Platforms: CAP symposium 2023

Royal College of Art / Contemporary Art Practice

Art and presentations from CAP students and guests explore the anonymous platforms that dominate much of our engagement with the world.

Royal College of Art

Each year, post graduate students from the Contemporary Art Practice programme at the Royal College of Art organise a one day student-led symposium on topics that emerge from their practice and research. This year’s event will take place on Monday 27th March at the RCA Gorvy Lecture Theatre and online. Today platforms dominate much of our engagement with the world around us. As huge and anonymous structures that co-ordinate consumerism (Amazon and eBay), travel (uber), accommodation (Airbnb), communication (Zoom), entertainment (Netflix) and food consumption (Deliveroo) these platforms gradually replace a more physical interface between individuals and a built environment. The Shops and restaurants, mini cab offices and cinemas, hotels and telephone booths that made up the modernist city are being gradually replaces by dark kitchens and warehouses, courier hubs and hot desking facilities. Platform capitalism is also radically altering older patterns of labour and, in the absence of centralised physical sites, dispossessing workers of social rights and the possibly to organise resistance.G﻿uest Respondents:Abbas Zahedi studied medicine at University College London, before completing his MA in Contemporary Photography: Practices and Philosophies at Central Saint Martins in 2019. Abbas blends contemporary philosophy, poetics, and social dynamics with performative and new-media modes. With an emphasis on how personal and collective histories interweave, Abbas makes connections whenever possible with people involved in the particular situations upon which he focuses.Nick Srnicek is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Economy at King&#x27;s College London. He is the author of After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time (Verso, 2023 with Helen Hester), Platform Capitalism (Polity, 2016), and Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work (Verso, 2015 with Alex Williams).Members of the audience are welcome to join the symposium remotely via the Zoom link below:
https://rca-ac.zoom.us/j/97770265654?pwd=Z2xBc243ekcxaUxNc0ljME1NOG9oZz09

Meeting ID: 977 7026 5654
Passcode: 180075

Robert Morris, Untitled (Cloud), 1962/2016

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