Unfold #4 is out!!!

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It is with great excitement that Vision Forum announces the launch of Unfold #4: daily_unfold(ing), curated by Alessandro Ludovico, media theorist, artist and editor-in-chief of Neural magazine since 1999. “daily_unfold(ing)” is a meditation on the digital folder through  three original contributions by artist and scholar Silvio Lorusso, artist Nandita Kumar and by Alessandro Ludovico himself.

In all three “the folder is respectively understood as a verbal unit, a container for recalculated text gestures, and ephemeral repository of text memories.” While Ludovico’s diary of “folded” backups addresses the co-existence of memory overload and forgetfulness in our digital lives, Lorusso stresses the enunciative power of the folder as an organizing principle and turns Benjamin’s essay “Unpacking my Library” into an abyssal and yet empty structure of self-referential folders. Nandita Kumar’s “fRom paRaDigm to paradigm” uses instead the folder to document and narrate a performance action that itself investigates texts from the aleatory perspective of algorithms and machines.