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James Bridle
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James Bridle is a British visual artist and author whose work examines how digital technologies shape physical life, information, and power.
Biography
James Bridle is a British visual artist and author born in 1980 and based in Athens, Greece. Their work examines the relationship between digital networks and the physical world. Bridle coined the term New Aesthetic and has explored elements of the Western security apparatus, including drones and the deportation of asylum seekers.
Bridle has written for publications including WIRED, Icon, Domus, Cabinet Magazine, The Atlantic, New Statesman, and the Financial Times, and wrote a regular column for The Guardian. In New Dark Age, Bridle examines the limits of technology through the history of art, technology, and information systems, questioning the belief that computation and more data necessarily improve understanding.
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Books by James Bridle
New Dark Age
New Dark Age examines how increasing technological complexity can diminish understanding, challenging the belief that computation and more data will build a better world. Drawing on art, technology, and information systems, it explores subjects including financial systems, algorithms, artificial intelligence, state secrecy, and workplace surveillance.