[spectre] Industrial landscapes of the future/past: DataisNature and the work of Paul Prudence.

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Industrial landscapes of the future/past: DataisNature and the work of 
Paul Prudence.

By Mark Hancock.

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/industrial-landscapes-futurepast-dataisnature-and-work-paul-prudence

Mark Hancock reviews the research blog DataIsNature 
(http://www.dataisnature.com/) and its curator Paul Prudence, whose work 
captures the landscapes of post-industrial places and filters them 
through the clean/modern frameworks of contemporary media arts practices 
to produce some exhilarating and fascinating live performance cinema.

"Algorithms only really come alive in the temporal time-frames that they 
move through. Their existence depends on being able to move freely along 
time's arrow, unfolding and expanding out in to the universe, or 
reversing themselves backwards into a finite point. Every form and 
structure that the universe creates is the result of a single step along 
that pathway and we're only ever observing it at a single moment. Those 
geological steps can take millions of years to unfold and we can only 
ever really look back and see the steps that happened before we chose to 
observe them. Computational algorithms break down that slow dripping of 
nature's possibilities and allow us to become time-travellers, stepping 
into any point that we choose to." (Hancock 2012)

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