[artinfo] DISNOVATION.ORG - SOLO EXHIBITION

[by way of János Sugár]

DISNOVATION.ORG - SOLO EXHIBITION

Today's vocabulary of innovation is the ultimate rhetorical tool. It 
inundates dominant discourse, spreading from the field of politics to 
the sectors of work, education and art. At the heart of this 
prevailing techno-positivist context, collective DISNOVATION.ORG 
[aka. disobedient innovation] offers a dissection of the ideology of 
technological innovation through a series of critical hacks.

This exhibition presents alternative narratives to the "propaganda of 
innovation" by exploring: a parallel history of technologies from the 
perspective of their failures (The Museum of Failures), the ghosts of 
military engineering and science fiction in everyday technologies 
(War Zone, Floating Prophecies), the standardization of Western 
technological imaginaries (Shanzhai Archeology), and an anthology on 
piracy of necessity (The Pirate Book).

The second part looks at the friction spaces generated between 
hyperconnected web users and the global network - including hacks 
such as: a system to predict and subvert emerging artistic trends 
(Predictive Art Bot), an exposure of live peer-to-peer video 
exchanges (The Pirate Cinema), or a printed directory containing 
millions of restricted addresses commonly used to filter Internet 
access worldwide (Blacklists).

Exhibition webpage:   http://disnovation.org/2017_mapping

MAY 12-28, 2017
IN / MAPPING_DIGITAL SHIFTS
CURATED BY ANA ASCENCIO
LE COMMUN, 28 RUE DES BAINS, GENEVA