Data is political » Program

A symposium on the relationship between art, design, and the politics of information. Designers, artists, scientists discuss the aesthetic, ethical and spatial dimensions of information and its relation to power, the production of knowledge, and construction of urban spaces.
Participants
Conversations
- Ron Burnett
- Amanda Cox
- Philip DeCamp
- Benjamin Mako Hill
- Francis Irving
- Marcell Mars
- Casey Reas
- Florian Schneider
- Fernanda Viegas & Martin Wattenberg
- Usman Haque
- Jose Luis de Vicente
- Jeff Warren
Organized by Amber Frid-Jimenez and Ben Dalton

Hosted by Kunstøgskolen i Bergen / Bergen National Academy of Art & Design (KHiB) in collaboration with the Jan van Eyck Academie, and the University of Bergen with support from the Verdikt programme of the Norges Forskningsråd, KHIB Research Council, and KHIB Departments of Design and Fine Art. Special thanks to Mona Storseth, Einar Wiig and Cecilia Gelin.

Program

Thursday 15 March 2012

10:00 Welcome by Amber Frid-Jimenez & Ben Dalton

Session One
10:30 Philippe Rekacewicz
11:15 Steve Dixon
11:30 Open discussion

12:00 Lunch

Session Two
1:30 Gediminas Urbonas
2:00 Nomeda Urbonas
2:30 Open discussion

3:00 Break

Session Three
3:15 Peter Sunde
4:00 Daniel van der Velden
4:45 Panel discussion with Max Van Kleek & Jill Walker Rettberg

6:00 Reception at rom8 in conjunction with “On Balancing”, an exhibition by Ellen Røed and Christian Blom

Friday 16 March 2012 (Parallel sessions)

Design Workshop
10 – 16:00 Workshop (the Red Room) hosted by the Design Department with Max Van Kleek, Steven Chodoriwsky, Michelle Teran, Ben Dalton, Amber Frid-Jimenez

Academy studio visits
10 – 17:00 Studio visits at the Academy with Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas