Conception: Jeff Guess and Gwenola Wagon
Programming: Jeff Guess
Graphic Design: Jérôme Saint Loubert-Bié
Automated publication (fall 2018): Loic Horellou
Iconography: Lou-Maria Le Brusq
Haunted by Algorithms is the second part of the project Media Mediums and begins with the radical de-centering of cybernetics, detailing the gradual emergence of a continuum where everything is in communication with everything. This unlimited conversation is rooted in the computer's quintessential function of reading and writing data, automating these once human activities, and by doing so, fostering an imaginary of machinic intelligence. But the cerebral promise of this general algorithmisation, as in a feedback loop, casts a new light on the cognitive potential of a large spectrum of formerly behaviorist non-human actors (animals, minerals, plants, fantoms, viruses, etc.) foreshadowing speculative assemblages and information exchanges on multiple planes and scales.
This dialogic free-for-all is at the heart of the Haunted by Algorithms web platform, conceived of as a large, real-time 10000 x 8000 pixel² environment where one can scroll and slide from project to project within the same continuous space without leaving or refreshing the page. While reading the 25 commissioned texts and projects by artists, historians and philosophers that make up the space, one's reading is accompanied by automatic writings, a host of bots which analyse the text, make suggestions, provide references, modify the text, tweet, and so on.
With contributions by: Jean-Louis Boissier, Angélique Buisson, Pierre Cassou-Noguès, Antoine Chapon and Nicolas Gourault, Yves Citton and Anthony Masure, Stéphane Degoutin, Vinciane Despret and Clémence Seurat, Frédéric Dumond, Emmanuel Guez, Jeff Guess and Gwenola Wagon, Martin Howse, Jean-Noël Lafargue, Lou Maria Le Brusq, Marie Lechner, Nicolas Maigret and Maria Roszkowska, Emanuele Quinz, RYBN, Jeffrey Sconce, Noah Teichner, Suzanne Treister, Anne Zeitz
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Web platform: Custom real-time software (HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, p5.js, node.js, socket.io python and figlet). Installation: FullHD video projector, custom built table (Romain Best).
Optimized for computers (tablets later)
- Vitrines du Labex Arts-H2H, ENS Louis Lumière, Saint-Denis, 2017
- Haunted by Algorithms, Ygrec gallery, Paris, 2017
- Plasticité des Haunted Algorithms (Galerie Ygrec, Paris), Pierre Hemptinne, pointculture, 1 Mars 2017
- Haunted by Algorithms, expérience transmortem à la galerie Ygrec, Ingrid Luquet-Gad, Les Inrockuptibles, 21 février 2017
- Ordis et mémoires fantômes, Une exposition collective montre que les algorithmes ont une vie propre et explore les liens entre la machine et le vivant, Clémentine Mercier, Libération, 12 février 2017