Index

Contents

Introduction
Oliver Grau / Inge Hinterwaldner 9
Part I: Political Dimensions in Digital Imagery
Image-Transaction
What You See is Not What You Get
Ingrid Hoelzl 19
Digital Art’s Political Impact
Time for Hard Humanities!
Oliver Grau 34
Part II: “Freedom Act”
Aestheticization of Surveillance, Counterveillance,
and Participatory Agendas
Coping with Uncertainty
Being Resilient
Yael Eylat Van Essen 55
Cultural Politics of Games
Mathias Fuchs 78
Artistic Research and Technocratic Consciousness
Derek Curry / Jennifer Gradecki 87
Part III: Touching Communication Strategies
Social Broadcasting
An Unfinished Communications Revolution
Randall Packer 105
From Celestial Maneuvers to Atmospheric Turmoil
Aesthetic, Political, and Ecological Dimensions of Sky Art and Space Art
Inge Hinterwaldner 126
When Are We?
Adventures in the Machine Readable Self
Chris Salter 140
Part IV: Technopolitics and Artistic Agency
Global Ecology in New Media Art
Physical Computing and the Political Economy of Machines
The Monetary National Income Analog Computer
Andrés Burbano 161
Countering Capitulation
An Arts-Based, Postdisciplinary Approach to Resolving Non-Transparency
Gerald Nestler 173
Capitalocene Art
Entanglements of Technology, Economy, and Geopolitics in works of Femke Herregraven,
Angela Melitopoulos, and Hito Steyerl
Katja Kwastek 194
Part V: Machine Learning, Data Visualizations,
and Architecture
The (In)visible Infrastructures of Information Systems
Double-bind Information Systems in the Work of Teresa Burga
Elisa Arca / José-Carlos Mariátegui 213
Entangled Realities
How Artificial Intelligence is Shaping our World
Sabine Himmelsbach 228
Facebook’s MPK 20 Headquarters designed by Frank Gehry
Viola Rühse 242
Authors 257
Illustration Credits 264