title: Interface critique, Nr. 2 (2019): Navigating the Human
title: Navigating the Human
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Interface Critique
Publisher: name: Interface critique
Year: 2019

description: OUT NOW: Interface Critique Journal no. 2 – Navigating the Human Print available here (€29,90): BUCHHANDEL “What kinds of conceptual and artistic frameworks will help us understand the implications of our participation in the hybrid human-technical systems that have become essential to contemporary life in developed countries?” This question raised by N. Katherine Hayles is not only central for her own current work, in which she offers a glimpse in her contribution to the new issue of Interface Critique. It also reflects a main aspect of the issue’s focus: Calling up on the hybridity or interdependency of humans and technology, it criticizes tech ideologies and Californian Narratives which share a premise of “human engineering” – to refer to a term already used in 1965 by K. F. Hywel Murrell, one of the founders of research in human-machine ergonomics. From this perspective, current buzz words such as behavioural programming or persuasive technology uncover the powerful bias of research and development in ICT: its assumption that human behaviour in technological settings is something to be designed. The critical examination of such a concept of the human – as yet another systemic component – is the focus of this issue, Navigating the Human. Rather than to be integrated as an element in functionalistic interface paradigms, the human factor in technology may be conceptualised as resistant moments of subjectification. Since questions of subjective resistance are especially raised by contemporary critical artistic practice, this issue of Interface Critique also includes artistic contributions beyond classical scientific paper formats. They are accompanied by contributions from media, art and cultural studies, philosophy, digital humanities or design theory, among other fields. With contributions by Katriona Beales, Christoph Borbach, Filipa Cordeiro, Jan Distelmeyer, Christoph Ernst, Karl Wolfgang Flender, Masato Fukushima, Laurel Halo, N. Katherine Hayles, Julia Heldt, Darsha Hewitt, Timo Kaerlein, Armin Linke, Anthony Masure, Mari Matsutoya, Roland Meyer, Frieder Nake, Kalli Retzepi, Nils Röller and William Tunstall-Pedoe.
description: Editorial: Navigating the Human...7–16 Navigating (through) Sound. ...17-33 Human-Machine Interface (1984)...35–45 Oswald's Hubble...47–55 Notes from the Labyrinth, or: The Infinite Web...57–61 Manifesto for an acentric Design...63–78 You, the Users...79–87 Starcity, MIR Simulator. And other Artistic Investigations...89–103 Regimes on Newness: An Essay of Comparative Physiognomy...105–122 Lynn Hershman Leeson's Cyborg Drawings...123–142 Still be here. The Multiplicity of Hatsune Miku...143–149 Unintended Consequences?...151–161 Meet the Machine: The Sideman 5000 Edition...163–171 Literary Texts as Cognitive Assemblages: The Case of Electronic Literature...173–195 American Psycho. Reading an Algorithm in Reverse...197–211 Special Section: Interface and the Post-industrial Society...213–215 Mobilizing Post-industrial Subjects: Human-Computer Interaction as Aesthetic Practice...217–223 Taking Part. Two Steps towards Networked Computerization...225–233 From Artefacts to Interfaces: Gui Bonsiepe and the Redefinition of Industrial Design...235–242 Natural User Interfaces and the Imagination of Post-Industrial Warfare: A Brief Look at Bladerunner 2049...243–250