Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500 by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler (2023)
Calculating Empires is a large-scale research visualization exploring how technical and social structures co-evolved over five centuries.
https://calculatingempires.net/?pos=9899.97%2C8725.00%2C12.7160
Algorithms of Power
NeMe Arts Centre
31/10-28/11/2025
#VladanJoler, #AmeeraKawash, @Vuk
https://www.neme.org/blog/algorithms-of-power-press
A Genealogy of Technology and Power, 1500-2025
https://www.compgen.de/2024/06/a-genealogy-of-technology-and-power-1500-2025/
If you haven't seen it already, @Katecrawford and #VladanJoler's latest work, #CalculatingEmpires, visualises the genealogy of technology and its intersection with power, capitalism and the proclivity of nation states for dominance.
At once a #dataviz of timelines, dependencies, power relations and scale, my over-arching question (in the style of #DanMcQuillan) is "how might we subvert or resist this history to create alternative futures?"
some coverage via the excellent Culture101 #radioNewZealand of our inaugural show at null gallery, part of the Aotearoa Digital Arts (ADA) Network symposium 'Rising Algorithms'.
With projects by Roman Mitch, Fraser Austin, Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler.
Curated and produced by Walter Langelaar.
image of new work by Julian Oliver, 'The Closed World' (2024).
In Pōneke Wellington this week artists, technologists, and critical thinkers have been exploring together questions around machine learning and artificial intelligence. They’ve gathered as part of Rising Algorithms: Navigate, Automate, Dream, a symposium produced by the Aotearoa Digital Arts Network, or ADA for short
Calculating Empires is a new exhibition by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler that opens at Fondazione Prada on November 23, 2023 at the Osservatorio in Milan. Joler and Crawford contextualize the current explosion of artificial intelligence by asking how we got here — and to consider where we might be going. Multiple works of critical cartography span the two floors, and invite visitors to experience the longue durée of how technology and power have been intertwined since 1500.
At this moment in the 21st century, we are witnessing a new form of extractivism well underway: one that reaches into the furthest corners of the biosphere and the deepest layers of man’s cognitive and affective being. – Vladan Joler New Extractivism was the theme of the twelfth edition of Tactics&Practice, a discursive, educational and […]
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