Digital materiality (digimat) proposes a set of basic principles for how we understand the world through digital processes.
Digital instruments may seem forbiddingly complex but they are based on simple mechanical principles which operate today on the subatomic scale, creating challenges for conventional human epistemology.
Baruch Gottlieb currently lectures in the Philosophy of Digital Art at the University of Arts, Berlin and is fellow of the Vilm Flusser Archiv.
He has been working in digital art with specialization in public art since 1999.
Within the inner workings of the instruments produced to process and provide digital information, says Gottlieb, are realms of extreme technical discipline, anthropocracy, and therefore the least metaphysical spaces on Earth. He argues that the mystification or metaphysical obfuscation of the instruments made to provide digital information is a political problem. and lies precisely in the lack of acknowledgment that the technology's pedigree is forced labor, slavery, and extreme discipline and control over other human beings and over nature.
(protoview.com) - Annotation 2018
"Part of a spread resurgence of materialism, maybe induced by the extensive technological complexity we're surrounded by, this book is a lucid attempt to deconstruct the way we understand digital technologies, through a methodological approach." - Neural Archive, October 2018