New processes for digital encounters with wild, green spaces

Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran' and The Believers Are but Brothers- digital lack and excess in a postdigital age

“…Many of these studies focus on the elements of computation and digital networked technologies that might escape our everyday attention -the ways 'digital decisions enact new modes of racial profiling' (Noble 2018, p.1), a digitally enabled mode of capitalism that 'claims human experience as free raw material for translation into behavioral data' (Zuboff 2019, p.8), and crucially, 'the opacity with which most of those systems are constructed or described' (Bridle 2018, p.5). In other areas of my practice, I am gently pushing at my use of ubiquitous computing and digital processing in creative work, through conceiving of and engaging with digital networked spaces as 'wild' and beyond our understanding and control (Scott 2019). This is echoed in James Bridle's perspective that 'we often struggle to conceive of and describe the scope and scale of new technologies, meaning that we have trouble even thinking them' (2018, p.5), which is interesting to compare to Matthew Causey's conception of postdigital performance as 'thinking digitally, embodying an activist strategy of critique within and against postdigital culture's various ideological and economic strategies of control, alienation, and self-commodification ' (2016, p.432).…”