Collective Infrastructures and Knowledge Production in a Post-Digital Age

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The New Centre invites you to participate in an online workshop to test new forms of learning in a post-digital world. Guided by live presentations, this workshop will generate a glossary of terms that will develop as a collective response to the online discussions. By thinking through the limits of computational technologies, the event will encourage users to rethink the conventional infrastructures that inform online learning and, in turn, formulate an experimental approach to shared knowledge production and political action.

The New Centre for Research & Practice is an international, non-profit, higher education institute in the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences. It is conceived upon the idea that the space of knowledge is a laboratory for navigating the links between thought and action. Its teaching approach challenges the conventional role of the arts, humanities, and sciences to construct new forms of research and practice. The New Centre’s aim is to assemble an environment, both virtual and actual, for members to invent alternate understandings that can be put into collective practice. This session offers the opportunity to be part of this ongoing project

Mohammad Salemy is an independent Berlin-based artist, critic and curator from Canada. His works have been exhibited internationally and his writings have been published widely, including e-flux, Third Rail, Ocula, and Spike. Salemy’s curatorial experiment For Machine Use Only was included in the 11th edition of Gwangju Biennale (2016). Together with a changing cast, Salemy forms the artist collective Alphabet Collection and is the Organizer at The New Centre for Research

Heba Y. Amin is a multi-media artist from Egypt. She works with political themes and archival history, using mediums including film, photography, archival material, lecture performance and installation. Amin teaches at Bard College Berlin, is a doctorate fellow in art history at Freie Universität, and a current Field of Vision fellow in New York. She is the co-founder of the Black Athena Collective, curator of visual art for the MIZNA journal, and co-curator for the biennial residency program DEFAULT with Ramdom Association.

Anthony Downey is Professor of Visual Culture in the Middle East and North Africa (Birmingham City University). He is currently a Co-investigator on AHRC and GCRF–funded research projects that focus on cultural practices, education, and digital methodologies in Lebanon, Palestine and Jordan. He sits on the editorial boards of Third Text and Digital War, respectively, and is the series editor for Research/Practice (Sternberg Press, 2019–ongoing).

This event is organised in partnership with The New Centre for Research & Practice.

Image: Babbage Difference Engine No 1 calculating engine, 1822-1879. (c) Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences. Courtesy of Mohammad Salemy.