Nadim Samman: Poetics of Encryption

Neil Holt

ISBN 10: 377575265X / ISBN 13: 9783775752657

Published by Hatje Cantz, DE, 2023

About this Item

An Encounter Between Art and the Technosphere Proprietary algorithms, secret data troves, and inscrutable systems rule the day. How is this registered in art? In Poetics of Encryption Nadim Samman explores works that highlight the hidden dimensions of our technological landscape. Running counter to erroneous claims regarding a new culture of transparency and openness, such artworks address black sites, black boxes, and black holes-all the while, toggling between enlightened concern and occult dreaming.

Seller Inventory # LU-9783775752657

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Nadim Samman: Poetics of Encryption
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz, DE
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 377575265X
• ISBN 13: 9783775752657
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 13.79W x 1.8H x 20.8D centimeters 13.79 centimeters width by 1.8 centimeters height by 20.8 centimeters depth
• Weight: 240 grams

About this title

Synopsis

A critical appraisal of art’s entanglement in technological encryption

“We are all inside this thing―but how?” This book explores 21st-century art’s reckonings with the technosphere. Outlining the concept of encryption that underlies this infrastructural condition, Samman explores motifs of confinement, capture and burial, as well as access and exclusion from secured domains. Poetics of Encryption excavates the art of our times in relation to these motifs, as it quests through caves, cables, codes, satellites and icons. Toggling between enlightened concern and occult dreaming, it surveys a counterintuitive aesthetic of the interface.
Nadim Samman (born 1980) is Curator for the Digital Sphere at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. In 2019 he was First Prize recipient of the International Award for Art Criticism (IAAC). Major curatorial projects included the 4th Marrakech Biennale (2012), the 5th Moscow Biennale for Young Art (2015) and the 1st Antarctic Biennale (2017).