{"id":2212,"date":"2014-07-13T22:48:25","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T05:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/?page_id=2212"},"modified":"2014-07-13T22:48:25","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T05:48:25","slug":"mathew-shannon-2014","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/mathew-shannon-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathew Shannon 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/files\/2014\/07\/Shannon_Matthew-300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2213\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/files\/2014\/07\/Shannon_Matthew-300.jpg\" alt=\"Mathew Shannon\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Unvironment: the dark cloud of smog and intelligent data<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To propose any \u2018environment\u2019, be it cultural  or natural, is to assume a perceiving subject or group of subjects  present within its milieu. Although the subject(s) may be intimately  linked, even a part of, the given milieu there is a degree of separation  required to have identified the environment as such. An \u2018environment\u2019  to a human is not like water to an urchin \u2013 an urchin doesn\u2019t perceive  it\u2019s surrounding water. A human, on a sliding scale from the immediate  to the global, perceives an environment.<\/p>\n<p>This paper will introduce the idea of an  \u2018unvironment\u2019as an affect of two contaminant entities: the debated  geological epoch of the \u2018Anthropcene\u2019and of \u2018Ambient Intelligence\u2019<em>, <\/em>the  quasi-intelligent infrastructure of a digital meteorology capable of  acting on behalf of the human. The \u2018Anthropcene\u2019and \u2018Ambient  Intelligence\u2019 have twofold effects \u2013 both increase the intimacy of the  human with its milieu, whilst at the same time diminishing the very same  human agent, fulfilling the ultimate dream of\u00a0<em>techne<\/em>: to collapse time by unleashing the past in the form of hydrocarbons.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, seen synthetically \u2018Ambient  Intelligence\u2019 and the \u2018Anthropcene\u2019can be seen as reaching one unified  body that intensifies the tie between the technical and the natural.  This deepening comes at the specific cost of the human. This is no  longer an environment for us, but an \u2018unvironment\u2019of our own making<em>. <\/em>The paper will draw specifically from Fritz Leiber\u2019s weird fiction classic\u00a0<em>The Black Gondola,<\/em>wherein  amongst the oil derricks of Venice California, raw crude oil murders  the only heretical witness to its demonic pact with these machines.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matthew Shannon<\/strong> is an artist and writer living in  Amsterdam. He has previously exhibited at the Australian Centre for  Contemporary Art and is currently at the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam.  He has written for a number of Australian magazines including Art &amp;  Australia and is currently researching and producing a film structured  according to how a computer recognises the trace of the human.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Unvironment: the dark cloud of smog and intelligent data &nbsp; To propose any \u2018environment\u2019, be it cultural or natural, is to assume a perceiving subject or group of subjects present within its milieu. Although&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43221,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":36,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2212","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2212"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2222,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2212\/revisions\/2222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}