Masters & Servers: Networked Culture in the Post-Digital Age

Priorities

- Transnational mobility

- Audience development

- Capacity building: Digital shift, New business models, Training and education

Project description

The project Masters & Servers investigated the relationships between digital culture, networked social and political organisation and new business models through a series of artistic and discursive activities. The project involved five European partner organisations in the delivery of festivals, exhibitions, commissions of new artworks as well as lectures, debates, workshops, conferences and the production of collateral assets including books, digital publications, videos, a website and social media platforms. Through the project, we shed light on the very nature of new media, on its “environmental” aspect. Computers, databases, networks and other digital technologies are foundational to contemporary notions of everything from identity and business to surveillance and war. This approach has resulted not only in widely shared knowledge about the intersections of the physical and digital worlds, arts, activism, business and politics but also in shared lessons about control and liberation, about ongoing struggles that exist in “neutral” technology.

Project objective

Goal was to investigate the relationships between digital culture, networked social and political organisation and new business models through a series of artistic and discursive activities.

Gained experience

Masters & Servers project has enabled us to expand our knowledge in the filed of the new media art, we have expanded our network of partnerships with several European organisations, artists and artistic collectives. In the terms of quality of all the outcomes, this was one of the most rewarding projects we have ever worked on.