BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//stockholm-philosophy//philosophyd//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Stockholm BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:19700329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:19701025T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:a5ec421c-9f35-41cf-a60e-9406f4d48d15@stockholmphilosophy.com DTSTAMP:20261024T113454Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20261112T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20261112T200000 SUMMARY:Symposium: Earth and Internet (want to be free) - Interdisciplinary artistic research and the platform landscape DESCRIPTION:Image credit: ARNEN. Courtesy of the artists.\n\nHow can we ima gine more just\, sustainable and non-extractive digital futures? And how a re interdisciplinary and artistic research practices pointing to alternati ve ways to think about resource extraction and digital platform infrastruc tures?\n\nOn November 12-13\, VISTRANS* will bring together artists\, rese archers\, and scholars in a symposium dedicated to exploring intersections of digital extractivism\, environmental and data justice\, and emerging f orms of resistance to the planetary impacts of digital technologies.\n\nTh ese include the acceleration of technology and geographies of digital medi a infrastructures\, which cannot be separated from the geopolitics of supp ly chains - including the burdens of mining of critical and conflict miner als on fragile territories and vulnerable communities\, and the environmen tal costs of facilities such as data centers. Importantly\, these processe s often unfold at the margins of democratic processes and public participa tion\, and are experienced at various scales\, from local to planetary\, p rofoundly unequally. What are the urgent and critical debates challenging this moment and offering alternatives\, and how can interdisciplinary arti stic research advance these critical agendas?\n\nThe symposium\n\nIn the s ymposium\, international scholars and artists based in Sweden\, Germany\, Finland\, and Estonia\, and combining media studies\, sociology\, environm ental studies\, contemporary art and performance\, and architecture\, will focus on the developments both in the so-called Global North and Global S outh. These geographies are violently divided by extractivism and colonial ity in digital planetary transformations\, yet also connected through prac tices of resistance\, repair\, re-existence\, and liberation. The symposiu m is developed in collaboration with Färgfabriken\, and is inspired by th emes of extractivism\, technology\, and colonialism in Färgfabriken’s c urrent exhibition “Rare Earth\, Rare Justice” by Nigerian artist Ndidi Dike.\n\nTwo keynote presentations will be part of the program and open f or the public: Gianfranco Selgas\, researcher in political ecology and co- director of the Political Ecology Research Theme at KTH\, will present his recent research about the visuality of extractivism around fossil fuels a nd minerals in Venezuela\; and the Denmark-based artistic research group A RNEN (Artistic Research Network on Extractivism in the North) will present their work on extractive frontiers between polluted remains in the Arctic and ruins in Gaza.\n\nThe keynote presentations will be held at Färgfabr iken\, on 12 November\, from 6 to 8 pm. The event is free\, but registrati on is required until November 9th.\n\nAbout VISTRANS*\n\nVISTRANS* is a re search group at Södertörn University\, co-led by visual artist and resea rcher Isabel Löfgren\, visual artist and Senior Lecturer in Media and Com munication Studies\, and mirko nikolić\, environmental artist and postdoc researcher in Aesthetics. The Studio creates spaces for artistic research in the confluence of art\, technology\, and ecology seen from multiple ge ographic\, epistemological\, and interdisciplinary perspectives.\n\n“We believe that the expanding field of artistic research in Swedish universit ies offers perspectives\, methodologies and knowledge production processes that both complement and challenge established academic traditions”\, s ay Isabel and mirko.\n\nThis is the second event organized by VISTRANS*. I n May 2026\, the symposium “Artistic Research and the Platform Condition ” and a book launch “Platform Brutality” by Internet theorist Geert Lovink\, examined how the platform condition of society affects bodies\, l abor\, and temporality. With this coming event\, the group explores how th e landscape itself is transformed by the acceleration of platform economie s\, particularly with the dominance of artificial intelligence technologic al regimes and the extraction of resources needed to build this capacity.\ nhttps://www.sh.se/kalender/kalenderposter/2026-11-12-symposium-earth-and- internet-want-to-be-free---interdisciplinary-artistic-research-and-the-pla tform-landscape LOCATION:Färgfabriken URL:https://www.sh.se/kalender/kalenderposter/2026-11-12-symposium-earth-an d-internet-want-to-be-free---interdisciplinary-artistic-research-and-the-p latform-landscape STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR