“Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power, 1500-2025” is an exhibition conceived by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler that charts our technological present and depicts how power and technology have been intertwined since 1500, by merging research and design, science and art.The Calculating Empires Map Room, centerpiece of the exhibition, is an immersive installation presenting a vast map illustrating forms of communication, classification, computation and control with thousands of individually crafted drawings and texts that span centuries of conflicts, enclosures, and colonizations.
On view at Osservatorio Fondazione Prada until 29th January
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