Adaptation, Part III: Art as Research (Braille tattoos! Socially-adept handbags!)
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Adaptation, Part III: Art as Research (Braille tattoos! Socially-adept handbags!)

Read Part I of this essay here, and Part II here. New media art self-consciously reworks technology into culture, and rereads technology as culture. What’s more, it does so in a concrete, applied way; it manipulates the technology itself, with a nonindustrial latitude that admits misapplication and adaptation, rewiring and hacking, pseudofunctionality and accident. New … Continue reading »