Avery Slater
Biographic Data
| ID | 279013 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Avery Slater |
| GIVEN NAMES | Avery |
| FAMILY NAME | Slater |
| SIGNATURE | SLATER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8700-7234 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Abiopolitics of the Archive: DNA as Data Storage and Other Evolutions
Charting a course from postwar cybernetics to contemporary data science, this paper explores DNA’s dual role as a molecule of heredity and an archival substrate for the digital age. By encoding exogeneous text into DNA, scientists repurpose life’s replicative mechanisms for non-biological preservation, challenging the boundary between living and non-living archives. Connecting Jacques Derrida’s account of archival an-archy to methods in contempor…
Unseen Sound: One Step into the Blind Future (Academic Access Version)
Elizabeth McLain interviews CripTech incubator artist Andy Slater about Unseen Sound (2023), his work for E.A.A.T.: Experiments in Art, Access and Technology. Slater discusses accessibility as artistic practice, the exclusion of blind folks from augmented and extended reality, and experimental art’s capacity for fostering access intimacy. While developing Unseen Sound, Slater experienced failures in access and technology. Hyperactive listening—th…
Leonardo Gallery: Experiments in Art, Access and Technology
Meesh Fradkin’s voice-activated sculpture listens to the formation of speech and explores the loss of meaning in buzzwords. Powered by a sonified dictionary composed of jargon, babbel questions positionality in the arts by bringing attention to who is participating in real time.Suspended from the ceiling as multi-tiered wooden chandeliers with steel rods and plastic tubing, this installation emits sounds in response to words overheard in the gall…
Critical Response IV: This Photo Does Not Exist: Generativity and the AI Gaze
Phantoms of Citation: AI and the Death of the Author-Function
Post-Automation Poetics; or, How Cold-War Computers Discovered Poetry
This article examines early Cold War attempts to generate poetry using computers. Set between the end of World War II and the rise of personal computing, computer-generated poetry from this period was shaped not only by artists but also the university lab, the defense-contactor, and the corporation. Computer-generated poetry from this era often participated in the larger project of fostering public conception of the power and prestige of computer…
Hermenautics: Toward a Disinformation Theory
This essay tracks cybernetic approaches to the task of hermeneutics. From the first paradigm of cybernetics through its development within contemporary lines of research, the question of information processing evokes problems of interpretation shared by humans and machines. The article discusses Friedrich Kittler's notion of "hermenautics" in the context of disinformation and contemporary politics. This argument draws out connections between scie…
Primo Levi's Chernobyl: Ecology and Trauma in The Reawakening
This essay follows Primo Levi's journey home to Italy after the liberation of Auschwitz, as narrated in his 1963 memoir The Reawakening [La tregua]. Levi's repatriation convoy bound for Italy under Soviet guard traveled inexplicably east instead of south, traversing and being detained within the landscape of the Pripet Marshes. As Europe's largest wetlands, the nearly impassible Pripet Marshes had stalled a Nazi advance into Russia and saw partis…
Jus Sanguinis, Jus Soli: West German Citizenship Law and the Melodrama of the Guest Worker in Fassbinder's Angst Essen Seele Auf
American Afterlife: Benjaminian Messianism and Technological Redemption in Muriel Rukeyser’s The Book of the Dead
Reading Muriel Rukeyser’s 1938 long poem The Book of the Dead alongside Walter Benjamin’s theories of messianism and “profane illumination,” this essay explores how their work reconceives 1930s Marxist secular politics of redemption along postsecular lines. As a crisis in interwar utopian politics of social redemption urged Left-aesthetics to respond to newly uncertain political futures, Rukeyser’s documentary-epic renewed a social imaginary for …
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Jus Sanguinis, Jus Soli: West German Citizenship Law and the Melodrama of the Guest Worker in Fassbinder's Angst Essen Seele Auf
American Afterlife: Benjaminian Messianism and Technological Redemption in Muriel Rukeyser’s The Book of the Dead
Reading Muriel Rukeyser’s 1938 long poem The Book of the Dead alongside Walter Benjamin’s theories of messianism and “profane illumination,” this essay explores how their work reconceives 1930s Marxist secular politics of redemption along postsecular lines. As a crisis in interwar utopian politics of social redemption urged Left-aesthetics to respond to newly uncertain political futures, Rukeyser’s documentary-epic renewed a social imaginary for …
Primo Levi's Chernobyl: Ecology and Trauma in The Reawakening
This essay follows Primo Levi's journey home to Italy after the liberation of Auschwitz, as narrated in his 1963 memoir The Reawakening [La tregua]. Levi's repatriation convoy bound for Italy under Soviet guard traveled inexplicably east instead of south, traversing and being detained within the landscape of the Pripet Marshes. As Europe's largest wetlands, the nearly impassible Pripet Marshes had stalled a Nazi advance into Russia and saw partis…
Post-Automation Poetics; or, How Cold-War Computers Discovered Poetry
This article examines early Cold War attempts to generate poetry using computers. Set between the end of World War II and the rise of personal computing, computer-generated poetry from this period was shaped not only by artists but also the university lab, the defense-contactor, and the corporation. Computer-generated poetry from this era often participated in the larger project of fostering public conception of the power and prestige of computer…
Hermenautics: Toward a Disinformation Theory
This essay tracks cybernetic approaches to the task of hermeneutics. From the first paradigm of cybernetics through its development within contemporary lines of research, the question of information processing evokes problems of interpretation shared by humans and machines. The article discusses Friedrich Kittler's notion of "hermenautics" in the context of disinformation and contemporary politics. This argument draws out connections between scie…
Unseen Sound: One Step into the Blind Future (Academic Access Version)
Elizabeth McLain interviews CripTech incubator artist Andy Slater about Unseen Sound (2023), his work for E.A.A.T.: Experiments in Art, Access and Technology. Slater discusses accessibility as artistic practice, the exclusion of blind folks from augmented and extended reality, and experimental art’s capacity for fostering access intimacy. While developing Unseen Sound, Slater experienced failures in access and technology. Hyperactive listening—th…
Leonardo Gallery: Experiments in Art, Access and Technology
Meesh Fradkin’s voice-activated sculpture listens to the formation of speech and explores the loss of meaning in buzzwords. Powered by a sonified dictionary composed of jargon, babbel questions positionality in the arts by bringing attention to who is participating in real time.Suspended from the ceiling as multi-tiered wooden chandeliers with steel rods and plastic tubing, this installation emits sounds in response to words overheard in the gall…
Critical Response IV: This Photo Does Not Exist: Generativity and the AI Gaze
Phantoms of Citation: AI and the Death of the Author-Function
Abiopolitics of the Archive: DNA as Data Storage and Other Evolutions
Charting a course from postwar cybernetics to contemporary data science, this paper explores DNA’s dual role as a molecule of heredity and an archival substrate for the digital age. By encoding exogeneous text into DNA, scientists repurpose life’s replicative mechanisms for non-biological preservation, challenging the boundary between living and non-living archives. Connecting Jacques Derrida’s account of archival an-archy to methods in contempor…
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