Notes Design

In an age when technology is omnipresent, in a society of flux, transparency and of widespread surveillance and paranoia, the Internet seems to have become the favorite support system for an upsurge in rumours and wild conspiracy theories. New media now give rise to the very same controversies that surround Science Fiction and scientific progress in general. Dark Designs questions the current relevance of conspiracy theories and their digital avatars and will explore the notion of art, technology and conspiracies in a series of events taking place in venues across Yverdon-les-Bains in Switzerland. The event takes a thoughtful and incisive look at the concept's ambiguity, history and links to philosophy, research, art and technology.

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