Abstract
Algorithm
An algorithm, in a nutshell, is a step-by-step guide to solving a problem. It’s a set of instructions, like a recipe. Computer algorithms are sets of rules for calculations that take historical data and predict future successful outcomes.
How does the performativity of algorithms relate to that of bodies? And how may performative artistic practices contribute to a rethinking of the interrelations between bodies and the discourses, histories, technologies, practices, and networks they are actualized within and entangled with? Through the notion of “algorithm,” which titles this publication, we wish to explore further the complex interconnections of algorithmic information processing, technical infrastructures, the performativity of bodies and bacteria as well as cultural scripts, or codes.
An algorithm, in a nutshell, is a step-by-step guide to solving a problem. It’s a set of instructions, like a recipe. Computer algorithms are sets of rules for calculations that take historical data and predict future successful outcomes.
How does the performativity of algorithms relate to that of bodies? And how may performative artistic practices contribute to a rethinking of the interrelations between bodies and the discourses, histories, technologies, practices, and networks they are actualized within and entangled with? Through the notion of “algorithm,” which titles this publication, we wish to explore further the complex interconnections of algorithmic information processing, technical infrastructures, the performativity of bodies and bacteria as well as cultural scripts, or codes.
| Translated title of the contribution | Algoritmen |
|---|---|
| Original language | English |
| Publisher | Antipyrine |
|---|---|
| Number of pages | 80 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-87-7584-016-8 |
| Publication status | Published - 2023 |