Content/Form – new issue of APRJA

We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of the free online open access journal, A Peer-Reviewed Journal About Content/Form, with contributions by Manetta Berends & Simon Browne, Kendal Beynon, Edoardo Biscossi, Luca Cacini, Pierre Depaz, Mateus Domingos, Marie Naja Lauritzen Dias, Bilyana Palankasova, Esther Rizo-Casado, Denise Asker Bryld Staunæs & Maja Bak Herrie, Helene Sumi, and edited by Christian Ulrik Andersen & Geoff Cox. See https://aprja.net//issue/view/11643.

The delivery of content has become central to our algorithm-mediated realities – formed by and forming language, identities, behaviour, and action. Content cannot be separated from the forms through which it is rendered. If our attachment to standardised forms and formats – served to us by big tech – limit the space for political possibility and collective action, then this journal issue of APRJA asks what alternatives might be envisioned (including for research itself)? By exploring our relations to content and the forms through which it is made public, it takes an interest in the production and consumption of representation of content, the hyper-realities of content production, our troubled relation to content, the interfaces of content, the machinic production of our visual realities, and the crisis of political imagination that may follow from this – and how this is reflected in aesthetic production, artistic research, and the broad field of software studies and interface criticism.

The issue presents the outcome of a research workshop that preceded the 2024 edition of the transmediale festival, organized by Digital Aesthetics Research Center (DARC), Aarhus University and Center for the Study of the Networked Image (CSNI), London South Bank University, in collaboration with transmediale festival for art and digital culture, Berlin, and with the participation of In-grid and Systerserver.

A Peer-Reviewed Journal About Content/Form
Vol. 13 No. 1 (2024)
ISSN: 2245-7755
Editors: Christian Ulrik Andersen and Geoff Cox
Published: Digital Aesthetics Research Centre, Aarhus University
Design: Manetta Berends and Simon Browne (CC)
CC license: ‘Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike’
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