12-14 June 2020/ online
After
Scarcity
Scarcity
Bahar Noorizadeh is filmmaker, writer, and platform designer. She works on the reformulation of hegemonic time narratives as they collapse in the face of speculation: philosophical, financial, legal, futural, etc. Her work has appeared in the Tate Modern Artists' Cinema Program, DIS Art platform, Transmediale Festival, Berlinale Forum Expanded, Geneva Biennale of Moving Images, and Beirut Art Center, among others. Noorizadeh is a founding member of BLOCC (Building Leverage over Creative Capitalism), a research and education platform that proposes pedagogy as a strategy to alter the relationship between Contemporary Art and urban renewal. Her current research examines the intersections of finance, Contemporary Art and emerging technology, building on the notion of "Weird Economies" to precipitate a cross-disciplinary approach to economic futurism and post-financialization imaginaries. She is pursuing this as a PhD candidate in Art at Goldsmiths, University of London where she holds a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship.
Sluggish materialism gave way to broadband idealism—Colossal corporations pipelining all sorts of things via regulated networks of highly efficient data transfer. This Utopia is neither about stamina nor grit—High-speed capitalism melts solids and, in the bargain, time. Fiber-Optic-Future-Forward: Time has changed.
After Scarcity is a sci-fi video-essay that tracks Soviet cyberneticians (1950s – 1980s) in their attempt to build a fully-automated planned economy. If history at its best is a blueprint for science-fiction, revisiting contingent histories of economic technology might enable an access to the future. Vindicating this other internet, the work presents the economic application
of socialist cybernetic experiments as extra-ordinary to financial arrangements and imaginations of our time.
After Scarcity is a sci-fi video-essay that tracks Soviet cyberneticians (1950s – 1980s) in their attempt to build a fully-automated planned economy. If history at its best is a blueprint for science-fiction, revisiting contingent histories of economic technology might enable an access to the future. Vindicating this other internet, the work presents the economic application
of socialist cybernetic experiments as extra-ordinary to financial arrangements and imaginations of our time.
"And this is the way I want us to consider
Wal-Mart … the shape of a Utopian future
looming through the mist."
Fredric Jameson, Valences of the Dialectic
"The past teaches but we
do not know what it teaches."
Elena Esposito, The Future of Futures
Wal-Mart … the shape of a Utopian future
looming through the mist."
Fredric Jameson, Valences of the Dialectic
"The past teaches but we
do not know what it teaches."
Elena Esposito, The Future of Futures
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Meeting ID: 828 3756 7851 Password: 171753
Meeting ID: 828 3756 7851 Password: 171753
Screening, Q&A
June 14, 17:30 (CEST)
June 14, 17:30 (CEST)
