Search Routines: Tales of Databases

Search Routines: Tales of Databases D21 Kunstraum Leipzig, 2015. Book in english. Condition like new, with extra documents in the book. More books on net culture on my page. Databases pervade our everyday life, they are involved in the individuals most fundamental activi-ties. Through their near invisibility and resistance to narration they produce subtile forms of collective control and normalization, accompanied by keywords such as: mass surveillance, big data, user generated content. "Search Routines: Tales of Databases" consists of three parts: The artistic positions within the exhibition address the invisibility of databases with strategies like narration or translation of data and algorithms. Workshop teachers and participants researched the potential of making the invisible visible or simply of hiding oneself from the databases range of view. The symposium discussed databases from a sociological and cultural science perspective. CONTENTS PREFACE Search Routines: Tales of Databases Lena Brüggemann.. EXHIBITION Exhbition views.. Interview: Sebastian Schmieg.. Interview: Francis Hunger Interview: Kernel... Interview: Pil and Galia Kollektiv. WORKSHOPS Surprise and Experiment - Two workshops that dealt with data bases Francis Hunger. Database Magic Cesca Golodnaya.. Assumptions on the creation of an anonymous artificial person in times of the database Daniel Pauselius... Dynamic Incorporation Association. SYMPOSIUM A New Digital Purity? On Architectures for Digital Immateriality Marcus Burkhardt Database Infrastructure - Factual repercussions of a ghost Francis Hunger...