[-empyre-] July on empyre: Reclaiming creativity as agent of change

[Simon Biggs]

The Critical Engineer seems to be doing reverse engineering, a form of
technical deconstruction. It's what most interesting artists who work with
technology tend to do in their work, opening the black box to analysis. In
that sense the term critical engineer seems to be a synonym for media artist
;)

Mario Biagioli writes on black boxing rendering ideas and paradigms opaque
and unto the apparatus of industrialised culture. The challenge is to
reverse engineer such constructs so they become (again) problematic. Once
deconstructed they are open to re-use.

Best

Simon


On 19/07/2011 15:18, "Julian Oliver" <julian at julianoliver.com> wrote:

> The Critical Engineer takes black-box technology and infrastructure as
> something that must be pared back, cracked open and or re-purposed before both
> the object and its engineering effects upon the user can be fully understood.


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