Art, Media Design, and Postproduction

13Regenerative Data

Aesthetics of Data-Driven Objects

Premise: This chapter focuses on the recombination of regenerative data in the popular forms of software mashups. It considers, in terms of art and media design, how the constant updating of information attains cultural relevance based on the flow of data across networks.

The web application mashup is a type of regenerative remix, which juxtaposes at least two software applications that are constantly updated, meaning that the mashup changes according to the regeneration of data.¹ The regenerative remix is specific to networked culture, and differs from time-based media remixes and mashups,² it does not necessarily reference or sample to create an apparent stable self-contained object; instead, ...