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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
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            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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      <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>
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          <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;
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            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;
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          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;
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            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>
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            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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      <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>
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          <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;
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          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;
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            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;
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            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;
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            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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      <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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      <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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      <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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      <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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                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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      <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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