Episode 19: Critical Software Art with Ben Grosser
Off Center7 Mai 2024

Episode 19: Critical Software Art with Ben Grosser

In this episode of Off Center, Scott Rettberg is joined by Ben Grosser, a professor of New Media at the University of Illinois. Ben is a well-known software artist who critically approaches digital media and platforms in his work. Listen now!

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References

Grosser, Benjamin. 2012. Facebook Demetricator. Web browser extension. https://bengrosser.com/projects/facebook-demetricator/.

Grosser, Benjamin. 2014. What do metrics want? How quantification prescribes social interaction on Facebook. Computational Culture. http://computationalculture.net/what-do-metrics-want/.

Grosser, Benjamin. 2019. Order of magnitude. Video. 47:15 minutes. https://bengrosser.com/projects/order-of-magnitude/.

Perrault, Ray, & Clark, Jack. 2024. Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2024. Stanforth University.

Mallapaty Smriti. 2024. AI traces mysterious metastatic cancers to their source. Nature, 628(8009). 699-700. doi: 10.1038/d41586-024-01110-8.

Downey, Sean C. 2024. “The Godmother of AI. How Fei-Fei Li ’99 is safeguarding the future of human and artificial intelligence”. https://alumni.princeton.edu/stories/fei-fei-li-woodrow-wilson-award.

Grosser, Benjamin. 2021. Deficit of less. Video. 47:15 minutes. https://bengrosser.com/projects/deficit-of-less/.

Grosser, Benjamin. 2020. Not for you. Browser extension. https://bengrosser.com/projects/not-for-you/.

Smith, Ben. 2021. “How TikTok reads your mind”. New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/05/business/media/tiktok-algorithm.html.

Grosser, Benjamin. 2020. The Endless Doomscroller. https://endlessdoomscroller.com/.


This work was partially supported by the Research Council of Norway Centres of Excellence, project number 332643, Center for Digital Narrative.

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