| Title | Dual Reality |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | (Un)Observed Magic in the Workplace |
| Contributor | Paula Bialski(author) |
| Simon Farid (author) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.53288/0315.1.20 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/book-of-anonymity/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Paula Bialski; Simon Farid |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2021-03-04 |
| Page range | pp. 326–335 |
| Print length | 10 pages |
Paula Bialski is appointed Associated Professor of Sociology and digitalisation at University of St. Gallen. She is an ethnographer of new media in everyday life, looking at contexts of usage as well as production, and she frames her research within cultural, social and media theory in general, and science and technology studies in particular. The goal of her current research project, titled “Programmer Worlds,” is to investigate the way in which everyday practices of corporate software developers affect our digital infrastructures. She has been an affiliated member of the “Reconfiguring Anonymity” research group since its inception in 2013.
Simon Farid is a sometime artist and moretime gallery guard at an art institution in central London. He makes work exploring and exploiting this dual position through collaborative, secret, public or personal approaches across academia, fine art practices, fashion and live performance. Thinking about the different meanings of collaboration, Farid examines the difficult complicities of working with, within, for and against formal art institutions, from the position of a low-level frontline gallery worker.