Lecture

Predictive Temporalities in Technocapitalism

online lecture

In contemporary digital media, the 'detournement' of anomalous pieces of code into aesthetic quality (filtering) of what was perceived as error (glitches, interruptions, etc.) transformed a set of disturbances into quality (or more technically, the anomaly has been incorporated into the overall system).

We have witnessed, in the last ten years and thanks to the development of social media, the transition from “de-bug” to what we would like to redefine as “in-bug”.

Border Forensics is an agency conducting spatial and visual investigations into practices of border violence perpetrated by states, police forces, militaries, and corporations.

Working in collaboration with migrant communities and civil society organisations, Border Forensics documents and exposes the violence linked to the existence and management of borders with the aim to foster mobility justice.

Against the broader backdrop of unpacking 'debugging' from the strict technological connotation to a wider understanding in terms of knowledge creation and community building, Time's Up will examine its artistic practice (including artistic research as one of the arrows in the quiver) of experiential futures and their functionalities.

In the face of multiple global-scale crises, what direction should we take as artists and thinkers? What can we do when all we have is a bag of bad ideas? What importance does art have when the earth is burning? There is a growing sense of paralysis: all available options seem inadequate, but we’re not about to give up.

This project critiques a worrying turn in education during the pandemic, the increased use of intrusive surveillance technologies on students.

Technologies developed in defence industry, used to police and discipline, now also in the educational space to facilitate remote learning. We examine a case of student resistance to video proctoring during remote examinations and the university/faculty response to address only technical "bugs" while disregarding the extended pedagogical and socio-political issues these tools bring into learning environments.

In this talk, I would like to talk about the practice of data as an investigative method. Data-driven investigations bring together a wide variety of disciplines and techniques. They combine code, design, and analysis and thus can not only extend previous forms of research but also develop and execute entirely new methodologies. I want to highlight different aspects of data-driven methods and their opportunities for systematic investigations and interdisciplinary collaborations.