Data Loam: Sometimes Hard, Usually Soft (The future of knowledge systems)

Exhibition (2019) and Publication (2020) Funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)/Programme for Arts-based Funding (PEEK) (£300K) Lead partner – (Martin Reinhart) Art & Science Department at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna in collaboration with Professor Johnny Golding, Royal College of Art, London. This project involves a group of free radicals – invited collaborating artists (of which I am one), philosophers, software engineers, physicists and library scientists. In a nutshell the project is about the question of how a utopian knowledge system of the future could – also in technical terms – overcome established categorizations and rather be designed in a way to integrate ambiguities, contradictions, uncertainty and all the other exquisite feelings and thoughts that eventually condense into art. The idea of exquisiteness and the queering of the senses defines the strand of thought that I have been leading on for some time in other projects. The project is almost finished, hence the exhibition and I have been invited to contribute an essay and images of artworks to a 300 page publication that will be published in early 2020