Surface Web Times By Aymeric Mansoux -
Within a computer network such as the Internet, communication between individuals are heavily mediated by software. Whether if this one is run locally or as a remote service, this mediation works by constantly generating new, or manipulating existing data. Our ability to properly respond to this discrete flow of digital information is therefore modulated by two factors: the amount of data to consume, and the time allocated for this consumption and interpretation.
The amount of data that is available today is gigantic. This volume and its quasi physical properties is at the centre of commercial opportunities in the form of data markets, big data analysis, data brokerage, data mining, but it is also a fundamental component in citizenship driven initiatives such as the open data movement.
"What about network friendly art you may wonder? In order to survive in this environment, art must find extreme strategies that will maintain its visibility when piped in between another tragic event, a couple of leaks and media glitch from a celebrity. For a start, it is perfectly possible for artists to follow the marketing wet dream of appropriating and cracking the recipe of viral creations. In this situation, the work aims at reaching the status of meme in order to maximise its visibility within social networks."
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