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Visual artist and researcher Benjamin Gerdes will discuss three projects and invite a conversation about the potential roles of artistic interventions, media, and visual strategies in struggles over labour rights in the logistics sector. He began collaborating on an ongoing series of video projects with the Swedish Dockworkers’ Union in 2018. Before this session, you are invited to watch the two videos completed in 2021 and look at the related public art project recently installed in Gothenburg through the links below (drawing on the work of some ILLRN members!) He will discuss the process of these videos and how efforts to align cross-sector logistics organizing with questions around public engagement with data/IT infrastructure and governance led him to develop the current 3-year research project ”Ghost Platform: Generating the “Complex Image” of Data, Labour, and Logistics.” This project will be presented with an eye toward feedback, reflection, and potential participation from ILLRN members.

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password: Hamn4an

password: glas

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Benjamin Gerdes is an artist, writer, and organizer working in video and related public formats. He is presently Senior Lecturer in Fine Arts with an emphasis on Moving Image at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. His projects emerge via long-term research processes in dialogue with activists, trade unionists, architects, and geographers, among others. Exhibitions and screenings include: The Centre Pompidou (Paris), National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), New Museum (New York), Rotterdam International Film Festival, Gothenburg International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Venice Architecture Biennale, and the Tate Modern (London). Recent writings have appeared in the books “Data Publics: Public Plurality in an Era of Data Determinacy” and “Platform Urbanism and Its Discontents.”