Georgina voss
writer and artist
Georgina Voss (she/her) is an artist, writer, and educator. She is author of ‘Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World’ (Verso 2024). Her work explores the presence and politics of large-scale technologies and heavy industry through performance, installation, and long-term research projects.
Georgina has exhibited and performed at transmediale, Auto Italia South East, TAC Eindhoven, STUK, V&A London, Brighton Digital Festival, Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin, Tate Modern, and London Digital Festival; and has published in The Guardian, Harvard Design Magazine, The Atlantic, and more. She co-founded and led the creative studios Strange Telemetry, and Supra Systems Studio (University of the Arts London), and holds a PhD in Science and Technology Policy from SPRU, University of Sussex.
Session Description
Author, artist, and educator Georgina Voss joins The Conference with a keynote presentation on developing systems literacies that may help us understand complex systems more clearly and—perhaps—change them.
An artist and researcher using critical and creative practice to explore the inevitable human-ness in machinic systems, Georgina (she/her) will expand our conversation about the futures of infrastructures by sharing her new writing from Systems Ultra, investigating what happens when digital patterns overflow into our analog lives, and what narratives of reality emerge according to how we experience systemic cross-over.
She’ll explore how complex technological systems can be experienced using five lenses—scale, time, materiality, deviance, and breakages—and tell the story of what ‘systems’ have come to mean, how they have been sold to us, and the real-world consequences of the power that flows through them.