15:00-17:00
Teatro Verdi – Sala Titta Ruffo
Moderator: Antonio Pavolini
Speakers: Hossein Derakhshan, Alexis Rossi, Joshua Held, Roland Sejko, Mario Tedeschini Lalli, Massimo Mantellini
If we wait for the large social networks to preserve digital memory, we will not go very far. The main projects to save the contents produced on the web in the past few decades, but also in those to come, come much more often from large public institutions or from voluntary initiatives, whose financial sustainability is however a daily challenge. Who guarantees this sustainability? Is there a political responsibility for our memory? And above all, could the future of the Internet also depend on the ability not to lose track of its past? We talk about it with the heads of some big digital archives and with experts and observers of the sector.
15:00-15:30 // KEYNOTE SPEECH
the Post-Web Internet: is this (the future of) Television?
Speaker: Hossein Derakhshan
Social media and mobile applications have distorted the original idea of a truly open and interoperable internet, based on hyperlinks between “worlds” in continuous dialogue with each other. The result is a post-web network that is increasingly similar to television, where the algorithm has taken the place of the old schedules, with a strong impact on the media ecosystems and our society. But is it really an obligatory passage or is there still a way out? Perhaps it depends above all on us.
15:30-17:00 // PANEL
When digital saves our memory
Speakers: Hossein Derakhshan, Alexis Rossi, Joshua Held, Roland Sejko, Mario Tedeschini Lalli, Massimo Mantellini