The Metainterface

The Art of Platforms, Cities, and Clouds

Christian Ulrik Andersen, Soren Bro Pold

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MIT Press
31 October 2023

Electronic, holographic & video art; Media studies; Human-computer interaction

Series: Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology

"How the interface has moved from the PC into cultural platforms, as seen in a series of works of net art, software art and electronic literature.

How the interface has moved from the PC into cultural platforms, as seen in a series of works of net art, software art and electronic literature.

The computer interface is both omnipresent and invisible, at once embedded in everyday objects and characterized by hidden exchanges of information between objects. The interface has moved from office into culture, with devices, apps, the cloud, and data streams as new cultural platforms. In The Metainterface, Christian Ulrik Andersen and S ren Bro Pold examine the relationships between art and interfaces, tracing the interface's disruption of everyday cultural practices. They present a new interface paradigm of cloud services, smartphones, and data capture, and examine how particular art forms-including net art, software art, and electronic literature-seek to reflect and explore this paradigm.

Andersen and Pold argue that despite attempts to make the interface disappear into smooth access and smart interaction, it gradually resurfaces; there is a metainterface to the displaced interface. Art can help us see this; the interface can be an important outlet for aesthetic critique. Andersen and Pold describe the ""semantic capitalism"" of a metainterface industry that captures user behavior; the metainterface industry's disruption of everyday urban life, changing how the city is read, inhabited, and organized; the ways that the material displacement of the cloud affects the experience of the interface; and the potential of designing with an awareness of the language and grammar of interfaces."

By: Christian Ulrik Andersen, Soren Bro Pold
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262549677
ISBN 10: 0262549670
Series: Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 31 October 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1 Interface Criticism: Why a Theory of the Interface? 15 2 The Metainterface Industry: New Platforms for Culture 39 3 The Urban Metainterface: Territorial Interfaces 81 4 The Cloud Interface: Experiences of a Metainterface World 121 5 Interface Criticism by Design 157 Notes 183 Bibliography 215 Index 233

Christian Ulrik Andersen is Associate Professor in Digital Design at Aarhus University and works with aesthetics, software, and interface criticism. S ren Bro Pold is Associate Professor in Digital Design at Aarhus University and works with interface criticism, literature, and aesthetics.