Dani Ploeger

Dani Ploeger is an artist and cultural critic who explores situations of conflict and crisis on the fringes of high-tech consumer culture. His work draws from field research on the use of everyday technologies under extraordinary circumstances. He has accompanied frontline troops in the Russo-Ukrainian war to examine the informal use of consumer electronics, travelled to dump sites in Nigeria to collect electronic waste originating from Europe and stolen razor wire from the so-called ‘high-tech fence’ on the EU outer border in Hungary. He is currently working on the development of anarchist refrigeration technologies for the Rojava Revolution in North-East Syria.
Dani’s work has been presented at the Venice Architecture Biennale, London Film Festival, Nairobi National Museum and ZKM. He received his PhD from the University of Sussex, UK, and is Professor of Performance and Technology at the University of Music and Theatre Munich. He initiated the Rojava Center for Democratic Technologies and is artistic director of EEN FABRIEK, a platform for art and industrialisation in the Netherlands.

https://www.daniploeger.org/