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OPEN SECRET –
THE NEW EXTRACTIVISM AND
ESCAPING THE CLEARNET

featuring Vladan Joler,
Caroline Busta and Nadim Samman

• Opening event
• 16 July 21, 9:30 pm
• In English
• Location: KW’s CourtyardThe maximum number of visitors is limited. 
Please register in advance at reservation@kw-berlin.de.

About

A new form of extractivism defines life in the 21st Century. It is one that reaches into the furthest corners of the biosphere and the deepest layers of human cognitive and affective being: The stack that underpins contemporary technological systems goes well beyond data modeling, hardware, servers, and networks. Today’s full stack reaches into capital, labor, and nature, while demanding an enormous amount from each.

Vladan Joler’s newly commissioned video The New Extractivism gathers different concepts and images of this new extractivism together. They add up to a blueprint—for a machine-like superstructure; a super allegory that encompasses the whole world.

Additionaly, drawing from her newly commissioned essay for Open Secret, the author and critic Caroline Busta surveys prospects for Web 3.0. At the edge of the clearnet’ (the part of the internet that is publically accessible) the ‘dark forest’ begins. This shadowy realm offers artists shelter, a place to create—away from tracking, trolling, hype, and formatted ‘social’ experiences. What can we learn from it?

Bios

Vladan Joler, Prof., is an academic, researcher and artist whose work blends data investigations, counter-cartography, investigative journalism, writing, data visualisation, critical design and numerous other disciplines. He explores and visualises different technical and social aspects of algorithmic transparency, digital labour exploitation, invisible infrastructures and many other contemporary phenomena in the intersection between technology and society.

Caroline Busta is a Berlin-based writer working with questions of culture, technology, and globalism. She is the founder of NEW MODELS, a media platform and community addressing the emergent effects of networked technology on art, tech, politics, and pop-culture. From 2014 to 2017, she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Berlin-based critical art journal Texte zur Kunst. Prior to that, she was an Associate Editor at Artforum magazine in New York.

Nadim Samman, Ph.D., is Curator for the Digital Sphere at KW Institute for Contemporary Art. In his newly instated role, Samman will critically explore the expanded political and social landscape of digital systems through subversive and creative interventions.

Open Secret – 
The New Extractivism and Escaping the Clearnet

featuring Vladan Joler, Caroline Busta and Nadim Samman

• Opening event
• 16 July 21, 9:30 pm
• In English
• Location: KW’s Courtyard

The maximum number of visitors is limited. 
Please register in advance at reservation@kw-berlin.de.

About

A new form of extractivism defines life in the 21st Century. It is one that reaches into the furthest corners of the biosphere and the deepest layers of human cognitive and affective being: The stack that underpins contemporary technological systems goes well beyond data modeling, hardware, servers, and networks. Today’s full stack reaches into capital, labor, and nature, while demanding an enormous amount from each.

Vladan Joler’s newly commissioned video The New Extractivism gathers different concepts and images of this ‘new extractivism’ together. They add up to a blueprint—for a machine-like superstructure; a super allegory that encompasses the whole world.

Additionaly, drawing from her newly commissioned essay for Open Secret, the author and critic Caroline Busta surveys prospects for Web 3.0. At the edge of the clearnet (the part of the internet that is publically accessible) the ‘dark forest begins. This shadowy realm offers artists shelter, a place to create—away from tracking, trolling, hype, and formatted ‘social’ experiences. What can we learn from it?

Bios

Vladan Joler, Prof., is an academic, researcher and artist whose work blends data investigations, counter-cartography, investigative journalism, writing, data visualisation, critical design and numerous other disciplines. He explores and visualises different technical and social aspects of algorithmic transparency, digital labour exploitation, invisible infrastructures and many other contemporary phenomena in the intersection between technology and society.

Caroline Busta is a Berlin-based writer working with questions of culture, technology, and globalism. She is the founder of NEW MODELS, a media platform and community addressing the emergent effects of networked technology on art, tech, politics, and pop-culture. From 2014 to 2017, she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Berlin-based critical art journal Texte zur Kunst. Prior to that, she was an Associate Editor at Artforum magazine in New York.

Nadim Samman, Ph.D., is Curator for the Digital Sphere at KW Institute for Contemporary Art. In his newly instated role, Samman will critically explore the expanded political and social landscape of digital systems through subversive and creative interventions.

New Extractivism, and Escaping the Clearnet

featuring Vladan Joler, Caroline Busta and Nadim Samman

• Opening event
• 16 July 21, 9:30 pm
• In English
• Location: KW’s Courtyard

The maximum number of visitors is limited. 
Please register in advance at reservation@kw-berlin.de.

About

A new form of extractivism defines life in the 21st Century. It is one that reaches into the furthest corners of the biosphere and the deepest layers of human cognitive and affective being: The stack that underpins contemporary technological systems goes well beyond data modeling, hardware, servers, and networks. Today’s full stack reaches into capital, labor, and nature, while demanding an enormous amount from each.

Vladan Joler’s newly commissioned video The New Extractivism gathers different concepts and images of this ‘new extractivism’ together. They add up to a blueprint—for a machine-like superstructure; a super allegory that encompasses the whole world.

Additionaly, drawing from her newly commissioned essay for Open Secret, the author and critic Caroline Busta surveys prospects for Web 3.0. At the edge of the clearnet (the part of the internet that is publically accessible) the ‘dark forest begins. This shadowy realm offers artists shelter, a place to create—away from tracking, trolling, hype, and formatted ‘social’ experiences. What can we learn from it?

Bios

Vladan Joler, Prof., is an academic, researcher and artist whose work blends data investigations, counter-cartography, investigative journalism, writing, data visualisation, critical design and numerous other disciplines. He explores and visualises different technical and social aspects of algorithmic transparency, digital labour exploitation, invisible infrastructures and many other contemporary phenomena in the intersection between technology and society.

Caroline Busta is a Berlin-based writer working with questions of culture, technology, and globalism. She is the founder of NEW MODELS, a media platform and community addressing the emergent effects of networked technology on art, tech, politics, and pop-culture. From 2014 to 2017, she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Berlin-based critical art journal Texte zur Kunst. Prior to that, she was an Associate Editor at Artforum magazine in New York.

Nadim Samman, Ph.D., is Curator for the Digital Sphere at KW Institute for Contemporary Art. In his newly instated role, Samman will critically explore the expanded political and social landscape of digital systems through subversive and creative interventions.