The Data and the Sovereign: Artistic Explorations and Collective Reading with Aron Lodi & Mark Cinkevich
This event features artists Mark Cinkevich and Áron Lodi, who will each give an introduction to their current research and artistic practice, followed by a collective reading of selected fiction and non-fiction texts. The session will explore themes such as data sovereignty, surveillance, digital imperialism, and the politics of the body and data. Designed as an informal and participatory gathering, the format invites open discussion and exchange with the audience.
Programme
reception from 17:00
short introductory presentation from 17:15 to 17:45
reading from 17:45 to 18:15
open discussion from 18:15 till 18:45
and then after something even more casual with drinks.
Artists
Aron Lodi
Aron Lodi (b. 1996, HU) lives and works in The Hague. He holds an MFA from the Dirty Art Department from Sandberg Institute (2023). His works have been featured in various international group shows, including at Torula (Győr), Loods6 (Amsterdam), Promise of Kneropy (Bratislava), Jedna Dva Tri Gallery (Prague), LAM (Budapest), and Vunu Gallery (Kosice). Lodi works across a wide range of disciplines from sculpture, image-making, and writing to publishing and curatorial collaborations. His practice embraces the coalescence of horror stories and emancipatory possibilities to create multi-layered narratives about individual and collective agency in the face of contemporary crises.
Mark Cinkevich
Mark Cinkevich is a researcher and artist whose work explores how infrastructures and visual technologies organize power. His work investigates infrastructural coloniality, operational images, and visual monstrosity. He works with text and moving image to track how material flows organise violence and condition the possibilities of resistance. His works have been presented internationally, including at transmediale, Berlin; BFI London Film Festival; Ars Electronica, Linz; Henie Onstad Triennial for Photography and New Media, Oslo; Lithuanian National Gallery of Art, Vilnius; Biennial TEA Tenerife, Santa Cruz; and Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana.
The venue might get a bit chilly - Please bring something warm to wear!
