{"id":134274,"date":"2023-09-10T15:43:32","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T13:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.castellodirivoli.org\/?post_type=opera_digitale&p=134274"},"modified":"2025-02-13T17:38:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T16:38:39","slug":"digital-ptsd-the-practice-of-art-and-its-impact-on-digital-trauma","status":"publish","type":"opera_digitale","link":"https:\/\/www.castellodirivoli.org\/en\/opera_digitale\/digital-ptsd-the-practice-of-art-and-its-impact-on-digital-trauma\/","title":{"rendered":"DIGITAL PTSD. The Practice of Art and Its Impact on Digital Trauma"},"content":{"rendered":"
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December 12, 2020
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Digital PTSD. The Practice of Art and Its Impact on Digital Trauma<\/em> is a research program initiated and curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev <\/strong>with Stella Bottai <\/strong>and Giulia Colletti<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is presented at Castello di Rivoli Theatre<\/strong> and live streamed on both <\/strong>e-flux<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It is counterintuitive, but Digital PTSD<\/em><\/strong> presents through an online platform a critique of the potential misuse of technologies by proposing an interdisciplinary enquiry into the possibility that a trauma from hyper-digitization<\/strong> may be emerging, at both individual and collective level. In the context of society\u2019s growing reliance on online technologies and Artificial Intelligence, Digital PTSD<\/em> questions whether these tools may be sources of psychological distress, undermining physical and mental well-being as well as facilitating the affirmation of a technocracy which ultimately poses a threat to our health and social justice. What are the traumatic consequences of the sudden increase in virtual activities during a period when spaces of aggregation, such as museums, have been in extended lockdown? Digital PTSD<\/em> invites to reflect on screen-based experience, the physical erosion of living matter, the transformation of life into big data and the new digital epistemic regime<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Digital PTSD Part I<\/em> included: Tabita Rezaire<\/strong>, artist; Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev<\/strong>, museum director, exhibition maker, writer; Beatriz Colomina & Mark Wigley<\/strong>, architectural historians, theorists, curators; C\u00e9cile B. Evans,<\/strong> artist; Matteo Pasquinelli<\/strong>, cognitive sciences, digital economy, machine intelligence theorist; Hito Steyerl, <\/strong>filmmaker, visual artist, writer, and innovator of the essay documentary; Grada Kilomba<\/strong>, artist and writer; Anne Imhof<\/strong>, artist musician; Bracha L. Ettinger<\/strong>, painter, theorist, psychoanalyst; \u00c9ric Sadin,<\/strong> writer and philosopher; Vittorio Gallese<\/strong>, cognitive neuroscientist; Ophelia Deroy<\/strong>, philosopher and cognitive neuroscientist; Griselda Pollock<\/strong>, feminist-postcolonial-queer-international art historian and cultural analyst; Agnieszka Kurant,<\/strong> artist; Cally Spooner,<\/strong> artist; Chus Mart\u00ednez,<\/strong> curator and writer; Stuart Ringholt<\/strong>, artist; Marcos Lutyens<\/strong>, artist and hypnotist.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Digital PTSD Part II<\/em> included: Ed Atkins<\/strong>, artist; Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller<\/strong>, artists; Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev<\/strong>, director of the museum; Devra Davis<\/strong>, epidemiologist, activist; Irene Dionisio<\/strong>, author, director, visual artist; Aikaterini Fotopoulou<\/strong>, psychodynamic neuroscientist; Vittorio Gallese<\/strong>, cognitive neuroscientist; Vincent Hendricks<\/strong>, philosopher, logician; Catherine Malabou<\/strong>, philosopher; Otobong Nkanga<\/strong>,artist; Tabita Rezaire<\/strong>, artist, devotee, yogi, doula, soon to be farmer; Legacy Russell<\/strong>, curator, writer; Miao Ying<\/strong>, artist.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev<\/strong> is a writer, art historian and curator. Currently, she is the Director of Castello di Rivoli Museo d\u2019Arte Contemporanea and Fondazione Francesco Federico Cerruti in Turin. She is the recipient of the 2019 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence. She was Edith Kreeger Wolf Distinguished Visiting Professor in Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University (2013-2019). Christov-Bakargiev was Artistic Director of dOCUMENTA (13) in 2012 in Kassel, Banff, Alessandria-Cairo and Bamiyan-Kabul. In 2008, she directed the Sydney Biennale and the Istanbul Biennale in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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