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

[Penny travlou]

On Thursday, August 23, 2012, marc wrote:

> Sorry for any cross posting...
>
> 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<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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