Today, the concept of information is somewhat like the child of divorced parents who is pressured to conform to the views of one parent at a time but never both at the same time. With the advent of digital technologies, this “child” has gro…Shanken, E. (2007). Telematic embrace: Visionary theories of art, technology, and consciousness by Roy Ascott. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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Victoria Vesna
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Victoria Vesna is an artist and theorist working at the intersection of digital art, biotechnology, and networked consciousness who engages with how information becomes a generative force in contemporary culture. Her work appears in the course materials through discussions of how digital technologies have transformed the concept of information from an abstract principle into a material and creative entity. Though cited only obliquely here, she represents the critical artistic perspective needed to situate computational systems within broader questions of embodiment and social transformation.
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