Back Up Your Data! Developing Protocols for Artistic Research with Media
<p>Within mediated conditions, at some level everything becomes reduced to data. How do art practices collect data, circulate it, and themselves become data? How do artists and organizations reckon with the production and circulation of knowledge in increasingly online media environments? <em>Running with Concepts: The Mediatic Edition </em>examined how forms of digital storytelling, ethics, access, governance, and data sovereignty are being practiced in other disciplines. By looking at how media-makers across diverse fields are engaging with new technological tools and practices, <em>The Mediatic Edition </em>considered how these paradigms map onto artistic practice. In <em>Back Up Your Data!, </em>respondents to <em>Running with Concepts: The Mediatic Edition </em>reflect on new insights from an increasingly mediated arts ecology, and identify ongoing needs within the sector to engage with dominant tech paradigms—such as platform capitalism, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and viral media…</p>
Editors: Alison Cooley, Fraser McCallum
Contributors: Alison Cooley, Fraser McCallum, Emily Doucet, Aliya Pabani, Zinnia Naqvi, D.T. Cochrane
Print Designer: Matthew Hoffman
Copy Editor: Daniella Sanader
Web Designer: Alan Woo
Part of: The Blackwood