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Book presentation, screening and discussion with the curators/editors Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer and Asu Aksoy, Orhan Esen, Guven Incirlioglu and Erden Kosova
Political conflicts, humanitarian disasters, wars and migrations: we live in an age of global unrest and discontinuity. While official reactions consist in the search for means of stabilization and restraint, the dynamics of deregulation are giving rise to a situation characterized by global parallel systems: parallel architectures, parallel societies, parallel lives. The book and film project, Networked Cultures: Parallel Architectures and the Politics of Space, offers an insight into the complex spatial and social realities of globalization, from city-like informal markets in Moscow and the post-war self-urbanization in Kosovo to the border economies of the Mediterranean and the parallel worlds of today's burgeoning megacities.
Peter Mörtenböck is Professor of Visual Culture at Vienna University of Technology and Visiting Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London. Helge Mooshammer is Research Fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK) in Vienna. Together, they initiated the international research platform Networked Cultures.
Asu Aksoy is international project co-ordinator at santralistanbul and also involved in the MA programme of the Management of Performing Arts at Istanbul Bilgi University. Orhan Esen is an urban researcher, historian and writer based in Istanbul. Erden Kosova is a contributor to the Istanbul-based contemporary art magazines 'art-ist' and 'Resmi Gorus' as a writer and editor. Guven Incirlioglu is one of the founder members of the Linz, Istanbul, Ýzmir and New York based xurban_collective and Associate Professor at Ýzmir Ekonomi Üniversitesi.
Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer (eds.): Networked Cultures. Parallel Architectures and the Politics of Space, NAi Publishers 2008, ISBN 978-90-5662-059-2 / € 35,50
www.networkedcultures.org
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