Poetika kódování: Umění v technocénu

The world today is ruled by proprietary algorithms, secret data repositories and impenetrable systems. How is this reflected in art? In The Poetics of Coding, Nadim Samman analyses works that highlight the hidden dimensions of our technological landscape. Contrary to the deceptive claims of a new culture of transparency and openness, these works focus on black places, black boxes and black holes while straddling the line between informed concern and occult dreaming.

The publication Poetika kódování: Umění v technocénu, a Czech translation of the book Poetics of Encryption: Art and the Technocene, is published on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition Poetics of Encryption at Galerie Rudolfinum.

About the author:

Nadim Samman

Nadim Samman, art theorist and curator. Samman is a doctoral candidate at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. He is currently based in Copenhagen. Between 2020–⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠2024 he was curator at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. He is currently Director of the Autotelic Foundation (London) and External Curator at the Langen Foundation (Düsseldorf). He has expanded his portfolio of editorial work, scholarly articles and contributions to art catalogues with the book Poetics of Encryption: Art and the Technocene. His essayistic first book As We Used To Float (with Julian Charrière) has also been translated into Czech.