Synopses & Reviews
Divided into three sections, <i>Error</i> brings together established critics and emerging voices to offer a significant contribution to the field of new media studies. In the first section, "Hack," contributors explore the ways in which errors, glitches, and failure provide opportunities for critical and aesthetic intervention within new media practices. In the second section, "Game," they examine how errors allow for intentional and accidental co-opting of rules and protocols toward unintended ends. The final section, "Jam," considers the role of error as both an inherent "counterstrategy" and a mode of tactical resistance within a network society. <br/><p>By offering a timely and novel exploration into the ways in which error and noise "slip through" in systems dominated by principles of efficiency and control, this collection provides a unique take on the ways in which information theory and new media technologies inform cultural practice. </p>>
Synopsis
Divided into three sections, Error brings together established critics and emerging voices to offer a significant contribution to the field of new media studies. In the first section, "Hack," contributors explore the ways in which errors, glitches, and failure provide opportunities for critical and aesthetic intervention within new media practices. In the second section, "Game," they examine how errors allow for intentional and accidental co-opting of rules and protocols toward unintended ends. The final section, "Jam," considers the role of error as both an inherent "counterstrategy" and a mode of tactical resistance within a network society.
By offering a timely and novel exploration into the ways in which error and noise "slip through" in systems dominated by principles of efficiency and control, this collection provides a unique take on the ways in which information theory and new media technologies inform cultural practice.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTIONError, Noise and Potential: The Outside of PurposeMark Nunes, Southern Polytechnic State University
HACK1. Revealing ErrorsBenjamin Mako Hill, Massachusetts Institute of Technology2. Aesthetics of the Error: Media Art, the Machine, the Unforeseen and the Errant Tim Barker, University of New South Wales3. Information, Noise, et al. Susan Ballard, Dunedin School of Art4. Add-Art and Your Neighbors' Biz: A Tactical Manipulation of Noise xtine burrough, California State University, Fullerton5. Stock Images, Filler Content, Semantic Ambiguity Christopher Grant Ward
GAME6. Gaming the Glitch: Room for Error Peter Krapp, University of California, Irvine7. The Seven Million Dollar PowerPoint and Its Aftermath: What Happens When the House Intelligence Committee Sees "Terrorist Use of the Internet" in a Battlefield 2 Fan Film Elizabeth Losh, University of California, Irvine8. Disrupting the Public Sphere: Mediated Noise and Oppositional Politics Ted Gournelos, Rollins College9. Wikipedia, Error, and Fear of the Bad Actor Mark Nunes, Southern Polytechnic State University
JAM10. Contingent Operations: Reticular Aesthetics, Transduction, and the EKMRZ TrilogyMichael Dieter, University of Melbourne11. Queer/Error: Gay Media Systems and Processes of AbjectionChad Parkhill, University of QueenslandJessica Rodgers, Queensland University of Technology12. Error-Contagion: Network Hypnosis and Collective CulpabilityTony D. Sampson, University of East London13. Error 1337Stuart Moulthrop, University of Baltimore
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