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More than two decades ago, William Gibson accurately predicted the cyberculture of the 1990s with its idea of virtual navigation through data. By naming his recent novel Pattern Recognition, Gibson points to the new period we are living in now. It is a period when more prosaic but ultimately more consequential ways of exploring data have come to the forefront, including search engines available to the masses and data mining as used by companies and government agencies. The Dumpster uses industrial strength data gathering and data analysis strategies that normally are not easily accessible for single individuals to show how they result in new kinds of social representations.
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Seth KeenConsider the following paradox. The same few decades of the nineteenth century that gave us the most detailed artistic representations of human emotions and inner feelings, including romantic love, also saw the rise of statistical and sociological imagina
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Heinz Wittenbrink"...a group portrait appropriate for the age of data mining, large databases, and global surveillance programs such as Echelon. The group 'painted' by The Dumpster did not commission this portrait itself..."
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Richard SmithSociology vs individuality? Lev Manovitch considers the paradox between understanding humans and understanding them as collections. Is the modern age drifting too far to the latter perspective? Do artists have the right tools for the job?
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tarkowskiConsider the following paradox. The same few decades of the nineteenth century that gave us the most detailed artistic representations of human emotions and inner feelings, including romantic love, also saw the rise of statistical and sociological imagina
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We can switch between multiple views of data, traverse different scales, and move between multiple media. What types of representation can be created if we combine techniques to gather, structure and display data?
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