Presentation by Salomé Voegelin and Anna Barney at the 4th Council of Europe Platform Exchange on Culture and Digitisation, Centrum für Kunst und Medien (ZKM), Germany.

20 Oct 2017 | 10am - 6pm

The event was live streamed. 

 

Salomé Voegelin and Anna Barney were invited to present their research on Listening Across Disciplines at the 4th Council of Europe Platform Exchange on Culture and Digitisation at the Centrum für Kunst und Medien (ZKM). The conference will focus on the potential of art and science as an effective means of strengthening democracy in Europe. 

 

Panel discussion, Thursday 23 February 2017, 6.30-8pm followed by a drinks reception at London College of Communication

Radio broadcast on Resonance FM, 21 May, 6:30pm repeated on 25 May, 4:30pm

 

The problem with knowledge was the first of two panel discussions which debated Knowledge after Austerity and Brexit.

The second took place at the same time on the 2nd March 2017. 

Together they examined knowledge production and dissemination in the context of austerity, and the way in which knowledge has been brought into focus in the atmosphere of the Brexit vote. This was the first of two open panel discussions that provided a framework to explore both the challenges and the opportunities that the current political and economic context presents.

Since 2010, the political and economic context for knowledge production in the UK has been transformed. Austerity’s ideological and economic dimensions have led to significant changes in the way that knowledge is produced and disseminated. The impact of fiscal tightening has been felt in numerous ways, from the closure of public libraries, to spending cuts inflicted on the arts, to fundamental changes in the financing of higher education.

In the last year, the EU referendum campaign and its aftermath have given rise to the idea that we are entering a new era of ‘post-truth’ politics in which intellectualism is disparaged and ‘people in this country have had enough of experts’. The outcomes of the referendum and the US presidential election have also focused attention on the financialized nature of digital knowledge production and on the increasing role of algorithms and ‘filter bubbles’ in the organisation of information online.

Panel 1: The problem with knowledge: Knowledge after austerity and Brexit

The first panel discussion focussed on the current landscape and examined the conditions of knowledge production in the UK today.

• How has austerity reconfigured the landscape of knowledge creation?
• What new barriers (or opportunities) to participation in learning have been created?
• How have knowledge institutions been transformed?
• What can Brexit tell us about the value placed on ‘expert’, ‘non-expert’, and other forms of knowledge?

Speakers: Gargi Bhattacharyya, Professor of Sociology, University of East London Jamie Burton, public lawyer and Chair of Just Fair Will Davies, Senior Lecturer in Politics, Goldsmiths University of London Lauren Smith, co-founder of Voices for the Library and Research Associate, University of Strathclyde Jeremy Till, Head of Central Saint Martins and Pro-Vice Chancellor of University of the Arts London Chair: Salomé Voegelin, Reader in Sound Arts, London College of Communication For further information contact: Rebecca Bramall ku.ca.stra.cclnull@llamarb.r

Panel discussion, Thursday 2 March 2017, 6.30-8pm followed by a drinks reception at London College of Communication

Radio broadcast on Resonance FM, 28 May, 6:30pm, repeated on 1 June, 4:30pm. 

 

This was the second of two open panel discussions which debated Knowledge after Austerity and Brexit 

The first took place at the same time on the 23rd February 2017.

Together they examined knowledge production and dissemination in the context of austerity, and the way in which knowledge has been brought into focus in the atmosphere of the Brexit vote. These panel discussions provided a framework to explore both the challenges and the opportunities that the current political and economic context presents.

Since 2010, the political and economic context for knowledge production in the UK has been transformed. Austerity’s ideological and economic dimensions have led to significant changes in the way that knowledge is produced and disseminated. The impact of fiscal tightening has been felt in numerous ways, from the closure of public libraries, to spending cuts inflicted on the arts, to fundamental changes in the financing of higher education.

In the last year, the EU referendum campaign and its aftermath have given rise to the idea that we are entering a new era of ‘post-truth’ politics in which intellectualism is disparaged and ‘people in this country have had enough of experts’. The outcomes of the referendum and the US presidential election have also focused attention on the financialized nature of digital knowledge production and on the increasing role of algorithms and ‘filter bubbles’ in the organisation of information online.

Panel 2: Designing solutions: New forms of knowledge creation and dissemination The second event discussed emergent projects that sought to design an alternative future for knowledge production in the UK. • How can knowledge production be re-democratized? • What role might practices of co-production and other innovative forms of knowledge creation play? • What challenges are faced by emergent projects committed to ‘open’ education and equality of access? • What should the knowledge institutions of the future look like? Speakers: David Cross, Reader in Art and Design, Camberwell College of Arts Melanie Keen, Director, Iniva Mor Rubinstein, Community Coordinator, Open Knowledge International Shiri Shalmy, artist and curator, Antiuniversity Now co-organiser Tom Wakeford, Reader in Public Science, Coventry University and Lead Practitioner, People’s Knowledge Chair: Rebecca Bramall, Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications, London College of Communication Book your place now. For further information contact: Rebecca Bramall ku.ca.stra.cclnull@llamarb.r arts.ac.uk/lcc/events Image courtesy of Antiuniversity Now and Joseph Berke