Precarious data aesthetics. An exploration of tactics, tricksters and idiocy in data
Published on August 1st, 2020
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This chapter explores the relationship between Dada and tactical media through the framework of precarious aesthetics. Analysing the work of Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven, better known as the Baroness, it probes how her practice of language, and poetry in particular, moves between the linguistic and the performative wherein the innovative use of portmanteau words and idiosyncratic constructions enacted defamiliarization, destabilization and disruption. Comparing these methods with two contemporary tactical media artists, Constant Dullaart and Erica Scourti, who in their projects explore human–machine communication in the form of poetry, this chapter examines the systems and operations that make up the assemblages of contemporary data as well as how Dada tactics pertain to contemporary digital infrastructures.
“Precarious data aesthetics. An exploration of tactics, tricksters and idiocy in data” explores the relationship between Dada and tactical media through the framework of precarious aesthetics. Analysing the work of Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven, better known as the Baroness, it probes how her practice of language, and poetry in particular, moves between the linguistic and the performative wherein the innovative use of portmanteau words and idiosyncratic constructions enacted defamiliarization, destabilization and disruption. Comparing these methods with two contemporary tactical media artists, Constant Dullaart and Erica Scourti, who in their projects explore human–machine communication in the form of poetry, this chapter examines the systems and operations that make up the assemblages of contemporary data as well as how Dada tactics pertain to contemporary digital infrastructures.
image: Constant Dullaart, Phantom Love – Institutions Based on Lore, 2017
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