The New Aesthetic: Archive

The New Aesthetic tumblr is now closed.

The New Aesthetic project was begun one year ago by James Bridle on May 6th, 2011, with a blog post at RIG London, and continued with a series of talks and discussions, online and offline. Many thanks to all of those who have participated in and contributed to the conversation so far, particularly to everyone at RIG and BERG, and to Ben Bashford, Dan Williams, Joanne McNeil, Aaron Straup Cope, Chris Heathcote, and far too many other people to mention.

The project will continue in other forms and venues.

A mirror of this site can be found at http://new-aesthetic.com/, and an incomplete backup can be downloaded from http://www.mediafire.com/?1c4l11oezpwkfkg.

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May 4, 201220 notes

“NPR reported this morning on a traffic jam in California caused by an algorithmic glitch “accidentally summon[ing] 1,200 people to jury duty on the same morning”. An excellent reminder of the tendency of algorithmic dysfunction to manifest as physical dysfunction, and (at a relatively small scale) of the potentially disproportionate impact of glitches when they are translated from dataspace into an infrastructural system. The glitch may be as simple as having accidentally swapped the 0 indicating “do not come in” for the 1 indicating “come in”, but the resulting jam is rendered in aluminum autobodies and on asphalt corridors where it is much more difficult to clear than it was to create.” —glitch jam – mammoth // building nothing out of something

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May 2012

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