DiNoBord goes public and art. In May, 6-19, we have the honor and the pleasure of exploring questions of borders, surveillance and AI at Röhsska Museum of Design in their new room Super Ö. The room is set ut to open up for interdisciplinary explorations of relevant societal questions with artistic practices and objects playing a central role in the room.
DiNoBord affiliate doctoral student Simon Fagéus has set up a “reference room” on Artificial Ways of Seeing. This is a room where through collection of art works that he has curated and the ongoing artistic work in the room – his and others’ – we explore how machines see, how they refer to the world and to the past and the future and how we interact with them. Through a series of workshops, seminars and lectures we discuss both our results and unthinkable thoughts that emerge in a space that is conditioned by art works and practices. More info about the reference room here.
DiNoBord organizes a special day on borders and surveillance on May 15. The day is thought to discuss how imaginaries of borders have filled the making of the nation-state and how they have been materialized, dematerialized and rematerialized. From drawings to satellites, borders have been made visible and invisible through materials and a number of visual practices, such as drawing, photography, video, mapping and AI. The undeniable political heat around borders – from Trump’s wall and tariffs to biometric identification and cross-border criminality in the Nordics – urges us to discuss how borders in practice becomes technified, organized and politicized. Expanding our own research on Nordic internal and external borders and inviting to a public discussion, we have organized the day in two part (May 15).
The first part will be a workshop on border objects using speculative methods to imagine the material life of objects representing and making the borders in a “Museum of Border Objects”. The workshop will be led by Onkar Kular, HDK-Valand, Adam James, independent artists and Elena Raviola, DiNoBord PI. This workshop is invited-only and takes place between 10 and 15 o’clock.
The second part is the first DiNoBord public seminar, May 15, 16-18 o’clock. This seminar is public and invites everybody to join the discussions on borders, technologies and surveillance, reflecting about how new technologies of artificial intelligence are designed to see and perform borders while at the same time being melded in the everyday material patchwork of border work. We will present our own DiNoBord research on Nordic borders and have the pleasure to discuss with two esteemed guests: Elena Esposito, Bielefelt and Bologna University, and Vanessa Barker, Stockholm University.
Very welcome to join!!
More info here:
https://rohsska.se/aktivitet/__trashed-11/?date=202505151600
https://rohsska.se/aktivitet/public-seminar-dinobord-seeing-borders/?date=202505150900
https://rohsska.se/utstallningar/designhistorier/super-o/artificiella-satt-att-se
https://www.gu.se/en/news/hdk-valand-and-the-rohsska-museum-explore-artificial-ways-of-seeing
Photo credit: Éric Baudelaire – What It Is Of (2023)