Events diary
Lunch in the Lab - The creative methods of opening up the future
As PhD researchers, our raison d’etre is to contribute new knowledge to the world. Can creative methods help uncover or produce the new that is otherwise destined to be eroded by a digital society premised on predictability and risk aversion?
In the second of this series, we’ll be sharing and discussing creative methods that offer new ways to approach research across disciplines. Join us for food and chat with us about research methods that build on previous discussions on the myriad ways art have or have not succeeded in thwarting the limitations of computational capitalism.
About the Art of Opening Up the Future event series:
That change can begin with art is repeated often by scholars of every persuasion, from Ursula K. Le Guin speaking about resistance to capitalist realism to Byung-Chul Han reflecting on how to regain the world-changing powers once possessed by philosophy. Harnessing this potential for change seems as pressing as ever, as we observe in real time what Mark Fisher and Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi have called the “slow cancellation of the future”, or what Bernard Stiegler has examined as the erosion of our common horizon of a shared future. Can art in its varied forms be an antidote to the data-driven collapse of social cohesion we witness at present, to preserve an open future not predetermined and narrowed by predictive digital mechanisms and algorithmic governmentalilty?
This event series taking place at the Sussex Digital Humanities Lab takes as its starting point the art created in response to the technological advancements of our digital present to explore creative digital methodologies, how culture and politics merge in digital environments, and the ways digital tools might be creatively deployed to generate and amplify modes of resistance against the enclosure of an open future.