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Sonja Gerdes.pdf

Sonja Gerdes

"Cloaca Projects is situated in a small, garage-like space on the old industrial edge of San Francisco, a rapidly changing city dedicated more and more to new technical systems of hyperefficiency. Sonja Gerdes's recent project for Cloaca portrayed uncertain states of relation with such technologies as human beings lurch into the future. Her suite of sculptures represented living creatures as they become augmented, undermined, or superseded by built extensions. Individually and as an ensemble, they functioned as signs of dystopian outcomes amid a scientistic culture of optimism."

Author(s): Brian Karl
Type: journal article
Publication: Artforum International
Status: Live|Last updated:October 28, 2019 11:54 AM
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Digital_Tradition_Arrangement.pdf

Digital Tradition: Arrangement and Labor in Istanbul's Recording Studio Culture by Eliot Bates (review)

"The author effectively deploys multiple overarching framing devices, including the central one of the book's title: that developing versions of "traditional" musical products have been innovated through new digital means of audio recording and editing, enabling a "cut-and-paste" methodology where musical fragments can be intensively rearranged—with resultantly shifting aesthetic values. [...]the creation of "ethnic" music in the popular realm in Turkey in recent generations, while drawing on some musical elements of established customary use in certain locales, is as much dependent on arbitrary choices of other musical practices integrated into composite productions by professional studio practitioners. "Latency" is one especially generative notion the author proposes in tracking "lags" across different domains—from historical cultural values and social negotiations to cognitive psychology to the physics of temporal duration in translations from acoustical to analog electrical to digital signals and back aga…

Author(s): Brian Karl
Type: journal article
Publication: Technology and Culture
Status: Live|Last updated:October 28, 2019 11:52 AM
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digital-turn.pdf

The Digital Turn: Design in the Era of Interactive Technologies

Author(s): Saraleah Fordyce
Type: journal article
Publication: Design and Culture: The Journal of the Design Studies Forum
Status: Live|Last updated:November 2, 2015 11:52 AM
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