"It is no accident that social control preproduces itself into technological forms. The reduction of information to binary represenation leads to a levelling process of data...the modern machine is currently perceived as a neutral decision-making space. This image of anonymity creates a sufficient distance from events to creata situation in which we are ritually free to give up our ability to feel the consequences of our actions." pg. 686
Graham Harwood comments on his work, Rehearsal of Memory.
Wilson, Stephen. Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology (Leonardo Books). The MIT Press, 2003.
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I love the way Harwood's work describes the anonymity created by technology - also his simultaneous addressing of our identity being defined by traces of memory - that we are known through the sum of our memories. It is quite poetic.
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