Sunday, 24 November 2024, 6.00 pm, diffrakt | centre for theoretical periphery
Reading and conversation with
Mathias Denecke | Lotte Warnsholdt
– The event will be held in English (reading) and German (conversation) –
Without metaphors, we wouldn’t be able to talk about and with computers. They translate algorithmic processes into understandable icons on the screen, reveal how we interact with technologies, and mirror our desires and fears. The project From Net, City, World to Cloud, Market, Sea: Metaphors of the Internet investigates how we imagine the internet and speak of our daily experiences online.
As a sight of wideness, the sea sparks dreams and desires but it harbors as well dangers and risks. From the very beginning of the internet, the metaphor of the sea was persistent and, as the recent craze around fluidity and its terminology shows, it still is. In conversation with Lotte Warnsholdt and Mathias Denecke we will look at the rhetoric of liquefaction and its pitfalls. Confronting the data flow with the materialities and conditions of its movement we will unmask the underlying exploitation of resources, human labor, and nature. Departing from the sea as the physical place for the internet and its infrastructures we will ask, what and who makes the internet actually run smoothly?
From Net, City, World to Cloud, Market, Sea is a project by Zentrum für Netzkunst e.V. and funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
