sean cubitt's blog

Pseudo-interaction is when we do something and a machine is constrained to respond. True interaction occurs when a machine responds autonomo...

a) distinguish synthetic animation from indexical animation. In indexical animation, there is a source, a data-stream, which the infographic...

Democratisation would appear to imply standardisation: for everyone to enjoy luxuries, they have to be mass produced. The secrets of the gre...

Our technologies are decreasingly isolable. They demand energy grids or other forms of consumables (oil, proteins), and articulate with expe...

Against the hypothesis of inner life, which is the epiphenomenon of signal processing: my inner life is no more relevant to my life as a med...

The black strip dividing film frames, the between-two-images, the momentary darkness, is not transcendental but negation. First image: thesi...

The history of colour suggested in a paper late last year on democracy and the mathematicisation of colour and revisited in a different con...