Save the Date: Anthrofuture FilmFest June 13-14 2025
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Save the Date: Anthrofuture FilmFest June 13-14 2025 🞶🞶🞶
Anthrofuture
The Anthropology of the Future: An Art World Perspective
We aim to generate a new and decolonised anthropology of the future through multimodal ethnographic research on Global South physical-digital art worlds.
The project is based at the University of Vienna
Funded by the European Research Council
(Grant agreement No. 101097302)
The Project
The Future as Time Zone
We study the acceleration of the future into the present induced by the pandemic and other crises through research on physical-digital art worlds in the Global South and beyond.
The Art World as Research Site
The art world is driven by the production of symbolic value, financial investment in the future via speculative markets, and a bold imagination of the future.
Vision
We aim to generate a novel concept of the future framed by the interaction between human and non-human, the digital and physical, as well as global south concerns.
Physical-Digital Research Sites
Regional Focus
Our regional focus is on South Asia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), as well as various types of digital spaces.
Digital Art World Infrastructure
We investigate art fairs to understand market digital solutions and their future-oriented dimensions.
Art Schools
We carry out research at art schools to explore how students and teachers in these institutions envision the future.
Digital Media Platforms
We research the use of social media by artists as spaces for performance, aesthetics and future-oriented practices.
Multimodal Methods
Open Science
We are committed to share our research insights with as many diverse audiences as possible.
Innovative Approach
We use an unprecedented combination of several methodologies.
In-person, Digital and Visual Ethnography
We use participant observation to immerse ourselves in both physical and digital art worlds.
Independent Anthropological Critique & Collaboration with Art World professionals
We bring together critical ethnography with participatory and collaborative research approaches.
Social Media Data Harvesting
We explore the digital platforms that artists use to display their work, their performances and aesthetics.
Artist Subprojects
We commission artist subprojects that creatively engage with the future and we showcase the resulting artworks in physical and digital exhibitions.
Project Outputs
Academic and Other Publications
Exhibitions
Ethnographic Film