eCulture Convention
The Economic and Cultural impacts of the Digital Age
Wed, September 15 – Fri, September 17, 2021
- Language
- English
eCulture Convention is a plattform for experts from around the world to discuss developments in art, culture, and economy, and thus create a basis for future research and projects at the interface of science, economy, and art.
From September 15–17, 2021, eCulture Convention will take place under the motto »The Economic and Cultural Impacts of the Digital Age« both at the High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) Stuttgart and via livestream. The convention explores the opportunities that current trends in art, culture, and the economy offer for future research at the intersection of digital technologies and the arts.
The event will also celebrate the start of the Research and Creation Center for Computational Based Art, Culture, and Economy, which will connect young creators with high-tech tools and industrial partners to help them develop their ideas and build knowledge.
The eCulture Convention is open to the public and free of charge. Registration and proof of vaccination, recovery, or negative test results (no older than 24 hours) are required to attend individual sections on-site at HLRS Stuttgart.
To register: ecultureconvention.com/reserve
The event will also be broadcast live. The livestream will be available on the eCulture Convention web presence: ecultureconvention.com
Topic
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Digital-Human Convergence
Digital Technologies start to converge to form a cyber-world in which hardware and software together provide a new type of eco-system. In this new type of world solutions are born, live, and die at an unprecedented rate. This cyber-world starts to spill over into the real human world. It heralds a digital-human convergence that is about to change the human position in the world. With this digital-human convergence come hopes and fears that float in public discussions and private thought. What is it we are facing? What are the futures this might carry us to? How might this change the way we live, think, feel and act?
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Computing and the Humanities
»At the Intersection of Time and Space: The Temporal Cartography of Two Brazilian Capitals«, by Farès el-Dahdah, from the Spatial Studies Lab at Rice University, Houston, Texas.
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Experiments in Art and Economic
ZKM | Karlsruhe and In4Art run an European think-thank with artists and economists around the question: How to reshape the way we think about the economy in order to open space for new ideas? The group rethinks and reconceives economic frameworks, particularly around energy consumption in the 21st century.
It investigates how to disassemble technological and social trends before they get mainstream through an extropian perspective. This is being explored through a reversed manual approach. The journey will extract pieces of the economy and experience their exponential effects. This non-linear exploration is challenged through deep time and address our dependence: To Mint or Not To Mint. The think-thank experiments with changing mindsets.
During this presentation, you will have a live video connection with the think-tank at ZKM – and be part of their experiment transcending the microscope into a telescope. The session will be a combination of inspiration, experimentation and research.
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Trust – des-information & technology
Disinformation has proven to be one of the central problems of our current society. Already daunting tasks and problems (be it in the context of the current pandemic or with regard to climate change) are made even more difficult as a result. The question is how democracies can respond to disinformation. We want to show why an answer to this is difficult and what it can consist of.