Tuesday 12 May, 14.00 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Monique Peperkamp will present her new book Art Against the Machine, which appears this month at Artez Press. 

Based on her PhD research and from a position of concern with ecological breakdown, this book examines the role of art and theory in relation to the hybridist idea that a distinction between nature and culture, between humans and technologies, and between nature and technologies should not be made. It relates the demise of critique of technology to the rise of space perspectives on Earth, the internet and the network economy.

The interrogation of artworks—by melanie bonajo, Ralf Sander and Regina José Galindo—shows that both theory and art that understands the need to disentangle humans and nature from the machine(s) is vital to how we create futures in the present.

Everybody who is interested is welcome to join!