Talk with artists selected for the INCA Exhibition: ‘Cables, Data and Labour. How to Visualize Digital Capitalism’
On 17 October, taking advantage of the fact that the artists selected for the INCA exhibition were doing their residency in Bologna, took place a talk entitled ‘Cables, Data and Labour. How to Visualize Digital Capitalism’.
The event organised by several partners of the INCA project (UNIBO, SUPSI, and Fondazione IU Rusconi Ghigi) was held in the Sala Tassinari of the Palazzo D’Accursio. After an introduction by INCA coordinator Edoardo Mollona and with the participation of the exhibition curator Carmen Lael Hines, the audience had the opportunity to listen to the reflections of Michel Kessler, Morgane Billuart, Raúl Silva, Cyrus Peñarroyo and McClain Clutter.
The practitioners shared with the audience how digital technology today can be addressed through artistic practice. With a critical focus on tech giants 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?
It was an interesting afternoon for reflection for the about twenty people who attended the event.
