from lost to the river ≠ de perdidos al río

Friday, 28 June 2024, 13:00-17:00

Online workshop organised with maiz & TITiPI

Session in English, informal translations facilitated.
The event is free of charge. Please register by e-mail: kontakt @ maiz.at

 

 

How are digital technologies changing our collective lives? What techno-politics do we practice, and which dependencies can we afford?

In this first episode*, we will look into machine translation tools and how they keep transforming everyday language. Together we will pay attention to the vast systems of capture and extraction that are involved in "saying" things across languages, online.

"From lost to the river" is the machinic translation into English of the Spanish expression "de perdidos al río", which refers to an attitude of not giving up trying, as there's nothing left to lose. We could also think of this expression as a call for finding the courage to imagine other types of digital tools, tools that contribute to social and environmental justice instead of the opposite.

Translation tools, automatic transcription, captioning and algorithmic speech-to-text set up relations full of losses and dependencies but at the same time they open up possibillities for bordercrossings and trans-local organising. How to practice linguistic complexity in daily digital landscapes?

This online workshop is for everyone who aims to crack open the box of digital languaging. We will exchange practices of translation on-line, and study some of the technologies involved. We will also experiment with machinic transcriptions, closed captions and automated translations. Special guest: digital artist Aggeliki Diakrousi.

+ info: https://titipi.org/?projects/fromlosttotheriver

 *from lost to the river ≠ de perdidos al río is a pilot for a series-in-the-making developed by maiz and The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest. Working towards anti-colonial and anti-fascist technologies, the sessions are an occasion to discuss, study and reimagine digital infrastructures across many interests and forms of knowledge. Graphic design: Emma Geslot

The Underground Division at live event with Hackers & Desginers' BodyBuilding: A Platform in Transition

On Wednesday 24th of June Hackers & Designers will launch their online platform, a website dedicated to publishing works from the BodyBuilding exhibition commissioned by Tetem. BodyBuilding was a process-driven exhibition curated by H&D, with the aim to investigate the intersection of technology and the agency of the (human, post-human, non-human) body from a maker's perspective. The physical and interactive structure, through which visitors were able to move, view, experience, and interact with the different artworks was on view only for a short duration due to the outbreak of COVID-19.

Join us on 24 June at 19.30 on the self-built streaming platform by H&D for a conversation with The Underground Division (Helen Pritchard, Femke Snelting and Jara Rocha) about their work ROCK REPO - questioning inhuman materialities and how they matter [in] the world, the crushing exploitations and extractions of normative 3D processes of geocomputation, and the act of translating between the 'physical' and the 'digital'. In addition to our conversations, we'll also listen together to a sound recording of 'Ultrasonic dreams of aclinical renderings' by The Underground Division and have a talk by Anja Groten on the notion of the platform and platformization. The audience will be able to join in the conversation via the chat.

With this website launch, and accompanying online event, H&D aims to translate the physical installation at Tetem into a digital space, taking the occasion to discuss digital platforms and hosting initiatives that currently gain a lot of attention. The event will pay attention to self-hosted video streaming and live video chat possibilities, as well as less conventional formats for online encounter, and invites the audience to join the discussion about the importance of challenging proprietary, commercial platforms such as Zoom, Teams and Google Hangouts that exploitat users' reliances on communication infrastructures in times of crisis.

Link to the live event and platform: https://live.hackersanddesigners.nl/

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More info:
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next-Iterations broadcasting event & publication presentation

Over the past three years, Iterations has been a beautiful ride through the landscape of artistic collaboration. Now, there is a publication. We invite you to discover the many new starting points it offers during next-Iterations, a two-day contemplative, playfully experimental and festive online event.

Join Sunday 17 May for a programme with contributions ranging from live radio transmissions to body exercises, talks, soundscapes and visual interventions.

next-Iterations starts at 13:00 with an introduction to the publication by editors-designers Jara Rocha and Manetta Berends.

Too early for a lazy weekend start-up? Come and co-inquire feminist infrastructures of support with Spideralex between 15:15 and 16:00, or partake in networked sonic spell-casting with Kym Ward at 16:30.

Did intensive listening make you thirsty? Join us at 18:15 in the IRC-BAR for ’collaborative’ cocktails prepared by the Rica Rickson collective.
Doesn’t fit your schedule? At all times you can pick up the
next-Iterations audio-stream from the website https://iterations.space/live and enjoy it in your preferred (off-screen?) environment.

Did the project Iterations escape your attention and now you are curious what it was all about? The organisers compact flashbacks, details, intentions and outcomes in a Pandipodium summary review on Monday 18 May between 13:30-14:15.

+ info: http://constantvzw.org/site/next-Iterations.html?lang=en