the massive wall dominates the image as it dominates the landscape as it dominates life. I said it's about being blocked; maybe that's the same as saying, it's about being dominated. I find the "figure #" in each image interesting - it's like it's from a scientific article, "see figure 1." what are they figures of? Domination? Art as toxic antidote? Grafitti as toxic cleanup? The device does allow me to say: only in figure 4 is there no blue.
I'm a creature of habit so this collage of wall-barrage makes me think of aporia, an impassable impossible blockage that offers no path -- and yet is where path and possibility might emerge, the only place where they might emerge. Wikipedia has gottne pretty good on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AporiaSo: toxics or toxicity as aporia? The aporetics of walls and toxics?
This work fits nicely into anti-fascist surveillance discourse. I can see how you've reappropriated the platforms (Youtube, the Internet, etc.) they depend on. Were I to recognize any of these people as Facebook friends or whatever, now I would know for sure I have to break off those conenctions. Thus far, I don't see much in the way of an analytic beyond exposé. I recommend you take a look at the arguments presented by the likes of Joan Donovan at Data & Society (a Harvard think tank).
Do you have more trouble articulating your frame (social theoretical questions) or object?I usually have more trouble articulating the object and like researching for social theoretical frameworks. I have to remind myself though that there are so many possibilities and not get stuck with one. An example I often return to comes from a course on drug use as a social problem in liberal societies.
I'm still editing my project hopping sketch, so please see my Sketchbook.
Tim Schütz is an associate professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of California, Davis. He broadly focuses on the development, politics, and governance of digital data infrastructures in urban environments. In his earlier ethnographic work, he helped to establish STS scholarship on “sociotechnical neglect” and “more-than-human-rights“ in the context of the ‘European refugee crisis’. During his graduate training at University of California, Irvine, he has further explored data visualization practices for the research on and governance of air pollution.
rural subjectivities, specifically in the U.S.human-environment interactions, specifically involving phenomenological approaches/attention to sensory perception and aestheticsnarrative narrative narrativehow/when/where certain kinds of knowledge come to be authoritative--and how/when/where/why certain kinds of knowledge are NOT authoritative in some settings when they are in broader society (i.e.
Hackers / Hacktivism / Radical Engineers / Hackerspaces / MakerspacesHackers and hacker culture caught my interest during undergrad research. First, software engineers appeared interesting as ‘epistemological others’ who could actually assemble and take apart hardware/software, instead of writing media studies research papers about them. Second, it was an exploration of the digital infrastructures, online subcultures and practices of sharing that I had myself grown up in, but also seemingly matured out of.
