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Biennale Architettura 2021

Curators: Peter Mörtenböck

& Helge Mooshammer

Singularityrebellionsmall — Halpern, Orit and Halpern, Tal. Singularity Rebellion #1. 2021

Singularityrebellionsmall — Halpern, Orit and Halpern, Tal. Singularity Rebellion #1. 2021

Singularityrebellionsmall — Halpern, Orit and Halpern, Tal. Singularity Rebellion #1. 2021

Singularity Rebellion #1

by Orit HalpernTal Halpern

Data
Cybernetics
Cyborg
Planetary
Protest

[1] Dr. Stanley Milgram is a twentieth-century psychologist known for his pioneering work on obedience and authority. He demonstrated that humans are quite susceptible to group or social influence, even, and perhaps especially, in the administration of violence and punishment. His results were contested. There is ongoing debate about whether such obedience, even to morally repugnant actions is the result of environment, historical conditioning, human 'nature', or group, and potentially, media conditioning. Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View (1974)

[2] In 2040, some 90 percent of programmers, engineers, and scientists globally were considered immigrants or foreign guest workers in their countries of residence. Numerous groups in different countries insisted on legislation either banning citizenship for these workers or insisting on the nativisation of networked learning systems and high technology industries. Rumours abounded concerning secret organisations bent on global domination and brainwashing, served by these high-tech specialists. Violent and spectacular acts often ensued.

[3] This paraphrased statement is attributed to famous science fiction author Ursula LeGuin from the introduction to The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) – a rare example of a fiction that evaded such computational pitfalls.

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