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+#Workshop 3: Surgencies – A Personal Protest Statement
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+##By NXS
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+How do we consume? How do we get influenced? How do we protest?
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+This workshop is aimed at creating a collective lexicon of personal viewpoints towards the influence of the ubiquitous technology around us, by drawing attention to those implementations that are so vowed into our daily lives that they normally go unnoticed. The intangibility and unclarity of where and how exactly digital technology works and affects us, evokes the uncanny feeling of a loss of control, a sense of frustration and anxiety. By investigating and collectively mapping emotional responses to technology and their behavioral implications each participant extracts inspiration for a personal protest statement, that will be published in the directly surrounded public space.
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+The collective ‘research through making’ approach mixes speed and visual and textual assignments with performative elements that require quick responses. They do not allow over-rationalization or over-explanation of implicit constructs but promote the production of associative and subconscious ideas. By exposing the seemingly trivial daily urgencies in life, we can stop asking questions and make strong and profound statements to counter them.
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+Materials and requirements: none.
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+NXS (NL): NXS – standing for nexus (a connection or bond) – is an Amsterdam based research collective that explores ‘the self’ in the age of digital technology. NXS takes the form of a cross-disciplinary platform structure with as its core a biannual publication that extends to exhibitions, art works, public events, and a working lab. It searches for personal viewpoints, experiences, and stories on relevant topics around digital technology, as a way to make them more tangible and more accessible.

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+#Workshop 1: Say it ain’t so 
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+##By Amy Pickles and Cristina Cochior
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+Say it ain’t so is a sound to voice to speech making, recording, arranging, and announcing workshop.
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+The workshop will be split into three distinct parts:
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+    The production and bundling of sounds from non-digital sources through group work and individual recording. We will produce work in our throats and transmit it with our mouths.
+    We will make use of speech to text software to move voice to speech, and incorporate the errors that emerge during the transformation.
+    With the basic computer text processing technique called Bag of Words, we will create new orders looking at frequencies of – what the algorithm perceives to be! – words. We will think through dialogues and sounds that do not make it into writing.
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+The day will culminate in presentations of our Bags, new forms we make in groups of the debris from our workshop. How can we disrupt the algorithmic tracking of our voices and language?
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+Materials and requirements: A recording device such as a phone and/or laptop. Headphones to listen to recordings on your phone and/or laptop.
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+**Amy Pickles (UK)** is learning how to dismantle and assemble an artistic subjectivity through the search for queer pedagogical methods. Educational and artistic processes collapse into each other and feed each other to make a research-based performative practice, comprised of sound and video works, workshops, performances and textiles.
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+**Cristina Cochior (RO)** has an interest in the politics of automation and peer to machine knowledge co-production; her practice consists of research investigations into algorithmic structures of organisation and the possibilities for intimacy therein. As part of this pursuit, she currently engages with tactics of representation in digital collections.

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+Federated Publishing – Florian Cramer (WdKa) and Roel Roscam Abbing talk about federated social networks, how they work, what they do, and what chances and pitfalls they present for the publishing domain.
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+The Network We (de)Served by XPUB – Traveling by bicycle and setting up homeservers, XPUB students questioned understandings of networks, autonomy, online publishing, and social infrastructures. They present their results in web- and printed zines, and invite you to explore the homebrewed network. XPUB is the Experimental Publishing Master of Arts in Fine Art and Design of the Piet Zwart Institute (WdKa) in Rotterdam. http://www.pzwart.nl/experimental-publishing/

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+##Readers & Publishers
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+Cristina Garriga presents Readers & Publishers, an online directory of independent publishers. www.readersandpublishers.org
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+##NXS
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+NXS is an Amsterdam based research collective that explores ‘the self’ in the age of digital technology through publications, exhibitions, art works, public events, and a working lab. http://nxs.world/
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+#Project Presentations
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+##100 Pins in Paris by Lotte Lentes
+In July 2017, Lotte Lentes walked across Paris to investigate the physicality of this metropolis. She wrote over a hundred small pieces that are somewhere between prose and essay, and that were digitally and visually published in collaboration with literary magazine De Gids. https://de-gids.nl/100pinneninparijs/
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+##Bitterveld by Liesbeth Eugelink 
+Bitterveld is a book app that tells a story about memory and war. The modular story in three languages is based on the map of Berlin. https://www.bitterveld.eu/