This book, which was edited by Johnny Golding and Mattia Paganelli and me, came out of the »Data Loam« project that was conducted between March 2017 and May 2019 in a cooperation with the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the Royal College of Art in London, RIAT Vienna, as well as the Master’s programme Arts & Science.

For more information please consult the »Data Loam« webpage.

Johnny Golding, Martin Reinhart, and Mattia Paganelli (Eds).

Data Loam. Sometimes Hard, Usually Soft. The Future of Knowledge Systems

Vienna: De Gruyter, 2021

Contents

Frontmatter |1–3|

Contents |4–7|

Introduction |8–10| Johnny Golding, Martin Reinhart, and Mattia Paganelli

Know Your Name: A Short History of Occidental Knowledge Systems since the Renaissance |11–37| Martin Reinhart

Science Fictioning Singularities: The Diagrammatic Imaginaries of Physics |38–64| David Burrows

Artificial Grief: Distribution of the Sensuous |65–79| Anna Nazo

Pursuing Digital Transformations through Fluorescent Green Bunnies: The Poetics of Technology |80–106| Andrew Prescott

Archiving for an Unknown Future: The State Film Documentation of the GDR (SFD) |107–122| Adelheid Heftberger

On Classification or Wonder Is the Denial of Analogy |123–134| Paolo Caneppele

ALGO-RHYTHM: A Hip-Hop Film about Microtargeting and Online Electioneering |135–147| Manu Luksch

Crypto Politics: Notes on Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Governance in Blockchain Based Technologies |148–170| Jan Groos

Asymmetry: How Patterns of Impossibility Mark Dimensions in Knowledge Systems |171–193| Mattia Paganelli

Obscene Data |194–209| Leonard Coster and Matthias Strohmaier

CATALOGUE PART - The list of artists as featured in the book on pages 210-323.

• Anna Nazo

• Jimmy Zurek

• Martin Reinhart and Virgil Widrich

• Henry Rogers

• Dario Srbic

• RIAT–Institute for Future Cryptoeconomics

• Johnny Golding

• Marthin Rozo Castaño

• Marc Schuran

• Monica C. LoCascio

• Juan Cruz

• Manu Luksch

• Julian Palacz

• Sophie-Carolin Wagner

• Mattia Paganelli

• Leonard Coster and Matthias Strohmaier

• Florian Unterberger

• Laura Stoll

• Despina Zacharopoulou

• Maurice Ernst

• Aura Satz

• Istem Özen

• Johannes Frauenschuh and Maximilian Gallo

• Nora Lengyel

• DARC

• Publication Team (Maximilian Gallo, Ivonne Gracia Murillo, Monica C. LoCascio, Istem Özen)

Book Designing in the Age of the Loam |324–345| Ivonne Gracia Murillo, Monica C. LoCascio, and Maximilian Gallo

ReMembering |346–355| Rebecca Fortnum

Exquisite Methods: Ruminations of Corporeal Becoming in Artistic Research |356–377| Henry Rogers

Diffractive Care and the Careful Accounting of It |378–400| Alberto Condotta

Headwind, a Scanning Story |401–425| Chantal Faust

Renegade Activism and the Artist-as-Collective |426–449| Gerald Nestler

The Courage to Matter |450–487| Johnny Golding

Evanescing This Harrowed Strata |488–491| Jackson Bears

Acknowledgements |492–493|

Imprint |494–496|