Data Diaries

Cory Archangel's Data Diaries is essentially the documentation of computer activity over the course of each day. The work takes a different approach to art than most uses of modern video and film. Data Diaries does not comment on global, emotional, social, or political issues; it is the deconstruction of narrative art, the "anti-narrative." The humanistic quality attributed with modern technology, whether intentional or not, is the most engaging aspect of this work. Archangel demonstrates a concept of daily routine, activity, documentation, and a confine of time which is usually non existent outside a human way of life. Though it is useless, as well as annoying, to sit through the entire daily cycle of a computer in video form I enjoy the way it is presented; not as art open for individual interpretation or bound by symbolism and meaning, but rather a purely superficial entity that ambiguosly connects with a social function based on the intention of it being contradictory.

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