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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…

Aug 2, 2018

The Question Concerning Technology

Aug 2, 2018

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…

Sep 5, 2017

Ethical Programs

Sep 5, 2017

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…

Aug 3, 2017

Visualizing Algorithms Precedents, Part 1

Aug 3, 2017

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…

Jul 22, 2017

Aesthetic Computing

Jul 22, 2017

Catherine Griffiths

Speaking Code

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

Jul 15, 2017

Speaking Code

Jul 15, 2017

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…

Jul 13, 2017

An Algorithmic Criticism?

Jul 13, 2017

Catherine Griffiths

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…

Jul 12, 2017

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

Jul 12, 2017

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…

Jul 6, 2017

10 PRINT, tactics for critical code studies

Jul 6, 2017

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…

Jun 29, 2017

Shape Grammars

Jun 29, 2017

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…

Jun 27, 2017

Reflexivity in C20th Film and Literature

Jun 27, 2017

Catherine Griffiths

Catherine Griffiths

Artist + Researcher working on the politics of algorithms and critical software projects. Assistant Professor at Columbia GSAPP. catherine-griffiths.com

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