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How do interfaces -- these border zones between our bodies and technological objects -- function? How do they serve as sites of biopolitical control? How do these interfaces serve to reify unabashed and unquestioned belief in the power of the technological apparatus? Interfaces determine the border between machine and non-machine, between programmed object and agent user. Like borders of nation-states, the borders of interfaces also exert a kind of political control over its subjects -- namely us, the users. Interfaces, in the parlance of Jacques Rancière, participate in the “distribution of the sensible,” meaning that they help construct that which can be apprehended by the senses. It is at the interface that the dominant regime of truth is both established and reified, shaping what can be sensed, perceived, and therefore that which can be contested. The interface-border can be seen as a kind of tunnel, created in the service of maintaining a particular ideological hegemony. This panel convenes artists, designers, and new media scholars whose work interrogates the interface as a border and as an apparatus of control.

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