Ⓥ V.21 Virtual Panel
| Wednesday, June 26, 2024 |
| 3:10 PM - 4:00 PM |
| Virtual |
Overview
After Memory: Other Networks and Speculative Forms of Connection
Details
Speaker
Dr Nathalia Lavigne
University Of São Paulo
P: After Memory: Other Networks and Speculative Forms of Connection
Abstract
This panel aims to discuss how the notion of networks could be reimagined after the Internet’s ‘lost decade’ (Lovinik, 2022) and the end of a fantasy that Web 2.0 would be a democratic and emancipatory environment (Crary, 2022). Starting from a debate about how memory is affected by image overdose, endless social media feeds and clouded storage spaces, we focus on different forms of communication, an essential aspect of the conception and actualisation of memory. As such, it will be discussed how artists and activists have been imagining or developing alternative forms of networks, bringing together both projects with an immediate social goal and artworks that have already proposed speculative forms of communication from the mid–1990's to the present time.
Biography
Nathalia Lavigne (she/er) is a researcher, curator, teacher and art critic. She has a PhD from Architecture and Urbanism College, University of São Paulo, with a research internship at The New School, and Master's degree in Critical Theory and Cultural Studies from Birkbeck, University of London. Among the exhibitions she curated are "Against, Again: Art Under Attack in Brazil" (2020), at Shiva Gallery, John Jay College (CUNY), in NYC; “Disappearance Tactics “(2021), at Paço das Artes, São Paulo; and several other projects in institutions in Brazil. In 2021, she was awarded a DAAD fellowship for a period as a visiting researcher at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Ms Lisa Deml
Independent
Panelist
Biography
Lisa Deml (she/her) is an independent curator, writer, and researcher based in Berlin. Initially trained as a journalist, she subsequently worked for public institutions and non-profit organizations, including Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin; Haus der Kunst, Munich; and Ashkal Alwan, Beirut. As part of her Midlands4Cities funded doctoral research project at Birmingham City University, she investigated artistic, archival, and activist initiatives to safeguard and share the vast amount of digital data produced during the 2011 Arab Uprisings as cultural heritage in the region and its diaspora.
Mr Víctor Fancelli Capdevila
Digital Archivist
Open Resource Center, Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design
Panelist
Biography
Víctor Fancelli Capdevila (he/him) works as a digital archivist at the Open Resource Center (ORC), a project that develops a digital infrastructure and a sustainable culture for documentation and archiving at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG). He originally worked in the field of website creation and maintenance before gaining work experience at the archives of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. He completed a master's degree in media philosophy and art history at the HfG and has since devoted his research to the (political) relationships between people, technology, learning and shared memory.
Session chair
Nathalia Lavigne
University Of São Paulo
