HYPERMINER #1 EXTRACT3D EARTH
HYPERMINER #1_EXTRACT3D EARTH is een artistiek onderzoeksproject en audiovisueel kunstwerk dat de steeds geavanceerdere mijnbouw en HYPER-EXTRACTIE van natuurlijke grondstoffen die de aarde bevat, kritisch bevraagt. De hedendaagse mijnindustrie wordt steeds meer gekenmerkt door het gebruik van artificiële intelligentie, datagestuurde besluitvorming, autonome systemen, robotica en hyperspectral
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INTRODUCTION
1. Backstory The collaboration between Nicole Dewandre and Frederik De Wilde took initially form as series of conversations, both oral and written, in Ispra and in Brussels. Frederik's interest for the Onlife Initiative and the figure of the relational self has been a wonderful opportunity for Nicole to clarify and dig deeper into the relations between hyperconnectivity and n
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HYPERCONNECTIVITY: THE NAME OF OUR ERA!
1. What is hyperconnectivity? Hyperconnectivity is not simply a generic expression for the bulk of information and communication technologies as they exploded in the last three decades. Hyperconnectivity is, in my view, the name of an era coming into being under our eyes and which comes after Modernity, as Middle Age came after Antiquity. The ubiquitous access to internet and the expansion of con
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GREEN LIGHT FOR CRIMINALISING CREATIVITY
1. Article 13: Repressive storm over the Internet Over the last two decades, developments in both digital technologies and information and communication systems have led to profound changes in the production, distribution, exploitation and consumption of creative input. Although this sentence was taken from the foreword of the proposal for a directive on Copyright, the EU, with the adoption of
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SWIMMING IN BITS
1. Swimming in Bits: Searching for truth as a long-lost friend The thematic context of this paper focuses on the journal’s titled provocations, such as; ‘the deployment of digital technologies and hyperconnectivity’. I am writing this text from the perspective of an artist who is trying to make sense of what has taken place, and what are the achievements, failures, expectations, demand
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HOME AND/OR HYPERCONNECTIVITY
1. Home and/or hyperconnectivity On July 9th. 2013 the Onlife Initiative (OI) was presented in Brussels; it was discussed to discover e.g. the ‘blind spots’ and, in the words of chairman Floridi, to try and create a Manifesto ‘for mum’. One of the most elementary items in the document was - and to me still is – the current dichotomy of private space vs. public space, which is – s
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CONTEMPLATING THE VOID
GATES OF HELL Auguste Rodin The Thinker The Thinker, a sculpture created by the French artist Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), is seen as one of the best known artworks he ever made. It presents a seated thinking man, his nudity refers to a heroic character as known in Michelangelo’s tradition. It represents both the intellect and poetry. Michelango always had a great influence
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LIFE AND DEATH OF A STATUE
CLEVELAND THINKER At approximately 1:00 am on March 24, 1970, a bomb irreparably damaged the Cleveland museum’s version of The Thinker. The bomb itself had been placed on a pedestal that supported the enlargement and had the power of about three sticks of dynamite.
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