Vox Populi and The Syrian Archive - Documenting revolution and conflict in the digital age

Vox Populi - Archiving a Revolution in the Digital Age, by the Egyptian-Lebanese artist Lara Baladi, which draws on the vast body of material produced during the original uprising against the military regime of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and its aftermath, collected by a group of artists, writers and theatre makers who subsequently went on to found the Mosireen independent media centre in Cairo.http://tahrirarchives.com

The Syrian Archive, an initiative launched by a collective of human rights activists dedicated to preserving open source documentation relating to human rights violations and other crimes committed by all sides during the conflict in Syria.https://syrianarchive.org

Next to the complex politics and ethics involved in these online archiving initiatives we want to question what the role of the artist is in such processes – is the artist a kind of stage designer? a choreographer? a facilitator? Or perhaps the artist is a creator of imaginative “interfaces”, as in the work of the American artist Robert Ochshorn, whose stunning interfaces for digital rich media collections far transcend the realm of “design' to become a new kind of art form. Ochshorn will also present his remarkable work during the event.

This programme is part of Tactical Media Connections, a public research trajectory tracing the legacies of tactical media and its connections to the present. http://www.tacticalmediafiles.net/articles/3646

Lara Baladi - http://arts.mit.edu/artists/lara-baladi http://tahrirarchives.com/read-me

Hadi Al Khatib - https://tacticaltech.org/team/hadi

Jeff Deutch - https://cihr.eu/jeff-deutch

Robert Ochshorn - http://teleputer.org

Charles Jeurgens - http://www.uva.nl/over-de-uva/organisatie/medewerkers/item/k.j.p.f.m.jeurgens.html?f=charles+jeurgens

We will invite a number of well-informed local experts to react to the presentations to create a lively conversation throughout this event. Moderated by Annet Dekker & Eric Kluitenberg.

This program is organised at the occasion of the opening of the exhibition As If: The Media Artist as Trickster, at Framer Framed in de Tolhuistuin. http://framerframed.nl/en/exposities/expositie-as-if-the-media-artist-as-trickster/

This programme is made possible by the generous support of:Creative Industries Fund NLFonds 21AFK - Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunstand our partner organisations.