Calculating Empires - Kate Crawford & Vladan Joler
15 until 21 September
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Calculating Empires is a large-scale (24 x 6m) visual manifesto by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler that critically engages with the relationship between technology and power over five centuries.
By merging research and design, science and art, Joler and Crawford go beyond the current spectacles of artificial intelligence to ask how we got here—and consider where we might be going. This vast diagram follows the imperial pathways of power since 1500 across many systems—colonialism, militarization, and automation—to show how they still subjugate and how they might be unwound. By illustrating this history, Calculating Empires charts a new way of seeing our technological present by immersing us in the past, from the birth of European empires to the technology companies of today.
When
- Daily starting from september 15th, 2025 until september 21st, 2025 from 11:00 to 18:00