Jordan Crandall Livres

INTERACTION began as online forum, hosted by Eyebeam Atelier, featuring an international group of artists, scholars, critics, architects, students, technicians, and curators. Discussing the transformations wrought by the Internet--particularly the latter's implications for artistic practices--the participants in this forum illustrate how the impassioned debates taking place on the Net can help forge new kinds of communities, discourses, and intimate connections across this most transitory of landscapes. This volume presents new essays and commissioned visual projects that elaborate on the crucial ideas raised in the forum--the new kinds of cultural identifications facilitated by the Internet; the relationship between art and activism; the poetics of online communication; the relevance of the museum in a digital world; and the complex relationships between bodies, information systems, and urban realities. What emerges is an unequivocal assertion of the continuing relevance of art in this era of increasing corporate colonization of the Web, changing critical strategies, and new questions of public and private space. Contributors to INTERACTION include Robert Atkins, Carlos Basualdo, Critical Art Ensemble, Coco Fusco, N. Katherine Hayles, Martin Jay, Knowbotic Research, Lev Manovich, Margaret Morse, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Saskia Sassen, Yukiko Shikata, and Gregory Ulmer.

A literary odyssey along the highways at a time when a new form of superintelligence has emerged. Autodrive is a work of literary fiction that combines a variety of fictional subgenres. It is a highway odyssey, an odyssey along the highways at a time when a new form of superintelligence has emerged. What makes this new form of artificial superintelligence interesting is that it is not entirely distinct from us—it is ingrained in the machines we already use, the vehicles we already take, the systems we are already part of, but cannot fully see. In this way, Autodrive provides models of machine intelligence that we are already somewhat intimate with, intrinsically tied to and immersed within. It connects to the new forms of intelligence already emerging in the everyday world, forms that are already present in everyday life, ingrained in expressive forms we commonly use. At the same time, it explores how artificial agents, as they become more pervasive, might begin to exert their influence more broadly as social entities, in whatever degree they come to be personalized.