Art, the Collective, and the Algorithms – Paths Toward Public Education and Democracy

Lecture by Stefan Jonsson, author, researcher, and critic. Respondent: Paulina Sokolow, communications officer at Kin.

Free culture and free expression — indeed, imagination itself — are threatened both by authoritarian nationalism and by commercialism that, through digital platforms, intrudes on our senses around the clock. What kinds of art and culture — and what kinds of public education — can liberate us from today’s digital and authoritarian oppression?

How can we act collectively in a reality where we are constantly connected, logged in, located, controlled, downloaded, identified, and surveilled? Can we return to the foundations of public education and cultural policy to find tools and forms of collaboration that support a good, free, and equal society?

Presented in collaboration with REMESO, Linköping University