Intersections I: Art, Policy, and Political Discourse explores the active role of artistic and cultural practices in shaping policy and politics. From different standpoints, artist Paula Gaetano Adi, cultural professional Victoria Ivanova, and writer, theorist, and curator Irit Rogoff, reflect on the role of arts and culture in reimagining technological futures and knowledge production. In a panel discussion, Natalie Giorgadze, Caterina Benincasa, and Marina Otero Verzier examine the effects of funding schemes like NEB, STARTS, EIT, Horizon or Creative Europe on artistic and cultural production and discuss why culture should have a say in policymaking. Finally, artists Simon Weckert and Nancy Bates, alongside Artists at Risk co-founders Ivor Stodolsky and Marita Muukkonen take the stage to discuss if and how artistic practices can counter-act the panic-inducing narratives so wide-spread in current politics.
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Intersections I: Art, Policy, and Political Discourse
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Introduction
Elisabeth Pacher (AT)
A brief introduction to the morning program topics by Elisabeth Pacher from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport.
When Art Reimagines Tech
Paula Gaetano Adi (AR)
The winner of this year’s Golden Nica in the category Artificial Life & Intelligence reveals the process behind the award-winning project Guanaquerx.
Cultural Sensors: Why Creative R&D Matters for the 21st Century
Victoria Ivanova (GB)
The talk examines how creative practitioners function as society’s sensing apparatus—identifying emerging transformations and testing new approaches.
Present and Future Culture Stacks
Natalie Giorgadze (BE), Marina Otero Verzier (ES), Caterina Benincasa (IT), Victoria Ivanova (GB)
A look at how policymaking can support practices at the intersection of art, science, and technology in becoming indispensable innovation partners without compromising their critical and experimental nature.
Irit Rogoff: Knowing Catastrophe
Irit Rogoff (GB)
In this keynote, Irit Rogoff explores the modes of knowing catastrophe and the ways of living with it that are made possible through alternative pathways into knowledge—pathways that eschew resistance in favor of active imaginations and the potential of criticality.
Art in the Age of Panic Politics
Marita Muukkonen (FI), Ivor Stodolsky (FR/US), Simon Weckert (DE), Nancy Bates (AU), Sergio Fontanella (CU/US)
The panel unpacks the possibilities of escaping the logic of viral media that invite panic politics and of creating alternative political narratives through artistic practice.
Introducing NEB Junction
Annemie Bertha Marcella Wyckmans (BE/NO)
A presentation of NEB Junction—the platform that will bring together insights, ideas, and experiences from past and future projects of the New European Bauhaus.
