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Dataffect: Numerical Epistemology and the Art of Data Sonification

Dataffect: Numerical Epistemology and the Art of Data Sonification This article examines the history of sonification in sound art, focusing on the role that data play in influencing artistic creation and aesthetic experience. The author discusses sonified data artworks that go beyond the simple representation of information and that offer critiques of what Horkheimer and Adorno described as the dehumanizing notion of equivalence at the heart of the bureaucratic, capitalist economy. Concluding with a discussion of his installation Seismology as Metaphor for Empathy (2012), the author suggests that representing data through sound can engender powerful affective responses to the cold abstraction of information. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Leonardo Music Journal MIT Press

Dataffect: Numerical Epistemology and the Art of Data Sonification

Leonardo Music Journal , Volume December 2014 (24) – Dec 1, 2014

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Publisher
MIT Press
Copyright
©2014 ISAST
Subject
Articles and Notes
ISSN
0961-1215
eISSN
1531-4812
DOI
10.1162/LMJ_a_00192
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Abstract

This article examines the history of sonification in sound art, focusing on the role that data play in influencing artistic creation and aesthetic experience. The author discusses sonified data artworks that go beyond the simple representation of information and that offer critiques of what Horkheimer and Adorno described as the dehumanizing notion of equivalence at the heart of the bureaucratic, capitalist economy. Concluding with a discussion of his installation Seismology as Metaphor for Empathy (2012), the author suggests that representing data through sound can engender powerful affective responses to the cold abstraction of information.

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Leonardo Music JournalMIT Press

Published: Dec 1, 2014

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