UNDER CONSTRUCTION
The Future of Labour
Exhibition by MA Global Media Management Students WSA
Labour, writes Karl Marx in the Grundrisse (1939), is a capacity and a possibility. It is the collective political subjectivity exploited by and resistant to the power of capital. What would a future shaped by these potentialities of labour look like?
Under Construction: The Future of Labour embodies the multiplicity and open possibilities in thinking about the future and how we imagine life and work in this temporal context. The future of capital is built on the exploitation of vitality, creativity and connection. Capital subsumes the complexity of our lives and environments into datapoints and reduces the future to models where recursivity erases both the potentiality of difference and the imaginative capacity of doubt. Labour inhabits temporalities of becoming, of a present that is constantly being made and a future crafted and chiselled together. It keeps the horizon of possibility wide open – both as a promise and as a warning that every time a definition and a boundary close, they draw a line of violence and exclusion.
The media practice projects of the MA Global Media Management (WSA) students approach these questions by engaging with different aspects of how media technologies act today. The students from Media Arts, Emerging Technologies and Artificial Intelligence invite us to reflect on how AI, live streaming and data collection are reshaping how we relate to power, work and the possibilities of connection, through interactive installations. Digital Journalism and Social Media showcases projects that explore the relationship between digital storytelling techniques and social media platforms, showcasing developments in the UK Chinese art industry, wildlife conservation, student lifestyle and the sports industry. In Games and Media, students use the worldbuilding capacity of games, magical realism and science fiction to interrogate what it means to be alive and human. Students in Media and Ecology approach the urban fabric as a medium where human and more-than-human experiences intersect. In their short film projects, students from Screen Practices take us on a journey that warps time and space and asks how we relate to each other and to the products of our creativity.
EVENT DETAILS
Friday 30th - Thursday 5th June
GALLERY OPEN:
Friday 30th May 10am-4pm
Saturday 31st May 10am-4pm
Sunday 1st June 10am-4pm
Monday 2nd June 12-6pm
Tuesday 3rd June 10am-4pm
Wednesday 4th June 12-6pm
Thursday 5th June 10am-4pm.
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