Tung-Hui Hu

Jun 24, 2024 | americanacademy.de | Tung-Hui Hu |R. Jay

Epistles from a prehistory of the cloudBy Tung-Hui HuIn 1970, the same year that computer scientist John McCarthy asked whether home computer networks could lure TV viewers away from the tube with alternative sources of information, a modified Chevrolet van hit the road. Equipped with a clear plastic bubble, antenna, TV window, silver roof-mounted speaker domes, and a dashboard camera, the van bore a striking resemblance to a B-52 bomber.

Mar 5, 2024 | mitpress.mit.edu | Tung-Hui Hu

The exhaustion, disappointment, and listlessness experienced under digital capitalism, explored through works by contemporary artists, writers, and performers. Sometimes, interacting with digital platforms, we want to be passive—in those moments of dissociation when we scroll mindlessly rather than connecting with anyone, for example, or when our only response is a shrugging “lol.” Despite encouragement by these platforms to “be yourself,” we want to be anyone but ourselves.

Feb 28, 2024 | thereader.mitpress.mit.edu | John Downer |Tung-Hui Hu |André Sirois |Jean-François Bonnefon

BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. On January 6, as Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, a Boeing 737 MAX 9, was climbing out of Portland, a large section of the aircraft’s structure, a fuselage door-plug, broke free in flight. With the plug gone the cabin violently decompressed with a clamorous boom and gale that ripped headrests from their moorings.