Kristin Veel
Biographic Data
| ID | 180992 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristin Veel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristin |
| FAMILY NAME | Veel |
| SIGNATURE | VEEL K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5563-4874 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Leaky Home: Conceptualizing the Remote Control of Smart Technologies in the Domestic Sphere
Today many homes are accessible from afar, with mobile phones functioning as remote controls for technologies within the home. In this article we propose the 'leaky home' as a conceptual figure to understand how automated homes that leak through connected devices and sensors that collect, transmit, receive and share data are experienced and sensed by bodies within these distributed spaces. The leak brings together postmodern metaphors of fluidity…
Homectrl: An Example of Practice-Based Artistic Research as a Methodology in Surveillance Studies
This essay provides an example of how practice-based artistic research can contribute to surveillance studies. It does so by reflecting on the development of the installation HOMECTRL for The Danish Museum of Science & Technology. The installation offers speculative fabulations regarding how the Internet of Things (IoT) is rearticulating and transforming the home as a site of control, on a spectrum ranging from the mundane everyday use of robot v…
Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data
Scholars from a range of disciplines interrogate terms relevant to critical studies of big data, from abuse and aggregate to visualization and vulnerability. This groundbreaking work offers an interdisciplinary perspective on big data and the archives they accrue, interrogating key terms. Scholars from a range of disciplines analyze concepts relevant to critical studies of big data, arranged glossary style—from abuse and aggregate to visualizatio…
Introduction to The Sensorial Experience of the Drone
Over the last decade, drone technology has garnered critical attention across disciplinary fields, from engineering, military studies, law, and political science to landscape architecture and scien
Uncertain Archives: Approaching the Unknowns, Errors, and Vulnerabilities of Big Data through Cultural Theories of the Archive
From global search engines to local smart cities, from public health monitoring to personal self-tracking technologies, digital technologies continuously capture, process, and archive social, material, and affective information in the form of big data. Although the use of big data emerged from the human desire to acquire more knowledge and master more information and to eliminate human error in large-scale information management, it has become cl…
Towering Invisibilities: A Cultural-Theoretical Reading of the Eiffel Tower and the One World Trade Center
This article explores forms of visuality in architecture in which symbolic and functional values interlink by considering two visually striking and deeply symbolic landmarks that tower over their respective cities at the same time as their impact is related to the invisible wireless communication they facilitate. It contrasts cultural-theoretical responses to the Eiffel Tower (1889) with readings of the One World Trade Center (2014). In this way,…
Geolocating the stranger: The mapping of uncertainty as a configuration of matching and warranting techniques in dating apps
Geolocation as an increasingly common technique in dating apps is often portrayed as a way of configuring uncertainty that facilitates playful interaction with unknown strangers while avoiding subjecting the user to unwanted risks. Geolocation features are used in these apps on the one hand as matching techniques that created links between the user and potential partners through geographical location, and on the other as warranting techniques tha…
The techniques and aesthetics of love in the age of big data
The nexus between love and digitization has become a significant matter of concern in contemporary society. On the one hand, the romantic subject has never had more help at hand to seek out love through apps and platforms. On the other, hand, these very same aids are claimed to signal the end of romantic love. While there is much debate on whether or not digitization and love are incompatible systems, and much time has been devoted to exploring t…
Make data sing: The automation of storytelling
With slogans such as 'Tell the stories hidden in your data' ( www.narrativescience.com ) and 'From data to clear, insightful content - Wordsmith automatically generates narratives on a massive scale that sound like a person crafted each one' ( www.automatedinsights.com ), a series of companies currently market themselves on the ability to turn data into stories through Natural Language Generation (NLG) techniques. The data interpretation and know…
Images and uncertain worlds
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Negotiating the boundaries of the home: The making and breaking of lived and imagined walls
In cultural and architectural history and theory, the topic of the home is often approached through a trite private/public dichotomy, emphasizing the walls of the dwelling as a dividing line. Chall
I’ve changed my mind; I don’t want to go home”: Porosity of home, mind, and city in the science-fiction narrative Total Recall
This article considers the motif of porosity and its opposite, impenetrability, in relation to the home or places where we feel at home. It discusses ambiguities in how the physical boundaries of the home—but also of the perceived human subject—are portrayed in the technology-pervaded world of the dystopian science fiction narrative Total Recall. Tracing the story from the 1966 novel by Philip K. Dick, through the 1990 film to the recent remake (…
Data visualization from a feminist perspective - Interview with Catherine D ́Ignazio
Catherine D’Ignazio is a scholar, artist/designer and software developer who focuses on data literacy, feminist technology and civic art. She has run breastpump hackathons, created award-winning water quality sculptures that talk and tweet, and led walking data visualizations to envision the future of sea level rise. Her research at the intersection of gender, technology and the humanities has been published in the Journal of Peer Production, the…
For the Smarter Good of Cities: On Cities, Complexity and Slippages in the Smart City Discourse
Maneuvering in Nervous Times: The Hyperlinks in Reinhard Jirgl's Abtrünnig
Reinhard Jirgl is an important and challenging but still relatively understudied contemporary German writer. This article looks at his novel Abtrünnig: Roman aus der nervösen Zeit from 2005, focusing on the function of the hyperlinks boxes, which dominate the textual layout. It shows that Abtrünnig is a strong example of how hyperlinks can work in a printed literary environment as a vehicle for a discussion of reading practices, linearity, and na…
The Cultural Life of Catastrophes and Crises
Catastrophes and crises fascinate as much as they terrorize. The common goal of the articles collected in this book is to investigate the ways in which catastrophes (real or fictitious) have provided film, art and literature with a historical, if not universal, matrix for exploring the frailty of human existence, the passions they trigger and the new behavioral modes they necessitate. The book thus argues that film, art, and literature are privil…
Information Overload and Database Aesthetics
Everyone knows what constitutes attention. It is the taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought. Focalisation and concentration of consciousness are its essence. It implies withdrawal from some things in order to deal effectively with others, and is a condition which has a real opposite in the confused, dazed, scatterbrained state, which in French is…
Living Behind Glass Facades: Surveillance Culture and New Architecture
Transparent glass facades dominate much contemporary high– to mid–rise urban residential architecture. This article takes a closer look at life behind glass facades in contemporary surveillance culture. The aim is to illuminate how the material culture of contemporary architecture together with surveillance practices and technologies contribute to a remodelling our notions of the visible and the invisible. Whereas the architecture is determined b…
Overvågningsnarrationer - Overvågning Som Figur Og Formgreb I Samtidsromanen
SURVEILLANCENARRATIONS. SURVEILLANCE AS SUBJECT AND FORM IN THE CONTEMPORARY NOVELWithin recent years surveillance has simultaneously become a pervasive topic of public debate, a growing academic field in its own right and an increasingly popular theme in the arts and popular culture. This article argues that there are significant insights to be gained on the impact of surveillance on our cultural imagination from looking at the ways in which con…
Virtual Memory in Günter Grass's Im Krebsgang
This essay is concerned with the significance of the references to the internet in Grass's recent novella Im Krebsgang . It examines recent public statements by Grass, including his Nobel Prize lecture of 1999, in order to expound the issues raised in Im Krebsgang . It distinguishes between the different types of commemoration exemplified by the main characters in the work (the narrator who was born on the night of the sinking of the Wilhelm Gust…
Introduction to The Sensorial Experience of the Drone
Over the last decade, drone technology has garnered critical attention across disciplinary fields, from engineering, military studies, law, and political science to landscape architecture and scien
Negotiating the boundaries of the home: The making and breaking of lived and imagined walls
In cultural and architectural history and theory, the topic of the home is often approached through a trite private/public dichotomy, emphasizing the walls of the dwelling as a dividing line. Chall
Uncertain Archives: Approaching the Unknowns, Errors, and Vulnerabilities of Big Data through Cultural Theories of the Archive
From global search engines to local smart cities, from public health monitoring to personal self-tracking technologies, digital technologies continuously capture, process, and archive social, material, and affective information in the form of big data. Although the use of big data emerged from the human desire to acquire more knowledge and master more information and to eliminate human error in large-scale information management, it has become cl…
Virtual Memory in Günter Grass's Im Krebsgang
This essay is concerned with the significance of the references to the internet in Grass's recent novella Im Krebsgang . It examines recent public statements by Grass, including his Nobel Prize lecture of 1999, in order to expound the issues raised in Im Krebsgang . It distinguishes between the different types of commemoration exemplified by the main characters in the work (the narrator who was born on the night of the sinking of the Wilhelm Gust…
The Leaky Home: Conceptualizing the Remote Control of Smart Technologies in the Domestic Sphere
Today many homes are accessible from afar, with mobile phones functioning as remote controls for technologies within the home. In this article we propose the 'leaky home' as a conceptual figure to understand how automated homes that leak through connected devices and sensors that collect, transmit, receive and share data are experienced and sensed by bodies within these distributed spaces. The leak brings together postmodern metaphors of fluidity…
Homectrl: An Example of Practice-Based Artistic Research as a Methodology in Surveillance Studies
This essay provides an example of how practice-based artistic research can contribute to surveillance studies. It does so by reflecting on the development of the installation HOMECTRL for The Danish Museum of Science & Technology. The installation offers speculative fabulations regarding how the Internet of Things (IoT) is rearticulating and transforming the home as a site of control, on a spectrum ranging from the mundane everyday use of robot v…
Geolocating the stranger: The mapping of uncertainty as a configuration of matching and warranting techniques in dating apps
Geolocation as an increasingly common technique in dating apps is often portrayed as a way of configuring uncertainty that facilitates playful interaction with unknown strangers while avoiding subjecting the user to unwanted risks. Geolocation features are used in these apps on the one hand as matching techniques that created links between the user and potential partners through geographical location, and on the other as warranting techniques tha…
Living Behind Glass Facades: Surveillance Culture and New Architecture
Transparent glass facades dominate much contemporary high– to mid–rise urban residential architecture. This article takes a closer look at life behind glass facades in contemporary surveillance culture. The aim is to illuminate how the material culture of contemporary architecture together with surveillance practices and technologies contribute to a remodelling our notions of the visible and the invisible. Whereas the architecture is determined b…
Towering Invisibilities: A Cultural-Theoretical Reading of the Eiffel Tower and the One World Trade Center
This article explores forms of visuality in architecture in which symbolic and functional values interlink by considering two visually striking and deeply symbolic landmarks that tower over their respective cities at the same time as their impact is related to the invisible wireless communication they facilitate. It contrasts cultural-theoretical responses to the Eiffel Tower (1889) with readings of the One World Trade Center (2014). In this way,…
Make data sing: The automation of storytelling
With slogans such as 'Tell the stories hidden in your data' ( www.narrativescience.com ) and 'From data to clear, insightful content - Wordsmith automatically generates narratives on a massive scale that sound like a person crafted each one' ( www.automatedinsights.com ), a series of companies currently market themselves on the ability to turn data into stories through Natural Language Generation (NLG) techniques. The data interpretation and know…
Data visualization from a feminist perspective - Interview with Catherine D ́Ignazio
Catherine D’Ignazio is a scholar, artist/designer and software developer who focuses on data literacy, feminist technology and civic art. She has run breastpump hackathons, created award-winning water quality sculptures that talk and tweet, and led walking data visualizations to envision the future of sea level rise. Her research at the intersection of gender, technology and the humanities has been published in the Journal of Peer Production, the…
Virtual Memory in Günter Grass's Im Krebsgang
This essay is concerned with the significance of the references to the internet in Grass's recent novella Im Krebsgang . It examines recent public statements by Grass, including his Nobel Prize lecture of 1999, in order to expound the issues raised in Im Krebsgang . It distinguishes between the different types of commemoration exemplified by the main characters in the work (the narrator who was born on the night of the sinking of the Wilhelm Gust…
Overvågningsnarrationer - Overvågning Som Figur Og Formgreb I Samtidsromanen
SURVEILLANCENARRATIONS. SURVEILLANCE AS SUBJECT AND FORM IN THE CONTEMPORARY NOVELWithin recent years surveillance has simultaneously become a pervasive topic of public debate, a growing academic field in its own right and an increasingly popular theme in the arts and popular culture. This article argues that there are significant insights to be gained on the impact of surveillance on our cultural imagination from looking at the ways in which con…
Information Overload and Database Aesthetics
Everyone knows what constitutes attention. It is the taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought. Focalisation and concentration of consciousness are its essence. It implies withdrawal from some things in order to deal effectively with others, and is a condition which has a real opposite in the confused, dazed, scatterbrained state, which in French is…
Living Behind Glass Facades: Surveillance Culture and New Architecture
Transparent glass facades dominate much contemporary high– to mid–rise urban residential architecture. This article takes a closer look at life behind glass facades in contemporary surveillance culture. The aim is to illuminate how the material culture of contemporary architecture together with surveillance practices and technologies contribute to a remodelling our notions of the visible and the invisible. Whereas the architecture is determined b…
Maneuvering in Nervous Times: The Hyperlinks in Reinhard Jirgl's Abtrünnig
Reinhard Jirgl is an important and challenging but still relatively understudied contemporary German writer. This article looks at his novel Abtrünnig: Roman aus der nervösen Zeit from 2005, focusing on the function of the hyperlinks boxes, which dominate the textual layout. It shows that Abtrünnig is a strong example of how hyperlinks can work in a printed literary environment as a vehicle for a discussion of reading practices, linearity, and na…
The Cultural Life of Catastrophes and Crises
Catastrophes and crises fascinate as much as they terrorize. The common goal of the articles collected in this book is to investigate the ways in which catastrophes (real or fictitious) have provided film, art and literature with a historical, if not universal, matrix for exploring the frailty of human existence, the passions they trigger and the new behavioral modes they necessitate. The book thus argues that film, art, and literature are privil…
For the Smarter Good of Cities: On Cities, Complexity and Slippages in the Smart City Discourse
Negotiating the boundaries of the home: The making and breaking of lived and imagined walls
In cultural and architectural history and theory, the topic of the home is often approached through a trite private/public dichotomy, emphasizing the walls of the dwelling as a dividing line. Chall
I’ve changed my mind; I don’t want to go home”: Porosity of home, mind, and city in the science-fiction narrative Total Recall
This article considers the motif of porosity and its opposite, impenetrability, in relation to the home or places where we feel at home. It discusses ambiguities in how the physical boundaries of the home—but also of the perceived human subject—are portrayed in the technology-pervaded world of the dystopian science fiction narrative Total Recall. Tracing the story from the 1966 novel by Philip K. Dick, through the 1990 film to the recent remake (…
Data visualization from a feminist perspective - Interview with Catherine D ́Ignazio
Catherine D’Ignazio is a scholar, artist/designer and software developer who focuses on data literacy, feminist technology and civic art. She has run breastpump hackathons, created award-winning water quality sculptures that talk and tweet, and led walking data visualizations to envision the future of sea level rise. Her research at the intersection of gender, technology and the humanities has been published in the Journal of Peer Production, the…
Geolocating the stranger: The mapping of uncertainty as a configuration of matching and warranting techniques in dating apps
Geolocation as an increasingly common technique in dating apps is often portrayed as a way of configuring uncertainty that facilitates playful interaction with unknown strangers while avoiding subjecting the user to unwanted risks. Geolocation features are used in these apps on the one hand as matching techniques that created links between the user and potential partners through geographical location, and on the other as warranting techniques tha…
The techniques and aesthetics of love in the age of big data
The nexus between love and digitization has become a significant matter of concern in contemporary society. On the one hand, the romantic subject has never had more help at hand to seek out love through apps and platforms. On the other, hand, these very same aids are claimed to signal the end of romantic love. While there is much debate on whether or not digitization and love are incompatible systems, and much time has been devoted to exploring t…
Make data sing: The automation of storytelling
With slogans such as 'Tell the stories hidden in your data' ( www.narrativescience.com ) and 'From data to clear, insightful content - Wordsmith automatically generates narratives on a massive scale that sound like a person crafted each one' ( www.automatedinsights.com ), a series of companies currently market themselves on the ability to turn data into stories through Natural Language Generation (NLG) techniques. The data interpretation and know…
Images and uncertain worlds
Preview this article: Images and uncertain worlds, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/pop/9/2/pop.9.2.99_2-1.gif
Uncertain Archives: Approaching the Unknowns, Errors, and Vulnerabilities of Big Data through Cultural Theories of the Archive
From global search engines to local smart cities, from public health monitoring to personal self-tracking technologies, digital technologies continuously capture, process, and archive social, material, and affective information in the form of big data. Although the use of big data emerged from the human desire to acquire more knowledge and master more information and to eliminate human error in large-scale information management, it has become cl…
Towering Invisibilities: A Cultural-Theoretical Reading of the Eiffel Tower and the One World Trade Center
This article explores forms of visuality in architecture in which symbolic and functional values interlink by considering two visually striking and deeply symbolic landmarks that tower over their respective cities at the same time as their impact is related to the invisible wireless communication they facilitate. It contrasts cultural-theoretical responses to the Eiffel Tower (1889) with readings of the One World Trade Center (2014). In this way,…
Introduction to The Sensorial Experience of the Drone
Over the last decade, drone technology has garnered critical attention across disciplinary fields, from engineering, military studies, law, and political science to landscape architecture and scien
Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data
Scholars from a range of disciplines interrogate terms relevant to critical studies of big data, from abuse and aggregate to visualization and vulnerability. This groundbreaking work offers an interdisciplinary perspective on big data and the archives they accrue, interrogating key terms. Scholars from a range of disciplines analyze concepts relevant to critical studies of big data, arranged glossary style—from abuse and aggregate to visualizatio…
Homectrl: An Example of Practice-Based Artistic Research as a Methodology in Surveillance Studies
This essay provides an example of how practice-based artistic research can contribute to surveillance studies. It does so by reflecting on the development of the installation HOMECTRL for The Danish Museum of Science & Technology. The installation offers speculative fabulations regarding how the Internet of Things (IoT) is rearticulating and transforming the home as a site of control, on a spectrum ranging from the mundane everyday use of robot v…
The Leaky Home: Conceptualizing the Remote Control of Smart Technologies in the Domestic Sphere
Today many homes are accessible from afar, with mobile phones functioning as remote controls for technologies within the home. In this article we propose the 'leaky home' as a conceptual figure to understand how automated homes that leak through connected devices and sensors that collect, transmit, receive and share data are experienced and sensed by bodies within these distributed spaces. The leak brings together postmodern metaphors of fluidity…
Computer Science (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Art (15 works) · Aesthetics (9 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · History (6 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Narrative (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Engineering (5 works)