During 13-17 September 2021 our team chair a track entitled “Interferences of the Multitude” in the frames of the Politics of the Machines: Rogue Research conference edition in Berlin co-organized by Aalborg University, Denmark, Aalto University, Finland, the institute of visual communication of the International University of Beirut, Lebanon and hosted by the Einstein Centre Digital Future, Berlin.
The POM – Politics of The Machines is a conference series founded by Laura Beloff (Aalto University Helsinki) and Morten Søndergaard (Aalborg University Denmark).
Interferences of the Multitude track explored, how in an era of ongoing crises made visible and sensible in the recent global turmoil, the question of ‘normality’ is increasingly under scrutiny. One can no longer be sure what ‘matters’ the most, as the normal was the problem in the first place. ‘There can be no return to normal’ has become the new social and political mantra – we might rather need to give attention to the experimental conditions of our observations. To accomplish this task, artists and researchers search for methods and tools to intra-act with and care for what matters in the realms of a potential future. We take this call as a chance to feel those who question established disorders – an invitation for people from diverse fields working in theory and/or empirical methodologies and practices for critical (art) making.
Forthcoming: track introduction paper by research team members in POM conference proceedings