Data loam : sometimes hard, usually soft : the future of knowledge systems / Johnny Golding, Martin Reinhart, Mattia Paganelli, eds.

Includes bibliographical references.

Machine generated contents note: Know Your Name: A Short History of Occidental Knowledge Systems since the Renaissance / Martin Reinhart -- Science Fictioning Singularities: The Diagrammatic Imaginaries of Physics / David Burrows -- Artificial Grief: Distribution of the Sensuous / Anna Nazo -- Pursuing Digital Transformations through Fluorescent Green Bunnies: The Poetics of Technology / Andrew Prescott -- Archiving for an Unknown Future: The State Film Documentation of the GDR (SFD) / Adelheid Heftberger -- On Classification or Wonder Is the Denial of Analogy / Paolo Caneppele -- Algo-Rhythm: A Hip-Hop Film about Microtargeting and Online Electioneering / Manu Luksch -- Crypto Politics: Notes on Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Governance in Blockchain Based Technologies / Jan Groos -- Asymmetry: How Patterns of Impossibility Mark Dimensions in Knowledge Systems / Mattia Paganelli -- Obscene Data / Matthias Strohmaier -- Exhibition Map -- Anna Nazo -- Jimmy Zurek -- Martin Reinhart and Virgil Widrich -- Henry Rogers -- Dario Srbic -- RIAT -- Institute for Future Cryptoeconomics -- Johnny Golding -- Marthin Rozo Castano -- 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 Ozen -- Johannes Frauenschuh and Maximilian Gallo -- Nora Lengyel -- DARC -- Publication Team -- Book Designing in the Age of the Loam / Istem Ozen -- ReMembering / Rebecca Fortnum -- Exquisite Methods: Ruminations of Corporeal Becoming in Artistic Research / Henry Rogers -- Diffractive Care and the Careful Accounting of It / Alberto Condotta -- Headwind, a Scanning Story / Chantal Faust -- Renegade Activism and the Artist-as-Collective / Gerald Nestler -- The Courage to Matter / Johnny Golding -- Evanescing This Harrowed Strata / Jackson 2Bears.

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.-- Source other than the Library of Congress.