Motherboard

Experimental film essay

The Motherboard: CADN 2021 Annual Conference

April 23d-24th

The 2021 Contemporary Art Design and New Media Art Histories conference is based around the theme of the “Motherboard” as broadly conceived as a methodology, a theoretical framework, and a tangible object that produces the intangible. A motherboard, the rudimentary circuitry of a personal computer, is a technology that many of us unknowingly intimately interact with on a daily basis yet often take for granted. Linguistically, through its name, “motherboard” can be associated with interpersonal relationships, connecting to off/online communities. By taking on the Motherboard as a literal and metaphorical object, space is created for dialogues in art and design histories in the post-internet, post-Covid era.

Contribution: Kunstbereit e.V Berlin, Cristina Negucioiu, Yvette Teeuwen, Dorothea Eitel, Teo Vlad, Sebastian Ureamuno, Lo Bil, Marianna Solomonidou, Ameyalli Romiress, Blanca Daniela Ramirez, Jacob Wolos, Mother of All Demos (1968), Douglas Engelbart.