From Gutenberg to Elon Musk: History, power and technology
‘Calculating Empires’, the award-winning work by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler, is a fascinating map that explores the interconnections between control and technological advances, showing how they have been leveraged as tools of domination
Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler are no ordinary cartographers. Crawford advises governments worldwide on AI development and governance, and has been on constant standby since the rise of figures like Donald Trump and Elon Musk. In fact, the Australian academic flew to the Spanish city of Gijón from New York for this interview, stealing a few hours away from an emergency summit convened by Emmanuel Macron in Paris. Meanwhile, Joler lives and teaches at the School of Fine Arts in Novi Sad, Serbia, where a revolution has just erupted. Their second project together, Calculating Empires, has just launched in Spain as part of Digital Machines: Technology, Industry, Society, the latest exhibition curated by Pablo de Soto at the LABoral Center in Gijón.
