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http://new . territories / appropriation . of . medical . discourse / art . com 


Nina Czegledy and Inke Arns presented the material described in the following text during the afternoon programme at V2_Organisation Rotterdam on Sunday, January 21st, 14.00 - 18.00 hrs.

On an imaginary journey in the territories of current medical practice and visual art, we observe the disintegration of former boundaries and discover the emergence of a new discourse involving new metaphors and new mythologies. In the course of this voyage we witness the crystallization of a process which began in the Enlightenment and today is linked together by electronic technologies. Mediated by television, and lately the Internet, the concepts involved here, have contributed to the construction of a simulated reality in both medical science and art which imprisons attention and redirects it from the subject of the activity reproduced.

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    Matteo Pasquinelli

    Matteo Pasquinelli is a writer, curator and researcher. He completed his doctorate at Queen Mary University of London with a thesis on the new forms of conflict within knowledge economy and cognitive capitalism. He wrote the book Animal Spirits: A Bestiary of the Commons (2008) and edited the collections Media Activism (2002) and C'Lick Me: A Netporn Studies Reader (2007). He writes and lectures frequently at the intersection of French philosophy, media culture and Italian post-operaismo.

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    ARTIVISM: The Art of Subverting Power - June 23-25, 2023, Berlin 

    THE 30TH CONFERENCE OF THE DISRUPTION NETWORK LAB
    KUNSTQUARTIER BETHANIEN - BERLIN & STREAMING

    [ Archived streaming videos at: https://www.disruptionlab.org/artivism#video ]

    How can art and activism be combined to tackle burning social issues, surveillance, unethical corporations and corrupt governments?
    A programme of panels, workshops, and artistic productions curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli.

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