The Deep Lab Book

by Deep Lab

Deep Lab is a congress of cyberfeminist researchers, organized by STUDIO Fellow Addie Wagenknecht to examine how the themes of privacy, security, surveillance, anonymity, and large-scale data aggregation are problematized in the arts, culture and society. During the second week of December 2014, the Deep Lab participants—a group of internationally acclaimed new-media artists, information designers, data scientists, software engineers, hackers, writers, journalists and theoreticians—gathered to engage in critical assessments of contemporary digital culture. They worked collaboratively at the STUDIO in an accelerated pressure project, blending aspects of a booksprint, hackathon, dugnad, charrette, and a micro-conference. The outcomes of this effort include the visualizations, software, reflections and manifestos compiled in this book; an album of ten lecture presentations, the Deep Lab Lecture Series, which can be viewed in the STUDIO’s online video archive; and a forthcoming twenty-minute documentary film featuring interviews with the Deep Lab participants.

240 pages

First published December 23, 2014

Reviews

[Nahum Flynn · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was a good brief collection of I think a weeks work. I just felt that as a book it lacked the solidity necessary to gain a higher mark and I'm sure that it wasn't trying to. The content was clear, backed up by good examples explained well through the telling of personal experiences of the authors. It provided some much needed advice on how our information is given over by us and stored by them, and even hints on how to find such places.
When the illustrations were added it was like a gust of fresh summer breeze, lighting up the tone.
The aim of the book seemed to be informing the reader of a world that thrives around our daily lives, unbeknown to us, and it successfully did so.