Forensic Architecture

As part of the Indigo Festival, we are inviting you to a lecture by Nour Abuzaid from the research collective Forensic Architecture, co-founded by Eyal Weizman, co-author of Investigative Aesthetics.

On this occasion, Maska will also present its two newest translations:

Matthew Fuller, Eyal Weizman: INVESTIGATIVE AESTHETICS
The investigative collective, through its ability to integrate multiple perspectives, challenges the traditional expert-driven model of inquiry that dominates both science and human rights research – where specialized arbiters of truth and fact travel from place to place, dispensing knowledge and delivering judgments. The necessity of such collective and distributed truth production arises from a political situation in which the very interpretation of reality – not just the sources – is contested, and in which identities form around the production and interpretation of facts.
Eyal Weizman, co-author of the book, is also the founder and director of the research agency Forensic Architecture.

Nick Couldry, Ulises A. Mejias: THE COSTS OF CONNECTION
If we follow the theoretical definition of data colonialism, we can recognize it as the consequence of the extraction of data from Western users of technological platforms within a system of control. Taken more literally, however, the term data colonialism can also be linked to the use of similar technologies for the actual surveillance and killing of colonized subjects.