How can art and activism be combined to tackle burning social issues, surveillance, unethical corporations and corrupt governments?
30TH CONFERENCE OF THE DISRUPTION NETWORK LAB. CURATED BY TATIANA BAZZICHELLI. A PROGRAMME OF PANELS, WORKSHOPS, AND ARTISTIC PRODUCTIONS CURATED BY TATIANA BAZZICHELLI.
From June 23-25, 2023, ARTIVISM: The Art of Subverting Power analyses how art and activism can be combined to shift media attention onto important social issues, targeting unethical corporations and corrupt governments working against the public good. The programme presents distributed techniques and methods of provoking social and political justice using digital technologies for social awareness and political criticism. Invited speakers range from artists, political activists and developers to human rights advocates and truth-tellers.
Artivism, a practice that combines art and activism, is configured through the actions of artists and collectives, to generate social and political disruption (Bazzichelli 2006; 2013). Throughout June 2023, Disruption Network Lab celebrates its 30th conference anniversary with a programme of meetups, workshops, keynotes, panel discussions and artistic productions, which focuses on the importance of building networks of trust to expose systems of power and injustice. The scope of the events is to reflect on the impact of technology and media on the broader society by connecting projects of art and networking that investigate power asymmetries and civil rights violations.
The conference ARTIVISM: The Art of Subverting Power analyses the political impact of today’s forms of art and activism (artivism) in the field of social networking, hacking, whistleblowing and leaking, artificial intelligence and machine learning. The aim is to provide a lively platform of debate and exchange analysing the current transformation in political and technological criticism, as well as reflecting on the need of artistic practices today to reveal inner structures and logics of political, economic and technological systems. Do we still need artivism, and what does it mean today to combine art and activism?
FUNDED BY:
SENATSVERWALTUNG FÜR KULTUR UND EUROPA (SENATE DEPARTMENT FOR CULTURE AND EUROPA, BERLIN), THE REVA AND DAVID LOGAN FOUNDATION AND OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATIONS. PART OF NEW PERSPECTIVES FOR ACTION. A PROJECT BY RE-IMAGINE EUROPE, CO-FUNDED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION.
IN COOPERATION WITH: GLOBAL VOICES. IN COLLABORATION WITH CLUSTERDUCK.