Incompatibility is the condition arising when things are not working together. Given the current worldwide proclamations of crisis, be they political, financial, technological or environmental, it may seem as if incompatible elements and situations are everywhere, that everything is failing. Ironically, it is the supposedly ever-more compatible media-scape, where everything connects, that render such crises instantly visible. With the theme in/compatible, the festival probes the productive and destructive sides of incompatibility as a fundamental condition of cultural production.
Timothy Druckrey is a researcher, curator and writer and Director of the Graduate Photographic and Electronic Media programme at the Maryland Institute.
Steve Lambert is founder of the Anti-Advertising Agency and a Senior Fellow at the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology in New York. He recently made international news with the The New York Times ‘Special Edition’, announcing the end of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other spectacular good news.