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Nadim Samman: Poetics of Encryption. Art and the Technocene

Text by Nadim Samman, Designed by Neil Holt

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â€œWe are all inside this thingâ€”but how?â€ This book explores 21st century artâ€™s reckonings with the technosphere. Almost unimaginable in its complexity and scale, a man-made megastructure surrounds all of us, and often seems inescapable. Outlining the poetics of encryption that attend to this infrastructural condition, Samman explores dramatic motifs including confinement, capture, and burial, as well as access and exclusion from secured domains. Poetics of Encryption excavates the art of our times as it quests through caves, cables, codes, satellites, and icons. Toggling between enlightened concern and occult dreaming it surveys a counter-intuitive aesthetic of the interface: Addressing those who cannot write code, this analogy in contemporary art stages its own â€˜digitalâ€™, both virtually and analogue.

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