updated some participant/event info

_data/rf2020/events.yml

@@ -202,13 +202,14 @@
   ref : bymg-intoxicated-interface
   date : 2020-09-19 00:00
   description: |
+    
     Unlike other dutiful female characters of Russian folklore, Baba Yaga is a powerful, anarchic witch. She lives alone in the woods; rejects household labour, repurposing the mortar and pestle for high-speed transportation, with broom as anti-tracking device; commands the undead; cannibalises. Baba Yaga is shape-shifting and gender-ambiguous, by turn gatekeeper, helper, or child eater. In her spirit, I propose Baba Yaga Myco Glitch, acts of refusal that use bread, the sacred ‘staff of life,’ as a carrier for ideological hypnotism.
 
     There is a conspiracy theory in Russia that industrially produced yeast bread is infected with a ‘killer yeast’ designed to destroy the human organism from the inside out. It has also been suggested that rye bread caused the Salem Witch Trials. The symptoms of the ‘cursed’ girls were akin to ergotism, caused by mycotoxic parasitic fungus that thrives on rye. The same hallucinations, convulsions, and gangrene halted Peter the Great’s attack on the Ottoman Empire in 1722.
 
     Inspired by ergot distribution and the symbiotic mycorrhizal networks of our tree kin, Baba Yaga Myco Glitch seeks to disrupt rigid structures from Salem to Shanghai to Siberia. We hijack yeasty-conspiracies and use them only for good. We misbehave in the kitchen. We harvest mind-altering wild yeasts, knead incantations into the sourdough, use it as capacitive sensor to transmit kneading data to the network, bake Yagic sigils. Glitch yeasts ferment and metabolise energy anew. We distribute our starter, infecting its ingesters with powerful hallucinogenic visions of alternative futures.
 
-    I will present a contextual research talk on BYM, which will be followed / seep into a performace of a digital-fermentation ritual of intoxication and kneading out of capitalist kinks in our systems.
+    I will present a contextual research talk on BYMG, which may seep into a performance of a digital-fermentation ritual of intoxication and kneading out of capitalist kinks in our systems.
   participants: [13]
 
 - id : 14
@@ -329,7 +330,6 @@
   lang_ : EN
   format: Artwork
   ref : looking-glass
-  date : 2020-09-20 00:00
   description: |
     lookingGlass:
     A Digital Immersive Theatre and Gaming Experience
@@ -427,9 +427,6 @@
   description: |
     The last fifteen years has seen a surge of interest in decentralised technology. From well-funded blockchain projects like IPFS to the emergence of large scale information networks such as Dat, Scuttlebutt and ActivityPub, this is renewed life in peer-to-peer technologies; a renaissance that enjoys widespread growth, driven by the desire for platform commons and community self-determination. These are goals that are fundamentally at odds with – and a response to – the incumbent platforms of social media, music and movie distribution and data storage. As we enter the 2020s, centralised power and decentralised communities are on the verge of outright conflict for the control of the digital public space. The resilience of centralised networks and the political organisation of their owners remains significantly underestimated by protocol activists. At the same time, the decentralised networks and the communities they serve have never been more vulnerable. The peer-to-peer community is dangerously unprepared for a crisis-fuelled future that has very suddenly arrived at their door.
   participants: [27]
-  links: 
-    - url: https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/this-is-fine/
-    - name: 'This is Fine: Optimism & Emergency in the P2P Network'
 
 - id : 18
   title_ : NOD (Neural Optimal Decisor)
@@ -442,5 +439,7 @@
     The experience drives the player into the NOD perspective in charge of improving human lives. In this sense, players can track people's actions, communications, and variables through devices connected to the internet. Smartphones, smartwatches, and other devices become interfaces to take an in-depth look at people's private life. A simple game mechanic allows players to identify people as metadata of their physical dimension, accompanied by lectures that label people's current status. The NOD must make decisions by humans based on their probabilistic measurements of well- being. However, for better or worse, humans seem to want to run away from predictability.  
     The game arises from a series of questions. What range of options do we have to make a decision? Is our identity being demarcated by algorithms? Are we an extension or part of a kind of digital monoculture? Do we govern our lives, or are these driven by the influence of data presented to us in seemingly harmless and casual ways?  
   participants: [28]
+  links: 
+    - https://simmer.io/@materianstbl/nod 
 
 

_data/rf2020/participants.yml

@@ -135,14 +135,13 @@
   pronouns : She / Her
   links : ['http://annatokareva.net/', 'https://instagram.com/some.small.things']
   bio: |  
-    My research-led practice explores entanglements between technoscience and contemporary mythologies, at micro and planetary scales. Currently preoccupied with the subtleties and fictions of post-Cold War technopolitics and ecologically configured collaborations and fungi inspired parasitic structures. Interested in manifesting alternatives to systemic imbalances; planting intoxicating thought-weeds. I make digital art, design, and write.
+    Anna Tokareva obtained a Bachelor of Fine Art (Hons) from Elam, University of Auckland and a Master of Creative Technologies with First Class Honours from Colab, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. She was then selected to join The New Normal research programme at the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design, Moscow. Tokareva’s ongoing research-led practice explores the mythologies and fictions of post-Cold War technopolitics, post-Soviet decolonial thought, and speculation on anti-capitalist futures and multi-species collaboration. Interested in manifesting alternatives to systemic imbalances; planting intoxicating thought-weeds. She makes digital art, design, and writes.

+    Her e-book essay, “Nooscope: The Political Myth of Planetary Scale Computation,” was published by the Digital Cultures Institute, NZ in 2018, and her essay “Baba Yaga Myco Glitch” will be published in Queer Feminist Decolonial Ecologies Dossier, London, UK; in Kajet Journal, Bucharest, RO; and in href zine, Bremen, DE in 2020. Tokareva’s work has been published and exhibited in New Zealand,  Europe and the UK.
 
-    I completed a Master of Creative Technologies (First Class Honours) at Colab, AUT and was selected to join Strelka’s The New Normal, a postgraduate research programme and think tank. My book essay, “Nooscope: The Political Myth of Planetary Scale Computation,” was published by the Digital Cultures Institute in late 2018.
-    
-    2020: Currently based in London, UK
-    1998: Migrated to Tāmaki-makau-rau / Auckland,
+    **2020**: Currently based in London, UK  
+    **1998**: Migrated to Tāmaki-makau-rau / Auckland,
     Aotearoa / New Zealand  
-    1988: Born in Rostov-na-Donu, (then) USSR / (now) Russia
+    **1988**: Born in Rostov-na-Donu, (then) USSR / (now) Russia"  
 
 - id : 14
   fullname : Stephanie Kyuyoung Lee
@@ -218,7 +217,8 @@
   fullname : Emma Stamm
   ref: emma-stamm
   pronouns : She/her
-  links : ['http://www.o-culus.com', 'https://twitter.com/turing_tests']
+  links : ['http://www.o-culus.com', 'https://twitter.com/14floating']
+  pic: /assets/img/rf2020/participants/emma-stamm.png
   bio: |
     Emma Stamm holds a Ph.D. in Cultural and Social Thought from Virginia Tech, where she teaches courses in digital media studies. Her interests include continental philosophy, critical technology studies, and political theory, and her current research theorizes the normative impact of digital methods on scientific knowledge. She is also a freelance writer and musician.
 
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@
   ref: materia-inestable
   pic: /assets/img/rf2020/participants/materia-inestable.png
   pronouns : they/them
-  links : ['https://cargocollective.com/materiainestable/NOD-Neural-Optimal-Decisor']
+  links : ['https://www.instagram.com/materiainestable']
   bio: |
     Materia Inestable (Unstable Matter in english) is a Colombian Art Collective Studio formed two years ago by three transdisciplinary professionals who experiences Arts from different perspectives. Our academical background merged Arts, Design and Physics on experiences where the technology becomes a new media able to push boundaries of our disciplines on different scenarios. Although our collective group stayed together one year for research purposes, it is officially our first work as a collective.  
     The members of the group met in an educational project focused on promoting the critical and empathetic use of technology, for example in the use of so-called tangible programming to improve life in new ways, up to the idea of possible worlds in augmented and virtual reality. All this in the context of official schools and universities in Bogotá. Thus, in the continuous search to innovate in didactics, methodologies and strategies to promote the curiosity and creativity of our students, it was inevitable to find fundamental questions about the technique.  
@@ -317,4 +317,4 @@
   fullname : Michael Redman
   ref: michael-redman
   bio: |
-    Michael Redman is a media designer and technologist focused on collaborating to tell stories that are not fairly represented. Recent credits include – Off-Broadway: My Life On A Diet (Theatre at St. Clements). New York: Hairspray (Argyle Theatre), Seph (Araca Project), Bamboo in Bushwick (Working Theatre), Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom (Brooklyn College at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre). Washington DC: Long Way Down (The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts), Dontrell Who Kissed the Sea (Theatre Alliance, Helen Hayes nomination). Michael currently serves as the Assistant Technical Director at Brooklyn College.
+    _Michael Redman_ is a media designer and technologist focused on collaborating to tell stories that are not fairly represented. Recent credits include – Off-Broadway: My Life On A Diet (Theatre at St. Clements). New York: Hairspray (Argyle Theatre), Seph (Araca Project), Bamboo in Bushwick (Working Theatre), Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom (Brooklyn College at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre). Washington DC: Long Way Down (The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts), Dontrell Who Kissed the Sea (Theatre Alliance, Helen Hayes nomination). Michael currently serves as the Assistant Technical Director at Brooklyn College.

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_layouts/event.html

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