DataffectS
Bringing together a wide range of artistic practices, DataffectS examines questions of telecommunications by exploring the space we allow them, their hazards, flaws and excesses, and how we are affected by them, and by the idea of hyper-connection. In this regard, curator Nathalie Bachand wonders 鈥渨hat does this state of hyper-connection 鈥� or the lack of it 鈥� reveal other than that our perception of reality is inevitably influenced by the interference exerted by digital technology on our daily lives, and by the expectation of it when it is absent.鈥�
In the past two decades we have moved from the prospect of exciting connections with technology to its omnipresence, at least in the north-western hemisphere. Elsewhere, people are still awaiting access to public Wi-Fi and to the Internet at home. The continuous presence of new technologies also tends to increase our mental workload. Most of our relationships have some link to the digital sphere, and this can make connection instantaneous. The immediacy of our means of communication makes them shortcuts to continual solicitation and to a real-time updating on the state of the world. Digital data are swift vectors of information, 鈥渕atter鈥� that is volatile yet binding.
Data are at the heart of our digital means of communication. They carry and transport our affects 鈥� our sensory and lived experiences 鈥� through various information transfer processes. From the pre-digital telegraph to the Internet, geolocation to satellite, the ways by which we communicate show a relationship with language. The latter is changing and becoming ever more abstract 鈥� eventually becoming a sequence of 0s and 1s. The other side of the picture reveals that these transmission practices are not without consequence: labour, exploitation and ecological degradation are often the hidden side of the equation.
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Bringing together a wide range of artistic practices, DataffectS examines questions of telecommunications by exploring the space we allow them, their hazards, flaws and excesses, and how we are affected by them, and by the idea of hyper-connection. In this regard, curator Nathalie Bachand wonders 鈥渨hat does this state of hyper-connection 鈥� or the lack of it 鈥� reveal other than that our perception of reality is inevitably influenced by the interference exerted by digital technology on our daily lives, and by the expectation of it when it is absent.鈥�
In the past two decades we have moved from the prospect of exciting connections with technology to its omnipresence, at least in the north-western hemisphere. Elsewhere, people are still awaiting access to public Wi-Fi and to the Internet at home. The continuous presence of new technologies also tends to increase our mental workload. Most of our relationships have some link to the digital sphere, and this can make connection instantaneous. The immediacy of our means of communication makes them shortcuts to continual solicitation and to a real-time updating on the state of the world. Digital data are swift vectors of information, 鈥渕atter鈥� that is volatile yet binding.
Data are at the heart of our digital means of communication. They carry and transport our affects 鈥� our sensory and lived experiences 鈥� through various information transfer processes. From the pre-digital telegraph to the Internet, geolocation to satellite, the ways by which we communicate show a relationship with language. The latter is changing and becoming ever more abstract 鈥� eventually becoming a sequence of 0s and 1s. The other side of the picture reveals that these transmission practices are not without consequence: labour, exploitation and ecological degradation are often the hidden side of the equation.
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