Algorithmic Superstructuring: Aesthetic Regime of Algorithmic Governance
Abstract
In this paper I suggest the idea of algorithmic superstructuring as a way to explore aesthetic regimes of algorithmic governance, drawing on work of Jacques Rancière, Luciana Parisi and Wendy Chun. Algorithmic superstructuring presents as pervasive expansion of algorithmic processing and logic, installed under the techno-capitalist drive for quantifying, consolidating and regulating human experience. Algorithmic superstructuring is built into networks of distribution and circulation of affect and flourishes in the cognitive frameworks of interfaces and protocols. Building on previous curatorial work and drawing on media art practices, this paper aims to investigate how inhumanity of algorithmic modes and models of reasoning is reflected in the distribution of the sensible, and how the aesthetic regimes of algorithmic governance could be articulated.
Keywords
algorithmic superstructuring, media art, algorithmic governance, distribution of the sensible
Author Biography
Alex Anikina
Alex Anikina (b. Kolomna, Russia) is a media artist, researcher, film-maker and curator, currently completing her PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London, and teaching at London South Bank University. Her dissertation investigates procedural films as research media art practice. Her work has been shown internationally, recently at Sanatorium gallery, Istanbul, Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale and VI Moscow International Biennale for Young Art. She co-edited Cosmic Shift: Russian Contemporary Art Writing (ZED Books, London, 2017). In 2018 she co-curated IMPAKT media art festival (Utrecht, Netherlands) with the theme Algorithmic Superstructures.