Data Loam: Sometimes Hard, Usually Soft. The Future of Knowledge Systems

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As a reaction to the dominant effect and interpretive authority of the digital, Data Loam combines radical approaches based on positions taken in the international practice of contemporary art. Previously: insistence on indexicality and the instrumental reduction of knowledge. Instead: a new metric that requires play, curiosity, experiment, and risk. As an urgent response to the continually growing flood of information that libraries, search engines, and cultural institutions are exposed to, the authors develop approaches that suggest and permit sensual logic, causal permeability, and new forms of man–machine interaction. Data Loam focuses on the future of knowledge systems in texts about artificial intelligence, cybernetics, and cryptoeconomics – as a means of counteracting end-of-the-world fears. Contents Introduction Know Your Name: A Short History of Occidental Knowledge Systems since the Renaissance Science Fictioning Singularities: The Diagrammatic Imaginaries of Physics Artificial Grief: Distribution of the Sensuous Pursuing Digital Transformations through Fluorescent Green Bunnies: The Poetics of Technology Archiving for an Unknown Future: The State Film Documentation of the GDR (SFD) On Classification or Wonder Is the Denial of Analogy ALGO-RHYTHM: A Hip-Hop Film about Microtargeting and Online Electioneering Crypto Politics: Notes on Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Governance in Blockchain Based Technologies Asymmetry: How Patterns of Impossibility Mark Dimensions in Knowledge Systems Obscene Data Data Loam. Sometimes Hard, Usually Soft. Exhibition AIL, Angewandte Innovation Lab Exhibition Map Anna Nazo Jimmy Zurek Martin Reinhart and Virgil Widrich Henry Rogers Dario Srbic RIAT—Institute for Future Cryptoeconomics Johnny Golding Marthin Rozo Castaño Marc Schuran Monica C. LoCascio Juan Cruz Manu Luksch Julian Palacz Sophie-Carolin Wagner Mattia Paganelli Leonard Coster and Matthias Strohmaier Florian Unterberger Laura Stoll Despina Zacharopoulou Maurice Ernst Aura Satz Istem Özen Johannes Frauenschuh and Maximilian Gallo Nora Lengyel DARC Publication Team (Maximilian Gallo, Ivonne Gracia Murillo, Monica C. LoCascio, Istem Özen) Book Designing in the Age of the Loam ReMembering Exquisite Methods: Ruminations of Corporeal Becoming in Artistic Research Diffractive Care and the Careful Accounting of It Headwind, a Scanning Story Renegade Activism and the Artist-as-Collective The Courage to Matter Evanescing This Harrowed Strata Acknowledgements Imprint