Counter Cartography and Cooperative Acts of Refusal
Peter Polack interviewed by Pedro Oliveira
»Post-Doom« Web Resident Peter Polack talks to former Solitude Web Resident, researcher and sound artist Pedro Oliveira about data-driven policing systems, and how his practice as a researcher and designer interrogates how algorithms brand reality. Subsequently, the two artists discuss Peter’s project »Doomsday Cartography,« in which he uses counter-insurgency scenarios as a starting point to discuss military tools and tactics to protect state interests, and demonstrate how counter-insurgency and technologies of oppression determine what appears as regular and significant.