[artinfo] DISNOVATION.ORG - Online Culture Wars

[by way of János Sugár]

We're pleased to announce our new project "ONLINE CULTURE WARS"
https://disnovation.org/ocw.php

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ONLINE CULTURE WARS (MAP)
https://disnovation.org/ocw.php#map

The map Online Culture Wars is an overlay of 
hundreds of politicized memes, along with 
influential political figures and symbols. It is 
designed as a discussion starter, intended to 
visualize and contextualize the ongoing online 
culture wars, and some of the main political 
references, actors, and influencers. From Twitter 
to Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Gab, or 4chan, 
one of the by-products of online culture wars is 
the over-politicization of seemingly mundane 
topics, products, practices, and cultural 
elements. In recent years, online cultures have 
been subjected to a growing polarization, 
politicization, and radicalization, influenced by 
numerous actors, and magnified by the very 
features of ubiquitous social networks. This 
cartography offers a representation of online 
ideological and political frictions, integrated 
into the visual system of a Political Compass 
meme.

Conception: DISNOVATION.ORG with Baruch Gottlieb [poster stack, mural, pdf]

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ONLINE CULTURE WARS (VIDEO)
https://disnovation.org/ocw.php#video

Ubiquitous social networks gave rise to new types 
of practices, new forms of expression, and new 
means for collective organization of protest and 
discord. In this context, the manipulation of 
public opinion over social media platforms has 
emerged as a critical threat to public life. The 
video Online Culture Wars focuses on the 
political instrumentalization of the tools, 
techniques, and infrastructures of the web, with 
a particular attention to the social media 
influence ecosystem, and online manipulation of 
opinion. It exposes some practices broadly used 
for online propaganda, as well as creative 
responses that they triggered in the civil 
society.

Conception: DISNOVATION.ORG [HD video, loop, 20 min.]

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PRESENT & FUTURE EXHIBITIONS

THE ALT-RIGHT COMPLEX
Curated by Inke Arns, HMKV, Dortmund, DE -> March 30 - Sep. 22, 2019
https://www.hmkv.de/

MUTEK.SF
The Midway, San Francisco, USA -> May 2 - May 5, 2019
https://www.mutek.us/

NETWORK EFFECTS
Curated by M-cult, Oodi, Helsinki, FI -> November 2019
https://www.m-cult.org/

With the support of NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf (DE), 
MU artspace, Eindhoven (NL), Institut UTINAM, 
Besançon (FR), EMAP (Creative Europe), M-Cult, 
Helsinki (FI), HMKV, Dortmund (DE)

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DISNOVATION.ORG is a working group based in 
Paris, initiated by Nicolas Maigret (FR) and 
Maria Roszkowska (PL). At the crossroads of 
contemporary art, research and hacking, the 
collective develops situations of disruption, 
speculation and debate, in order to challenge 
dominant techno-positivist ideologies and to 
stimulate post-growth imaginaries. They edited 
The Pirate Book, an anthology on media piracy. 
Their research includes artworks, curation and 
publications. In 2018, they received a Design 
Trust Grant (Hong Kong) for a research about 
China's Shanzhai culture. They are currently 
visiting researchers at the University of 
California, Irvine.