The INCA exhibition residency is underway
From October 14 to 18 is being held the residency for the INCA exhibition “The Big Tech and Counter-Technologies”. The five selected artists—Raúl Silva, Cyrus Peñarroyo and McClain Clutter (EXTENT), Morgane Billuart, and Michel Kessler—are gathered in Bologna.
This meeting provides a valuable opportunity to collaborate closely with practitioners, allowing them to develop the research and practical methodologies for their projects. Through a mix of organised panels, informal meetings, walks and presentations, the residency is proving to be a moment of organised exchange and transdisciplinary collaboration.
The activity program also includes a public event. On October 17 at 18:30, there will be a talk titled “Cables, Data, and Labour: How to Visualize Digital Capitalism.” During this session, the five selected artists will engage with the public to share their perspectives on how contemporary digital technology can be explored through their artistic practices. The discussion will be held at the same venue as the residency, in Sala Tassinari at Palazzo D’Accursio, located in Piazza Maggiore.
The talk will allow participants to explore the issues addressed by the exhibition co-curated by Carmen Lael Hines and Into the Black Box. The initiative supports projects that engage the impact of technology on shaping material, political and affective cultures. With a critical focus on the tech giants (companies such as Google, Amazon, Meta, Apple, and Microsoft), selected projects engage the materiality of techno-capitalism on micro, meso to macro scales. Questions of labour, logistics, infrastructure and space thread each project together to pose the following: what is the spatiality of the digital? And how can we propose and visualise alternative imaginings?
