16.06. Ringvorlesung: Art and Digital Culture (AdBK, Nürnberg) (online)

Prof. Dr. Felix Stalder: Zur Kultur der Digitalität

https://kunst-transfer-praxis.adbk-nuernberg.de/programm/ss-2020/zur-kul...

Online-Vortrag

10. Juni 2020, 18 Uhr

In der Ringvorlesung werden verschiedene Implikationen von Digitalität in Alltagskulturen wie auch in der zeitgenössischen Kunst thematisiert und ihre kulturgeschichtlichen, gesellschaftlichen und ökonomischen Auswirkungen diskutiert. Die immer weiter zunehmende Bedeutung digitaler Technologien für die zeitgenössische Kunst wird von Künstler*innen, Kultur- und Medienwissenschaftler*innen, Designer*innen und Kurator*innen im Hinblick auf aktuelle Entwicklungen zur Sprache gebracht.

Felix Stalder ist Professor für Digitale Kultur und Theorien der Vernetzung an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste und freier Autor in Wien. Er beschäftigt sich mit dem Wechselverhältnis von Gesellschaft, Kultur und Technologien und forscht u.a. zu Netzkultur, Urheberrecht, Commons, Privatsphäre, Kontrollgesellschaft und Subjektivität. Stalder ist zudem Vorstandsmitglied des World Information Institute in Wien, Mitglied des freien Forschungsprojekts "Technopolitics" und langjähriger Moderator der internationalen Mailingliste .

Ausgehend von seiner gleichnamigen Publikation wird Felix Stalder die zentralen Aspekte seines Verständnisses der "Kultur der Digitalität" (erschienen 2016 im Suhrkamp Verlag) vorstellen.

02.04. Netzpolitischer Abend Wien (online)

Derzeit ist alles ein wenig anders als sonst. Um einer weiteren Verbreitung von SARS-CoV-2, bekannt als Corona-Virus, entgegenzuwirken und den gesetzlichen Anforderungen zu entsprechen, findet der Netzpolitische Abend am 2. April 2020 um 19.30 Uhr online statt. Wir haben anlassbezogen auch das Format etwas geändert. Anstelle von drei Vorträgen gibt es eine Diskussionsrunde sowie Impuls-Statements zu einem Thema, das derzeit in aller Munde ist: COVID-19, Big Data und Freiheitsrechte – wo geht die Reise hin?

13 & 14.02 THE WHITE WEST III, Automating Apartheid. Conference (Vienna)

https://kunsthallewien.at/en/event/the-white-west-iii-automating-apartheid/

KASINO AM SCHWARZENBERGPLATZ

Conceptualized by Kader Attia and Ana Teixeira Pinto
Organized by Kunsthalle Wien in cooperation with Burgtheater

In his famous essay Discourse on Colonialism, the poet Aimé Césaire argued that what in Europe is called ‘fascism’ is just colonial violence finding its way back home. But his warnings went unheeded. More widely read was The Authoritarian Personality by Theodor Adorno et al. Published in 1950, the same year as Discourse on Colonialism, it developed the F scale (F for fascist) in order to gauge the psychological predisposition for fascism among the democratic citizenry, leaving the post-war consensus to settle on the notion that fascism was a personality trait, resulting from the devolution of the individuated liberal subject. Still dominant today, this tendency to psychologize fascism fails to incorporate the colonial dimension, obscuring the continuities between fascism and the biopolitics of empire, and ultimately depoliticizes both.

Seventy-five years later, while the West indulges in fantasies of reverse colonization involving the subjugation of white people, the process of recolonization has been renewed with increased ferocity. Recent events in Bolivia, driven by the hunger for lithium, commonly used for mobile devices or electric vehicles, make apparent the structuring force of race in geopolitics, as well as the role of the digital economy in the production and reproduction of a new settler frontier.

16.01. Coding. New Alphabet School (New Delhi)

https://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/veranstaltung/p_161523.php

Thu, Jan 16, 2020 7 pm, Goethe-Institut New Delhi, India
With Urvashi Aneja, Sarah Sharma, Felix Stalder

India is one of the largest “digital economies”. Confronted with state and corporate control of digital infrastructures, it is seeing an abundance of “gig work” (temporary employment) and platform-based economies that promise new opportunities for entrepreneurship and labor. Meanwhile, AI based solutions are already being tested to replace human interaction and labor for repetitive and predictable work across industries. Over a billion identities in India are digitized today and over a 100 million amongst these participate in digital economies as consumers every day, with the government's vocal intentions to bridge this disparity with socio-technical imaginaries of urgent last mile connectivity. However, technology based solutions still have mostly reestablished and expanded existing inequities and power relations of capital, gender and human exceptionalism. Instead of offering accountability, accessibility and opportunity, these socio-technical imaginaries act as tools for resource and customer acquisition for power and capital. As countries and economies accelerate further and compete to become attractive global marketplaces, they leave key ethical, social and ecological concerns behind. How do we encode and inscribe sustainability, ethics and care within our techno-social relations and digitopian imaginaries of the future? What role can governance and citizens play in enabling these imaginaries?

Public Program co-curated by Rahul Gudipudi
In cooperation with Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi

Fri, Jan 17, 2020 10 am — 7 pm
The Common Room Foundation, New Delhi, India

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