[im] A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500

[Sugár János]

Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500

Artists: Vladan Joler <https://laboralcentrodearte.org/en/artists-curators-and-researchers/vladan-joler-4/>, Kate Crawford <https://laboralcentrodearte.org/en/artists-curators-and-researchers/kate-crawford-2/>
Printed map 24 x 3 meters
The world is undergoing profound changes due to the development of AI. For artists Vladan Joler and Kate Crawford, we are in a bewildering time of extraordinary change, requiring a map to help us see what these changes might mean and what profound political and social implications they might entail. Calculating Empires <https://calculatingempires.net/> is a visual manifesto that offers audiences a map to help situate and translate where we are in the midst of these new technological systems that are increasingly complex, interconnected, automated and opaque; and what is happening at a deeper level. By examining the relationship of technology to power over five centuries, beginning in 1500, the artists make visible the extraordinary interrelationship of the ways in which empires have used technology to centralize power. For Joler and Crawford, the main question is not what kind of worlds technology can build, but what kind of world we want to live in. It is not just a question of technology and ethics, but of humans, nature and how we deal with technology.

https://calculatingempires.net/
A Genealogy of Technology and Power since 1500
calculatingempires.net

New Extractivism

video installation

Artist: Vladan Joler <https://laboralcentrodearte.org/en/artists-curators-and-researchers/vladan-joler-4/> 

life in the 21st century is defined by a new form of extractivism. it reaches into the deepest corners of the biosphere and into the deepest layers of the cognitive and affective aspects of the human being: the different layers that determine contemporary technological systems go far beyond data modeling, hardware, servers and networks. today they reach as far as capital, labor and nature, and demand a great deal from each of them. vladan joler’s work brings together different concepts and images of this “new extractivism”. all of them form a project of machinic superstructure, a super-allegory that encompasses the whole world.

https://extractivism.online/
New Extractivism
extractivism.online


Algorithm Monologue: How Facebook turns user data into profit

Artists: Vladan Joler  <https://laboralcentrodearte.org/en/artists-curators-and-researchers/vladan-joler-4/>and Katarzyna Szymielewicz <https://laboralcentrodearte.org/en/artists-curators-and-researchers/katarzyna-szymielewicz-2/>
Video 6 min
This work is the result of a collaboration between Vladan Joler, an artist specialized in mapping the invisible infrastructures of the Internet, and Katarzyna Szymielewicz, a lawyer, human rights and technology expert and vice-president of the NGO network European Digital Rights. The duo set out to unveil the secrets of the world’s largest digital social network. Does Facebook manipulate and identify your feelings? Is it able to recognize your personality type, habits, interests, political views, income level? Does it use all that information to reach you with personalized ads or sponsored content? How exactly does it work?The work sheds light on the invisible processes that take place inside Facebook. Inside this black box, non-transparent algorithms decide what kind of content will become part of our reality, what will be censored or deleted, what ideas will be spread and what news will have more visibility. They also define new forms of work and exploitation. Users are no longer customers. They only provide data, which serve as raw material for the production of digital profiles, a key product in Internet markets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZAG-DusnYM
Monologue of the Algorithm | How Facebook turns users data into its profit | Panoptykon Foundation
youtube.com


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