MEDIATING [electronic resource].

Blackwood Gallery 2021

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This eighth SDUK broadsheet takes MEDIATING as its theme, in parallel with the Blackwood’s virtual program Running with Concepts: The Mediatic Edition, to consider sites and practices of mediation in culture, technology, and media. Following SDUK07: TILTING (an urgent 2-part issue in response to the first wave of COVID-19), the series returns in 2021—albeit in a form that continues to be shaped by the effects of the pandemic—and launches simultaneously on the Blackwood website. For those who wonder, how are mediated circumstances changing our ways of relating and predicting?, excerpts from Tommy Pico’s book-length poem Junk (p. 18) offer a riotous convergence of land, love, and queer sexuality against the ever-looming backdrops of climate change, fascism, and settler colonialism. Reckoning with futurity in his continued engagement with economics, D.T. Cochrane critiques economic forecasting’s failure to model for uncertainty (p. 30). With tech companies holding monop-olies on internet infrastructures, some readers may wonder: What forms of technology critique and dissent are needed? A panel discussion with Meredith Broussard, Beth Coleman, and Shalini Kantayya reflects on the biases amplified in artificial intelligence and facial recognition technologies (p. 7); while Taeyoon Choi warns against repeating the inaccessible, racially-homogenous, and male-dominated norms of tech companies within the emergence of the distributed web (p. 4). Mike Pepi’s Elements of Technology Criticism aims to set baseline principles for broad-scale technology critique, and his accompanying essay reflects on a recent workshop where participants co-wrote and annotated responses to his text (p. 16)…
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Algorithms
Technology and the arts
Art criticism
Imperialism
Data mining
Economics
Feminist Theory
Sexual minority culture
Racism

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Meredith Broussard
Ted Chiang
Taeyoon Choi
D.T. Cochrane
Beth Coleman
Constance Hockaday
Shalini Kantayya
Feminist Data Manifest-No
Marika Cifor
Patricia Garcia
TL Cowan
Jasmine Rault
Tonia Sutherland
Anita Say Chan
Jennifer Rode
Anna Lauren Hoffmann
Niloufar Salehi
Lisa Nakamura
Emily Mast
Yehuda Duenyas
HOW ARE WE
Mike Pepi
Tommy Pico
Tiara Roxanne
Stephanie Syjuco
Matthew Hoffman
Alan Woo
Joy Xiang