Ofri Cnaani Artist
and Researcher
Moderation: Martina Griesser-Stermscheg /ecm-Leitungsteam
In the alarming phenomenon of endangered cultural heritage, whether through loss, neglect, or environmental catastrophe,
institutions often turn to digital solutions for the preservation of knowledge and the repair of contested pasts. The notion
of Digital Afterness explores how the loss or removal of physical artifacts can both engender and reveal intricate frameworks
of lingering colonial residues that proliferate throughout the techno sphere.
Using the notion of Afterness, Cnaani argues that the demise of cultural collections due to climate crisis, governmental
apathy, and the ravages of political violence can and must be traced back to the colonial practices that originally gave rise
to their conditions of existence. Afterness critically engages with the state of incompletion that follows the dissolution
of an institutional site—how in the collapse of spatial infrastructure, the orders and relations that shaped and conditioned
its existence live on, mutate into new forms, and indeed often multiply. Driven by a specific focus on how such violence continues
to reverberate through pervasive techno-financial infrastructure, it thereby asks how we might envision and facilitate alternative
routes for the use of these collective resources.
Ofri Cnaani is an artist and
researcher. Cnaani writes about data and coloniality, institutional practices in the algorithmic turn, and performance as
a model to create critical technology. Cnaani is a visiting scholar at TU Wien and a research fellow at the Amsterdam School
for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) at the University of Amsterdam. She also teaches at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in
Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv university. Cnaani’s work appeared at Tate Britain, UK; Venice Architecture Biennale; Metropolitan
Museum of Art, NYC; Inhotim Institute, Brazil; PS1/MoMA, NYC; BMW Guggenheim Lab, NYC; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna. Cnaani recently
co-organized Choreographic Devices, a three-days chorographic symposium at ICA, London and is currently working on a project
at the International Space Station (ISS).
/ecm diskurs 67: Digital Afterness: Ofri Cnaani
Fri, 10.Nov. 2023 07:00 PM Wien
Meeting-ID:
957 507 6816
Kenncode: museum
