Calculating Empires is a work that exhaustively and accurately maps the relationships between technology and power from 1500 to the present.

Calculating Empires conceives today’s technologies as the latest manifestations of a succession of interlocking systems of knowledge and control, and proposes, following Donna Haraway, to map the “informatics of domination”.

In this visual genealogy, authors Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler show the complex interplay between systems of power, information and historical facts across time and territory, and propose that the work becomes a tool for imagining other realities.

The complexity of the piece requires an attentive and careful look, and its navigation allows multiple readings. Guided tours are intended to facilitate access to the work, to display and make useful the vast information it contains.

Dates

• February 15 at 12:30 p.m.
• March 15 at 12:30 p.m.
• April 5 at 12:30 p.m.

To attend, prior registration is required by e-mail at info@laboralcentrodearte.org or by telephone at 985 185 577.

Work included in the exhibition Digital Machines. Technology, Industry, Society.

The visits will be guided by Manuel Prados, cultural mediator, researcher and artist.

Activity in collaboration with the Master of Visual Arts and Education of the University of Granada.