ARTICLES AND INTERVIEWS
The future of digitalisation is dystopic, and it is already very close at hand. At least, this is the opinion of the Chinese multi-media artist, Cao Fei (Guangzhou, 1978). Cao Fei sees art not only as a social instrument, but also as assuming a prophetic role. In her films and installations, the artist combines social comments, popular aesthetics, and references to Surrealism
Primavera De Filippi is a member of the EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum and a permanent researcher at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. She collaborates as associate faculty with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and is a Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Blockchain Technologies and a co-founder of the Internet Governance Forum’s (IGF) Dynamic Coalitions on Blockchain Technology (COALA).
Mozzarella Light is the artistic duo composed of Giulia Ciappi (Poggibonsi, 1997) and MarcoFrassinelli (Rome, 1992). They trained at the Academies of Fine Arts in Florence and Rome, where they graduated in Sculpture, and at the Universidad del PaÃs Vasco in Bilbao, Spain, doing workshops and residencies in the USA, Greece and Israel.
The usage modes and integrative processes of the technologies we use on a daily basis seem to be shaped and shaped solely through the computing and aesthetic interfaces that filter user-instrument interaction. Yet it is the normative, ethical, and legislative plans that should be at the center of the processes of educating, training, and shaping the development of the technologies we use.
