
<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><h2 class="two-col-title wp-block-post-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; word-break: break-word; margin-block: 1.5rem 0px; margin-top: 1.25rem; margin-bottom: var(--wp--preset--spacing--40); letter-spacing: -2px; position: relative !important;">Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500</h2><div class="wp-block-post-excerpt" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--wp--style--block-gap); margin-block: 1.5rem 0px; font-size: var(--wp--preset--font-size--medium); margin-top: 0px; text-transform: lowercase; padding-bottom: var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; font-size: 1.2em;"><span style="text-transform: none; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><br></span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; font-size: 1.2em;"><span style="text-transform: none; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Artists: </span><a href="https://laboralcentrodearte.org/en/artists-curators-and-researchers/vladan-joler-4/" style="text-transform: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none !important;">Vladan Joler</a><span style="text-transform: none; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">, </span><a href="https://laboralcentrodearte.org/en/artists-curators-and-researchers/kate-crawford-2/" style="text-transform: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none !important;">Kate Crawford</a></div></div><div class="entry-content wp-block-post-content has-medium-font-size is-layout-flow wp-block-post-content-is-layout-flow" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flow-root; margin-block: 1.5rem 0px; line-height: 1.5; min-height: 2px; font-size: var(--wp--preset--font-size--medium) !important;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Printed map 24 x 3 meters</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 1.5rem 0px; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">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. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://calculatingempires.net/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wp--preset--color--secondary); text-decoration: none !important;">Calculating Empires</a></em> 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.</p></div></div><div><br></div><div><div style="display: block;"><div style="-webkit-user-select: all; -webkit-user-drag: element; display: inline-block;" class="apple-rich-link" draggable="true" role="link" data-url="https://calculatingempires.net/"><a style="border-radius:10px;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;display:block;-webkit-user-select:none;width:300px;user-select:none;-webkit-user-modify:read-only;user-modify:read-only;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;" class="lp-rich-link" rel="nofollow" href="https://calculatingempires.net/" dir="ltr" role="button" draggable="false" width="300"><table style="table-layout:fixed;border-collapse:collapse;width:300px;background-color:#1F1F1F;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="lp-rich-link-emailBaseTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="300"><tbody><tr><td vertical-align="center" align="center"><img style="width:300px;filter:brightness(0.97);height:157px;" height="157" draggable="false" class="lp-rich-link-mediaImage" alt="calculating-empires-og.png" src="cid:E8164F90-8053-479B-8212-BB083E00A2DB"></td></tr><tr><td vertical-align="center"><table bgcolor="#1F1F1F" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="300" style="table-layout:fixed;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;background-color:rgba(31, 31, 31, 1);-apple-color-filter:initial;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:8px 0px 8px 0px;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStackItem"><div style="max-width:100%;margin:0px 16px 0px 16px;overflow:hidden;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:500;font-size:12px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-topCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://calculatingempires.net/" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#FFFFFF" style="color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.847059);">A Genealogy of Technology and Power since 1500</font></a></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:400;font-size:11px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-bottomCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://calculatingempires.net/" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#FFFFFF" style="color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.54902);">calculatingempires.net</font></a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div></div></div><div style="display: block;"><h2 class="two-col-title wp-block-post-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; word-break: break-word; margin-block: 1.5rem 0px; margin-top: 1.25rem; margin-bottom: var(--wp--preset--spacing--40); letter-spacing: -2px; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; position: relative !important;"><br></h2><h2 class="two-col-title wp-block-post-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; word-break: break-word; margin-block: 1.5rem 0px; margin-top: 1.25rem; margin-bottom: var(--wp--preset--spacing--40); letter-spacing: -2px; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; position: relative !important;">New Extractivism</h2><div><br></div><div class="wp-block-post-excerpt" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--wp--style--block-gap); margin-block: 1.5rem 0px; margin-top: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; text-transform: lowercase; padding-bottom: var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Video installation</span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br></span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="text-transform: none; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Artist: </span><a href="https://laboralcentrodearte.org/en/artists-curators-and-researchers/vladan-joler-4/" style="text-transform: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none !important;">Vladan Joler</a> </span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: var(--wp--preset--font-size--medium); font-family: Inter, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: var(--wp--preset--font-size--medium); font-family: Inter, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">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.</span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: var(--wp--preset--font-size--medium); font-family: Inter, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div></div></div><div style="display: block;"><div style="display: block;"><div style="-webkit-user-select: all; -webkit-user-drag: element; display: inline-block;" class="apple-rich-link" draggable="true" role="link" data-url="https://extractivism.online/"><a style="border-radius:10px;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;display:block;-webkit-user-select:none;width:300px;user-select:none;-webkit-user-modify:read-only;user-modify:read-only;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;" class="lp-rich-link" rel="nofollow" href="https://extractivism.online/" dir="ltr" role="button" draggable="false" width="300"><table style="table-layout:fixed;border-collapse:collapse;width:300px;background-color:#E6E6E6;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="lp-rich-link-emailBaseTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="300"><tbody><tr><td vertical-align="center" align="center"><img style="width:300px;filter:brightness(0.97);height:157px;" height="157" draggable="false" class="lp-rich-link-mediaImage" alt="Soc-media-fb.png" src="cid:2AFBFE2C-CDF5-4DBB-B89D-E83F7672C495"></td></tr><tr><td vertical-align="center"><table bgcolor="#E6E6E6" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="300" style="table-layout:fixed;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;background-color:rgba(230, 230, 230, 1);-apple-color-filter:initial;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:8px 0px 8px 0px;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStackItem"><div style="max-width:100%;margin:0px 16px 0px 16px;overflow:hidden;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:500;font-size:12px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-topCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://extractivism.online/" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#272727" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.847059);">New Extractivism</font></a></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:400;font-size:11px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-bottomCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://extractivism.online/" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#808080" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039);">extractivism.online</font></a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div></div><div style="display: block;"><br></div><div style="display: block;"><br></div><div style="display: block;"><h2 class="two-col-title wp-block-post-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; word-break: break-word; margin-block: 1.5rem 0px; margin-top: 1.25rem; margin-bottom: var(--wp--preset--spacing--40); letter-spacing: -2px; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; position: relative !important;">Algorithm Monologue: How Facebook turns user data into profit</h2><div class="wp-block-post-excerpt" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--wp--style--block-gap); margin-block: 1.5rem 0px; font-size: var(--wp--preset--font-size--medium); margin-top: 0px; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; text-transform: lowercase; padding-bottom: var(--wp--preset-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