SAMMAN, Nadim
Poetics of Encryption: Art and the Technocene

“We are all inside this thing―but how?” This book explores 21st-century art’s reckonings with the technosphere. Outlining the concept of encryption that underlies this infrastructural condition, Samman explores motifs of confinement, capture and burial, as well as access and exclusion from secured domains. Poetics of Encryption excavates the art of our times in relation to these motifs, as it quests through caves, cables, codes, satellites and icons. Toggling between enlightened concern and occult dreaming, it surveys a counterintuitive aesthetic of the interface. [publisher's note]

Published by Hatje Cantz, 2023
Art Theory / Essays