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Catherine Griffiths

Catherine Griffiths

The Question Concerning Technology

Heidegger’s The Question Concerning Technology, published in 1953, can provide a context to the field of critical computation. Critical…

5 min readAug 2, 2018

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Catherine Griffiths

Ethical Programs

In Ethical Programs: Hospitality and the Rhetorics of Software, James J. Brown Jr addresses the problem of how to deal with ethical…

4 min readSep 5, 2017

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Catherine Griffiths

Visualizing Algorithms Precedents, Part 1

What does it mean to visualizing an algorithm? An algorithm can mean various things: a piece of code written in a particular programming…

5 min readAug 3, 2017

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Visualizing Algorithms Precedents, Part 1

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Catherine Griffiths

Aesthetic Computing

In the introduction to the book, Paul Fishwick writes that aesthetic computing is the application of aesthetics to the field of computing…

6 min readJul 22, 2017

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Aesthetic Computing

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Speaking Code

In Speaking Code: Coding as Aesthetic and Political Expression, Geoff Cox and Alex McLean develop a rhetoric of code, through a humanistic…

4 min readJul 15, 2017

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Speaking Code

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Catherine Griffiths

An Algorithmic Criticism?

In Stephen Ramsay’s 2011 book Reading Machines: Toward An Algorithmic Criticism, he argues for the use of computational textual analysis…

4 min readJul 13, 2017

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The algorithmic turn: what do crowd-sourcing, photogrammetry, geo-tagging, and mixed reality mean…

In The algorithmic turn: photosynth, augmented reality and the changing implications of the image, published by William Uricchio in 2011 in…

5 min readJul 12, 2017

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The algorithmic turn: what do crowd-sourcing, photogrammetry, geo-tagging, and mixed reality mean…

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Catherine Griffiths

10 PRINT, tactics for critical code studies

10 PRINT is an important book in that it establishes a clear precedent for critical code studies. The title is an abbreviation of a single…

5 min readJul 6, 2017

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10 PRINT, tactics for critical code studies

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Catherine Griffiths

Shape Grammars

Shape Grammars were first invented by George Stiny and James Gips in their 1972 article Shape Grammars and the Generative Specification of…

4 min readJun 29, 2017

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Shape Grammars

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Catherine Griffiths

Reflexivity in C20th Film and Literature

In Reflexivity in Film and Literature: From Don Quixote to Jean-Luc Godard, first published in 1985, Robert Stam explores specific tactics…

6 min readJun 27, 2017

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Reflexivity in C20th Film and Literature

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Catherine Griffiths

Catherine Griffiths

Artist + Researcher working on the ethics of algorithms and critical software projects. Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan. www.isohale.com

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