Book review: Audiovisual Disruption: Post-Digital Aesthetics in Contemporary Audiovisual Arts

December 03, 2024 by Tomi Slotte Dufva in Commentary

Audiovisual Disruption: Post-Digital Aesthetics in Contemporary Audiovisual Arts offers a compelling exploration of the post-digital, providing a solid theoretical and practical foundation for understanding this critical concept. By situating the post-digital not as a mere chronological marker after digitalisation but as an entangled condition where digital, analogue, and material practices coexist, the book establishes itself as an essential resource for scholars and practitioners alike.

Digital ”äger rum”: om den post-digitala världen

November 06, 2020 by Tomi Slotte Dufva in Commentary

”Vi lever i en digital värld”, börjar förvandlas till en kliché, men det är visserligen ändå sant. En snabb googling berättar att digitalisering förändrar språket⁠, hur företag utvecklas⁠, att digitaliseringen förändrar hela ”vår värld”⁠ och ”allt”.⁠..

The traveller of two worlds: a led-candle

December 20, 2018 by Tomi Slotte Dufva in Commentary

he other day I was sitting in a sauna* looking at a led-candle. It was the only flickering light in the darkening evening. At first, I didn’t give it too much attention: it flickered and provided a relaxing atmosphere.

Then I started looking at the flickering, it was a bit random, not too much unlike the flickering of a real candle. Suddenly, I felt a slight breeze of cold air coming through the window and noticed that the led-candle did not react to it, but kept that same rhythm of random light flickering. At that point, it struck me.

Misrecollection of forgetting’ -The absent minded programmers guide to machine learning

November 28, 2018 by Tomi Slotte Dufva

“Programming is forgetting” teaches Allison Parrish, an NY-based artist, and programmer (Parrish, 2016). What she means is that by translating functions, actions and material into the digital world by programming we make compromises and forget the complexity of the world.

Grasping AI systems

November 20, 2018 by Tomi Slotte Dufva

Together with Mikko Dufva, I have started working on a project that handles the disconnect between the sophisticated digital systems and the experience of them. In particular, we focus on the new artificial intelligence systems that are being brought into many fields of society -including education.