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Sovereign Body | DATAS Symposium
Event by: Akademie výtvarných umění v Praze, Goethe-Institut Prag, Galerie Rudolfinum
Location: Goethe-Institut Prague, Masarykovo nábřeží 32, Praha 1
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Symposium on Data Sovereignty, Digital Bodies and Technological Power
👥 The Sovereign Body Symposium follows the year-long project DATAS: Data and Sovereignty and the exhibition in the Rudolfinum Gallery. Artists, theorists, researchers and students will meet here to reflect together on how we experience bodily sovereignty today in the age of ubiquitous data collection.
How do technologies shape our perception of self, autonomy, mortality and corporeality? What digital doppelgangers are creating our data footprints? And what happens to these data bodies after us? 💾
The symposium will connect artists and experts of the DATAS project with young researchers of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Lectures and discussions will be devoted to the topics of digital doubles, digital wombs, surveillance, algorithmic governance, posthumanism, necropolitics, eHealth technologies and the afterlife of digital images and data.
SPEAKERS:
→ Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás
→ Ádám Lovász
→ Jelena Visković
→ Denisa Michalinová
→ Alice Ullspergerová & Palo Fabuš
→ Jiří Kaňák
→ Ava Holtzman
→ Hana Janeczkova
→ John Hill
Entrance is free. Please register.
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A symposium on data sovereignty, digital bodies, and technological power
👥Following the year-long project DATAS: Data and Sovereignty and its exhibition at Galerie Rudolfinum, the symposium Sovereign Body brings together artists, theorists, researchers, and students to reflect on how sovereignty is experienced through the body in the age of ubiquitous data collection.
How do technologies shape our sense of self, agency, mortality, and embodiment? What kinds of digital doubles emerge from our data traces? And what happens to these data bodies after us? 💾
The symposium connects artists and experts from the DATAS project with emerging researchers from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (AVU). Presentations and discussions will address topics including digital twins, artificial wombs, surveillance, algorithmic governance, posthumanism, necropolitics, eHealth technologies, and the afterlife of digital images and data.
The event accompanies the exhibition DATAS: The Data and the Sovereign, on view at Galerie Rudolfinum from 11 June 2026.
🇪🇺 The DATAS: The Data and the Sovereign project is co-funded by the European Union under the Creative Europe programme.
Admission is free. Please register in advance.
👥 The Sovereign Body Symposium follows the year-long project DATAS: Data and Sovereignty and the exhibition in the Rudolfinum Gallery. Artists, theorists, researchers and students will meet here to reflect together on how we experience bodily sovereignty today in the age of ubiquitous data collection.
How do technologies shape our perception of self, autonomy, mortality and corporeality? What digital doppelgangers are creating our data footprints? And what happens to these data bodies after us? 💾
The symposium will connect artists and experts of the DATAS project with young researchers of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Lectures and discussions will be devoted to the topics of digital doubles, digital wombs, surveillance, algorithmic governance, posthumanism, necropolitics, eHealth technologies and the afterlife of digital images and data.
SPEAKERS:
→ Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás
→ Ádám Lovász
→ Jelena Visković
→ Denisa Michalinová
→ Alice Ullspergerová & Palo Fabuš
→ Jiří Kaňák
→ Ava Holtzman
→ Hana Janeczkova
→ John Hill
Entrance is free. Please register.
----------------------------------ENG 🇬🇧--------------------------------
A symposium on data sovereignty, digital bodies, and technological power
👥Following the year-long project DATAS: Data and Sovereignty and its exhibition at Galerie Rudolfinum, the symposium Sovereign Body brings together artists, theorists, researchers, and students to reflect on how sovereignty is experienced through the body in the age of ubiquitous data collection.
How do technologies shape our sense of self, agency, mortality, and embodiment? What kinds of digital doubles emerge from our data traces? And what happens to these data bodies after us? 💾
The symposium connects artists and experts from the DATAS project with emerging researchers from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (AVU). Presentations and discussions will address topics including digital twins, artificial wombs, surveillance, algorithmic governance, posthumanism, necropolitics, eHealth technologies, and the afterlife of digital images and data.
The event accompanies the exhibition DATAS: The Data and the Sovereign, on view at Galerie Rudolfinum from 11 June 2026.
🇪🇺 The DATAS: The Data and the Sovereign project is co-funded by the European Union under the Creative Europe programme.
Admission is free. Please register in advance.