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G. Önal
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Datapolis
Exploring the Footprint of Data on Our Planet and Beyond
DATAPOLIS looks into the materiality of data, its inherent ethical and political contradictions as well as cultural and environmental footprints, by following two main trajectories: the first one attempts to define what ‘the cloud’ is and how it operates. From the systems and inf
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'Here Be Dragons'
The Liminal Topographies of Statistical Imaging
A world does not predate its images. It is shaped by them. […] In the midst of our serene new world of images, a descriptive revaluation of the conditions of imaging—its technical basis, and the gestures that divide it off from all previous forms of visuality—is a prerequisite fo
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After 9/11, the regulation of global mobility witnessed substantial changes. Suspicion of movement intensified and the need to detect, classify, and eventually stop any threat from outside became the priority of state authorities. As a consequence, national and international airp
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Media Ecologies of the ‘Extractive View’
Image operations of material exchange
Extraction displaces materials and reorganises habitats by accumulating resources – a process that renders populations and natural reserves as extractable data to be mobilised in systems of metabolic exchange. In contemporary practice, collecting, sorting, and processing this dat
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