<nettime> Fear of the Wrong Image. The new politics of evidence”/Nov 16 6.30pm Rome time

[Donatella Della Ratta via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

Dear friends
this is our next Digital Delights & Disturbances talk happening in presence
on Nov 16 at 18.30 Rome time, and on live streaming here


https://www.youtube.com/live/FPLasWtSs9E

hope to see you!
warmly, dona


Donatella Della Ratta
twitter @donatelladr


The Communications and Media Studies Department is pleased to invite you to
“Fear of the Wrong Image. The new politics of evidence” on Thursday,
November 16, 2023 at 6:30 PM in *Aula Magna Regina*



Recent debates on the dangers of synthetic media are gripped by the fear
that an image might lose its value as evidence. We find comfort in trusting
what we see. Tracing the production of images from military simulations to
technical interfaces, can we identify what a synthetic image puts at stake?

In this lecture, Anna Engelhardt and Mark Cinkevich reflect on political
agency of evidence. The artist duo highlights different visual regimes of
Russian war crimes, broadcasted on social media since 2014, in order to
contextualize the shifting role of evidence and its synthetic double.


Speakers ' Bio

*Anna Engelhardt* is the alias of a media artist, researcher, and writer.
Her practice examines post-Soviet cyberspace through a decolonial lens,
with an overarching aim of dismantling Russian imperialism. These
investigations take on multiple forms of media, including video, software
and hardware interfaces. Engelhardt also pursues lecturing and publishing
to situate digital conflicts within a broader colonial matrix. Her works
and activities have been featured at the transmediale festival, Venice
Architecture Biennial, Ars Electronica and the Kyiv Biennial, as well as in
Digital War and The Funambulist.



*Mark Cinkevich* is a Belarus-born interdisciplinary researcher and artist
based in Warsaw. Having received his master’s degree in Cultural Studies
from the University of Helsinki, he now pursues a PhD at the Department of
Anthropology, University of Warsaw. In his practice, he is interested in
critical, speculative and experimental aspects of art that operate at the
intersection of fact and fiction. His work focuses on the post-Soviet
infrastructural and social landscape, through which he explores in
particular the concepts of nuclear colonialism, infrastructural
colonialism, extractivism and monstrosity."



This lecture is a part of the Digital Delights and Disturbances lecture
series organized by the* COM Department*
<https://www.johncabot.edu/communication-media-studies/default.aspx>.






*John Cabot University*

Via della Lungara, 233, 00165

Rome, Italy

www.johncabot.edu

C.F. 01476880586
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