Relearn curved. First curl: Rotterdam/Varia

For the Rotterdam control point on the Relearn curve, we propose to together attend to a subject zone (*) where different digital network practices intersect. This subject zone can morph into multiple directions throughout the session. Our specific interest is in how publishing formats (**) operate with/on/through this zone.

* There are many questions in the air when we start to speak about digital infrastructures, hosters, servers, services, networks and their technical realities. Instead of picking one and diving deeper, we thought it would be more interesting to present a range and explore different vocabularies, protocols, technologies, infrastructures. We invite you to join Relearn to stretch this zone, starting from or moving towards:

• ▝   digital interdependencies
• ▘   affective infrastructures
• ▝   homebrew networks
• ▗   networked entanglements
• ▖   feminist servers
• ▖   federated networks
• ▝   and-and-networks
• ▚   digital autonomy
• ▖   transitional infrastructures
• ▞   digital selves-organisations
• ▖   so-and-sovereignty networks
• ▝   out-of-the-cloud thinking
• ▚   …

** We’re curious about learning through publishing formats. The different publishing formats serve as an invitation to embed ourselves within the subject zone of digital networks. How can these formats be our morphable lenses, that we use to relearn digital networks? Starting from or moving towards:

• ▝   multiple readers
• ▖   cross-readings created through algorithms
• ▞   logbooks
• ▝   syllabi
• ▚   documentation
• ▖   annotations
• ▝   cookbooks
• ▖   tutorials
• ▚   README
• ▖   bug reports
• ▗   link dumps
• ▝   scores
• ▖   …

Many sub-trajectories can emerge from here during the days, without the need of taking the same path or agreeing about vocabularies or geometries altogether.

+ info: http://relearn.be/2019/
+: http://varia.zone/

Relearn 2014 (Variable, BXL)

Relearn is a summerschool with as many teachers as it has participants. It is about sharing and trying Free Culture practices, and is entirely done with Free, Libre and Open Source software. Relearn takes place in Variable, a collectively run F/LOSS Arts Lab in Brussels. It starts from the idea that tools are increasingly mediated by software and the algorithmic and legal dynamics that constraint and shape its use. Reconnecting to the physical and digital material of those tools is a means of (re)asserting ownership and ensuring active participation in the future of our work practices.

Relearn starts on Sunday July 6 at 11:00 and ends Friday 11 July at 19:00
It takes place in Variable, Rue Gallait 80, Brussels.

+info: http://relearn.be/
+references: http://relearn.be/r/pedagogy::references
+schedule: http://osp.constantvzw.org:9999/p/summer-school-2014-schedule

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Arse-to-mouth-arse-to-mouth-arse-to-mouth

Marx’s famous claim that a school is formally no different to a sausage factory holds true. Now the same can also be said of content. The insides of a sausage or a university are both well described by the phrase: ‘it’s all lips and assholes, mate.’

(vía: University for Strategic Optimism)