We’re pleased to announce that Metahaven will be joined by curator, writer and technologist Ben Vickers, in the first of two conversations, Ben Vickers talks to Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden about Information Skies and The Sprawl (Propoganda About Propaganda)—scope, aesthetics, and politics.

Ben Vickers is a curator, writer, explorer, technologist, and luddite. Currently he is Curator of Digital at Serpentine Galleries, Co-Director of LIMAZULU Project Space, a Near Now Fellow, Trustee at Auto Italia, and facilitator for the open-source development of unMonastery, a new civically minded social space prototyped in Matera, Italy during 2014 and now set to replicate throughout Europe. During his spare time he contributes to EdgeRyders, co-runs the nomadic talks program The Thought Menu, and hosts Open Funerals.