BAU Talks: Calculating Empires by Vladan Joler

Calculating Empires is a large-scale research visualization and physical installation exploring how technical and social structures
co-evolved over five centuries.

It traces technological patterns of colonialism, militarization, automation, and enclosure since 1500 to show how these forces still subjugate and how they might be unwound.

In this guided tour, Vladan Joler will deep dive into some of the shifts in communication technologies, infrastructures, and
computational architectures, and how they are entwined with the histories of social control and classification.

calculatingempires.net

Prof. Vladan Joler is an academic, researcher and artist whose work blends critical design, data investigations, counter-cartography,
investigative journalism, writing, data visualization and numerous other disciplines.

He explores and visualizes different technical and social aspects of algorithmic transparency, digital labour exploitation, invisible infrastructures and many other contemporary
phenomena in the intersection between technology and society.

Details: conference in English.

Host or Publisher BAU, Centre Universitari de Disseny