Nervous Systems
The postcards
Title
Nervous Systems
The postcards
The postcards
Subject
Postcards from the exhibition at the HKW
Description
Co-curated by Anselm Franke (HKW), Stephanie Hankey, and Marek Tuszynski (Tactical Technology Collective), Nervous Systems questions the pervasive nervousness that haunts today's systems and data-driven rationalities and ideologies. It asks: Will these systems be able to stabilize themselves, and contain the forces of chaos, disorder, and the unknown, real, or imagined threats? What does 'privacy' mean when it becomes possible to identify someone just as easily from 'anonymous data' as from a fingerprint or identity card? What remains of the world when it is being interpreted for us by machines?
Discourse around the integrations of these technologies vary with magnitude. One approach is of emancipation, egalitarianism, and empowerment the other of repression, surveillance, and state power. Neither in favour nor against these technological advancements, this exhibition instead highlights the relationship between the individual and the vast networked infrastructures of data collection. The revelations presented also shed light into the roles that legislation and markets play to influence individual experience and activity.
These issues are pursued by the exhibition Nervous Systems at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, with artistic works and collected materials to better illustrate the entanglements of state, industry, body and technology in its genealogy as well as its relevance.
Discourse around the integrations of these technologies vary with magnitude. One approach is of emancipation, egalitarianism, and empowerment the other of repression, surveillance, and state power. Neither in favour nor against these technological advancements, this exhibition instead highlights the relationship between the individual and the vast networked infrastructures of data collection. The revelations presented also shed light into the roles that legislation and markets play to influence individual experience and activity.
These issues are pursued by the exhibition Nervous Systems at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, with artistic works and collected materials to better illustrate the entanglements of state, industry, body and technology in its genealogy as well as its relevance.
Creator
edited by Anselm Franke, Stephanie Hankey, Marek Tuszynski
Date
2016
Contributor
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Relation
https://nervoussystems.org/about/
https://nervoussystems.org/the-exhibition/
https://nervoussystems.org/the-exhibition/
Format
Postcard
Language
English
Identifier
2016.NS-Op/ner+eng
Files
Collection
Citation
edited by Anselm Franke, Stephanie Hankey, Marek Tuszynski , “Nervous Systems
The postcards,” Tactical Tech's Archive, accessed September 8, 2024, https://archive.tacticaltech.org/items/show/88.
The postcards,” Tactical Tech's Archive, accessed September 8, 2024, https://archive.tacticaltech.org/items/show/88.