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Since 2005 several companies, such as Google, Microsoft, Baidu and Kakao (Daum), started to develop systems to digitally map urban and rural…
It is over a decade ago that Richard Florida introduced the “rise of the creative class”. If decaying cities wanted to survive,…
Cities are being overwhelmed by a top-down, algorithmically-enabled attempt to make them legible, quantifiable and replicable. Can a project of nonsense-making disrupt…
Hidden data infrastructure is integral to advancements in the UK's immigration enforcement capabilities. Exposing this infrastructure will therefore be an increasingly necessary…
As big mapping corporations substitute public institutions in curating spatial data, informal residents' voices are still yet to be acknowledged.
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Rideshare app Gojek has disrupted traditional paratransit services. The cost to places like Bandung is a loss of spaces once autonomously co-produced…
Global investment firms are using an arcane financial formula to make huge profits flipping properties in local markets, as recently illustrated in…
Discrimination in speech-translation software adds to existing digital and physical infrastructures set in place to control and constrain the Palestinian body.
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Beyond physical barriers and checkpoints, Palestinians in the West Bank contend with communications frequencies as an invisible infrastructure of control.
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The drug trade has become increasingly deterritorialised thanks to a global network of dealers and traffickers who have taken their activity online,…
Contrary to popular belief, it is not the human species that selects the houseplant to furnish the domestic environment; it is the…
“Should I classify the luxuriant growth of objects as we do a flora or fauna, complete with tropical and glacial species, sudden…
Bias is a collection of the mobile location data history of the artist Sjoerd ter Borg. Automatically downloaded Street View images of…
Blindspot is a webfilm that shows a videoloop of the Street View images of the neigbourhood Ikseon-dong (익선동) which were recorded for…
Which aesthetics do we associate with gentrification? StreetSwipe let’s the audience determine if they think a photo of a storefront of bar…
What traces do we leave online when we visit the city? And how do these traces seduce us into exploring sameness? In…
Javastraat.cloud is a collection of Instagram posts shot on the Javastraat in Amsterdam between 2010 and 2021. The experiment gives insight into…
During the monthly planet B meetings, scientists, artists and citizens are invited to have a dialogue about the social and ecological challenges…
Last week the film Beach Umbrella won the Icarus Award: a Dutch prize for art works reflecting about technology and society! It…
The Hmm is a real-life Tumblr, an evening of high-speed scrolling and discovering 10 new things on the way. Tuesday the 6th…
Contrary to popular belief, it is not the human species that selects the houseplant to furnish the domestic environment; it is the…
Aesthetics of Exclusion is looking for a pro-active intern. Primarily you will focus on visual research, developing and exploring different conceptual directions…
Saturday the 2nd of November Aesthetics of Exclusion will show 3 works at Waag during the Museumnacht Amsterdam 2019. Two works (…
Beach Umbrellavhas been selected for the Simultan Festival XIV: There Will Be A Time When It Will Not Be'.
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Aesthetics of Exclusion will present a live demo of StreetSwipe at the IDFA DocLab Interactive Conference on the Saturday 23rd of November.…
De Drie Wijzen uit Oost will be part of the exhibition 'Like Market, Like Never Before'.
‘dapper’ is pleased to invite you…
Aesthetics of Exclusion will be part of ThingsCon 2019 Friday the 13th of December in Het Nieuwe Instituut (Rotterdam). ThingsCon is a…
Aesthetics of Exclusion will be artist in residence for the month of August 2020 at Q21 at the Museumquarter in Vienna (Austria).…
Algorithms shape the city after their own image. But it is an image they have been trained to see. Computation not only…
Please listen to the Podcast MENS of magazine Vrij Nederland where journalist Sander Pleij interviewed Sjoerd ter Borg about Aesthetics of Exclusion.
Which aesthetics do we associate with gentrification? StreetSwipe let’s the audience determine if they think a photo of a storefront of bar…
Dutch newspaper NRC featured StreetSwipe in the news paper of 22nd of September 2020. Which aesthetics do we associate with gentrification? StreetSwipe…