(un)real data ☁️ – (🧊)real effectsBeyond the Rating Stars: A Review on One ⭐️ Review Tour
My article Beyond the Rating Stars: A Review on One ⭐️ Review Tour is featured in the book, (un)real data ☁️ - (🧊)real effects.
(un)real data ☁️ - (🧊)real effects explores the inherent ambiguity of data as an opportunity to not only describe the world but strategically intervene in it. Is it possible to create specific real-world outcomes by modifying our data streams? Can we intentionally produce data to interact with an algorithmic environment that is opaque, elusive and at the same time all-encompassing? In this book, the authors and artists explore the production of unreal data as acts of resistance and opposition, and as attempts to carve out small and often temporary spaces of agency and autonomy when faced with systems that seems to leave little room for imagination and choice.
I contribute my article for Node #2, based on the project One Star Review Tour, created by Selena Savić, Gordan Savičić & !Mediengruppe Bitnik, through the adventure of landmarks stuck in the system, insightful bad reviews, and displacement of the temporal arrow in ratings.






(un)real data ☁️ - (🧊)real effects
Contributors: Régine Debatty, Thomas Spies, Xiaowei Wang, Milia Xin Bi, Günseli Yalçınkaya
Editors: !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Janez Fakin Janša
Editorial assistants: Noemi Garay, Rok Kranjc
Copyediting: Miha Šuštar
Design and layout: Federico Antonini, Simone Cavallin
Special thanks to Felix Stalder for his valuable editorial input.
Print: Collegium Graphicum
No. of copies: 600
Published by: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
Represented by: Marcela Okretič
Ljubljana, November 2024
© Aksioma, the authors
As part of Tactics&Practics#15: (un)real data ☁️ – (🧊)real effects curated by !Mediengruppe Bitnik (Carmen Weisskopf and Domagoj Smoljo) in collaboration with Janez Fakin Janša.
The research was conducted within the framework of the SNF-funded project Latent Spaces: Performing Ambiguous Data (#100016_200971) at the Zürich University of the Arts.
Promotion and distribution: Sonja Grdina
Photo: Domen Pal / Aksioma