Amanda Wasielewski

Art History and Machine Learning

Computational Formalism

The artist is dead. There are only makers now.

Artists, Hipsters, Makers, and Gentrification

Made in Brooklyn

Ramón Reichert

Anna Dahlgren

Karin Hansson

The design and use of metadata is always culturally, socially, and ideologically inflected. The actors, whether these are institutions (museums, archives, libraries, corporate image suppliers) or individuals (image producers, social media agents, researchers), as well as their agendas and interests, affect the character of metadata. There is a politics of metadata. This issue of Digital Culture & Society addresses the ideological and political aspects of metadata practices within image collections from an interdisciplinary perspective. The overall aim is to consider the implications, tensions, and challenges involved in the creation of metadata in terms of content, structure, searchability, and diversity.

Vol. 6, Issue 2/2020 - The Politics of Metadata

Digital Culture & Society (DCS)

Made in Brooklyn is a belated critique of the Maker Movement: from its origins in the nineteenth century to its impact on labor and its entanglement in the neoliberal economic model of the tech industry. Part history, part ethnography, Made in Brooklyn provides a unified analysis of how the tech industry has infiltrated artistic practice and urban space.

Amanda Wasielewski

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