Nowe technologie – nowe praktyki? Artywistyczne działania na rzecz zmiany społecznej w Dolinie Krzemowej

Abstract

The authors reflect on the artivistic practices of The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP) collective operating in the San Francisco Bay Area. Their activity is stretched between the demands of adapting to the neoliberal reality of the technosphere (Silicon Valley) and using adaptation to accumulate new competencies and knowledge to develop critical positions. Looking at technologically saturated spaces, the so-called silicon cities, through the prism of AEMP’s artivism allows us to stay attuned to the changes in contemporary artivistic engagement occurring due to the emergence of new technological tools. These play a key role in the authors’ findings regarding the limits of the methodology of resistance produced by the collective. The analysis of AEMP’s practices also provides insight into the difficulties of activists’ rejection of an anti-systemic narrative that is not only incompatible with the interdisciplinary methods, practices, and systems of social organization they propose, but also seems to hinder the possibility of developing a positive project of socio-political change. Key-words: artivism, new technologies, resistance, technosphere, Silicon Valley, anti-systemism