Is talent important in net art? This group of works gives us the answer. Let us remember that the name Talent was that of an ancient coin. What is a coin but a condensed power to take something out. The possibility to move a thing, an action, a power, from one state into another, to [...]
MF: you recently completed ‘Tigertxt’ a project working
with Amber Nectar, the football fanzine of Hull City to
produce a temporary SMS network for the zine and for the
fans of the club. What kind of situation was Hull City in
when the project started, how did the connection with Amber
Nectar come about?
RB: I’m [...]
MF: In your new book, ‘The Factory of Unhappiness’ you
describe a class formation, the ‘cognitariat’ - a conflation
of cognitive worker and proletarian, working in ’so-called
jobs’. You’ve also previously used the idea of the ‘Virtual
Class’. What are the qualities of the conitariat and how
might they be distinguished from this slightly higher strata
depicted by Kroker and Weinstein [...]
MF: What are the questions you are asking about the structure of the
web, and about the software that is being developed to use it that
suggest the approaches to it deployed in WebTracer?
NP: Well aware of the legacy of webmapping as a supposed demystifying
device and fetishised formalistic perversion of form I do not intend [...]
I spread plans out on the giant glass table. Turn Brixton into Brighton - dig out a channel through Kent, Sussex and let the sea roll in up to Streatham Hill. More geostrategic entertainment zones. 10 000 hole crazy golf course as workfare replaces Dagenham.
200 yards away from the Tower of London which is above [...]
The scene: an office complex designed to look like a squatted warehouse. A table surrounded by figures. It could be any time of the day or night. It could be a party. It could be work.