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Sneak peak of work for forthcoming show at Furtherfield. ‘Are we all addicts now?’ opens on the 15th of Sept. 

http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/exhibition/are-we-all-addicts-now

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“It’s getting you to internalize the company’s goals,” said Chelsea Howe, a prominent video game designer who has spoken out against coercive psychological techniques deployed in games. “Internalized motivation is the most powerful kind.”

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If we are to have any hope whatsoever of establishing the conditions of justice in the cities of the twenty-first century, we will need to raise the values embedded in software to the surface and force them to speak themselves.

https://conversations.e-flux.com/t/the-hidden-ideology-behind-the-smart-city/6900

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...through our everyday interactions with digital devices. While internet addiction is not yet considered an official psychiatric disorder, it is gaining increased recognition as a behavioral phenomenon in both scientific study and the popular press. This project is the first interdisciplinary exploration of this burgeoning diagnostic territory. The book is designed by Stefan Schafer, and combines visual and textual research, including artistic works from Katriona Beales and Fiona MacDonald : Feral Practice, alongside essays from contributors in the fields of anthropology, digital culture, psychology and philosophy. Informed by the latest scientific research, the book acknowledges the increasing difficulty many people experience in controlling their online habits. At the same time, it also thinks beyond the biological model of internet addiction toward the social and political dimensions that shape everyday online activities and habit-forming behaviour. This book is co-edited by curator Vanessa Bartlett and medical doctor and neuroscience researcher Henrietta Bowden-Jones. It is published to coincide with a major exhibition of new artwork by Katriona Beales at Furtherfield, London.

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Installation view, Neen Today, MU Artspace, 2004

In 2004, Rafaël Rozendaal curated NEEN Today, an exhibition that was only open for 60 seconds at MU Artspace in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

https://anthology.rhizome.org/neen

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it understands you

it understands you

shares what’s in your heart

keeps track of loved ones

recognises who you are

follows your every move

sees your best side

shares the warmth of nature

waits til you’re asleep

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Samsung Galaxy 3 ad campaign text

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“content as the repetitive action of touching and tapping a glass rectangle with purpose and seeing it nod in response”

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Notes from my recent talk ‘Intelligence is not enough’ at the Creative AI meet-up at the Photographers Gallery. 

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What I did is that I put the speaker on the case, and I put a screw on it. The [iPhone] housing — we call it the back case — is moving on the assembly line, and that's when we pick it up, and now we get one screw from the screw feeder, and then we put it on the iPhone and then put it back, and it goes to next station. Leswing: You were in charge of one screw? Zeng: It's like, that's the work. I mean, it's simple, but that's the work that you do. Over, over, over again. For whole days. Leswing: Did it drive you nuts? Zeng: The first couple of days you're very concentrated because you couldn't catch up the speed of the assembly line. You need to be very quick to catch up. So you're very, very focused. It makes you very tired, but it keeps your mind on it. You have no time to think about things. I need to get quicker and quicker. And then, after awhile, you get more familiar to it, and that in the end, I can even do this screw by closing my eyes. It is just like that. So after that, you get a lot of time that you have nothing to do. That's when people feel very annoyed. Because in the Pegatron factories, any kind of electronic devices are not allowed to be inside the factories.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/qa-with-an-iphone-factory-worker-at-pegatron-changshuo-in-shanghai-2017-4/?r=US&IR=T

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“…profit making entities… link compulsive desire to the circuits of consumer capitalism…”

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“...the essentially cannibalistic nature of the gig economy is dressed up as an aesthetic...”