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Edit Molnar Marcel Schwierin

Zach Blas

Unknown Ideals

Edit Molnar,  Marcel Schwierin

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English
Sternberg Press
20 September 2022
Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960; Electronic, holographic & video art; Artificial intelligence
"Zach Blas- Unknown Ideals offers an inquiry into Zach Blas's singular practice, exemplary among his generation of digital artists, through a series of newly commissioned essays by Alexander R. Galloway, Pamela M. Lee, Mahan Moalemi, Kris Paulsen, and Marc Siegel; an interview with Ov l Durmuşoğlu; and writings by the artist himself. These insightful contributions expand on the technological, queer, filmic, and cultural inquiries that comprise the rich world of Blas's practice.

Across his works, Blas closely engages the materiality of digital technologies while also drawing out the philosophies and imaginaries lurking in artificial intelligence, the internet, predictive policing, airport security, biometric recognition, and biological warfare. Blas embraces the media of computation, video, sculpture, and music in his installations that sharply confront biometric surveillance, the cult of optimization, and the reification of data bodies.

Blas uses research-based practices to scrutinize the relationship between digital technologies and the cultures and politics that animate them. Critical of today's corporate internet giants and their ideological fascination with Ayn Rand, Blas extensively considers the beliefs, desires, fantasies, histories, and symbols latent in technical systems, but he also dwells on the horizons and edges, or what he calls the ""outside,"" of dominant power structures. Reclaiming Ayn Rand's phrase the ""unknown ideal,"" Blas points to both liberatory potentialities and political challenges of the present- he imagines a proliferation of ""unknown ideals"" in order to dispute Rand's vision of the future. Refusing technological determinism, Blas's work makes space for escape through its celebration of queer ideality.

On artist Zach Blas's wide-ranging practice that scrutinizes the relationship between digital technologies and the cultures and politics that animate them.

Zach Blas- Unknown Ideals offers an inquiry into Zach Blas's singular practice, exemplary among his generation of digital artists, through a series of newly commissioned essays by Alexander R. Galloway, Pamela M. Lee, Mahan Moalemi, Kris Paulsen, and Marc Siegel; an interview with Ov l Durmuşoğlu; and writings by the artist himself. These insightful contributions expand on the technological, queer, filmic, and cultural inquiries that comprise the rich world of Blas's practice.

Across his works, Blas closely engages the materiality of digital technologies while also drawing out the philosophies and imaginaries lurking in artificial intelligence, the internet, predictive policing, airport security, biometric recognition, and biological warfare. Blas embraces the media of computation, video, sculpture, and music in his installations that sharply confront biometric surveillance, the cult of optimization, and the reification of data bodies.

Blas uses research-based practices to scrutinize the relationship between digital technologies and the cultures and politics that animate them. Critical of today's corporate internet giants and their ideological fascination with Ayn Rand, Blas extensively considers the beliefs, desires, fantasies, histories, and symbols latent in technical systems, but he also dwells on the horizons and edges, or what he calls the ""outside,"" of dominant power structures. Reclaiming Ayn Rand's phrase the ""unknown ideal,"" Blas points to both liberatory potentialities and political challenges of the present- he imagines a proliferation of ""unknown ideals"" in order to dispute Rand's vision of the future. Refusing technological determinism, Blas's work makes space for escape through its celebration of queer ideality."
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Imprint:   Sternberg Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 241mm,  Width: 170mm,  Spine: 23mm
Weight:   992g
ISBN:   9783956795886
ISBN 10:   3956795881
Pages:   376
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Edit Molnar is a curator and Co-director of the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art in Oldenburg. Prior to that, she was Director of the Studio Gallery, Budapest (2000-2005), curator at Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle, Budapest (2005-2007); and Director of the Cairo-based Contemporary Image Collective (from 2007 to 2009). Marcel Schwierin is a curator, filmmaker, and Co-director of the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art in Oldenburg. He has regularly curated for the Werkleitz Biennale, the Goethe-Institut, and the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, among others. From 2010 to 2015, he was Curator of Film and Video for transmediale in Berlin.

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