Calculating Empires is a large-scale visual manifesto illustrating how technical and social structures co-evolved over five centuries. It traces technological patterns of colonialism, militarisation, automation, and enclosure since 1500 to show how these forces still subjugate and how they might be unwound. Spanning twenty-four meters in length, it traces the story of calculation from al-Khwarizmi to deep neural nets and presents a richer historical tapestry to better understand the technological present.
Participants
KATE CRAWFORD AND VLADAN JOLER
NEW YORK, USA; NOVI SAD, SERBIA
Kate Crawford, Sydney, Australia. Lives and works in New York, USA.
Vladan Joler, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. Lives and works in Novi Sad, Serbia.
Team
Sarah Ciston (Research and Design); Francis Corry, Annie Dorsen, Edward Kang, Will Orr, and Hamsini Sridharan (Research); Hannah Franklin and Michael Weinberg (Project Management); Olivia Solis Villaverde and Milutin Marinovic (Website)
Thanks
Pradnya Bivalkar; Callum Cooper; Chiara Costa; Elliott Crawford; Dubravko Culibrk; Melodi Dincer; Bernard Geoghegan; Mario Hibert; Jake Karr; Djordje Krivokapic; Sasha Luccioni; Ida Momennejad; John Modern; Trevor Paglen; Laura Poitras; Gordan Savičić; Jason Schultz; Justin E. H. Smith; Felix Stalder; Jer Thorp; Fred Turner
Supporters
Presented by Powerhouse Museum, Sydney; Additional support from: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Knowing Machines, Share Foundation, Robert Bosch Academy
