The international symposium After Memory – Recalling and Foretelling across Time, Space, and Networks reflects on how social media, cloud storage, surveillance technologies and communication networks are transforming our practices of remembering and forgetting.
This bears both challenges and chances, as practices of remembering and forgetting are reconfigured and their competences are transferred from institutional actors to civic initiatives and individuals. In turn, the role of museums and archives is redefined, too, whose collections no longer preside over a sovereign historiography of the past, but constitute shared repositories for the future. The international symposium brings together protagonists from art, science, technology, museology, and activism to explore the temporal, spatial, and social dimensions of digital memory.
The programme is curated by Nathalia Lavigne, Víctor Fancelli Capdevila, and Lisa Deml and takes place in partnership with ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG).
Supported by the Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Karlsruhe within the framework of UNESCO City of Media Arts.
More information about the programme at www.aftermemory.net.
