Papers by Jordan Crandall
Theory, Culture & Society, 2010
Abstract In a modern, calculative world, the techniques of tracking are everywhere in the ascenda... more Abstract In a modern, calculative world, the techniques of tracking are everywhere in the ascendant. Enhanced by algorithmic procedures and analytics, they have been incorporated into distributed network systems, augmented by new sensing and locationing ...
Atlantica Revista De Arte Y Pensamiento, 2008
... | Ayuda. El conductivo, un agente de formas y excitaciones The conductive, agent of forms and... more ... | Ayuda. El conductivo, un agente de formas y excitaciones The conductive, agent of forms and excitations. Autores: Jordan Crandall; Localización: Atlántica Internacional: Revista de arte y pensamiento, ISSN 1132-8428, Nº. 46, 2008 , pags. 122-129. ...
Multitudes, 2004
Versions papier et électronique : les numéros sont expédié par poste au fur et à mesure de leur p... more Versions papier et électronique : les numéros sont expédié par poste au fur et à mesure de leur parution. Tous les numéros en ligne sont immédiatement accessibles. ... ATTENTION : cette offre d'abonnement est exclusivement réservée aux particuliers. Pour un abonnement ...
Virilio and Visual Culture, 2012
Cognitive Architecture, 2011
The world moves, and we aim to harness its movements. We channel flows of energy and matter in or... more The world moves, and we aim to harness its movements. We channel flows of energy and matter in order to achieve an advantage of some kind. We occupy movement through calculative technologies that seduce us with the illusion of control, the ability to catalyze events and shape outcomes. In a modern, calculative world, all movement is subjected to tracking: translated into a measurable form that can be durably reproduced, in ways that standardize this movement, optimize it, and infuse it with the potential to be predicted.
Cultural Politics: An International Journal, 2006
Sub-stance, 2011
Beginning with the mid-century rise of computing, the practice of tracking has relied on observat... more Beginning with the mid-century rise of computing, the practice of tracking has relied on observational experts installed in the control rooms of military and intelligence operations-specialists skilled in the detection and interpretation of the movements of the world, arrayed before them on images or maps. Propelled by the efficiency demands of the new cultures of security, these observation-based procedures have now ceded, at least in part, to algorithmic ones, in ways that challenge the centrality of human agency.
Books by Jordan Crandall
Autodrive is a work of literary fiction that melds techno-scientific inquiry and storytelling, cr... more Autodrive is a work of literary fiction that melds techno-scientific inquiry and storytelling, critical theory and comedy, speculative fiction and satire. It is a road novel of sorts, an odyssey along the highways at a time when a new form of superintelligence has emerged. This new form of artificial intelligence is not entirely distinct from the characters in the narrative-it is ingrained in the machines they already use, the vehicles they already take, the systems they are already part of, but cannot fully see. The human character who is typically at the center of the fictional world gives way to an eccentric cast of performers-an ensemble of people and machines.
How are we to understand works of art that are realized with viewers’ physical involvement? How a... more How are we to understand works of art that are realized with viewers’ physical involvement? How are we to analyze a relationship between a work of art and its audience that is rooted in an experience both aesthetic and physical when “user experience” is a central concern of a society held in the grip of omnipresent interactivity? Between two seemingly opposed modes, contemplation and use, this book offers a third option: that of “practicable” works, made for and of audience action. Today, these works often use digital technologies, but artists have created participatory works since the mid-twentieth century. In this volume, critics, writers, and artists provide diverse perspectives on this kind of “practicable” art, discussing and documenting a wide variety of works from recent decades. Practicable returns to the mainstays of contemporary art from the 1950s to the present, examining artistic practices that integrate the most forward-looking technologies, disregarding the false division between artworks that are technologically mediated and those that are not. Practicable proposes a historical framework to examine art movements and tendencies that incorporate participatory strategies, drawing on the perspectives of the humanities and sciences. It investigates performance and exhibition, as well as key works by artists including Marina Abramović, Janet Cardiff, Lygia Clark, Piotr Kowalski, Robert Morris, David Rokeby, and Krzysztof Wodiczko, and features interviews with such leading artists and theoreticians as Matt Adams of Blast Theory, Claire Bishop, Nicolas Bourriaud, Thomas Hirschhorn, Bruno Latour, Seiko Mikami, and Franz Erhard Walther.
How are we to understand works of art that are realized with viewers' physical involvement? How a... more How are we to understand works of art that are realized with viewers' physical involvement? How are we to analyze a relationship between a work of art and its audience that is rooted in an experience both aesthetic and physical when " user experience " is a central concern of a society held in the grip of omnipresent interactivity? Between two seemingly opposed modes, contemplation and use, this book offers a third option: that of " practicable " works, made for and of audience action. Today, these works often use digital technologies, but artists have created participatory works since the mid-twentieth century. In this volume, critics, writers, and artists provide diverse perspectives on this kind of " practicable " art, discussing and documenting a wide variety of works from recent decades. Practicable returns to the mainstays of contemporary art from the 1950s to the present, examining artistic practices that integrate the most forward-looking technologies, disregarding the false division between artworks that are technologically mediated and those that are not. Practicable proposes a historical framework to examine art movements and tendencies that incorporate participatory strategies, drawing on the perspectives of the humanities and sciences. It investigates performance and exhibition, as well as key works by artists including, and features interviews with such leading artists and theoreticians as Matt Adams of Blast Theory
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