dvyng on Mon, 20 Jul 2015 20:37:35 +0200 (CEST) |
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Re: <nettime> Hacked Team [getting off-topic...] |
List, > see above. Code is getting everywhere, even the art world is flooded > by code related themes and technicians nowadays. I stopped doing > "internet-art" or "computer-art" or net.art already since 10 years, > this is not interesting anymore really. Why not interesting anymore? Seems like maybe it's at least as important now as it was a decade ago to have more people working with code-related themes, especially if they're willing to properly engage with the underlying murky politics of the sort that gets discussed on lists such as this one. > The world in 10 years from now > will be full of coders and I'm not just talking about the "western > world". Code is thought in schools, there are festivals about code, > teenagers go to codemotion sort of events like they'd be going to a > justin bieber concert... and I leave you imagine the consequences of > this, they go far beyond our topic. Agree with the above - all of these get-tech-quick schemes for kiddie coders are missing the vital ingredient of self-reflexivity, particularly the willingness to even begin to explore the politics/ethics of software/hardware development (similarly often with digital/net/computer/etc art). This fantasy of code being the benchmark for 21st child literacy is nonsense when it exists in a space devoid of any context beyond a purely info-capitalist economic one, where younger kid superstar coders frantically develop yet more apps for $$$s, photocall posing with grinning politicians, and thus becoming postergirls && boys demonstrating how young people can be important/efficient contributors to the national economy. Like Victorian Workhouses, but now in The Cloud.* dv *too far? ;P # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org