Talk
Keynote: James Bridle // New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
James Bridle is invited to Oslo in collaboration with Oslo School of Architecture and Design.
Kunstakademiets Keynotes
We live in an age of ever-increasing information, yet we seem to understand less and less about the world around us. James Bridle will explore the intersections of technology, politics, society and the environment to cast some light on our present condition, and where we might go next.
About the speaker:
James Bridle is an artist and writer working across technologies and disciplines. Their artworks have been commissioned by galleries and institutions and exhibited worldwide and on the internet. Their writing on literature, culture and networks has appeared in magazines and newspapers including Wired, the Atlantic, the New Statesman, the Guardian, and the Observer. "New Dark Age", their book about technology, knowledge, and the end of the future, was published by Verso (UK & US) in 2018, and they wrote and presented "New Ways of Seeing" for BBC Radio 4 in 2019. Their work can be found at http://jamesbridle.com.