Reflections and Actions at the Edge of Digital Citizenship, Finance, and Art YIannis Colakides Primary Author Marc Garrett Primary Author Inte Gloerich Primary Author mixed material bibliography Amsterdam Institute of Network Culture 2019 monographic en English

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260p About the book: Today, we live in a world where every time we turn on our smartphones, we are inextricably tied by data, laws and flowing bytes to different countries. A world in which personal expressions are framed and mediated by digital platforms, and where new kinds of currencies, financial exchange and even labor bypass corporations and governments. Simultaneously, the same technologies increase governmental powers of surveillance, allow corporations to extract ever more complex working arrangements and do little to slow the construction of actual walls along actual borders. On the one hand, the agency of individuals and groups is starting to approach that of nation states; on the other, our mobility and hard-won rights are under threat. What tools do we need to understand this world, and how can art assist in envisioning and enacting other possible futures? This publication investigates the new relationships between states, citizens and the stateless made possible by emerging technologies. It is the result of a two-year EU-funded collaboration between Aksioma (SI), Drugo More (HR), Furtherfield (UK), Institute of Network Cultures (NL), NeMe (CY), and a diverse range of artists, curators, theorists and audiences. State Machines insists on the need for new forms of expression and new artistic practices to address the most urgent questions of our time, and seeks to educate and empower the digital subjects of today to become active, engaged, and effective digital citizens of tomorrow. NONE9789492302335 C2O library Online catalog (BETA) 323.04 COL Sta 9094 C2O library & collabtive 323.04 COL Ref images_%289%29.jpg.jpg 7778 2025-11-30 13:31:33 2025-11-30 13:32:29 machine generated