In this class, we start from urban writing to discuss the coding processes we interact with every day.
Among other issues, we highlight:
— The growing opacity of coding mechanisms and their increasing presence across a wide range of activities
— The relevance and centrality of image coding processes and the dissolving boundary between images and texts
— Cybrid writing
— The conversion of the camera from a capture device into a projection device
— The characteristics of biopolitics in a world encoded by surveillance images
Reference text: H. Steyerl. Proxy Politics: Signal and Noise (http://www.e-flux.com/journal/proxy-politics/)