Abstract
Cybersyn 1973/2023 was exhibited at Infrahauntologies (Olbenburg 2021).
Cybersyn 1973/2023 a work by Bassam El Baroni and Constantinos Miltiadis with Georgios Cherouvim and Gerriet K. Sharma. HD video + 8 channel spatial audio installation loop, 15:31.
Project Cybersyn was an experiment in instituting a socialist networked economy embraced by the short-lived Salvador Allende government of Chile (1970 – 1973) and developed together with the British cybernetician Stafford Beer. For the past decade, Project Cybersyn has been a recurrent reference – a best practice from the past – in discussions around the repurposing of hegemonic technological infrastructures and their redirection towards more equitable economic and social practices. The iconic image of Project Cybersyn’s control room – with its sci-fi appearance – represents a technical and aesthetic object that alludes to negotiation, democratic decision making, and stability. The allure of this image is the starting point for the video which proposes that desires for post-scarcity and postcapitalist economics must grapple with the shifts in the political, economic, and technological conditions of possibility that have transpired since Project Cybersyn. To this end the control room image itself becomes a platform for alien mutations, philosophical speculations, and social commitments. What would it take to reimagine the artefactual Cybersyn for our hyper-financialized day and age? For this work, curator and researcher Bassam El Baroni and transdisciplinary architect Constantinos Miltiadis collaborated with multidisciplinary artist and animator Georgios Cherouvim, and composer and sound artist Gerriet K. Sharma to bring this question to life.
Cybersyn 1973/2023 a work by Bassam El Baroni and Constantinos Miltiadis with Georgios Cherouvim and Gerriet K. Sharma. HD video + 8 channel spatial audio installation loop, 15:31.
Project Cybersyn was an experiment in instituting a socialist networked economy embraced by the short-lived Salvador Allende government of Chile (1970 – 1973) and developed together with the British cybernetician Stafford Beer. For the past decade, Project Cybersyn has been a recurrent reference – a best practice from the past – in discussions around the repurposing of hegemonic technological infrastructures and their redirection towards more equitable economic and social practices. The iconic image of Project Cybersyn’s control room – with its sci-fi appearance – represents a technical and aesthetic object that alludes to negotiation, democratic decision making, and stability. The allure of this image is the starting point for the video which proposes that desires for post-scarcity and postcapitalist economics must grapple with the shifts in the political, economic, and technological conditions of possibility that have transpired since Project Cybersyn. To this end the control room image itself becomes a platform for alien mutations, philosophical speculations, and social commitments. What would it take to reimagine the artefactual Cybersyn for our hyper-financialized day and age? For this work, curator and researcher Bassam El Baroni and transdisciplinary architect Constantinos Miltiadis collaborated with multidisciplinary artist and animator Georgios Cherouvim, and composer and sound artist Gerriet K. Sharma to bring this question to life.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | Oldenburg |
| Publisher | Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art |
| Media of output | Film |
| Publication status | Published - 8 Jul 2021 |
| MoE publication type | F2 Public partial realisation of a work of art |
| Event | Infrahauntologies - Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany Duration: 8 Jul 2021 → 3 Oct 2021 https://www.edith-russ-haus.de/en/exhibitions/exhibitions/current.html |
Keywords
- Contemporary Art
- film
- spatial audio
Field of art
- Contemporary art
- Film
