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Interfacing with power
(2017)
Drawing connections
(2018)
An/Leiten
(2017)
From object to process
(2019)
One of the most difficult tasks today is trying to grasp the presence of computing. The almost ubiquitous and diverse forms of networked computers (in all their stationary, mobile, embedded, and autonomous modes) create a nearly overwhelming complexity. To speak of what is here evading and present at the same time, the paper proposes to reconsider the concept of interface, its historical roots, and its heuristic advantages for an analysis and critique of the current and especially everyday spread of computerization.
The question of interfaces leads to isolable conditions and processes of conduction, as well as to the complexity of the cooperation formed by them. It opens both an investigative horizon and a mode of analysis, which always asks for further interface levels involved in the phenomenon I am currently investigating. As an example, the paper turns to the displacement of the file with the launch of the iPhone in 2007 and its comeback in 2017 with the “Files” apps.
Both developments are profoundly related to the establishment of computers as permanently networked machines, whereby their functionality, depresentations, and ideology come into focus.
Die Gegenwart des Computers ist grundsätzlich mit Regulierungsansprüchen und Fragen der Verfügung verbunden – mit dem Wunsch nach und der Angst vor Kontrolle. Was sind das für Formen des Verfügens? In welchem Verhältnis stehen Erscheinungsformen und Bedingungen des Computers? Wie vermitteln Interfaces – Schnittstellen zwischen Hardware, Software, Mensch und Ding – unsere Beziehung zum Computer als Medium und Machtmaschine? Was für Welt- und Leitbilder inszenieren alltägliche Gebrauchsoberflächen zum "Tippen, Wischen, Drücken, Klicken"? Was tragen aktuelle Debatten um "Industrie 4.0", "Ubiquitous Computing" und die "Post-Snowden-Ära" dazu bei?