Participation: is limited, to join please send an email to info@varia.zone with [colonial infrastructures] in the subject by October 24th
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.
@ -14,8 +24,8 @@ In the afternoon we will work through 'Listening Structures'. A research in prac
Our worksession will close with the open screening of selection of artist films that respond to themes of the day. We will share artist and filmmaker Riar Rizaldi's 'Fossilis' and more films TBA.
"What separates the Earth, mind, body and machines? 'Probably nothing' argued a future archaeologist.
*"What separates the Earth, mind, body and machines? 'Probably nothing' argued a future archaeologist.*
A glimpse into the far future: in search of the ultimate truth about the past, meditates with her brain-machine interface of a crude neural network, machine learning and virtual world-building, a paleo-media-ontologist—with the help of a researcher—digs and scavenging the imagination of the past to recontextualise and reflect what it is called fossil relic in their time; a mountain of invisible electronic waste buried in a tropical landscape of the South".
*A glimpse into the far future: in search of the ultimate truth about the past, meditates with her brain-machine interface of a crude neural network, machine learning and virtual world-building, a paleo-media-ontologist—with the help of a researcher—digs and scavenging the imagination of the past to recontextualise and reflect what it is called fossil relic in their time; a mountain of invisible electronic waste buried in a tropical landscape of the South".*
The worksession is organised by amy pickles and Sofia Boschat-Thorez.
