TY - JOUR AU - Hora, Daniel PY - 2019/08/05 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Paradoxes of post-digital activism in art, design and architecture JF - DAT Journal JA - DATJournal VL - 4 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.29147/dat.v4i2.126 UR - https://datjournal.anhembi.br/dat/article/view/126 SP - 22-31 AB - <p>Post-digital technological context re-establishes the dynamics of confluence<br>between the political and the artistic. Experimental challenges based on informational<br>devices, collaborative networked processes and generative automation turn into prominent<br>features in some activist practices in art, design and architecture. However, some<br>paradoxes persist over the possibilities of intermediation between two perspectives: the<br>functional heteronomy of applied arts and the aesthetic regime of autonomy in contemporary<br>art. In this paper, we will review discussions about critical and insurgent power<br>found in double-edged technological approaches, sometimes moving from aesthetical<br>to utilitarian effects, sometimes going in the opposite direction. We will make reference<br>to art projects of hacker activism and speculative design and architecture. As a closing<br>proposal to articulate these strands, we will present the concept of critical in-utensil.</p> ER -