Critical Writing Index

Statistical Material: Globalization and the Digital Art of John Klima

by Rita Raley

The New Centennial Review, Summer 2003, v. 3, no. 2, pp. 67-89

For her analysis of John Klima's Political Landscape, Emotional Terrain Rita Raley examines the artists aesthetic practice using computer media to produce computer visualization of large scale global processes. Through Klima's work Raley investigates what the investigation of the world as it exists in data reveals about that data. Raley proposes that "the visual spectacles Klima produces are subversive of the technicity and technological rationality inherent in statistical calculation, and that they are also generated by a practice and an operation that produces an aesthetic" (69).

ITEM 2003.151 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Political Landscape, Emotional TerrainJohn Klima

Terrain MachineJohn Klima

ecosystmJohn Klima

The Great GameJohn Klima

GoJohn Klima

FishJohn Klima

Pockets Full of MemoryGeorge Legrady