Saturday September 29 through Sunday September 30:
Forum on Quaero: A public think tank on the politics of the search engine
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research conference initiated by Metahaven Design Research; curated by
Tsila Hassine, Vinca Kruk, Daniel van der Velden, Gon Zifroni;
supported by Institut Français des Pays-Bas, Amsterdam, NL; City of
Maastricht, NL.
— gallery space Jan van Eyck Academie
— book tickets with Anne Vangronsveld before 27 September
with: Florian Cramer, Jodi Dean, Frédéric Martel, Ingmar Weber, Isabelle
Stengers, Bureau d’Études, Metahaven, Tsila Hassine, Open Search,
Michael Zimmer, Richard Rogers, Florian Schneider, Maurits de Bruijn,
Sabine Niederer, André Nusselder.
From the forum description:
The search engine thus becomes politicized from two perspectives. One perspective is the implicit choices made by the search engine itself, which are political in effect, but, in the current context, de-politicized by marrying them to ‘higher’, ‘universal’ goals on one hand, and ‘obvious’ business interests on the other. A censored Google was preferred over no Google at all in China, mainly because of the size of the Chinese market.
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