The Regime of Digital Coloniality
Event organized by the Studio for Post-conceptual Art Practices (PCAP/IBK) at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in collaboration with Depot – Kunst und Diskussion, Wien
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With:
Marina Gržinić, Professor, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Adla Isanović, Assoc. Professor, Academy of Fine Arts, University of Sarajevo
Jovita Pristovšek, postdoctoral researcher, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Šefik Tatlić, PhD, theorist in the fields of political philosophy and decolonial theory, BiH
A discussion based on the book by Adla Isanović, The Regime of Digital Coloniality: Bosnian Forensic Contemporaneity (Frankfurt am Main: CEEOLPRESS, 2021). This book problematizes how databases are conceived and how they relate to knowledge production in the current environment of global capitalism, biopolitics, and necropolitics. The book is indispensable for discussing about the consequences of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s and BiH contemporary transformation from a genocide into a forensic site.
We will talk over two main points. Contemporary database logic (beyond the biopolitical archive) that organizes media, social networks, state governance, politics, legal processes and military interventions, and as well a wider range of art practices, including contemporary presentation/exhibition models and forms. The forensic shift is the prevailing forensic methodology and aesthetics that is occurring in a variety of forums, including international humanitarian politics, law, and art. What are the consequences?