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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size:
23pt" size="6"><b><span style="background: transparent">Excavations:
Governance Archaeology for the Future of the Internet</span></b></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">After
a full year of almost every facet of life porting online,
the stakes
of governing online communities and infrastructures have
never been
higher. As a contribution to current digital policy
conversations,
this project invites artists, tinkerers, and technologists
to bring
explorations of human governance practices, from ancient
civilizations to contemporary social movements, from the
slums of
emerging megacities to Indigenous communities—all into
dialogue
with the governance of the Internet.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><span
style="text-decoration: none"><font face="Arial"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span
style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
normal"><span style="background: transparent">In
comparison to present and historical democratic
institutions offline,
online communities have an impoverished set of
tools available for
democratic governance (</span></span></span></font></font></span></font></span><a
href="https://ntnsndr.in/ImplicitFeudalism" target="_blank"><span
style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#1155cc"><span
style="text-decoration: none"><font face="Arial"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span
style="font-style: normal"><u><span
style="font-weight: normal"><span
style="background: transparent">Schneider
2020</span></span></u></span></font></font></span></font></span></a><span
style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><span
style="text-decoration: none"><font face="Arial"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span
style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
normal"><span style="background: transparent">).
Excavations: Governance Archaeology for the Future
of the Internet is
interested in what might be learned from
pre-digital mechanisms
across diverse societies and cultural practice.
Ancient Athens’
system of lotteries for public offices, for
instance, could help us
better regulate algorithms today (</span></span></span></font></font></span></font></span><a
href="https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-a-council-of-citizens-should-regulate-algorithms/"
target="_blank"><span style="font-variant: normal"><font
color="#1155cc"><span style="text-decoration: none"><font
face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span
style="font-style: normal"><u><span
style="font-weight: normal"><span
style="background: transparent">Carugati
2020</span></span></u></span></font></font></span></font></span></a><span
style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><span
style="text-decoration: none"><font face="Arial"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span
style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
normal"><span style="background: transparent">).
There is a long record of practice and research on
governance in the
social sciences that bear valuable insights. For
this exploration, we
propose to conduct </span></span></span></font></font></span></font></span><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_archaeology"
target="_blank"><span style="font-variant: normal"><font
color="#1155cc"><span style="text-decoration: none"><font
face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span
style="font-style: normal"><u><span
style="font-weight: normal"><span
style="background: transparent">media
archaeology</span></span></u></span></font></font></span></font></span></a><span
style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><span
style="text-decoration: none"><span style="background:
transparent">
</span></span></font></span><span style="font-variant:
normal"><font color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration:
none"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt"
size="2"><span style="font-style: normal"><span
style="font-weight: normal"><span style="background:
transparent">on
a wide range of historical, present-day, and
fictional governance
practices and to radically expand the repertoire
available for
governance in online and offline communities
alike.</span></span></span></font></font></span></font></span></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Excavations
will employ a research-creation model based on the
exchange between
the social sciences and art practice, in the context of
online
community governance. How can communities govern platforms
in the age
of algorithmic governance? Who is accountable to whom, and
how? How
is labor distributed between code, bot, land, and flesh?
How is
identity negotiated between what is fluid and verified?
What are
instances in which freedom of expression is in conflict
with
regulation?</span></font></font></font></p>
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normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height:
138%; text-decoration: none">
<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">This
project aims to open the spaces between the visible and
the layered,
nuanced particularities of specific communities and
platforms,
through a collaborative excavation of what it means to
make and be
community on the Internet today. We hope to explore
governance
challenges including, but not limited to:</span></font></font></font></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p style="margin-top: 0.42cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; background:
transparent; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none">
<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span
style="background: transparent">Accountability for how
platforms organize work and personal data</span></font></font></font></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent;
font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;
line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none"> <font
color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Participatory
design and consent</span></font></font></font></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent;
font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;
line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none"> <font
color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Building
and sustaining communities</span></font></font></font></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent;
font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;
line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none"> <font
color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Resolving
rule violations and conflicts</span></font></font></font></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.42cm; background: transparent;
font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;
line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none"> <font
color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Overseeing
algorithmic decision making</span></font></font></font></p>
</li>
</ul>
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normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height:
138%; text-decoration: none">
<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">We
invite creators to explore possible futures for Internet
governance,
drawing inspiration from non-digital sources of experience
including:</span></font></font></font></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p style="margin-top: 0.42cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; background:
transparent; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none">
<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span
style="background: transparent">Indigenous practices
exploited, ignored, or suppressed by colonizers</span></font></font></font></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent;
font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;
line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none"> <font
color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Historical
democratic practices that have been absent from more
recent governance norms</span></font></font></font></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent;
font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;
line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none"> <font
color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Emergent
innovations in subcultures past or present</span></font></font></font></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent;
font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;
line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none"> <font
color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Imaginations
of future governance from science/speculative fiction</span></font></font></font></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.42cm; background: transparent;
font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;
line-height: 138%; text-decoration: none"> <font
color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Rituals
of community in conversation with rituals of justice
systems</span></font></font></font></p>
</li>
</ul>
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138%">
<span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><span
style="text-decoration: none"><font face="Arial"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span
style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
normal"><span style="background: transparent">Practice-based
researchers are invited to apply for our
multimodal cohort, which
will develop and co-create online explorations
into a public
conversation and exhibition. Chosen practitioners
will receive a
$1,000 stipend to develop Web-ready explorations,
in collaboration
with other members of the cohort. Explorations can
range from
documentary to speculative, including
provocations, proposed
frameworks, visualizations and maps, prototypes,
reenactments,
identity corrections, interventions, musings, and
anarchives
(</span></span></span></font></font></span></font></span><a
href="https://rectangle.design/workshops/ccs-2019/reading/Zielinski-AnArcheology-for-AnArchives.pdf"
target="_blank"><span style="font-variant: normal"><font
color="#1155cc"><span style="text-decoration: none"><font
face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span
style="font-style: normal"><u><span
style="font-weight: normal"><span
style="background: transparent">Zielinski,
2015</span></span></u></span></font></font></span></font></span></a><span
style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><span
style="text-decoration: none"><font face="Arial"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span
style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
normal"><span style="background: transparent">).
The cohort will meet online in both synchronous
and asynchronous form
from July-September 2021 on a regular biweekly
basis, in which each
of the chosen projects will be developed in a
collaborative process
of iterations, mutual feedback, and collective
work. The result of
this process will be an exhibition at global
digital policy venues, a
public conversation, and a collective web space. </span></span></span></font></font></span></font></span></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size:
16pt" size="4"><span style="background: transparent">Timeline:</span></font></font></font></h2>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Deadline:June
15th</span></font></font></font></p>
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normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height:
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Notification
of Acceptance: July 1st</span></font></font></font></p>
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normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height:
138%; text-decoration: none">
<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">Cohort
Residency: July-September</span></font></font></font></p>
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138%">
<span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><span
style="text-decoration: none"><font face="Arial"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span
style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
normal"><span style="background: transparent">Public
Conversation: December 2021</span></span></span></font></font></span></font></span></p>
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138%">
<span style="font-variant: normal"><font color="#000000"><span
style="text-decoration: none"><font face="Arial"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span
style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
normal"><span style="background: transparent">Apply
</span></span></span></font></font></span></font></span><a
href="https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/content/application-excavations-governance-archaeology-future-internet"
target="_blank"><span style="font-variant: normal"><font
color="#1155cc"><span style="text-decoration: none"><font
face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span
style="font-style: normal"><u><span
style="font-weight: normal"><span
style="background: transparent">here</span></span></u></span></font></font></span></font></span></a></p>
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normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 138%; text-decoration:
none">
<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2"><i><span style="background: transparent">This
is curated by Federica Carugati of (King’s College
London), and
Darija Medic and Nathan Schneider (Media Enterprise
Design Lab,
University of Colorado Boulder), with support from the
Eutopia
Foundation and in collaboration with DiploFoundation.</span></i></font></font></font></p>
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