Publication of Vol 13 No 1 (2024): Content/Form

We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of the free online open access journal, A Peer-Reviewed Journal About Content/Form, with contributions by Manetta Berends & Simon Browne, Denise Helene Sumi, Kendal Beynon, Bilyana Palankasova, Edoardo Biscossi, Luca Cacini, Pierre Depaz, Asker Bryld Staunæs & Maja Bak Herrie, Marie Naja Lauritzen Dias, Esther Rizo-Casado, and Mateus Domingos, edited by Christian Ulrik Andersen & Geoff Cox.   The delivery of content has become central to our algorithm-mediated realities – formed by and forming language, identities, behaviour, and action. Content cannot be separated from the forms through which it is rendered. If our attachment to standardised forms and formats – served to us by big tech – limit the space for political possibility and collective action, then this journal issue of APRJA asks what alternatives might be envisioned (including for research itself)? By exploring our relations to content and the forms through which it is made public, it takes an interest in the production and consumption of representation of content, the hyper-realities of content production, our troubled relation to content, the interfaces of content, the machinic production of our visual realities, the crisis of political imagination, and how this is reflected in aesthetic production, artistic research, and the broad field of software studies and interface criticism.  



The publication follows a workshop organized by Digital Aesthetics Research Center (DARC), Aarhus University and Center for the Study of the Networked Image (CSNI), London South Bank University, in collaboration with transmediale festival for art and digital culture, Berlin.