[spectre] DISNOVATION.ORG - Online Culture Wars

[peripheriques at free.fr]

We're pleased to announce our new project "ONLINE CULTURE WARS"
https://disnovation.org/ocw.php

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ONLINE CULTURE WARS (MAP)
https://disnovation.org/ocw.php#map

The map Online Culture Wars is an overlay of hundreds of politicized memes, along with influential political figures and symbols. It is designed as a discussion starter, intended to visualize and contextualize the ongoing online culture wars, and some of the main political references, actors, and influencers. From Twitter to Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Gab, or 4chan, one of the by-products of online culture wars is the over-politicization of seemingly mundane topics, products, practices, and cultural elements. In recent years, online cultures have been subjected to a growing polarization, politicization and radicalization, influenced by numerous actors, and magnified by the very features of ubiquitous social networks. This cartography offers a representation of online ideological and political frictions, integrated into the visual system of a Political Compass meme.

Conception: DISNOVATION.ORG with Baruch Gottlieb [poster stack, mural, pdf]

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ONLINE CULTURE WARS (VIDEO)
https://disnovation.org/ocw.php#video

Ubiquitous social networks gave rise to new types of practices, new forms of expression, and new means for collective organization of protest and discord. In this context, the manipulation of public opinion over social media platforms has emerged as a critical threat to public life. The video Online Culture Wars focuses on the political instrumentalization of the tools, techniques, and infrastructures of the web, with a particular attention to the social media influence ecosystem, and online manipulation of opinion. It exposes some practices broadly used for online propaganda, as well as creative responses that they triggered in the civil society.

Conception: DISNOVATION.ORG [HD video, loop, 20 min.]

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PRESENT & FUTURE EXHIBITIONS

THE ALT-RIGHT COMPLEX
Curated by Inke Arns, HMKV, Dortmund, DE -> March 30 - Sep. 22, 2019
https://www.hmkv.de/

MUTEK.SF
The Midway, San Francisco, USA -> May 2 - May 5, 2019
https://www.mutek.us/

NETWORK EFFECTS
Curated by M-cult, Oodi, Helsinki, FI -> November 2019
https://www.m-cult.org/

With the support of NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf (DE), MU artspace, Eindhoven (NL), Institut UTINAM, Besançon (FR), EMAP (Creative Europe), M-Cult, Helsinki (FI), HMKV, Dortmund (DE) 

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DISNOVATION.ORG is a working group based in Paris, initiated by Nicolas Maigret (FR) and Maria Roszkowska (PL). At the crossroads of contemporary art, research and hacking, the collective develops situations of disruption, speculation and debate, in order to challenge dominant techno-positivist ideologies and to stimulate post-growth imaginaries. They edited The Pirate Book, an anthology on media piracy. Their research includes artworks, curation and publications. In 2018, they received a Design Trust Grant (Hong Kong) for a research about China’s Shanzhai culture. They are currently visiting researchers at the University of California, Irvine.

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Kind regards,