Artist talk by KairUs (Linda Kronman and Andreas Zingerle) at the Aksioma Project Space in Ljubljana.
WED, 14 February 2018
Agbogbloshie is a district in the teeming metropolis of Accra in West-African Ghana. The world’s largest electronic-waste dump is located here. 22 hard-drives taken from this dump were the starting point for the ‘Behind the Smart World’ Research Lab, a one year research program at servus.at in Linz, Austria. Alongside the material and exploitative dark sides of the dirty business with electronic waste, the ‘Behind the Smart World’ project brings together artistic positions dealing with the value of digital information and our constant production of data. In this talk KairUs presents the journey of the hard-drives, the creation of the ‘Forensic Fantasies’ trilogy and gives an insight to their current research project carried out at Woosong University in South Korea.
aksioma.org/forensic.fantasies
