summary: This worksession intends to be a moment of collective learning, to make tangible invisible colonial mechanisms of hierarchy and oppression that are prevalent in everyday communication technologies, yet often difficult to comprehend.
**Date:** Friday, 27 October 2023
**Time:** 10:30 - 16:30 (free lunch for participants)
**Open Screening:** 17:00 - 18:30
**Location:** Varia, (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam)
**Note:** this session will be held in english
**Participation:** is limited, to join please send an email to info@varia.zone with [colonial infrastructures] in the subject by October 24th.
This worksession intends to be a moment of collective learning, to make tangible invisible colonial mechanisms of hierarchy and oppression that are prevalent in everyday communication technologies, yet often difficult to comprehend.
On this day we will be joined by creative technologist and researcher Yasmine Boudiaf. In the morning, Yasmine will share her work on radical, ethical, data practice frameworks, propositions for how machine learning can be used in non-colonial (and therefore non-extractive) forms of archiving, and the mechanics of knowledge formation that affect our relationship with technology.
