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\"mitsuko\" Hatsune Miku \u2013 Still Be Here, copyright Image: LaTurbo Avedon \/ Crypton Future Media Inc. 2007<\/p>\n

This year transmediale<\/a>, the post-digital culture event, will reflect on the past 29 years of discussion within the programme, using four thematic streams: Anxious to Act,\u00a0Anxious to Make,\u00a0Anxious to Share, and\u00a0Anxious to Secure, programmed by seven curators over five days. Sleek talks to co-curator Ben Vickers about the future of sharing economies and art that can only be seen from space.<\/p>\n

Sleek: How do you fit into transmediale this time? As it\u2019s your second year running in participating in the programme.
<\/b>Ben Vickers: This year I\u2019m part of the curatorial team tasked with the \u201cAnxious to Share\u201d stream, focused on cultivating a conversation. Coming at a moment where it feels that we need to pause and reflect, rather than churn through the same arguments and proposed solutions.<\/p>\n

Anxious?
<\/b>Well yes, take for example Oliver Lerone Schultz\u2019s programme \u201cAnxious to Act\u201d which touches on \u00a0\u201cfive years after\u201d the Arab Springs, and what do we have, after these insurrections, an overthrown government and Egypt under a military regime, a sense that a possible alternative is over. Or the situation of compromised sovereignty by financial means in Greece and enforced austerity. Given this situation what the fuck is left to do?<\/p>\n

\"mits2\" Hatsune Miku \u2013 Still Be Here, copyright Image: LaTurbo Avedon \/ Crypton Future Media Inc. 2007<\/p>\n

\"trans3\" Hello, City! by Liam Young, copyright Liam Young<\/p>\n

In some ways the words reflection and conversation set us up for a juxtaposed event?
<\/b>I guess that\u2019s where my anxiety lies (laughs).<\/p>\n

Your programme will offer a critique of the sharing economy, how would you define it today?
<\/b>I don\u2019t think I can say that I approached this in a straightforward manner, early on in the conversation there were a number of pillars of thought which the \u201cAnxious to Share\u201d programme was built upon; loosely summed up as the the dark global insurgency, the open source self-replicating futures and then the incumbent class, \u00a0three forces shaping the world in strange ways.<\/p>\n

The dark global insurgency would be something like ISIS or Boko Haram, entities that will benefit from creating enormous chaos at the cost of adversaries. The open source self-replicating future could be the hackerspaces or Google, though it may now be shifting into the incumbent class. Whilst this framework is now completely invisible, serving only as spectre of thought, it was useful for trying to elucidate what\u2019s at stake in the disposition of certain technologies that are geared towards decentralisation or what those startups capable of extracting enormous value globally with software will look like in a decade.<\/p>\n

This gave rise to a number of concerns or areas of focus, for example the advent in the causal discussion of “planetary scale systems”, libertarian fiefdoms, or a pure rental economy through the Airbnb-fication of everything in our private sphere.<\/p>\n

\"trans4\" Drone-2000 by Nicolas Maigret, copyright Eastern Bloc & Luce Moreau<\/p>\n

\"Cradle Cradle Selfie by Ben Vickers<\/p>\n

Is there an alternative?
<\/b>I think within different conversations that have unfolded over the past months that there\u2019s an ambivalence about offering possible solutions or shining to much light on a particular alternative. I think there are options, sure, but we\u2019ve yet to really comprehend the potential ramifications.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s here that in some ways it seems wise now to accept a not knowing, and acknowledge certain failures for what they are. Clearly there are new contenders and possibilities in emergent technologies such as blockchain to start to develop a totally different concept around the sharing economy, perhaps embodied best in the recent declaration from the Platform Cooperativism event, \u201ccooperative ownership is the new sharing\u201d. But let\u2019s see where the conversation goes, and be careful to observe the bias and specifics of previous mistakes.
<\/strong><\/p>\n

How does this connect to the hybrid event \u201cMaking Planetary Scale Gestures\u201d?
<\/b>Well, this evolved indirectly out of a series of connections, that created the workshop \u201cExploring Planetary Scale Design\u201d with Sarah T Gold, Carina Namih and Ola M\u00f6ller, which is focused on trying to build shared ways of seeing these \u201cPlanetary Scale Systems\u201d. The word design implied some degree of agency, which isn\u2019t necessarily there, and is potentially dangerous. So for a public event, “gestures” felt more apt. The use of gesture <\/i>as a strategy though was inspired by a conversation with one of the participants, James Bridle, which focused on the history of land art and Robert Barry\u2019s “Inert gas series”, where he released jars of gas in the desert in the late 60s to create a sort of planetary scale sculpture. \u00a0<\/p>\n

James has in recent work been returning to these considerations of land art, and what that might mean in the context of satellite imagery, or what marks on the earth\u2019s surface might mean in a moment of total surveillance. So in some ways this event is an attempt to imagine and evidence something different, to shift the conversation away from purely rationalised and utilitarian perspectives on what emerging technologies and ecologies might mean to us on spaceship earth.<\/p>\n

Text von Penny Victoria Rafferty<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

transmediale<\/a> takes place in Berlin until 7 February 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mehr: This Exhibition Explores Dementia Through Sensations<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mehr: Warum sind reine Frauenausstellungen so problematisch?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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