Vertical Atlas - world.orbit is a public research project focusing on a critical and generative engagement with satellite data. In a series of workshops, artists and designers can learn how to find, read, process and translate satellite data. Alternative digital cartographies can identify other ways of representing global and local developments in narratives that help us to see Earth anew.  

Vertical Atlas - world.orbit is a public research project focusing on a critical and generative engagement with satellite data. In a series of workshops, artists and designers can learn how to find, read, process and translate satellite data. Alternative digital cartographies can identify other ways of representing global and local developments in narratives that help us to see Earth anew.  

Vertical Atlas - world.orbit is a public research project focusing on a critical and generative engagement with satellite data. In a series of workshops, artists and designers can learn how to find, read, process and translate satellite data. Alternative digital cartographies can identify other ways of representing global and local developments in narratives that help us to see Earth anew.  

The most competitive domain in global technology is the development of AI. Many believe that it holds the key to economic, political and technological dominance for the parties managing to wield its power. China stands at the forefront of these developments, in direct competition with various states and tech companies, and is developing a specific Chinese branch of manmade intelligence (a literal translation of the Mandarin phrase for AI) based on the unique techno-political circumstances in the Chinese geo zone.

A lab devoted to collective research and the creation of a map of the current African geo-zone, part of the Networks.africa programme.

This afternoon program was the second iteration of the Vertical Atlas series and focused on Russia and its techno-cultural traditions. With contributions by Benjamin Bratton, Benjamin Peters, Ksenia Fedorova, Ksenia Tatarchenko, Metahaven and Anton Vidokle.

The second Vertical Atlas event focused on the Russian digital cosmos. How does a country with a tradition of central planning cope with the decentral internet and powerful foreign cloud-platforms? With Svitlana Matvyienko and Ksenia Tatarchenko.

Vertical Atlas: Island.eu explores ways of mapping new techno-political geographies, based on the tension between Europe's data protection against the borderless reality of cyberspace and the simultaneous datafication of the Mediterranean sea as an extended border of European sovereignty.