Manpowertop a workshop by Network Diagnostics
http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/event/manpowertop
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As demonstrated by the works in the NEW WORLD ORDER exhibition at Furtherfield
Gallery, blockchain technologies and cultures display a remarkable capacity to
embody the interests of diametrically opposed political ideologies. Manpowertop
looks more widely at the subject of Silicon Valley companies and how their
promotional media envisions "the future" of their technology's role in society.
The recent publication of Mark Zuckerberg’s open letter, titled Building Global
Community, has drawn debates about the accelerationist politics of Silicon
Valley into the public sphere once again. The seductive message of the
manifesto itself is unsurprising, and is typical of the glossy promotional
media released by other tech companies: We are told that new technologies can
facilitate greater social inclusion, foster democratic grassroots political
movements, and allow us to be more productive in our labour and leisure. While
such media are often renderings of some notional “future” existence, what might
they reveal about the ways we delimit our understanding of the present?
Additionally, what would have to happen between “now” and “then” for these
visions to be fully realised?
Manpowertop is a workshop that takes these questions as a starting point,
challenging participants to diagnose the power relations in these branded
visions of the future. Participants will adopt “troubleshooting” as a critical
framework for enquiry, and produce diagrammatic readings of these speculative
technologies, the networks they interlink with, and their associated politics
of usership. In doing so, we will collectively identify what is left out of
these visions, and explore how these omissions might offer an insight into the
power relations that exist between users and technological platforms in the
present.
Part of the NEW WORLD ORDER exhibition at Furtherfield Gallery
http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/exhibition/new-world-order
In partnership with Antiuniversity Now 2017
http://www.antiuniversity.org/
Marc Garrett
Co-Founder, Co-Director and main editor of Furtherfield.
Art, technology and social change, since 1996
http://www.furtherfield.org
Furtherfield Gallery & Commons in the park
Finsbury Park, London N4 2NQhttp://www.furtherfield.org/gallery
Currently writing a PhD at Birkbeck University, London
https://birkbeck.academia.edu/MarcGarrett
Curating, Touring Exhibition
Monsters of the Machine:Frankenstein in the 21st Century
At Laboral, Spain until Sept 2017 http://bit.ly/2eGdpw1
Visiting other countries soon...
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