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Lunch Bytes Conference: Keynote Lecture by David Joselit

Friday, 20 March 2015 Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin "Dark Cloud: Shapes of Information" Keynote Lecture by David Joselit (Distinguished Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center, New York) The Lunch Bytes Conference marks the conclusion of the Lunch Bytes discussion series that took place throughout 2014 in seven cities across northwestern Europe. These panel discussions focused on the increasing significance of digital technologies with respect to art. This lecture explores how the metaphor of "the cloud" as an elastic and scalable information storage system applies to artists' efforts to demonstrate the shapes that information can assume – in other words, information’s plasticity. Two primary themes are addressed: profiling, as a technique for personifying configurations of data, and extraterritoriality, as the capacity for information (like the weather) to break free from particular locations and thus to challenge territorial forms of sovereignty. Are spaces of extraterritorial information also sites from which political claims can be made? Or, on the contrary, do we need to protect ourselves from the exposure of information’s easy circulation – operating not from a darknet but from a Dark Cloud?