[Commlist] Interface Critique Journal vol. 2 – Navigating the Human - published

OUT NOW: Interface Critique Journal vol. 2 – Navigating the Human

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“What kinds of conceptual and artistic frameworks will help us 
understand the implications of our participation in the hybrid 
human-technical systems that have become essential to contemporary life 
in developed countries?” This question raised by N. Katherine Hayles is 
not only central for her own current work, in which she offers a glimpse 
in her contribution to the new issue of Interface Critique. It also 
reflects a main aspect of the issue’s focus: Calling up on the hybridity 
or interdependency of humans and technology, it criticizes tech 
ideologies and Californian Narratives which share a premise of “human 
engineering” – to refer to a term already used in 1965 by K. F. Hywel 
Murrell, one of the founders of research in human-machine ergonomics.

 From this perspective, current buzz words such as behavioral 
programming or persuasive technology uncover the powerful bias of 
research and development in ICT: its assumption that human behavior in 
technological settings is something to be designed. The critical 
examination of such a concept of the human – as yet another systemic 
component – is the focus of this issue, Navigating the Human. Rather 
than to be integrated as an element in functionalistic interface 
paradigms, the human factor in technology may be conceptualized as 
resistant moments of subjectification. Since questions of subjective 
resistance are especially raised by contemporary critical artistic 
practice, this issue of Interface Critique also includes artistic 
contributions beyond classical scientific paper formats. They are 
accompanied by contributions from media, art and cultural studies, 
philosophy, digital humanities and design theory, among other fields.

With contributions by Katriona Beales, Christoph Borbach, Filipa 
Cordeiro, Jan Distelmeyer, Christoph Ernst, Karl Wolfgang Flender, 
Masato Fukushima, Laurel Halo, N. Katherine Hayles, Julia Heldt, Darsha 
Hewitt, Timo Kaerlein, Armin Linke, Anthony Masure, Mari Matsutoya, 
Roland Meyer, Frieder Nake, Kalli Retzepi, Nils Röller and William 
Tunstall-Pedoe.


Florian Hadler, Alice Soiné, Daniel Irrgang (eds.)
Interface Critique Journal: Navigating the Human
No. 2, 2019
Published at arthistoricum.net <http://arthistoricum.net>, Heidelberg 
University Library
https://doi.org/10.11588/ic.2019.2
ISSN 2570-0472 (Print), ISBN 978-3-947449-74-3 (Softcover)
261 p., € 29,80 EUR

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