Thinking with the Animal-Hacker

H Pritchard

doi:10.7146/aprja.v2i1.121133

Thinking with the Animal-Hacker

H Pritchard

School of Art, Design and Architecture

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   In the depths of the Cumbria hills a dairy cow changes its route to stare deep into the camera lens of the ‘Environmental Virtual Observatory’ (EVO) (www.evo-uk.org). Downstream at 15 minute intervals organic matter is pushed through turbidity probes, sometimes causing the computation to glitch and upload its own movement into a data storage warehouse. In this muddy, messy situation of the EVO there is something lurking, something which might be described as the ‘Animal-Hacker’ the non-human animal, an entity that exploits the computational ecology, reconfigures it in an act of what Donna Haraway would describe as “worlding”.  

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	120-131
Number of pages	0
Journal	A Peer-Reviewed Journal About
Volume	2
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.7146/aprja.v2i1.121133
Publication status	Published - 31 Jan 2013

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