ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with ways in which digital technologies can be utilized to work with moving media in hybrid ways. It describes an exploration of digital and material cultures, and in particular of the role of mediation and how emerging technologies can be related to different practices as well as to earlier technologies. Art probing stresses the affective, the sensuous, and the performative as important dimensions of sense-making processes. Art probing should also be seen in relation to new hybrids of academic research and art, like artistic-research and research-creation. The poor image tends toward abstraction, artist Hito Steyerl writes. The poor image has been uploaded, downloaded, shared, reformatted, and reedited. Noise can be connected to excess, overflow, and sensory overload. Sorting, sequencing, and organizing are ways to handle noise and excess.
