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Date: friday 16 February 2024
Time: 18:30 - 20:00 CET
Location: Varia, Rotterdam (NL)
Registration: Not needed, and there is no entrance fee!
Deeply implicated in military and carceral operations, the infrastructures of The Cloud regime reinforce historical racist structures and support new forms of colonisation through digitised oppression. This public conversation brings together a network of networks that has been organising collectively towards systemic techno-political change for many years. The common desire across this constellation explores modes of resisting the financialised, extractive modes of Big Tech, who profit heavily from online activities on the platforms they provide, turning all content into commodity.
During the event, participants will share modest proposals for moving networks and political engagement away from toxic cloud environments. From Counter Cloud Action to Digital Discomfort and trans*feminist servers, the techno-disobedient practices they share will unsettle computationally mediated depletion, activating paths towards anti-colonial tech.
Participants
Constant is a non-profit organization based in Brussels since 1997 and active in the fields of art, media, and technology. https://constantvzw.org/
Digital Discomfort Working Group undertakes mundane but attentive experiments to collectively study non-Eurocentric/white origins of computational paradigms and to propose instead trans*feminist infrastructural entanglements, anti-extractivist connecting cultures, and intersectional notions of hosting and hostility in the online structures we inhabit. https://digitaldiscomfort.run/
TITiPI is a trans-practice gathering of activists, artists, engineers and theorists initiated by Miriyam Aouragh, Seda Gürses, Helen Pritchard and Femke Snelting. TITiPI convene communities to articulate, activate and re-imagine together what computational technologies in the “public interest” might be when “public interest” is always in-the-making. https://titipi.org/
Varia is a space for developing collective approaches to everyday technology. varia members maintain and facilitate a collective infrastructure from which they generate questions, opinions, modifications, help and action. varia works with free software, organises events and collaborates in different constellations. https://varia.zone
Illustration by Susanna Ingignoli