added times and workshop links to events

_data/rf2020/events.yml

@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@
   lang_ : EN
   format: Workshop
   ref : the-museum-of-the-fossilized-internet
-  date : 2020-09-18 00:00
+  date : 2020-09-18 13:10
+  endDate : 2020-09-18 14:10
+  registration-link: https://framaforms.org/the-museum-of-the-fossilized-internet-1598525679
   description: |
     This miniature museum was founded in 2050 to commemorate two decades of a fossil-free internet and to invite museum visitors to experience what the coal and oil-powered internet of 2020 was like.
     
@@ -17,7 +19,9 @@
   lang_ : EN
   format: Workshop
   ref : peek-creating-games
-  date : 2020-09-18 00:00
+  date : 2020-09-18 16:30
+  endDate: 2020-09-18 19:30
+  registration-link: https://framaforms.org/peek-creating-games-for-understanding-futures-1599660602
   description: |
     In this workshop participants will make their own version of the science fiction/novel game, [Peek](http://thepeekgame.com/). Peek is an entertaining game for exploring the complexities and twisted narratives of the future, using a variety of story structures from traditional literature. In a series of exercises, participants will learn strategies for developing narrative games and will ultimately use Peek as a basis to create their own version of a speculative futures game, with their own stories and characters. No experience is required.
   participants: [1]
@@ -27,8 +31,10 @@
   lang_ : EN
   format: Workshop
   ref : avatars-in-zoom
-  date : 2020-09-18 00:00
+  date : 2020-09-18 11:00
+  endDate : 2020-09-18 13:00
   youtube: vwW8dSKMpSE
+  registration-link: https://framaforms.org/avatars-in-zoom-for-all-1599659675
   pic: /assets/img/rf2020/participants/eyal-gruss.png
   description: |    
     How can you be anybody in Zoomspace? Very recent developments in deep-learning, allow creating synthetic media of unprecedented quality and ease. The first-order-motion-model can do facial reenactment in real-time, provided with only a single image of your desired avatar. This came not a moment too soon, as Human communication was forced to move online due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Can this be an opportunity to fulfil the long promised cybernetic utopia, where we could shed our physical shells and become however we wish to be? And how does this pertain to issues of privacy, identity and trust? I will review the contemporary technologies and show how I use them in my artistic and activist practices. This is a hands-on participatory tutorial, where you will create deep-fake videos using your own materials, and play with various options of becoming an online avatar. No prior knowledge needed.
@@ -39,7 +45,9 @@
   lang_ : EN
   format: Workshop
   ref : pg-poetry-workshop
-  date : 2020-09-18 00:00
+  date : 2020-09-18 11:30
+  endDate: 2020-09-18 12:30
+  registration-link: https://framaforms.org/pgpoetry-1599659936
   description: |
     PGPoetry (Pretty Good Poetry) celebrates the aesthetic, poetic and political possibilities of PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) encryption protocol. Using PGP encryption protocol, I create abstract random poetry, readable only for the eyes of a specific recipient and of spying agencies (if they can decrypt them). For the rest of the world, the poems are basically digital Rorschach inkblot, and its meaning, as in every piece of art - depends on the audience's interpretation (interpretation is decryption!). With the rise of state surveillance in these emergency times, this project is more relevant than ever. PGPoetry workshop is an algorithmic poetry workshop which is also a crypto party for emergency times. In the workshop, the participants will try to figure out (and probably fail) how to read these poems, while I put them in the context and tradition of digital poetry and encrypted poetry, and raise questions about their meaning and artistic value. Then, I will teach the participants how to use PGP protocol via web based tools, and guide them as they experiment with creating PGPoetry.
   participants: [3]
@@ -49,7 +57,9 @@
   lang_ : EN
   format: Workshop
   ref : futures-literacy-for
-  date : 2020-09-18 00:00
+  date : 2020-09-18 15:00
+  endDate : 2020-09-18 16:30
+  registration-link: https://framaforms.org/futures-literacy-for-the-regenerative-economy-1599660429
   description: |
     We use the future everyday: when we plan what to eat for dinner, when we ruminate on life after COVID, when we demand action on carbon emissions and racist policing. But when we stop to think about the future itself, rather than what we want to happen in it, something quite profound can begin to happen. Karl Popper spoke of the ‘poverty of the imagination’, whereby fallacies of determinism begin to colonise our understandings of what is possible, and our hopes and fears begin to obscure the emergent, unpredictable nature of our complex world. As Riel Miller has said: “We betray the potential of our imagination to illuminate and invent the present if we cannot be liberated from the tyranny of using-the-future to win.” Our heterodox world of resistance has a host of compelling images and narratives of the future encoded into it, but how often do we make all of their assumptions explicit, play with them, and test and nurture our resilience by troubling them? This workshop has three stages, following the Futures Literacy Novelty Laboratory model (FLL-N): Reveal, Reframe, and Rethink. Each stage is carefully designed to guide participants from utopia, into uncertainty, and back again, availing of co-creative heuristics from Critical Futures Studies to distil the myths of our ‘anticipatory assumptions’, and to point the way to a ‘decolonisation of the future’, so that life is lived values-first in the present, rather than in anguish over the plainly unforeseeable. We will take as our subject matter on this journey: ‘futures of the regenerative economy’
   participants: [4]
@@ -59,7 +69,9 @@
   lang_ : EN
   format: Workshop
   ref : turbo-manana
-  date : 2020-09-18 00:00
+  date : 2020-09-18 17:00
+  endDate : 2020-09-18 19:30
+  registration-link: https://framaforms.org/turbo-manana-1599660736
   description: |
     Attendees will explore our aesthetic and socio-economic landscape and how it applies to possible futures and ways we can influence them. In a workshop format, the attendees can explore the following zones and ideate ways to create Turbo Mañana in their professional and personal lives.
     
@@ -89,7 +101,7 @@
   lang_ : EN
   format: Talk
   ref : feminist-data-set
-  date : 2020-09-19 00:00
+  date : 2020-09-19 19:00
   description: |
     What is feminist data inside of social networks, algorithms, and big data? How can we queer data, the archive, and the internet? How can a data set act as a form of protest, of a creation of bias mitigation? This talk looks at ways of intervention, from art, design, and technology that combat and challenge bias. How can we create data to be an act of protest against algorithms? Part of this talk will focus on Caroline's research and current art project, Feminist Data Set. Feminist Data Set acts as a means to combat bias and introduce the possibility of data collection as a feminist practice, aiming to produce a slice of data to intervene in larger civic and private networks. Exploring its potential to disrupt larger systems by generating new forms of agency, her work asks: can data collection itself function as an artwork?
   participants: [6]
@@ -99,7 +111,7 @@
   lang_ : EN
   format: Talk
   ref : personal-archive-public
-  date : 2020-09-19 00:00
+  date : 2020-09-19 19:40
   description: |
     In order to understand the complexities of our existence, the task of archiving needs to be inclusive. It is inevitable that no archive can ever be entirely complete but there should not be premeditated erasure. Our interest in archiving is not merely to gather information or to catalog it within the walls of a private institution. We have been working for six years to generate an archive that can be sent into the world -- with the goal to create something that can be freely seen in an undeniable way.
     
@@ -125,7 +137,7 @@
   lang_ : EN
   format: Talk
   ref : the-republic-of
-  date : 2020-09-19 00:00
+  date : 2020-09-19 14:55
   description: |
     I would like to present the Lithuanian artist Republic of Užupis as one possible example of how to approach societal change – in the past and today.
     
@@ -141,7 +153,7 @@
   lang_ : EN
   format: Talk
   ref : through-the-algorithmic
-  date : 2020-09-19 00:00
+  date : 2020-09-19 14:20
   description: |
     To quote Lizzie O’Shea in Future Histories, “The purpose of a usable past is not simply to be a record of history. Rather, by building a shared appreciation of moments and traditions in collective history, a usable past is a method for creating the world we want to see.” Very often past events and history can give us important signs to understand contemporary systems and technologies, and sometimes, also where decisions - good or bad - might be rooted. This talk will explore how algorithmic systems are becoming essential bricks for building and reorganising big parts of our society, but also how, while these systems are being adopted across different areas, we start to perceive the world through a less human and more machine-like lens. Touching on historical and literature references the talk will look at the politics and consequences of an algorithmically driven world and how artistic and activist groups can inspire critical conversations around the deployment of these systems, while enabling us to rethink and redesign these, for the shift to a more equitable AI.
   participants: [9]
@@ -151,7 +163,7 @@
   lang_ : EN
   format: Talk
   ref : from-cradle-to
-  date : 2020-09-19 00:00
+  date : 2020-09-19 13:45
   description: |
     “The future is already here..it's just not very evenly distributed.” William Gibson 1993
     
@@ -165,7 +177,7 @@
   lang_ : EN
   format: Talk
   ref : critical-latinofuturism-recontextualizing
-  date : 2020-09-19 00:00
+  date : 2020-09-19 17:35
   description: |
     With the passing of the North American Free Trade Agreement on January 1st 1994, the indigenous municipalities of Chiapas in Southern Mexico rose up to demand an end to the unregulated cycle of abuse they had been subjected to since the arrival of the Spanish Crown. Under the name of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), the armed organization declared war on the Mexican State, demanding "work, land, housing, food, health, education, independence, liberty, democracy, justice, and peace".
     
@@ -181,7 +193,7 @@
   lang_ : EN
   format: Talk
   ref : futurities-of-the
-  date : 2020-09-19 00:00
+  date : 2020-09-19 11:35
   description: |
     Technocapitalism has radically changed and impacted the manifestation of desire. Physical spaces where queer communities were meeting to have sex, to cruise are diseappering. Public bathrooms are being deserted, clubs are closing <span class="sup">(1)</span>, the act of cruising in urban, natural territories, spaces not designed for such purposes, is increasingly rare. With their disappearance, whole histories and narratives are erased <span class="sup">(2)</span>. In the absence of extensive queer archives, cruising utopias vanish, witnesses of liminal and forgotten histories.
     
@@ -201,7 +213,7 @@
   lang_ : EN
   format: Talk
   ref : bymg-intoxicated-interface
-  date : 2020-09-19 00:00
+  date : 2020-09-19 18:10
   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.
@@ -219,7 +231,7 @@
   format: Talk
   ref : agro-commune
   pic: /assets/img/rf2020/events/agro-commune.png
-  date : 2020-09-19 00:00
+  date : 2020-09-19 17:00
   description: |
     _What is the rural future in the era of postcolonial uprising? How do we dismantle modern industrial capital that extracts labor from disenfranchised black womxn workers?_ _Agro Commune_ is a para-fictional investigation where architecture is utilized as a lens to expose and respond to current geopolitical labor conditions. It began with the belief that architectural realities rarely start from a tabula rasa state. Rather, existing systems stand as a catalyst for new imaginations through disrupting and reconfiguring the present. The project imagines reparations for postcolonial states through farmland reform and renounces current global industries that thrive on the extraction of labor, capital and lands of others. 
 
@@ -231,7 +243,7 @@
   lang_ : EN
   format: Talk
   ref : critical-thought-around
-  date : 2020-09-19 00:00
+  date : 2020-09-19 12:45
   description: |
     Computational thinking is now taught in many higher technical courses. CT involves solving problems, designing systems, and understanding human behavior, by drawing on the concepts fundamental to computer science. In this presentation we will take a critical look at the CT approach and its epistemological foundations. I will present the paradigms on which the problem solving process is based, introduce the "Conquer & Divide" method, and illustrate the sometimes unhealthy interaction of CT with society through examples and anecdotes. I will end this critical overview with initiatives that assimilate CT in a critical gesture, such as de-computation. My wish is to generate astonishment and reflections that participants can share after the talk.
   participants: [15]
@@ -241,7 +253,7 @@
   lang_ : EN
   format: Talk
   ref : the-political-tragedy
-  date : 2020-09-19 00:00
+  date : 2020-09-19 12:00
   description: |
     Polls and predictions could not foresee the wide appeal of voting for Brexit, for Trump, against the predictions, against the future that was set in the numbers. As worrisome as these phenomenons may be, we can see some hope in this turn against data-driven-determinism. How could we seize this call to action to reignite our political imagination and reclaim the future?
   participants: [16]
@@ -251,7 +263,7 @@
   lang_ : EN
   format: Talk
   ref : last-seen-online
-  date : 2020-09-19 00:00
+  date : 2020-09-20 12:05
   pic: /assets/img/rf2020/events/last-seen-online.png
   description: |
     In a time in which death is moving rapidly online (funeral streaming services during COVID-19, #RIPcelebrity hashtags trending on Twitter), we all have to face the question of what happens to our own digital afterlives, as well as those of our loved ones. Digital death is the ultimate clash of familiar human concepts of time with the ubiquitous computational time. Facebook and Instagram offer possibilities for “immortalisation” with a memorialised profile, Twitter only offers deactivation. The need to humanise algorithms is now vital; Facebook friend suggestions and birthday reminders of the deceased aren’t exactly perceptive. Cue capitalising companies offering to use AI to analyse activity and learn how to post for you after death. But are their promises really immortal? And if, as predictions suggest, the dead soon outnumber the living on Facebook, who’s going to pay for their upkeep? Dead people aren’t very useful consumers; they won’t be clicking on those targeted ads. So what happens to the feedback loop when it’s the deceased generating the data? And who ultimately owns this data? This research began from a personal note following the death of my father. Unprepared, I found myself clinging to the digital traces that remained of him. Using participatory methods, I conversed with Facebook users who were vocalising a death on the platform. This research explores the presentation of the self across public platforms and negotiates a physical absence in light of a persistence digital presence. Anthropological research into death and grief online faces new challenges: omnipresent online traces, ethical algorithms, data storage and an online field-site. Essentially death is an inevitable accompaniment to our existence and, like in other fields, we are constantly catching up with technology and surrendering our control; this is no exception, perhaps we just need to acclimatise quicker than the companies.
@@ -262,7 +274,7 @@
   lang_ : EN
   format: Talk
   ref : i-can-remember
-  date : 2020-09-19 00:00
+  date : 2020-09-20 11:00
   description: |
     "I can remember" is a project that probes our relationship with machines by exploring the collectiveness of memories in the cycle between humans and machines. What is today often named artificial intelligence technologies are, in fact, cyborg technologies. They encapsulate an array of sentient experiences; they are the result of many different experiences of the world.
     
@@ -286,7 +298,7 @@
   lang_ : en
   format: Talk
   ref : the-afterlives-of-digital-rubbish
-  date : 2020-09-20 00:00
+  date : 2020-09-20 16:50
   description: |
     Among the various waste streams that our companies produce, e-waste (electronic waste) is the one that has been growing rapidly for several years, due to the constant replacement of telephones and laptops, televisions and game consoles and other miscellaneous peripherals. This kind of digital rubbish, which remains when their use is over, are generally discarded, sometimes stuffed in a box in the attic, sometimes in the trash, or in more or less serious recycling circuits. In addition to the refurbishment of digital objects such as smartphones, computers or connected objects, many unique and original reuse practices exist to make these machines last, or reinvent them: techniques for the conservation or enhancement of past machines, reuse of parts and components taken from unused devices to create low-cost information systems, electronic craftsmanship aimed at customising, adapting or creating digital objects in limited editions, competitions, festivals and workshops for the design of video games, demos or musical content on computers and consoles from the 1980s and 1990s, etc. On the basis of an ongoing investigation of the re-use practices of digital objects, this presentation will address the anthropological issues of the second life of digital objects. In doing so, it will address ways of returning to the idea of progress, of questioning it and of finding original avenues by integrating the sustainability of our digital devices.
   participants: [19]
@@ -296,7 +308,7 @@
   lang_ : EN
   format: Talk
   ref : understanding-the-5-g
-  date : 2020-09-20 00:00
+  date : 2020-09-20 14:20
   description: |
     During the past years 5G has been adverstised by industry leaders as the future of the tech. Nevertheless there is little data about its environmental impacts and about the necessity of such infrastructure for future challenges (global warming, resource scarcity, ...). This talk intends to describe the 5G infrastructure and some of the different controversies around it like energy and environmental impacts. The rise of big tech infrastructure, such as 5G, without any public consultation is heavely problematic as it locks down on a specific, and presumably unsustainable, technological path. 5G is likely to be a keystone to reclaim governance and democratic debate on future infrastructures. 5G also asks a key question : can we collectively steer and manage the evolution of internet traffic or are you condemned to an exponential growth to the benefit of some private actors ?
   participants: [20]
@@ -307,7 +319,7 @@
   format: Talk
   pic: /assets/img/rf2020/events/mine-of-humanism.png
   ref : the-mine-of
-  date : 2020-09-20 00:00
+  date : 2020-09-19 15:45
   description: |
     A speculative project made in response to the ongoing discussions raised by numerous futurists and technologists on the hypothetical point called the technological singularity. Often, the technologists and futurists talk about how this technological growth can become uncontrollable and irreversible. Either this hypothetical point be consequential or beneficial, there are a lack of conversations touching upon how the relationship between the human and technology should be. The narratives are established within the perspective from one of the people who decided to escape the city tending towards the technological singularity. The vision is to resettle a new community with a vision that speaks against technological centralisation. As mining was one of the early operations that sparked the industrial revolution, the new community is built on top of an abandoned mine settlement to invert the conventional notion of a technological revolution. The project sits in 2050 and speculates on an alternative reaction to the city tending towards the technological singularity by decentralising themselves to an extreme. The concept is inspired by the theory of relativity in space-time physics and how blockchain technology operates on its own internal time system
   participants: [21]
@@ -317,7 +329,7 @@
   lang_ : EN
   format: Talk
   ref : can-computation-produce
-  date : 2020-09-20 00:00
+  date : 2020-09-20 16:15
   description: |
     The form of the digital datum is discrete, fungible, and familiar, and digital mediation presupposes commensurability between various ontic, epistemic, and aesthetic phenomena. My paper asks whether digital media may nevertheless yield new, unrecognizable or sui generis forms. I take philosopher M. Beatrice Fazi’s reading of Gilles Deleuze’s aesthetics as my primary hermeneutic lens. Deleuze claims that aesthetic novelty, or that which has no formal precedent, issues from numerically continuous fluxes. Thus it cannot originate in digital media, which are discrete. Fazi intervenes by distinguishing the form of the digital datum from the process of computation. She indicates that the latter partakes of infinite and indeterminate sources and is continuous across time. As such, computational processes retain the capacity to yield the Deleuzean new.
     
@@ -361,7 +373,7 @@
   lang_ : EN
   format: Talk
   ref : melancholic-cryptonymy-and-aesthetic-threshold
-  date : 2020-09-20 00:00
+  date : 2020-09-20 12:40
   description: |
     Where the melancholic is resistant to mourn what is understood in
     psychoanalysis as the lost object, which instead of being replaced
@@ -406,17 +418,20 @@
   lang_ : EN
   format: Talk
   ref : things-are-people-too
-  date : 2020-09-20 00:00
+  date : 2020-09-20 11:30
+  pic: /assets/img/rf2020/events/things-are-people.png
   description: |
    “Animism had endowed things with souls; industrialism makes souls into things.” - Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno
 
-    The talk circles around notions of care for the material and more specifically for the objects that we surround ourselves with. Ontological design derives from Heidegger how we not only design objects, but also how these objects design our ontologies. Consumer electronics became steady companions in our life. Not only do we interact with them on a regular base, they also accompany us throughout the day. We could call them companion objects, following Donna Haraway’s concept of companion species — electronics and people, who are bonded in significant otherness.
+    The talk circles around notions of care for the non-human and more specifically for the technologies that we surround ourselves with. Anne-Marie Willis’ ontological design describes how we not only design objects, but also how these objects design our ontologies. Consumer electronics and algorithms became steady companions in our life. Not only do we interact with them on a regular base, they also accompany us throughout the day. We could call them companion technologies, following Donna Haraway’s concept of companion species — digital technologies and people, who are bonded in significant otherness.
 
-    These electronic objects are highly designed and branded experiences, to be consumed and discarded. They gift us a membership of specific cultural demographics. They’re not made to last, unlike you would expect from an expensive kitchen knife or a pair of good shoes. Their frictionless design makes them easily replaceable, which also expresses itself in the sheer unrepairability. Following this lines of thought, design practices disable not only the care for the object, but also our understanding of the importance to care for the material.
+    These technological products and processes are highly designed and branded experiences, to be consumed and discarded. They gift us a membership of specific cultural demographics. They’re not made to last, unlike you would expect from a good pair of shoes. Their frictionless design makes them easily replaceable, which also expresses itself in the sheer unrepairability. Following these lines of thought, design practices disable not only the care for the thing, but also our understanding of the importance to care for our immediate environment.
 
     Consumer electronics become mediators of ontological affordances.
 
-    Repair practices break this dependence on exploitative entities. They root us firmly back into the material. Alternative ways of caring for companion objects are also found in shintoistic practice. This is exemplified by Hari-Kuyō, a burial festival for broken-needles, in which these are honored for their services and then recycled. Animistic epistemologies enable us to level the ontological field and create social ties to objects. These epistemologies then enable different ways to care and respect the material. In the light of the environmental impact of electronics, cared for and long-living companion objects seem to be a desirable alternative.
+    Alternative ways of caring for companion technologies are found in animistic practice. Animistic epistemologies enable us to level the ontological field and create social ties to things. These epistemologies then enable different ways for caring and respectful relations to the non-human. In the light of the environmental impact of todays technologies, cared for and long-living companion things seem to be a desirable alternative.
+
+    How then can we imagine our relationship to technological products and processes otherwise? How can we imagine their ontological status and our entanglement with them anew?
   participants: [26]
 
 - id : 27
@@ -424,7 +439,7 @@
   lang_ : EN
   format: Talk
   ref : shock-doctrine-as-a-service
-  date : 2020-09-20 00:00
+  date : 2020-09-20 15:30
   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]
@@ -443,4 +458,23 @@
   links: 
     - https://simmer.io/@materianstbl/nod 
 
+- id : 19
+  title_ : RF introdcution & opening remarks
+  lang_ : EN
+  format: misc
+  date : 2020-09-18 10:45
+  ref : no-ref
 
+- id : 20
+  title_ : Day introduction — Saturday
+  lang_ : EN
+  format: misc
+  date : 2020-09-19 11:20
+  ref : no-ref
+
+- id : 21
+  title_ : Day introduction — Sunday
+  lang_ : EN
+  format: misc
+  date : 2020-09-20 10:45
+  ref : no-ref