“After Memory: Other Networks and Speculative Forms of Connection” presented by Lavigne, Deml and Capdevila
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This panel aims to discuss how the notion of networks could be reimagined after the Internet’s ‘lost decade’ (Lovinik, 2022) and the end of a fantasy that Web 2.0 would be a democratic and emancipatory environment (Crary, 2022). Starting from a debate about how memory is affected by image overdose, endless social media feeds and clouded storage spaces, we focus on different forms of communication, an essential aspect of the conception and actualisation of memory. As such, it will be discussed how artists and activists have been imagining or developing alternative forms of networks, bringing together both projects with an immediate social goal and artworks that have already proposed speculative forms of communication from the mid–1990’s to the present time.
