Multiple Futures of Art and Technology ｜藝術與科技的多重未來

A full-day symposium which focus on art, philosophy and technology. Nine speakers are invited, including scholars and artists, from Europe, the Americas and Asia
一個全天的研討會，專注於哲學和科技，以及藝術和科技。研討會邀請了來自歐洲、美洲和亞洲的九位演講者，包括學者和藝術家

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Globalisation has meant, historically, a process of neutralization through economic and technological means by conquering land, sea and air. The invention and proliferation of digital technologies in the second half of the 20th century has accelerated this process. Digital technology has become the most pervasive and ubiquitous medium now indispensable to everyday life. Both the state and capitalism demand and produce techno-social subjects – who are consumers, but not citizens. We recognize that technology is not neutral. It is a new regime of discipline and containment based on computation, which has brought us convenience as well as platform capitalism, enforced surveillance and mass data extraction.

As a way to counter this homogenization, we have to imagine a new form of globalisation, to imagine a techno-diversity or multiple cosmo-technics, by resolving the antinomy of the universality of technology. To include people in different localities to participate in the production and sharing of knowledge, and allowing them to actively appropriate technology instead of being reduced to mere consumers. This is essential to maintaining a local heterogeneity as well as politicizing the innovation and employment of technology, which allows us to resist against a homogenization assumed by capitalist logic and the technocratic.

To bring forward a new phase of globalization means going beyond the previous unilateral process of globalization and the technological dystopia accompanied with it. It requires rediscovering and inventing new configurations between cultures and technologies, tradition and modernism, east and west. It is a call that not only addresses politologists but scholars in art and humanities, as well as those in engineering and sciences. It demands a re-evaluation of the limits and potential of the current algorithmic culture and its algorithmic governmentality from new perspectives.

This Symposium invites scholars and artists to conceive such possibilities by reflecting on the conceptual and practical contributions from both the East and the West. We hope this will contribute in overcoming the universalist and homogeneous idea of technology, which impoverishes our capacity to think and act.

從歷史上看，全球化意味著通過經濟和技術手段征服陸地、海洋和空中，實現中和的過程。20 世紀下半葉數碼科技的發明和擴散加速了這一進程，中美關係就證明了這一點。與此同時，數碼科技已成為日常生活中不可或缺的最普遍和無處不在的媒介。國家和資本主義都需要並生產技術社會主體——是消費者，但不是公民。眾所周知，技術不是中立的。它是一種基於計算的新的紀律和遏制制度，它給我們帶來了便利，也帶來了平台資本主義、強制監視和海量數據提取。

作為對抗這種同質化的一種方式，至關重要的是通過解決技術普遍性的矛盾來想像一種新的全球化形式，想像一種技術多樣性或多種宇宙技術。

讓不同地區的人們參與到知識的生產和共享中，讓他們積極地適應科技，而不是淪為單純的消費者。這對於保持本地異質性以及將科技的創新和使用政治化至關重要，這使我們能夠抵制資本主義邏輯和科技官僚主義所假定的同質化。

推進全球化新階段，意味著超越以往的單邊全球化進程和與之相伴的科技反烏托邦。它需要重新發現和發明文化和科技、傳統和現代、東方和西方之間的新配置。這一呼籲不僅針對政治學家，還針對藝術和人文學科的學者，以及工程和科學領域的學者。它要求從新的角度重新評估當前算法文化及其算法治理的局限性和潛力。

本次研討會邀請學者和藝術家通過反思東西方在概念和實踐方面的貢獻來設想這種可能性。它試圖為克服普遍主義和同質化的技術觀念做出貢獻，這種觀念削弱了我們思考和行動的能力。
 

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Organized by | 主辦機構 
Osage Art Foundation 奧沙藝術基金

Project Grant | 項目計劃資助
Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme 藝能發展資助計劃
HKSAR Government  香港特別行政區政府

Supported by | 支持機構
Asia Society Hong Kong Center 亞洲協會香港中心
U.S. Consulate General Hong Kong and Macau 美國駐香港及澳門總領事館

The content of these programmes does not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
節目內容並不反映香港特別行政區政府的意見

The views and opinions expressed are those of the speakers and participants and, unless expressly stated to the contrary, do not reflect the opinion, position or official policy of Asia Society Hong Kong, its members, or its committees. Asia Society Hong Kong does not endorse or approve, and assumes no responsibility for the content of the information presented.