{"id":122,"date":"2023-02-12T21:29:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T20:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aksioma.org\/scale\/?p=122"},"modified":"2023-04-04T06:47:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T04:47:07","slug":"scales-of-realtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aksioma.org\/scale\/artist-talks\/scales-of-realtime\/","title":{"rendered":"Scales of Realtime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Scales of Realtime\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7e2y_c_VJ1I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Realtime. The dream vision of technocratic management. A state of total omniscience, where what is known and how it is known is flattened onto the glistening surface of the computer screen. Encapsulating a suite of technologies, doctrines and desires, the realtime paradigm is a response to consumer demands for convenience and speed as much as it is a reaction to government and corporate appetites for rich and frequent renderings of information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lotfi-Jam locates the paradigm&#8217;s long history of technological control and capitalisation by examining realtime innovations in applications such as military strikes and asset tracking. He notes that realtime is not just about deploying speed to minimise costs and increase margins, but a strategy for an emerging market of experiences. New human-to-machine interfaces allow for more intuitive interactions with spatial information and digital processes; from the scale of the smart city, where computational systems regulate movement, to the optimised home, where technologies of efficiency and monitoring produce informational subjects. This lecture lays out the consequences of these multiscalar realtimes and outlines the blind spots of supposedly all-immersive, all-seeing technical systems, showing how such systems foreclose urban futures outside the purview of military, security and financial motives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-slider has-nested-images gallery-slider js-gallery is-cropped wp-slider-1 is-layout-flex wp-slider-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"gallery-slider__item size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" data-id=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/aksioma.org\/scale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/01_Farzin-Lotfi-Jam_fullJPG-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-534\"\/><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gallery-slider__item size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" data-id=\"528\" src=\"https:\/\/aksioma.org\/scale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/02_Farzin-Lotfi-Jam_fullJPG-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-528\"\/><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gallery-slider__item size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" data-id=\"530\" src=\"https:\/\/aksioma.org\/scale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/03_Farzin-Lotfi-Jam_fullJPG-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-530\"\/><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gallery-slider__item size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" data-id=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/aksioma.org\/scale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/04_Farzin-Lotfi-Jam_fullJPG-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-536\"\/><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gallery-slider__item size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" data-id=\"535\" src=\"https:\/\/aksioma.org\/scale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/05_Farzin-Lotfi-Jam_fullJPG-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-535\"\/><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gallery-slider__item size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" data-id=\"537\" src=\"https:\/\/aksioma.org\/scale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/06_Farzin-Lotfi-Jam_fullJPG-14.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-537\"\/><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gallery-slider__item size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" data-id=\"532\" src=\"https:\/\/aksioma.org\/scale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/07_Farzin-Lotfi-Jam_fullJPG-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-532\"\/><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gallery-slider__item size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" data-id=\"529\" src=\"https:\/\/aksioma.org\/scale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/08_Farzin-Lotfi-Jam_fullJPG-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-529\"\/><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gallery-slider__item size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" data-id=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/aksioma.org\/scale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/09_Farzin-Lotfi-Jam_fullJPG-16.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-533\"\/><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gallery-slider__item size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" data-id=\"531\" src=\"https:\/\/aksioma.org\/scale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/10_Farzin-Lotfi-Jam_fullJPG-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-531\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Photo: Bla\u017e Gutman \/ MGML<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Realtime. The dream vision of technocratic management. A state of total omniscience, where what is known and how it is known is flattened onto the glistening surface of the computer screen. 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