Fedizens in Brussels, this Friday (3-3) at 18:00, the exhibition Tangible Cloud opens at KBK gallery, incl. a performance by Stevie Ango and Clyde Lepage.
As part of the project Dissipating the Mist, 30 people from different backgrounds (artists, designers, philosophers, economists, etc.) met in May and June 2022 to imagine, through artistic practices, counter-narratives to the dominant vision of digital : « cloud computing. " This small exhibition shows some of the process and outcomes.
More info: https://tangible-cloud.be/
With @titipi Dasha Iliana and Élie Bolard ✨
Here's some recent research by esteemed colleagues and myself on how to model and compute an access quality value for net art. The paper was presented at iPRES2022 in Glasgow. Get links to the PDF and a recording of the presentation at https://rhizome.org/editorial/2023/feb/28/access-quality-metrics-for-net-art/
Design de la confiscation
Conférence discussion avec des membres de Open Source Publishing, Speculoos, Variable et Atelier Cartographique
Façonner des sites web, c'est un artisanat discret. C'est entrer en intimité avec les pratiques culturelles et digitales d'une organisation et d'êtres très divers. C'est construire un triangle riche même si peu lisible.
Longtemps préservé des réponses industrielles par ses spécificités, ce
On December 16, together with the unparalleled @aaaannet I'll have an online appearance in the series VARIANT at Sakıp Sabancı Müzesi Istanbul, talking about possible new roles for documentation in the conservation of digital art: https://sakipsabancimuzesi.org/en/exhibitions-and-events/event/288 — Join if you can!
Solar Protocol has an open call for Projects and Texts until December 4th.
http://solarprotocol.net/call.html
Immersion dans la matérialité du numérique
Conférence gesticulée de Thomas Thibault (Collectif Bam) suivie d’une discussion avec Carine Thibaut (Greenpeace) et Stéphanie D’Haenens (IEB)
Les déchets électroniques pèsent aujourd’hui plus que la Muraille de Chine.
Le numérique prend une place de plus en plus importante dans le dépassement des limites planétaires, bien loin de l’immatérialité vendue. (...)
https://www.domainepublic.net/Immersion-dans-la-materialite-du-numerique.html
Collective space looking for additional members
A collective space is slowly taking shape at Chaussée de Jette in Brussels. Inhabited, for now, by artists, collectives and researchers working around technology, visual arts, architecture and urban space, we are looking for 1 or 2 more members to join us in building a shared workspace where researches and practices can be woven together. Monthly rent is experimentally set at 150€ (all included) for one unit with shared use of the communal ground floor, kitchen and also a lovely garden with fruit trees.
If you're interested in joining or have further questions, don't hesitate to contact us here or at: rachel@common-room.net and/or femke@titipi.org
Où et quand a-t-on discuté collectivement de l'obligation de détenir un smartphone pour aller voir un spectacle, se déplacer, utiliser des services bancaires, suivre la scolarité de ses enfants ?
La nouvelle saison de #LeCodeAChangé démarre fort !
Ciné-débat « La bataille du Libre »
11 octobre 2022 19h30 – 22h30
Dans le cadre de la Semaine du Numérique, les membres du groupe InformÉthique des Amis de la Terre organisent un ciné-débat autour du film « La bataille du libre » de Philippe Borrel.
Synopsis
Désormais l’informatique est au cœur de presque toutes les activités humaines. A t-elle contribué à faire de nous des citoyens plus autonomes ? Ou plutôt les (...)
https://www.domainepublic.net/Cine-debat-La-bataille-du-Libre.html
Can You Afford to Be an Art Worker?
"If art work is recognized as labour, as I argue in Art Work, it becomes a strategic political tool that can help artists demand and struggle for workers’ rights and fair payment – it doesn’t take away from the excellence of their work. Quite the contrary, artists today are increasingly recognizing that labour discourse is their solution."
https://utorontopress.com/blog/2021/11/01/can-you-afford-to-be-an-art-worker/
Talk about the book Art Work with Katja Praznik and Silvia Federici on Sept 23:
https://buffalo.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvceyhrjssHtGHSw0ykMDqI3cwpnVubFKI
Memes Beyond Images: Memetic Tacticality Conference
11 November in Amsterdam
"we dive into meme activism & political warfare, meme design & labor and speculative memes & imaginaries. The Memes Beyond the Image Conference is also the launch of the the Critical Meme Reader #2: Memetic Tacticality, which is edited by Chloë Arkenbout and Laurence Scherz"
https://networkcultures.org/events/memes-beyond-images-memetic-tacticality-conference/
et c'est dans tout le secteur culturel : "la parentalité des artistes est un impensé"
https://www.rtbf.be/article/artiste-ou-parent-le-dilemme-cornelien-11065936
✨ Tada ! 🎉
Mon webcomic « Contra Chrome » vient de sortir en version française :
Sous-titre : Comment le navigateur de #Google devint une menace pour la vie privée et la #démocratie.
Avec à l'affiche, Shoshana Zuboff, des piranhas végans, et tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir sur #Chrome sans jamais oser le demander !
À lire et télécharger gratuitement — j'espère que vous aimerez ! ☺️
Et s'il vous a plu, partagez-le autour de vous !
We soft-announced the next #ournetworks a couple weeks ago and I thought I should share the call here!
Our Networks 2047: Redistributing the Future
November 14 – 27, 2022
Online, Distributed
https://ournetworks.ca/
After a year of hibernation, we're excited to invite you to join us for an experimental online event - something between an alternate reality conference, and wiki as collaborative science fiction. Drawing inspiration from our favourite sci-fi authors we’re headed to a future for Our Networks 2̶0̶2̶2̶ 2047.
We are seeking session leaders to spend at max a couple hours writing abstracts and pitches for the hypothetical conference programming and spending some time checking in on a wiki over the two weeks of the event.
To declare your interest, please submit a character’s name and bio, area of interest or talk by October 15, 2022. More details here: https://ournetworks.ca/
New blog post! I wrote about Eriko Tamura’s Oz, a Wizard of Oz pastiche for kids with shockingly good photography and some pretty cool CGI design. http://cdrom.ca/games/2022/08/28/eriko-tamura-oz.html
C’est pas moi, c’est l’algorithme
Présentation et discussion avec Peggy Pierrot
Société algorithmique, biais algorithmique, capitalisme algorithmique, gouvernance algorithmique... les mots associés avec les adjectifs dérivés d'algorithme apparaissent dans tous les domaines de nos vies dans les sociétés numérisées qui sont les nôtres. On parle d'algorithme bancaire, d'algorithme prédictif, de machine
https://www.tacticasbl.be/2022/08/21/cest-pas-moi-cest-lalgorithme/
The first year I started working at iMAL, we hosted the Playlist exhibition during the summer, which featured this video by Boogerlab (with a tune by Goto80) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYqcti-gFkQ
I heard it 3 days a week for almost 3 month. It's burned in my brain, forever.
I think it's the first time I watch it again in 12 years :D
Call for Participation:
OPENCOIL workshop 🔋🔋🔋
"The pavements of many cities have been flooded by so-called 'dockless sharing vehicles'. This workshop explores the impact of such micro-mobility services on (public) urban space by re-appropriating their decentralised infrastructure as a space for experimentation, while also addressing the conditions and effects of this infrastructure."
Deadline: August 21
https://constantvzw.org/site/OPENCOIL-Workshop-Call-for-Participation.html
fedizine: an anarchist introduction to federated social media is now online thanks to our friends at the F-91W Distro:
https://distro.f-91w.club/fedizine/
It's also available as a PDF for reading: https://distro.f-91w.club/fedizine/fedizine_read.pdf
and PDFs for printing in colour:
https://distro.f-91w.club/fedizine/fedizine_print_colour.pdf
or black and white: https://distro.f-91w.club/fedizine/fedizine_print_bw.pdf
If something is not working on this instance, it might be my fault 🤓