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SENSING MACHINES - CHRIS SALTER GEBUNDEN

How we are tracked  surveilled  tantalized  and seduced by machines ranging from smart watches
and Roombas to immersive art installations. Sensing machines are everywhere in our world. As we
move through the day  electronic sensors and computers adjust our thermostats  guide our
Roombas  count our steps  change the orientation of an image when we rotate our phones. There
are more of these electronic devices in the world than there are people-in 2020  thirty to
fifty billion of them (versus 7.8 billion people)  with more than a trillion expected in the
next decade. In Sensing Machines  Chris Salter examines how we are tracked  surveilled 
tantalized  and seduced by machines ranging from smart watches and mood trackers to massive
immersive art installations. Salter  an artist scholar who has worked with sensors and
computers for more than twenty years  explains that the quantification of bodies  senses  and
experience did not begin with the surveillance capitalism practiced by Facebook  Amazon 
Netflix  and Google but can be traced back to mathematical and statistical techniques of the
nineteenth century. He describes the emergence of the sensed self  investigating how sensor
technology has been deployed in music and gaming  programmable and immersive art environments 
driving  and even eating  with e-tongues and e-noses that can taste and smell for us. Sensing
technology turns our experience into data  but Salter's story isn't just about what these
machines want from us  but what we want from them-new sensations  the thrill of the uncanny 
and magic that will transport us from our daily grind.

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