James Bridle (born 1980)[1] is an artist, writer and publisher based in London. Bridle coined the New Aesthetic; their work "deals with the ways in which the digital, networked world reaches into the physical, offline one."[2] Their work has explored aspects of the western security apparatus including drones and asylum seeker deportation. Bridle has written for WIRED, Icon, Domus, Cabinet Magazine, The Atlantic and many other publications, and writes a regular column for The Guardian on publishing and technology.[3]
James Bridle | |
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.jpg) Bridle in 2015 | |
| Born | 1980 (age 43–44) |
| Website | https://jamesbridle.com |
Career
editBridle studied computer science and cognitive science at University College London and holds a master's degree.
They have been Adjunct Professor on the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University.[4]
Bridle came to CERN as 'Guest Artist' in March 2017.[4][5] In 2018 they curated the Berlin exposition Agency, a group show on works of the artists Morehshin Allahyari, Sophia Al Maria, Ingrid Burrington, Navine G. Khan-Dossos, Constant Dullaart, Anna Ridler and Suzanne Treister at Nome gallery. Topics were mass surveillance and transnational terrorism, climate change and conspiracy theories, anti-social media and rapacious capitalism.[6]
In April 2019 BBC Radio 4 broadcast a four part series by Bridle called "New Ways of Seeing"[7] examining how technology influences culture and analogue to John Berger’s Ways of Seeing. In March 2020 Bridle presented a keynote address at the Spy on me 2 festival (held in Berlin and online).[8] Their 2019 film Se ti sabir that has its starting point in the Mediterranean Lingua Franca, premiered on 19 March 2020 in Berlin. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it had to be streamed on the HAU-YouTube channel.[9]
Bridle's artworks and installations have been exhibited in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia.
In popular culture
editFor their 2022 book on the nature of intelligence, Ways of Being, they were interviewed by Brian Eno at a 5x15 event.[10]
Works
edit- The Iraq War: A Historiography of Wikipedia Changelogs, 2010
- New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future, Verso, 2018, ISBN 9781786635471
- Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022, ISBN 9780374601119
References
edit- ^ "About James Bridle". jamesbridle.com. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
- ^ Carp, Alex (5 December 2013). "The Drone Shadow Catcher". The New Yorker. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
- ^ "James Bridle". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 15 July 2023.
- ^ a b "Artist profile James Bridle". arts.cern. Archived from the original on 13 June 2019. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
- ^ "James Bridle discusses his new work, A State of Sin, exhibited in Broken Symmetries at FACT, Liverpool". FACT. 19 December 2018. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
- ^ "AGENCY Group show October 27 - December 7, 2018". Nome Gallery. 26 October 2018. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
- ^ New Ways of Seeing BBC Radio 4
- ^ "Spy on Me #2 (takes place online)". BerlinBühnen.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Spy on Me #2 Artistic Manoeuvres for the Digital Present – Online Programme". Spy on Me #2 Festival. 19 March 2020. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
- ^ Brian Eno and James Bridle on Ways of Being | 5x15, retrieved 27 February 2024
External links
edit- List of works by James Bridle
- The blog of James Bridle: art, literature, and the network, since 2006
- Children of the Drone, Vanity Fair on James Bridle's drone projects
- James Bridle: The Drone Shadow Catcher, The New Yorker on James Bridle's drone projects
- What is our relationship with alien consciousnesses?, Essay on Artificial Intelligence 2019
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