2022/04/01

There’s an Upside to Being a Human Software Extension, Says Media Artist Sebastian Schmieg

● 01/04/2022
“People extend computational systems by offering their bodies, senses, and cognition. Bodies and minds that can be easily plugged in and easily discarded later.”
– German media artist Sebastian Schmieg, on “humans as software extensions.” In his eponymous lecture at the 2017 34C3, archived and resurfaced on Twitter by OpenTranscripts, Schmieg discusses modes of algorithmic exploitation and how “being a part of software” presents an opportunity: “Once we’re plugged in, we can manipulate the systems that govern us.”
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