Socially Engaged Art and Digital Practice : week 5 Materials Presentation

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Materials group : Presentation  

Angie, Cheer, Divya, Josephine, Lorena, Oscar, Spencer, Yvonne 

Notes from Digital Lives : Chapter 2




Production needed for digital lives

Thinking how digital cultures are possible, ongoing human adaptations

Evolution of internet, stages overlap and partially incorporate earlier stages

1962 J.C.R Licker “galactic networks”

1989 world wide web


  • 70’ & 80’s military academic internet

    • DARPA (Defense advanced Research Projects Agency) created DARPANET to facilitate communications. The internet began as a top-secret secured network

  • 80’s scientific internet

  • 90’s early

    • National Science Foundation received permission to use ARPANET, a connection between scientists and the military.

    • Scientists ->Universities -> social science, Art, 

  • 90’s counterculture avant-garde

    • California based, social critique “geeks”, anti establishment, open-source

    • Easy to use browsers

  • 90’s mid emergent public internet -Commercial internet -Domesticated internet 

  • 00s web2 interactive (laptops)

Production

Tier 1 - app design

Tier 2-  computer production, cellphone, (less creative, deadline, objects becoming obsolete)

Tier 3 - assembly line, manual labor - dangerous working conditions, low wages, labor rights, 

Processes exploit people mostly in the Global South- roost privilege places EU, US.

Exploitative labor practices

Constant Threat of outsourcing in cheaper markets

In the US CEO makes 355 times than laborers

Distance  between corporations and producers

Tier 4 - Prosumers , non professional producers

YT users generate more videos content daily than all of network television in its entire history


Participatory Culture has not seriously challenged the content dominance of the main culture industries (major media conglomerates)

Media enterprise gain control over cultural production and intellectual property

Is not coincidence that major electronic production sites are among most polluted places on the planet

CA- 30 superfund sites

Extensive use of electricity → global climate change

Arsenic, barium, beryllium, bromate flame retardants, cooper, chromium, 

Some can impact users when disassembled

Material sourcing Compared to” blood diamond”

Extraction process

Failure to protect workers from chemicals, often in medical gowns which the workers are requested to use in reality just to  protect electronic

Overall 50 millions tons of electronic waste was produced 2012, less than 15% is recycled

E-waste is the fastest growing contributor to municipal landfill toxicity worldwide





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