From marcela at aksioma.org Sun May 9 22:48:56 2021 From: marcela at aksioma.org (marcela at aksioma.org) Date: Sun, 9 May 2021 22:48:56 +0200 Subject: (re)programming: Interdependence - Anab Jain in conversation with Marta Peirano In-Reply-To: <20ac01d74514$1ed643e0$5c82cba0$@aksioma.org> References: <20ac01d74514$1ed643e0$5c82cba0$@aksioma.org> Message-ID: <20d001d74514$bc296190$347c24b0$@aksioma.org> Dear friends, Join us at the fourth conversation of the (re)programming series and participate with your questions in the live chat! (re)programming Strategies for Self-Renewal Curated and conducted by Marta Peirano February?November 2021 STREAM #4 (re)programming: Interdependence Post-Human Politics With Anab Jain MON, 10 May 2021 at 7pm CET Join us here > https://aksioma.org/reprogramming FB event Anab Jain?s work transports people into the future. The evolving installation Mitigation of Shock by her studio Superflux imagines a random apartment in the London of 2050, or in a Singapore that has become a flooded city in 2219. Both are equipped with an array of DIY interventions, hydroponic farms and other tools for gathering, capturing and storing both food and water under new climate regimes. While their technical solutions are fascinating (and actually work), it is the vision that prevails: we not only survive but also thrive, as we adapt and become smarter, stronger, fitter and better acquainted with other members of the planetary society. We tell ourselves stories in order to live, but we can realise better ones. Anab Jain is a designer, an artist and a filmmaker. She is a co-founder and Director of Superflux, a speculative design studio based in London that explores the intersections of climate crisis, technology and more-than-human politics. Along with her partner Jon Ardern, she has produced critically acclaimed films, art and installations projecting the many possible futures for humankind. She is also a teacher in the Design Investigations programme at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Anab has worked for some of the world?s biggest firms like Microsoft Research, Sony, Samsung and Nokia, as well as institutions like the Government of the UAE, Innovate UK, Cabinet Office UK, UNDP, Future Cities Catapult and Forum for the Future. She has exhibited work at MoMA New York, the National Museum of China and the V&A in London. She has earned honours from Apple Computers Inc., UNESCO, Geneva Human Rights Festival and TED. Special guests: Sa?a Spa?al, Anja Plani??ek and ?pela Petri? About the series We have found ourselves at the crossroads of an existential decision: do we bring the mistakes of the enlightenment to their biological conclusion or do we develop a magical capacity to self-renew? In the tenth edition of Tactics & Practice, the seminar and conference program led by Aksioma ? Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana, we are going to invite world-class thinkers in crucial disciplines to discuss the ways in which we can repair our thought and behavioural patterns in order to keep us collectively safe. The series of eight interviews is curated and conducted by Marta Peirano, a writer and journalist specialized in researching the relationships between technology and power, who will seek answers to the question of what it will take for humanity to wake up and take action before it's too late. Thematic discussions, ranging from infrastructure and energy to community and artificial intelligence, will be held in English once a month. MORE Organised and produced by: Aksioma ? Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana In partnership with: Kino ?i?ka ? Centre for Urban Culture For the series: Tactics & Practice In the framework of: konS ? 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URL: From gabriel.menotti at gmail.com Mon May 24 13:49:51 2021 From: gabriel.menotti at gmail.com (Gabriel Menotti) Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 07:49:51 -0400 Subject: open workshop: Virtual Places for Critical Immersion and Collaborative Knowledge In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: hey folks! Apologies for the crosspost! I hope this event might interest some of you: Virtual places for critical immersion and collaborative knowledge Workshop with Alexandra Antonopoulou and Eleanor Dare May 28th, 10am EST, on Zoom Register free at http://bit.ly/3vWLL2j In the framework of the Museum Without Walls project, this workshop will examine how virtual spaces can become places for knowledge generation and collaboration. Alexandra and Eleanor will share their experiences in the decade long Phi Books, a writing project engaged with human and non-human creative collaboration, engaging with visual, sonic, animated, and embodied storytelling. They will explore how to deploy technologies as heuristics for collaboration and how to position virtual spaces as horizontal non predetermined structures. They will also convey an ?immerticritical? - immersive and critical - approach towards technology, language, and image-making. At the end, participants will be able to originate their own collaborative methods and experimental storytelling forms, with analogue and digital ?agents? supporting the process across self-defined dimensions. About the instructors: *Eleanor Dare is a creative technologist with a PhD and MSc from Goldsmiths Department of Computing as well as an MA in Creative Writing. Eleanor's published writing critiques the neoliberal ideology of Smart Cities and AI reductionism as well as the colonialism of Design Thinking. In the last two decades Eleanor has exhibited many digital artworks and has published numerous book chapters and peer-reviewed papers addressing computation, AI, emerging narrative and systems of knowledge. These include chapters in MIT?s Leonardo, as well as presenting pedagogic papers at Cambridge University?s Faculty of Education. * *Alexandra Antonopoulou is a UK based designer and a Course Leader at the University of the Arts London. Alexandra has also taught design, story-making and immersive environments modules at Goldsmiths and the Royal College of Art. Her artistic practice has been showcased in various galleries including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Tate Modern Gallery and the London Design Museum. Her research examines child-play as well as story-making, performance and design as tools for criticality and everyday invention. * * * * Museum Without Walls is funded by the Esp?rito Santo State Cultural Offices (Secult-ES) and counts with the support of the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Canada. -- museusemparedes.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kw at berlinergazette.de Tue May 25 08:12:35 2021 From: kw at berlinergazette.de (Krystian Woznicki) Date: Tue, 25 May 2021 08:12:35 +0200 Subject: =?utf-8?q?BLACK_BOX_EAST_=C2=B7_Workshops_=C2=B7_Cal?= =?utf-8?q?l_for_Registration?= Message-ID: <3f5c8751-5c17-ea0d-dca8-4dda0c08d8fa@berlinergazette.de> *BLACK BOX EAST* ? *Post-Communist Laboratories of Globalization* Workshops at the Berliner Gazette?s Annual Conference 2021 Even decades after the official end of the Cold War, ?the East? remains the Other. Only because of this reinforced Othering of what Western media now designates ?post-communist? space can it so comfortably be instrumentalized as a black box of the West?s ?ethical imperialism.? Five different online workshops at the Berliner Gazette?s Annual Conference 2021 will tackle this problem. Bringing activists, researchers, and cultural workers from over 20 countries together, the workshops will take place in parallel fashion on September 23, 24, 25, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. *Call for Registration* The workshops will feature a selected number of guests invited by the organizers. Additional participants are able to join via a call for registration. This open call targets researchers, activists, artists, journalists, and producers of subjugated knowledge at large. Register by September 1 for one of the five tracks at info(at)berlinergazette.de! The registration fee is 15 Euro. *Tracks* Taking different thematic approaches to tackling the BLACK BOX EAST, the workshop titles are: ?New Cold War,? ?The Wretched of the East,? ?Post-Covid-19 States,? ?Shouldering the West,? and ?Politics of Liberty.? Please check out the descriptions here: https://blackboxeast.berlinergazette.de *Process and Goals* Using Big Blue Button, an open source alternative to corporate data extractivism tools like Zoom, participants will be invited to join a hackathon-style cooperation process. The goal is to come up with cooperative projects, ranging from multimedia stories to utopian scenarios. The resulting resources will be made available online. For reference and inspiration, please take a look at two projects from online workshops at Berliner Gazette?s 2020 SILENT WORKS conference: https://bit.ly/3xnmSOU and https://bit.ly/2QSNw1i *Invited Workhops Guests* Sana Ahmad, Rutvica Andrijasevic, Tania Arcimovich, Migl? Bareikyt?, Lara Luna Bartley, Mika Buljevic, Aleksei Borisionak, Nicol?s Bello, Mark Cinkevich, Niccol? Cuppini, R?gine Debatty, G?raldine Delacroix, Abiol Lual Deng, Asl? Din?, Kalina Drenska, Adela Hincu, Anna Engelhardt, Andrada Fiscutean, Alina Floroi, Karolina Gembara, Adriana Homolova, hvale, Nelli Kambouri, Katrin K?mpf, No?mi Katona, Dunja Ku?inac, Inga Lindarenka, Monisha Martins, Greg McLaughlin, Luise Meier, Yana Milev, Shintaro Miyazaki, Julia Molin, Claudia N??ez, Cristina Pombo, Rena Raedle, Lira Ramadani, Lela Rekhviashvili, Juliane Rettschlag, Gustavo Sanroman, Andreas Schneider, Oliver Lerone Schultz, Sasha Shestakova, Karolina Sobel, Olia Sosnovskaya, Martina Staneva, Nicolay Spesivtsev, Cagri Taskin, Elena Veljanovska, Dzina Zhuk. *Workshop Moderators* Sabrina Apitz, Jose M. Calatayud, Stefan Candea, Ela Kagel, Max Haiven, Gosia Jagiello, Holger Kral, Mathana, Nina Pohler, Sotiris Sideris. *Funders + Associates* The Berliner Gazette?s Annual Conference 2021 BLACK BOX EAST will be funded by the German Federal Agency for Civic Education/bpb, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, and Schwingenstein Foundation. The conference and its accompanying program will be realized in cooperation with AthensLive, EastEast, E.A.S.T. (Essential Autonomous Struggles Transnational), Emptiness, Harun Farocki Institut, Institute of Network Cultures, Kuda.org, LeftEast, Mediapart.fr, NON, Supermarkt, Transnational Institute, transcript, and ZK/U ? Center for Arts and Urbanistics. Please share this email widely and re-tweet this: https://twitter.com/berlinergazette/status/1394211254496108544 Best wishes, Krystian (for the BG team) -- -------------------------------------------------------------- BG ? Berliner Gazette | since 1999 | https://berlinergazette.de -------------------------------------------------------------- BLACK BOX EAST ? Post-Communist Laboratories of Globalization BG Project 2021: Workshops, Texts + Artworks https://blackboxeast.berlinergazette.de -------------------------------------------------------------- SILENT WORKS ? The Hidden Labor in AI-Capitalism BG Project 2020: Exhibition, Conference + Texts https://silent-works.berlinergazette.de -------------------------------------------------------------- MORE WORLD ? How Can We Cooperate Across Borders to Tackle Climate Change? Results from BG?s 20th Anniversary Event: Videos, Audios, Projects + Texts https://more-world.berlinergazette.de? -------------------------------------------------------------- From treske at gmail.com Tue May 25 13:00:07 2021 From: treske at gmail.com (Andreas Treske) Date: Tue, 25 May 2021 14:00:07 +0300 Subject: Video Vortex Hybrid Event: Play, Pause and Reset Message-ID: <6FB64F42-1AC7-4CA8-B1C9-DDC17DC1688A@gmail.com> Video Vortex Hybrid Event: Play, Pause and Reset Thursday, May 27 06:00 PM CEST - 08:00 CEST To compensate for the real life events that we are all missing so much, the VideoVortex community gathers during a hybrid event that happens both online and in the courtyard of John Cabot University in Rome. Organized and hosted by Donatella Della Ratta and Albert Figurt (in Rome) and Andreas Treske and Geert Lovink (online), we will switch between a conversation robot, Zoom, a drone and the obligatory online video screening in an experimental setup that will try to beat the overall online fatigue. Remember Malta, let?s bring on new VideoVortex gatherings! In the meanwhile, let?s preserve the spirit, see you all there What is online video today, fifteen years into its exponential growth? What started with amateur work of YouTube prosumers has spread to virtually all communication apps: an explosion in the culture of mobile sound and vision. Now, in the age of the smart phone, video accompanies, informs, moves, and distracts us. Are you addicted yet? Look into that tiny camera, talk, move the phone, show us around ? prove to others that you exist! Founded in 2007 by the Amsterdam Institute of Network Cultures, Video Vortex is a lively network of artists, activists, coders, curators, critics, and researchers that deals with all the facets of both politics and aesthetics of online video. Live in Rome: Gabriele MARINO / new media researcher, on zoombombing Natalia STANUSCH / john cabot student, on memes Marco G FERRARI / videoartist, with a site-specific short screening Virtual on Zoom: Patrick Lichty, Moderator/Respondent Geert Lovink Aras ?zg?n, Moderator/Respondent Andreas Treske Follow the event on YouTube and take part in our live chat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTZVIZ-t8K0 After the two hour session we want to continue playing video. Share with us your favorite playlists, your must sees ? If you would like to join the zoom room, contact us! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kw at berlinergazette.de Thu May 27 14:01:17 2021 From: kw at berlinergazette.de (Krystian Woznicki) Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 14:01:17 +0200 Subject: Fwd: Open Call - Excavations: Governance Archaeology for the Future of the Internet In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: *Excavations: Governance Archaeology for the Future of the Internet* 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. In comparison to present and historical democratic institutions offline, online communities have an impoverished set of tools available for democratic governance (_Schneider 2020_ ). 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 (_Carugati 2020_ ). 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 _media archaeology_ 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. 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? 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: * Accountability for how platforms organize work and personal data * Participatory design and consent * Building and sustaining communities * Resolving rule violations and conflicts * Overseeing algorithmic decision making We invite creators to explore possible futures for Internet governance, drawing inspiration from non-digital sources of experience including: * Indigenous practices exploited, ignored, or suppressed by colonizers * Historical democratic practices that have been absent from more recent governance norms * Emergent innovations in subcultures past or present * Imaginations of future governance from science/speculative fiction * Rituals of community in conversation with rituals of justice systems 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 (_Zielinski, 2015_ ). 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.? Timeline: Deadline:June 15th Notification of Acceptance: July 1st Cohort Residency: July-September Public Conversation: December 2021 Apply _here_ /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./ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: