James Bridle

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James Bridle (born 1980 ) is a British installation artist and technology author who has lived in London and an island in Greece for many years . He is considered a thought leader and critic of the future of digital technology. From Wired he was counted in 2015 the hundred most influential people of the year.

Life

Bridle studied at University College London , majoring in cognitive science and computer science and graduated with a Master's degree. He wrote his dissertation on creative applications of artificial intelligence.

James Bridle coined the term for the artist group New Aesthetic ; her work “deals with the international interactions between digital networks and offline worlds” (deals with the ways in which the digital, networked world reaches into the physical, offline one). Aspects of the western security authorities including drones and the deportation of asylum seekers were explored.

As a writer, he has written for Wired , Domus , Cabinet Magazine, The Atlantic and many other major English language media outlets. From March 2012 to August 2015, he wrote about electronic reading as a columnist for the Observer . He wrote another regular column on publishing and digital technology for the British daily The Guardian from 2018 to 2019 .

Bridle's artwork and installations have been exhibited in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia. He has presented his work at the Victoria & Albert Museum , the Barbican Art Gallery , the Artangel, the Oslo Architecture Triennale and the Istanbul Design Biennial.

In 2018 Bridle curated the group exhibition Agency for the Nome Gallery in Berlin with the artists Morehshin Allahyari , Sophia Al Maria, Ingrid Burrington, Navine G. Khan-Dossos, Constant Dullaart, Anna Ridler and Suzanne Treister .

In April 2019, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a four-part radio feature series by Bridle called 'New Ways of Seeing', which, analogous to John Berger's radio essay Ways of Seeing, explored how contemporary technology affects culture. The film Se ti sabir (2019) is a film by James Bridle about language, intelligence and the contemporary relationship to new technologies. The word Sabir means to know and comes from the pidgin language lingua franca , which has been used in the Mediterranean for more than eight centuries , a hybrid form of the vocabulary and grammar of the Berber language, Turkish, French, Greek, Arabic and other languages.

In March 2020, Bridle was booked as the opening speaker of the Spy on Me # 2 series of events , which had to take place via streaming and YouTube channel of the Berlin organizer Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) due to the corona epidemic .

Exhibitions

  • 2015: The Glomar Response , first solo exhibition Bridles in Germany, Galerie Nome Berlin

Other works

  • The Iraq War: A Historiography of Wikipedia Changelogs , 2010
  • New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future , Verso, London and New York City 2018.
    • New Dark Age. The victory of technology and the end of the future , translated from English by Andreas Wirthensohn, 320 S., Verlag C. H. Beck, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-406-74177-7 .
  • Film essay Se ti sabir (2019), German premiere at the Festival Spy on Me # 2 des Hebbel am Ufer Berlin 2020

Awards

Web links

Commons : James Bridle  - collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ The 2015 Wired 100: 100-76 , wired.co.uk August 3, 2015, accessed March 19, 2020
  2. ^ The Drone Shadow Catcher , The New Yorker. December 5, 2013. Accessed March 19, 2020. 
  3. ↑ Article by James Bridle for The Guardian , accessed March 19, 2020.
  4. ↑ "AGENCY Group show October 27 - December 7, 2018" , nomegallery.com, accessed March 19, 2020
  5. ^ Marie Schmidt: Agents of Counter Espionage , exhibition review for Die Zeit from August 20, 2015, accessed March 19, 2020
  6. ^ New Ways of Seeing BBC Radio 4
  7. ↑ James Bridle on: Reshaping networks - for a more democratic world , deutschlandfunkkultur.de Conclusion of March 18, 2020, accessed March 19, 2020
  8. ↑ James Bridle: "Bringing to light has its moral limits" , review in Die Zeit on August 2, 2015, accessed March 19, 2020
  9. ^ Rise of the machines: has technology evolved beyond our control? , theguardian.com on June 15, 2018, accessed March 19, 2020
  10. ↑ Thomas Fromm: “New Dark Age” Don't be afraid of technology , book review on deutschlandfunk.de from October 28, 2019, accessed March 19, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Bridle, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British installation artist, curator and technology writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1980