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Artistic take on material premises of new technologies

A presentation will focus on art practices that address the specific material assumptions of digital technology. The material side of digital technologies appears intangible, since we perceive them most often through the communication sphere of digital information. When there is only a screen in front of us, it is not obvious that these immersive worlds, where colors, speeds, processing powers and storage processes intertwine, need metals and minerals to exist and function. Also, the dependence of media technology on various geological materials, geophysical forces and vast global networks of energy and supply chains is not obvious. Although there is a complex economic, social and political system behind the production and operation of digital technologies, the increasingly small and portable digital equipment creates a false sense of immateriality. Precisely because of this apparent de-materialization in relation to other technologies and industries, the footprint of digital technologies is all the more "insidious". It is difficult to make end users aware that digital waste is not only hardware and computer monitors, but has environmental, social, political and economic consequences. Precisely because the scope of the consequences of digital technologies is not self-evident, the presentation questions how to think differently about the link between ecology and technology, with art functioning as a space for theory and practice?
How can art re-think economies behind digital technologies and shift our perception of its usage?
The presentation will be followed by discussion with the audience.

Info

Day: 2023-08-30
Start time: 12:00
Duration: 00:15
Room: ZV-KC-2
Type: Paper Presentation
Theme: Artistic ecologies and eco-social practices

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