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Title: Read & Repair - Innards of technology with eeefff and Danny Tirthdas van der Kleij
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Date: 2023-03-30
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Category: readrepair
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Tags: repair
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Slug:rr-innards-technology
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lang: en
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event_start: 2023-04-08 11:00
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event_duration: 5h
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featured_image:/images/making_breaking_infrastructures_poster_attempt1.jpg
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summary: From August 2022 to April 2023, Varia Library and Rotterdam Electronica Depot hold Read & Repair events on the last Saturday of every month. For this month, we will be exploring the theme Innards of technology with eeefff and Danny Tirthdas van der Kleij
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From August 2022 to April 2023, Varia Library and Rotterdam Electronica Depot hold Read & Repair events. We invite you to visit our space, make yourself comfortable, read or repair some things together, and share thoughts and ideas. For this event a vegetarian lunch prepared by Sara Hamadeh will be served in the hour between workshops.
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For this month, we will be exploring the theme Innards of Technology with eeefff and Danny Tirthdas van der Kleij
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**READ**
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**Date:** Saturday, 8th April 2023
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**Time:** 11:00-13:00 CET
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**Location:** Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam)
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**LUNCH**
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13:00 - 14:00 we share a free, catered lunch. Please email us if you have any dietary restrictions at readandrepair@varia.zone.
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**REPAIR**
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**Date:** Saturday, 8th April 2023
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**Time:** 14:00-16:00 CET
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**Location:** Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam)
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**READ**
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The Read will be guided by **eeefff**.
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TRANSACTION:
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*My assumption is that there are many ways to automatize community. And many ways that are completely different from “investment-obsessed games” with prototyping of some sort of products. Indeed does it make any sense to prototype uprising and push it as a product? hahaha*
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(from “Economic orangery 2021”, eeefff)
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eeefff are proposing the experimental reading of their recent manual “Economic orangery 2021”. The manual exists as a printed matter and an interactive website that you can go through exercising on gymnastic balls.
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“Economic orangery 2021” was originally done as an economic science-fiction of the present-day, a network and a live action role play game that serves as a place to gather and preserve the speculative knowledge about nowadays algorithmic-driven economies – and speculate on future histories of resource distribution.
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The experience aims to provide a critical view on the cultural, tech and start-up sphere and to rethink the emancipatory potential of cyborgized collectivity by experimenting with its inner logic, and to suspend the – apparent – neutrality and progressiveness of automated financial technologies.
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With the help of an interactive website, we will navigate through algorithmic abstractions and bodily experiences weaving together.
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Background story of “Economic orangery 2021”
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What used to be called “blockchains” have stopped to be a part of everyday life long ago, but turned into the fossils of the economies of the past.
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Algorithmically mediated relations of the societies of the past are accessible for the audience in the specific places called "orangeries". To look after these orangeries is a communal duty. Each "orangery" is dedicated for social relations localised in space and time — one of them is dedicated to Belarusian neighbourhood yards economies in revolutionary 2020-2021 years. Orangery keepers live through and test on themselves economic relations of the past to provide better experience for the visitors — to those who want to dive into fossils of politeconomies.
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A group of orangery keepers spend their time in evening procedures and cybernetic gymnastics, and at night they dream as if they were the inners of 2021 algorithmic technologies.
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eeefff (Minsk-Berlin) are artistic cooperation / made-up institution / cybernetic political brigade / poetic computations / hacking unit / queer time. It is neither one of these, nor all together. active from 2013. eeefff make software-based projects, publications, networks, and platforms that critically explore digital labour, value extraction, and community formation in Eastern Europe. methods include: public actions, online interventions, performative seminars, software and hardware hacking, framing environments and choreographing social situations. more info can be found here: https://eeefff.org/
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**REPAIR**
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The Repair will be guided by **Danny Tirthdas van der Kleij**.
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A very practical and hands-on repair session, going back to the literal meaning of the word repair.
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During this repair session we will be inspecting circuit boards and components while learning some basic techniques for repairing electronics.
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The Rotterdam Electronics Depot, a sparingly used feature of Varia, will take centre stage as we discuss its uses, limitations and potential. In this Repair we will investigate the concept of computational de-growth through the lens of its physical and material aspects while we discuss the feasibility of a truly recyclable and circular economy of computers.
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Optional: Bring you own broken computers, laptops, tablets and maybe even phones.
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Danny Tirthdas-van der Kleij (1984, NL) is a software developer, varia member, (radio) DJ and (digital) hoarder.
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His practice combines alternative and situational software and amateur electronic engineering.
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Currently this revolves around topics of computational frugality, divisions of (non)meticulous labour and the practicality ignored within politics of repairability.
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Our August 2022 to April 2023 programme is funded by **Gemeente Rotterdam**.
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