© 2022, Julia Arens
strg+P
Most of us read the news every day. Some are important, some are less important, some arouse personal interest and some we share with friends, but many are forgotten after just a few seconds. Due to our constant availability and always being online, only a few headlines grab our attention and most of them are clicked to close before they are even read.
The project "strgP" explores the form of news in the digital environment and attempts understand its logic by means of remediation.
The result is a newspaper that presents the amount of news that can be read in 5 hours, without the visual interface of the computer and its platforms. The unity of image, text, sound and film, as found online, is separated by a retranslation into the printed format and reduced to its textual content.
Across its pages, the newspaper reflects the convergence of different informational forms, ranging from push notifications, to long-form articles, to podcasts, and how their distinct qualities dissolve when translated into a purely textual medium.
Most of us read the news every day. Some are important, some are less important, some arouse personal interest and some we share with friends, but many are forgotten after just a few seconds. Due to our constant availability and always being online, only a few headlines grab our attention and most of them are clicked to close before they are even read.
The project "strgP" explores the form of news in the digital environment and attempts understand its logic by means of remediation.
The result is a newspaper that presents the amount of news that can be read in 5 hours, without the visual interface of the computer and its platforms. The unity of image, text, sound and film, as found online, is separated by a retranslation into the printed format and reduced to its textual content.
Across its pages, the newspaper reflects the convergence of different informational forms, ranging from push notifications, to long-form articles, to podcasts, and how their distinct qualities dissolve when translated into a purely textual medium.