Naturoculturas son disturbios #8 Martino Morandi & Jara Rocha feat. The (de)Ontologi(ci)sts

Listen online at:

https://dublab.es/shows/naturoculturas/11-04-22

Tracklist:

• The Flipping (de)Ontologi(ci)sts - The Flipping (de)Ontologi(ci)sts (2019)
• Missy Eliot - Work It - Work It (2002)
• chris dreier - P.S.Y.O.P (2021)
• Karmen Ponikvar - Linear constructions (2022)
• Jojo’s Skank - Chip on Fire - DISRUPT (2020)
• Hyena - Floor 01 - Particle Decelerator (2020)
• ATAMATOR - New approach to sort bits - Image Stitching (2014)
• ATAMATOR - Addicted To Final Tunnels (2018)
• Paratech - Gate Keepers (2018)
• Jona - Cosmic Ocean ⬝ Episode III (2021)
• Femke Snelting - How to Kill a Supercomputer - The Bitflipping Mixtape (2019)
• Helen Pritchard - Alpha Ray, Alpha Decay - The Bitflipping Mixtape (2019)
• Maria Dada - The Good Zero - The Bitflipping Mixtape (2019)
• Martino Morandi - Flip-Flap-Flop - The Bitflipping Mixtape (2019)
• Jara Rocha - Square Wave - The Bitflipping Mixtape (2019)

Conversation at the CSNI, about the Industrial Continuum of 3D

 The Center for the Study of the Networked Image (CSNI) is hosting a conversation about "The Industrial continuum of 3D":

 

Join us on Wednesday 3rd November 2021 at 14.00 (online) for our next research event hosted by Possible Bodies (Jara Rocha, Femke Snelting) in conversation with Martino Morandi.

The industrial continuum of 3D is a sociotechnical figuration and phenomenon that can be observed when volumetric techniques and technologies flow between diverse industries such as biomedical imaging, wild life conservation, border patrolling and Hollywood computer graphics. Its fluency is based on an intricate paradox: the continuum moves smoothly between distinct, different or even mutually exclusive fields of application, but leaves very little space for radical experiments and the resulting combinations are all but surprising. This conversation featuring Martino Morandi is an attempt to show how the consistent contradiction is established, to see the way power gathers around it, to get closer to what drives the circulation of industrial 3D and to describe what settles as a result. What possible techniques, paradigms and procedures for ‘computing otherwise’ can be activated around the representation of space-time, and which other worldings might be imagined?

Volumetric Regimes: material cultures of quantified presence (Open Humanities Press, DATA-browser series) proposes an intersectional inquiry into volumetrics which foregrounds procedural, theoretical and infrastructural practices that provide with a widening of the possible. The publication brings together diverse materials from a rich and ongoing conversation between artists, software developers and theorists on the political, aesthetic and relational regimes in which volumes are calculated. http://volumetricregimes.xyz

Join us online at:
https://bbb.constantvzw.org/b/csn-qck-1ci-zd6

+ info: https://www.centreforthestudyof.net/?p=5957

From de-schooling to re-instruction: a couple of scenes of techno-political transformation in learning environments

 

'The de-schooling movement — advanced by Ivan Illich and others in the 1970s⁵ — argued for reducing the hegemony of formal instruction in education, aiming for an empowerment of diffused and emancipated forms of learning throughout society that could depart the normative and oppressive forms of top-to-bottom pedagogy of schooling institutions. Part of the analysis consisted in how normative social arrangements and institutional pedagogy form a reproductive loop informing and reinforcing each other, which works by keeping formal schooling as the fundamental site for learning. The constructive part of the proposal, which included computer-aided “learning webs” as possible informal arrangements for self-directed education, ironically clashes with the harsh reality of the large and centralized computationalist⁶ empires that relegate informal and self-directed exchanges to the periphery of the Internet. Moreover, the social arrangements and extractive behaviors that these giants enact are entering the reproductive loop described above via their privative infrastructures and commercial apparatuses, with their pedagogy-disguised-as-a-service. This outright *re-instruction of education is ongoing, business as usual, but it is not inevitable nor unopposed.

As this re-instruction of learning environments carries dangers and damages, as well as openings and possibilities in multiple forms, we felt the need to reflect on, and tackle this complexity in the form of different “scenes”, attending closely to their different aspects and agents. Describing is one step. Problematizing is another. Indicating simultaneous potentialities is hopefully a third one. Because when things get mixed, when vibration takes place and unhinging occur, there is always a potential to try otherwise and actively engage in a re-arrangement in other terms and by differentiated means, with more just, politicized and solidary forces.'

 

Full text, in L'Internationale Online: https://www.internationaleonline.org/opinions/1064_from_de_schooling_to_re_instruction_a_couple_of_scenes_of_techno_political_transformation_in_learning_environments/

The Relearning Series:  https://constantvzw.org/wefts/relearningseries.en.html