[spectre] Technopolitics presents: Tracing Information Society—a Timeline

[Armin Medosch]

You are cordially invited to:

Tracing Information Society—a Timeline

An exhibition by Technopolitics about paradigmatic turning points

Opening: MAK Nite Lab, Tue, 21 June, 7:30–11 p.m. Technopolitics Salon
with MAK director Christoph Thun Hohenstein and the Technopolitics
working group: Sylvia Eckermann, Doron Goldfarb, Armin Medosch, Gerald
Nestler, Felix Stalder, Axel Stockburger and Ina Zwerger.

Exhibition / Presentation: 22–26 June 2016 during MAK opening times
MAK FORUM
MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art
Stubenring 5, 1010 Vienna

In the MAK FORUM, Technopolitics invites visitors to the curated
knowledge space “Tracing Information Society.”

A 11-meter-long textual work sheds new light on the information
society viewed across a timeframe of more than 100 years. Here, the
genesis and influence of the information society can be studied not by
scrolling on a screen, but by walking along the printed timeline. This
multidimensional mapping of political events, technological
inventions, and cultural developments shows how the information
society has seized and transformed every sphere. The entries may be
understood in more depth on the timetable, which presents analog and
digital media arranged by categories. A network visualization reveals
salient associations between the timeline entries on the basis of
Wikipedia.

Technopolitics is a research platform composed of scientists, artists,
computer scientists, and journalists, who jointly develop innovative
formats at the intersection of art, research, and education.

http://www.technopolitics.info/

In cooperation with MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts /
Contemporary Art. This project is supported by the Arts Division of
the Federal Chancellery of Austria and the Cultural Affairs Department
of the City of Vienna (MA 7). With special thanks to Austrian Radio
ORF Oe1.