The Data Issue

DIS / Data issue
Issue Edited by Marvin Jordan, Mike Pepi
Assistant Editors Ada O’Higgins, Stefan Schwartzman,
Nicolas Burrier, Agustina Zegers
Developer Jon Lucas
Issue Edited by Marvin Jordan, Mike Pepi
Assistant Editors Ada O’Higgins, Stefan Schwartzman,
Nicolas Burrier,
Developer Jon Lucas

Trevor Paglen | NSA-Tapped Fiber Optic Cable Landing Site
Trevor Paglen presents an interactive diptych

Andrea Crespo | Sis: Parabiosis
Andrea Crespo unveils the multiple system known as Sis, with a text by Jack Kahn

Kate Losse | Cults at Scale
How the startup-as-cult remodels the contemporary corporation into a space of discovery

Rob Kitchin | Continuous Geosurveillance in the “Smart City”
New forms of governance in the era of ubiquitous computing

Sara M. Watson | Metaphors of Big Data
Dissecting the industry-centric bias at the core of our cultural understanding of data.

Minnesang: A Tale of Bits And Atoms
Holly Herndon and Hannes Grassegger portray a world of digital feudalism

Lars TCF Holdhus | Data Awareness
Alexander Iadarola interviews TCF about his algorithmically based practices

Francesco Spampinato | Data Relief
From surrealist tech to accelerationist sci-fi: a radical history of wearable gadgets

Rob Horning | Authenticity as a Service
On networked society and the disavowal of self-representation

Dorothy Howard | Labor and the New Encyclopedia
An insider's perspective on the unpaid knowledge economy

Astra Taylor | Digital Democracy and Direct Action
From Occupy to Spotify, Zachary Kaplan interviews Astra Taylor on democracy and digital technology.

Monegraph and the Status of the Art Object
A roundtable discussion with six artists, writers, and entrepreneurs on art and tech.

Rafaël Rozendaal | Abstract Browsing
Rafaël Rozendaal reflects on artificial scarcity, abundance, and ownership in internet art.

Mathew Dryhurst | Data Sagacity and Site-Specificity
Morgan Sutherland talks to Mathew Dryhurst about his latest project.

Yuri Pattison | 1014
A video tour of room 1014 at The Mira, Hong Kong, the first lodging of Edward Snowden post-NSA leak.
