Milla; Eli Muro; Elizabeth Lin; Galen Macdonald; Ilona Brand; Kate Chanba; Lynne Yun; Meg Dholakia; Marcus Fleming; Neta Bomani; Patrick Steppan; Sonia Boller; Susie Fu; Tomoya Matsuura; Tim Burcham; Thor B. Jakobsen. Special thanks to guest faculty Melanie Hoff and Shannon Finnegan, visiting artist Sondra Perry, zine designers Lynne Yun and American Artist, and Daniel Kent and Pioneer Works for allowing us to print this zine. Cover image from Vagina Vortex by Sonia Boller."--from colophons
"“Dark Matters”, an anthology zine, grew out of the class “Dark Matters: Blackness, Surveillance, and the Whiteness of the Screen,” taught by American Artist at sfpc. Its design embodies the tactility of some of the projects on display, as it requires a black light to clearly read its text."--from December 4, 2018 article by Megan Liberty in Hyperallergic, accessed July 23, 2024
"School for Poetic Computation is an artist run school in New York that was founded in 2013. A small group of students and faculty work closely to explore the intersection of code, design, hardware and theory -- focusing especially on artistic intervention. It's a hybrid of a school, residency and research group."--from inside cover
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