alt.history #9 – maurice jones

New technologies and cultural developments are often synonymous with erasure; forgetting why or how we used to do things, and what words or communities meant. By addressing moments, practices and works that have disappeared from memory (or been completely forgotten) in the last three decades, the alt.history conversation series presents experts in culture and aesthetics, in a reflection that seeks to resurface and re-examine the lost narratives of digital culture. This series is curated by Holo (holo.mg), a Canadian editorial and curatorial platform created in 2012 that focuses on emerging trajectories in art, science and technology.

#9 – maurice jones

Maurice Jones is a curator, producer and researcher from Tiohtià:ke, a place we know as Montréal, Canada. He is currently a PhD candidate at Concordia University, where he is researching transcultural perceptions of Artificial Intelligence, public participation in technology and the idea of festivals as temporary utopias. He was Artistic Director of MUTEK Tokyo from 2016 to 2022 and, in 2021, he joined MUTEK headquarters in Montreal to develop the professional programme of the MUTEK Forum and the transnational think tank Future Festivals.

support portuguese republic – culture / directorate-general for the arts. rtcp – network of portuguese theatres and cinemas