Island.eu Lab session 3: identity

Island.eu was the first event in the Vertical Atlas research project. It explores ways of mapping new techno-political geographies, based on the tension between Europe's data protection against the borderless reality of cyberspace and the simultaneous datafication of the Mediterranean sea as an extended border of European sovereignty.

Taking place on 21 September 2018 in Amsterdam, the Lab was devoted to collective research and the creation of a cartography of the current European geozone, within which different techno-political sovereignties clash. The invited participants comprised of prominent researchers, artists, architects, designers and technological experts. Four experts were asked in advance to prepare a research question and a provocation, in relation to a specific layer of the Stack. Each presentation was discussed by the group, and followed by cartographic exercise in the afternoon. A world map with six transparent layers of the Stack (with Europe in the center) was provided as a discussion aid, and as a way to test the applicability of the model.

Invited participants: Ben Cerveny, Pablo DeSoto, Jaap-Henk Hoepman, Victoria Ivanova, Fieke Jansen, Vladan Joler, Marten Kaevats, Alison Killing, Philippa Metcalfe, Marina Otero Verzier. Facilitated by: Klaas Kuitenbrouwer, Arthur Steiner, Benjamin Bratton & Leonardo Dellanoce. Report: Anastasia Kubrak.