Freedom of the Arts: Manuela Naveau

Freedom of the Arts • Public Lecture Series • Applied Human Rights
Lecture #4 • Manuela Naveau: Critical Data and the Arts: How Freedom of the Arts Fosters Understanding of Digital Transformation
Applied Human Rights

As artists, curators, creative technologists, and scientists, we — the Critical Data research group at the University of the Arts Linz — question data, data processing systems, and forms of knowledge associated with them. Artists can not only make visible how systems of digitalization work, but also how they do not work. We therefore critically examine the position society can take in relation to the latest technological developments. Critical Data observes how we deal with technology and explores artistic worlds in the digital cosmos that move between promise, manipulation, and conspiracy.
On the basis of selected artistic positions, questions of equal treatment and the protection of one’s own data as well as freedom of opinion and information will be discussed. Art is mediating directly to its public, its audience, and recipients. But who speaks with whose voice and how can art help to make this transparent?