Creative Uses Of Technology

Are you a human who cares about things bigger than you? Would you like to meet other such humans and discuss ways we can creatively call attention to issues we care about using technology and other tools? Join us for what promises to be an interesting evening with interesting people!
 
Talks by Rachel Uwa from School of Machines, Making & Make-Believe, Tatiana Bazzichelli from the Disruption Network Lab and artist/activist Ben Grosser.
 
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SPEAKER
 
BEN GROSSER (US)
Artist Ben Grosser focuses on the cultural, social, and political implications of software. Recent exhibition venues include Eyebeam in New York, The White Building in London, Galerie Charlot in Paris, and Museum Ludwig in Cologne. His works have been featured in Wired, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, and Der Spiegel. The Chicago Tribune called him the "unrivaled king of ominous gibberish." Slate referred to his work as "creative civil disobedience in the digital age."
 
Grosser's recognitions include First Prize in VIDA 16, the Expanded Media Award for Network Culture from Stuttgarter Filmwinter, and a Rhizome commission. He is an assistant professor at the University of Illinois and a faculty affiliate at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Prior to his current appointments, he earned an MFA in new media and an MM in music composition (both from Illinois), and was director of the Imaging Technology Group at the Beckman Institute. // Homepage
 
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TATIANA BAZZICHELLI (IT/DE)
... is artistic director of the Disruption Network Lab, an on-going platform of conference events on art, hacktivism and disruption at Kunstquartier Bethanien in Berlin. Former programme curator at transmediale festival in Berlin from 2011 to 2014, she initiated and developed the year-round "reSource transmedial culture" project.
 
Bazzichelli was post-doctoral researcher at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, as part of the Centre for Digital Cultures and the Institute for Culture and Aesthetic Digital Media, Faculty of Cultural Studies (2012−2014). In 2011, she received a PhD degree in Information and Media Studies at the Faculty of Arts of Aarhus University in Denmark. She wrote the books: Networked Disruption: Rethinking Oppositions in Art, Hacktivism and the Business of Social Networking (DARC Press, Aarhus University, 2013); Networking: The Net as Artwork (Costa & Nolan, Milan, 2006 /DARC Press, Aarhus University, 2008), and co-edited Disrupting Business: Art and Activism in Times of Financial Crisis (Autonomedia, New York, 2013). // Homepage
 
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CREATIVE USES OF TECHNOLOGY
Monday, 3.10.2016, ACUD studio
Start: 19H30
Admission: Free
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