in/compatible systems: Using the strange confluence of military technological development and private tech start-ups in Israel as a case study, experts excavate the ways in which the improvisational nature of combat and the split second creative decision making taking place in the “fog of war” get embedded into the very tools we claim liberate us from the societies of control. | Read more about this in/compatible systems panel here.

in/compatible aesthetics: Today, the average user is obliged to stay on top of the technological curve, thrust into a vortex of consumer myths, riding waves of both euphoria and disappointment. This has prompted artists and theorists to break these assured flows of media, for instance by zooming into the otherwise transparent Human Computer Interface and turning its limiting, characteristic blueprints into a revolting yet delightful spectacle. | More about this in/compatible aesthetics panel of here.

in/compatible systems: The Euro is crashing. US Debt is spiralling. Banking is in crisis but luxury goods sales are up! The global finance system is out of control, the public agora replaced by the 24/7 calculations of machines, the weakened nation state buckling under the incessant flows of virtual capital. With experts from economics, philosophy, new media studies and history of science, the panel zeroes in on the contradictions, breakdowns and incompatibilities with systems of money and finance in our calamitous era of late capitalism. | Read more about this in/compatible systems panel here.

in/compatible aesthetics: Over the last decade, the history of the web and all its “common” qualities – or digital folklore –  has become a growing field of study. This panel will reflect on different on/offline (dead and alive) DIY networks focusing on their vulgar vernaculars, ideologies and customs, and on how we came to appraise them. | Read more about this in/compatible aesthetics panel here.