12-14 June 2020/ online
Situation Room (2007/2020)
Pablo DeSoto is an award-winning experimental architect, multidisciplinary artist, radical cartographer, scholar and an educator with an iconoclastic experience across geographical and disciplinary borders. He was 2019 NTNU ARTEC Artist in Residence and currently Visiting Professor at Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil
The term "Situation Room" is normally used to designate a secret place used in times of crisis to assess and monitor data for decision making purposes. Its origins can be traced back to World War II with the invention of computers, digitalization, and the collaboration of architects and the military. These rooms are equipped with monitors and data boards used to control everything from flows crossing the strait of Gibraltar to nuclear fission processes in Nuclear Power plants and the life support mechanisms on board the International Space Station.
The first iteration of the Situation Room installation was a temporary hacklab, while the current version gives a framework to the online festival H_st_rical Narratives. In addition Pablo DeSoto introduces the genealogy of the Situation Room phenomenon and embeds it in our current sociopolitical context fraught with the political and economical ramifications of a pandemic, as well as with the threat of the far-right worldwide.
The first iteration of the Situation Room installation was a temporary hacklab, while the current version gives a framework to the online festival H_st_rical Narratives. In addition Pablo DeSoto introduces the genealogy of the Situation Room phenomenon and embeds it in our current sociopolitical context fraught with the political and economical ramifications of a pandemic, as well as with the threat of the far-right worldwide.
*For the Zoom meeting, please, keep your audio/ video mute. Use the applicable pronoun and a real/ nick name in the Zoom profile (e.g. Newton's Binomial/ they). If you want to ask a question - let us know in the Zoom chat, we will switch your cam and mike.
Meeting ID: 857 8669 0394 Password: 986060
Meeting ID: 857 8669 0394 Password: 986060
Lecture and conversation
June 12, 19:00 (CEST)
June 12, 19:00 (CEST)
