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From Cartography to Code: Architectures of Power at the Venice Biennale 2025


STIR speaks to Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler on their Silver Lion-winning 'large scale visual manifesto' traversing history, colonialism, militarisation and technology.

Visitors self-navigate by century, theme or motif, tracing connections from submarine cables to satellite networks, colonial cartographies to predictive algorithms, encountering a work that continually evolves, its meaning shifting with each act of reading and positionality. The project emerged from expanding the idea of a simple timeline into a deep, diagrammatic mapping of politics and power, constructed in the form of a diagram Image: Courtesy of Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler The complex and interconnected visualisations include factual details, critical reflections, open forms of illustration and diagrammatic spaces that leave room for interpretation Image: Courtesy of Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler

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