DNL #2 CYBORG: "Ubiquitous Identities" Keynote with Massimo Canevacci.
Channel: Disruption Network Lab
Date: 2015-06-24

Disruption Network Lab
An ongoing platform of events and research on art, hacktivism and
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Berlin, May 29-30: CYBORG: Hacktivists, Freaks and Hybrid Uprisings
Second Event of the Disruption Network Lab

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Artistic Director: Tatiana Bazzichelli
Curator and programme manager: Daniela Silvestrin
Production: Kim Voss

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Disruption Network Lab Berlin - www.disruptionlab.org
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Keynote with Massimo Canevacci (cultural anthropologist, IT/BR), moderated by Francesco “Warbear” Macarone Palmieri (anthropologist, cultural producer, DJ, IT/DE).

A restless incongruous montage of syncretic concepts and polyphonic interventions.
This presentation focuses on the issue of identity construction as a way to reflect critically on the transformations of politics, society and media culture. In dealing critically with aliens, cyborgs and artificial organisms, Antonio Caronia meant to interpret our society as a collage of incongruities, without necessarily solving them, but leaving them open for reflections on possible political and tactical practices derived from encounters with the “alien”. In this keynote, this perspective is linked to the anthropological research of Massimo Canevacci, as an attempt to dismantle culture’s hierarchies and holistic truths. Cultural orders are substituted with unusual juxtapositions, decomposition of reality, fragments and unexpected combinations. Massimo Canevacci and Francesco “warbear” Macarone Palmieri will engage in a reflection between technology, pleasure and sexuality, and political engagement in society, not merely by rendering the unfamiliar comprehensible, as part of what the ethnographic tradition wanted, but in making the familiar strange.

More info: http://www.disruptionlab.org/cyborg/