Data Is Political: A Symposium on Art, Design and Information Politics

Kunstøgskolen i Bergen presents a symposium examining the relationship between art, design, and the politics of information.

15

Mar

Start: Thursday 15. March 2012 10:00.

End: Thursday 15. March 2012 18:00.

Where: Bergen Offentlige Bibliotek

Organizer: Kunsthøgskolen i Bergen i samarbeid med Jan van Eyck Academie (NL)

The event brings together speakers from design, art, theory, and information sciences to discuss such questions as: What are the aesthetic, ethical and spatial dimensions of information and its relation to power, the production of knowledge, and construction of urban spaces?

Speakers include Gediminas & Nomeda Urbonas, Daniel van der Velden, Philippe Rekacewicz, and Jessica Rylan with contributions from Michelle Teran, Jill Walker Rettberg among other artists and practitioners from the Bergen community.

A more detailed programme will follow.See also

http://dataispolitical.net

The seminar is initiated by Amber Frid-Jimenez, associate professor at KHIB, and Ben Dalton, principal lecturer at Leeds Metropolitan University in Leeds.

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KHIB host for seminar on data and politics