Tung-Hui Hu
Biographic Data
| ID | 5703605 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tung-Hui Hu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tung-Hui |
| FAMILY NAME | Hu |
| SIGNATURE | HU T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Grids and Bags: Two Ways to Summarize People
Artificial Bloom
Anna Ridler’s Myriad (Tulips) is mesmerizing in its scale: it displays ten thousand photographs of tulips that she purchased, stripped, photographed, and categorized by hand over a summer in residence in the Netherlands (fig. 1). They were the raw materials for training a generative adversarial network (GAN) to generate artificial images of tulips for its companion artwork, Mosaic Virus (2018). But as she categorized each photograph by qualities,…
Digital Lethargy: Dispatches from an Age of Disconnection
The exhaustion, disappointment, and listlessness experienced under digital capitalism, explored through works by contemporary artists, writers, and performers. Sometimes, interacting with digital platforms, we want to be passive—in those moments of dissociation when we scroll mindlessly rather than connecting with anyone, for example, or when our only response is a shrugging “lol.” Despite encouragement by these platforms to “be yourself,” we wan…
Excerpt from Punishment: An Index
In 1591, after the apparent murder of 9-year-old Tsarevitch Dimitry, a church bell in Uglich tolled angrily, inciting a riot among the Tsarevitch’s supporters. Regent Boris Gudonov silenced the insolent bell by putting it on trial. Found guilty of treason, the bell received the following sentence: flogging by 120 lashes; a notch broken in its ear; the clapper torn out; a lifetime of exile. Oddly, it was not the only bell to be so punished. In Flo…
Wait, then Give Up: Lethargy and the Reticence of Digital Art
‘Be heard! Review your recent purchase!’, a recent email from an online shop blares. When ‘speaking up’, ‘taking control’, and even ‘fighting back’ have become co-opted by the structures of digital capitalism, what is left? This article takes up three digital artworks, by Cory Arcangel, Katherine Behar, Tega Brain and Surya Mattu, which appear reticent, withdrawn, or self-sabotaging. They are difficult to interpret because they do not fall into t…
Black Boxes and Green Lights: Media, Infrastructure, and the Future At Any Cost
Research Article| March 01 2017 Black Boxes and Green Lights: Media, Infrastructure, and the Future At Any Cost Tung-Hui Hu Tung-Hui Hu University of Michigan, Ann Arbor [email protected] Tung-Hui Hu writes on media art and the politics of digital culture. He is the author of A Prehistory of the Cloud (MIT Press, 2015), and three collections of poetry, most recently Greenhouses, Lighthouses (Copper Canyon Press, 2013). Hu has received fellowships fr…
A Prehistory of the Cloud
The militarized legacy of the digital cloud: how the cloud grew out of older network technologies and politics. We may imagine the digital cloud as placeless, mute, ethereal, and unmediated. Yet the reality of the cloud is embodied in thousands of massive data centers, any one of which can use as much electricity as a midsized town. Even all these data centers are only one small part of the cloud. Behind that cloud-shaped icon on our screens is a…
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A Prehistory of the Cloud
The militarized legacy of the digital cloud: how the cloud grew out of older network technologies and politics. We may imagine the digital cloud as placeless, mute, ethereal, and unmediated. Yet the reality of the cloud is embodied in thousands of massive data centers, any one of which can use as much electricity as a midsized town. Even all these data centers are only one small part of the cloud. Behind that cloud-shaped icon on our screens is a…
Wait, then Give Up: Lethargy and the Reticence of Digital Art
‘Be heard! Review your recent purchase!’, a recent email from an online shop blares. When ‘speaking up’, ‘taking control’, and even ‘fighting back’ have become co-opted by the structures of digital capitalism, what is left? This article takes up three digital artworks, by Cory Arcangel, Katherine Behar, Tega Brain and Surya Mattu, which appear reticent, withdrawn, or self-sabotaging. They are difficult to interpret because they do not fall into t…
Black Boxes and Green Lights: Media, Infrastructure, and the Future At Any Cost
Research Article| March 01 2017 Black Boxes and Green Lights: Media, Infrastructure, and the Future At Any Cost Tung-Hui Hu Tung-Hui Hu University of Michigan, Ann Arbor [email protected] Tung-Hui Hu writes on media art and the politics of digital culture. He is the author of A Prehistory of the Cloud (MIT Press, 2015), and three collections of poetry, most recently Greenhouses, Lighthouses (Copper Canyon Press, 2013). Hu has received fellowships fr…
Excerpt from Punishment: An Index
In 1591, after the apparent murder of 9-year-old Tsarevitch Dimitry, a church bell in Uglich tolled angrily, inciting a riot among the Tsarevitch’s supporters. Regent Boris Gudonov silenced the insolent bell by putting it on trial. Found guilty of treason, the bell received the following sentence: flogging by 120 lashes; a notch broken in its ear; the clapper torn out; a lifetime of exile. Oddly, it was not the only bell to be so punished. In Flo…
Digital Lethargy: Dispatches from an Age of Disconnection
The exhaustion, disappointment, and listlessness experienced under digital capitalism, explored through works by contemporary artists, writers, and performers. Sometimes, interacting with digital platforms, we want to be passive—in those moments of dissociation when we scroll mindlessly rather than connecting with anyone, for example, or when our only response is a shrugging “lol.” Despite encouragement by these platforms to “be yourself,” we wan…
Artificial Bloom
Anna Ridler’s Myriad (Tulips) is mesmerizing in its scale: it displays ten thousand photographs of tulips that she purchased, stripped, photographed, and categorized by hand over a summer in residence in the Netherlands (fig. 1). They were the raw materials for training a generative adversarial network (GAN) to generate artificial images of tulips for its companion artwork, Mosaic Virus (2018). But as she categorized each photograph by qualities,…
Grids and Bags: Two Ways to Summarize People
Computer Science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Capitalism (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Lethargy (2 works) · Media studies (2 works)