Programmed Visions
By Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Design by Raegan Kelly
Editors' Introduction
The opening screen of "Programmed Visions" promises its users an archive, and an archive it delivers. But this archive will most likely defy and resist any predetermined notion of the archive you bring with you to the project. The digitization initiatives that drive so much of contemporary online culture -- from Google Books to our local universities -- envision the virtual archive as a kind of seamless information machine bringing the riches of the world to a screen near you with a quick tap of the finger. Such archives privilege transparency, accessibility, standardization, interoperability, and ease of use, lofty goals all, and quite useful when confronted with reams of data. But Wendy Chun and Reagan Kelly want us to think the archive differently. As with several other projects in this issue of Vectors, the piece urges you to shift your line of vision and to think about the larger stakes our frenzy of digitization might likely conceal.
Editors' Introduction Continued
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