https://tv.undersco.re/about/instancehttps://tv.undersco.re/videos/localhttps://tv.undersco.re/w/r74ZpLSLcJvDvtwpyy3wzEhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/cb7109b6-c234-449c-982c-e0ec94359548.jpgThe Para Real: Finding the Future in Unexpected PlacesThe Para Real: Finding the Future in Unexpected Places SERIES TRAILER **Read [The Para-Real Manifesto](https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/the-para-real-manifesto)** We are in an endless and breathless scramble for the future, a goldrush in the debris of depleted digital societies and crypto-scams. Experimenting with a new format for documenting expert interviews, [NEW DESIGN CONGRESS](https://newdesigncongress.org), C/O BERLIN'S [C/O DIGITAL](https://co-digital.org) and [RECLAIMFUTURES](https://reclaimfutures.org) present The Para-Real: Finding the Future in Unexpected Places, a livestream/research series about subcultures building livelihoods and solidarity in networks of exploitation and austerity. These subcultures, communities and movements have seized upon the para-real now offer an ever-growing, compelling multitude of cohesive, nuanced and battle-tested imagined futures. They transact, skill-share, and have built just enough power to have the guns of the global neo-fascist pointed directly at them. _We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us._ https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/cb4d634f-da0a-4552-b596-8271eb14cfe8https://tv.undersco.re/w/1xSa85VXnYFVC49xKHPJAuhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/a4b8d0ec-091a-4649-aaf9-11d8f9782b4c.jpgThe Para-Real | “It’s Weird, Okay!? I Get It’s Weird!”: Embodying the Self in the Para-Real**Read [The Para-Real Manifesto](https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/the-para-real-manifesto)** The Para-Real: Finding the Future in Unexpected Places // EPISODE 1 The Para-Real is an ephemeral space that exists in the moment where digital systems and the real world collide. But what does that look like, and how does it affect us? The most immediate examples of the influence of the Para-Real is on our understanding of identity, intimacy and social ties. [A Wider Screen](https://joeahunting.com/a-wider-screen) (2019) is a remarkable short film that follows [VRChat](https://vrchat.com) players as their experiences within the platform changes their internal and external lives. As the Para-Real affects the early adopters of social VR, filmmaker Joe Hunting intimately explores these new and surreal interactions, romances and the embodiment of social self beyond the flattened digital world. After streaming the film, [Joe Hunting](https://joeahunting.com) and [Cade “Shibco” Diehm](https://shiba.computer) reflect on identity and self-discovery, and the affect of the Para-Real.https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/0472f7a6-f288-416b-b916-90474e3cc340https://tv.undersco.re/w/cHeXQ2bhP8J6yb5qMWJ6wohttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/dd1cd185-6bfc-4429-8b78-03242a612b88.jpgThe Para Real | We Are Here Because of Those Who Are Not: Claiming the Para Real**Read [The Para-Real Manifesto](https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/the-para-real-manifesto)** The Para-Real: Finding the Future in Unexpected Places // EPISODE 2 The Para-Real mirrors real world politics into digital spaces, amplified by hardware costs, supply chain injustices and connectivity access. Though celebrated as a refuge for the weird, the 1990s digital culture overwhelmingly favoured a demographic with the material means and luxury of time to immerse themselves in it. The result of this historical lack of access is a homogeneous digital culture with narrow definitions of identity, aesthetics and functionality. Through reflection on their trailblazing work and experiences as an artist, [Danielle Braithwaite-Shirley](https://www.daniellebrathwaiteshirley.com) details the shortfalls of today's digital identity systems, the missing voices from early digital culture, and the unexpected outcomes when game engines, creative tools and hardware are liberated from class barriers and become universally accessible.https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/5ed69fe2-fede-483d-a14f-e64855d49fa6https://tv.undersco.re/w/r8VYzteYzxSgaL9Jftasi8https://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/112d9041-c284-4ea8-bceb-4e6c850ab37f.jpgThe Para Real | Decentralised Networks of Care: The Para-Real as Mutual Aid**Read [The Para-Real Manifesto](https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/the-para-real-manifesto)** The Para-Real: Finding the Future in Unexpected Places / EPISODE 3 In an era of fractured exploitation and inequality, how can we take health and care back into our hands? [The Hologram](https://thehologram.xyz) is social medicine for a cooperative species and is a bold vision for revolutionary care: a viral, peer-to-peer feminist health network. Years in development, the Hologram had already begun to grow before the events of 2020. But it's timing could not have been more critical. The Hologram's online work began almost exactly after the moment when the day before became "life before." And when we sat, minds racing in our homes and thinking and fearing the unthinkable, the Hologram was already in motion. One part art, one part activism and one part science fiction, Cassie Thornton, Shawn Chua and Lauren Klein describe their process of seizing and re-purposing platforms to create a desperately needed and blossoming practice based support structure.https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/cb8fefbb-60a1-4475-aeff-1da8c93760e1https://tv.undersco.re/w/djX6Wmyo6qhmzmHv4XXmm9https://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/981eec4c-8556-4859-8dfb-a3dea41c5bc8.jpgThe Para Real | The Para-Real World Fair: The Logistics of the Largest Immersive Digital Arts Market**Read [The Para-Real Manifesto](https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/the-para-real-manifesto)** At the height of the worst economic crisis in nearly 50 years, an underground creative class was putting the finishing touches on one of the largest showcases of digital assets assembled to date. VIRTUAL MARKET 5 brought together modelers, animators, coders and visual artists from all over the world in a month long international flea market. Over 1000 stalls, all filled with buyable items, attracted an unprecedented patronage - the market saw a staggering 700,000 unique visitors. LilBagel shares his expertise as Virtual Ambassador and how this enormous international event is a model for real material stability for a multi-disciplinary creative class. https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/63d30283-78a5-4ba4-994b-b87b6d8ffb08https://tv.undersco.re/w/i65AUk2oMhAed4qhoyE78Khttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/21bce7b1-9223-42fa-9dd1-8880b4debae8.jpgFigures | Adam Greenfield × Benjamin Royer × Cade DiehmFigures | Adam Greenfield × Benjamin Royer × Cade Diehmhttps://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/8a60e979-427e-41c0-8cad-d27b2eb56f49https://tv.undersco.re/w/jXEFFAjBsiCohi7powR3NRhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/fd167ea2-5eb5-4592-96d2-5bd656c85989.jpgTHIS IS FINE: A FILM ABOUT THE LOOP | TRAILERTrailer for _This is Fine (2020)_, a documentary about tech solutionism. Written, directed and edited by Cade Diehm.https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/998a3e42-a8d3-44d9-879e-36561f7271edhttps://tv.undersco.re/w/9M5LgyVeYzmnPSsAXGeHZFhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/3527046d-3f74-4336-8e33-e53e915ebaf6.jpgDesign Ethics? No Thanks! (Cade Diehm at IDXA Budapest 2021)Will design ethics save design? As the broader design community becomes increasingly uncomfortable with the structures and clients it serves, a growing movement seeks to integrate ethics into design practice. But this prioritises individual decisions and values over critical analysis of socio-political and economic outcomes. The pop discourse that calls for ethics indemnifies designers and obfuscates the inherent problems of their work, resulting in the celebration of projects that at their core problematic, such as digital wellness, decentralised systems, autonomous cars and inclusive facial recognition. Building on the essay “On Weaponised Design,” and an ongoing research project with the [New Design Congress](https://newdesigncongress.org), Design Ethics? No Thanks explores how design has enabled a decade of absurdity and examine how design ethics threatens to neutralise both the critique of outcomes and the potential contribution of design to a radically reimagined world. (Content warning for images of crisis, violence)https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/471483ae-cd56-418a-884d-2858ec600d3dhttps://tv.undersco.re/w/m3xEMV271qwuAqcaNbBwWwhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/a62f8903-fe0e-488c-8117-63d83627ac1e.jpgAssembling a private book-reader convertible laptopI'd been looking for a small, portable device like this for a long time. I read *a lot*, and scribble or leave notes all over printed PDFs and books. And as part of my [[ongoing efforts to drop out of the surveillance economy without sacrificing joyful computing|Quiet Tech]], I've long been looking for a handheld computer with a decent tablet hardware, decent mouse/trackpad input, physical resilience and decent battery life. Luckily, such a device exists! https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/a251c700-07c8-436c-b11c-46a95987472ahttps://tv.undersco.re/w/fNq9vX4oXThyuDbY3ae9vuhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/a9dd658a-38a3-4813-92f6-cdb66ef445e5.jpgState of the Co-op Cloud 2023Co-op Cloud launched a public beta in May 2022 and has seen a lot of interest from hosters, hackers and end-users. We are currently in the process of forming our organisational model which help us make decisions collectively and work towards financial stability. In this talk, we share an update on where we're at, how we got there and where we hope to go in 2023. If you're looking for an overview of the project without diving in to the technical weeds, then this might be for you! Other useful references: - https://coopcloud.tech - https://coopcloud.tech/blog/federation-proposal - https://culturalfoundation.eu/stories/cosround4_autonomiccooperativehttps://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/77db0921-feb6-44e3-bb2a-a0c997dbd8a6https://tv.undersco.re/w/6PSp6FaRAguadevjf11EkPhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/43ef494b-8e0f-480f-811e-d83ad0f5b93d.jpgThe Para-Real, tactical media, and the failures of European tech criticism_“I wanted to talk about tactical media but… I come here with a bit of impatience...._ _…because while we’re busy having discussions about the complexity of infrastructure itself, our opponents are busy making things that work, or things that cognitively make so much sense that a small child unsupervised can become an international criminal mastermind in the real world.”_ In this 2023 talk at the [Institute of Network Cultures](https://networkcultures.org/), [New Design Congress](https://newdesigncongress.org) founder [Cade Diehm](https://shiba.computer) lays bare the multi-decade failure of tech criticism and open source, and the hubris of European funders masquerading as operatives for change. While big tech continues its march unimpeded by civil society, the [*para-real*](https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/the-para-real-manifesto) political activation of hidden international subcultures offer a fresh perspective on truly transformative tactical media.https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/2f2cb5a2-5378-4567-ae39-17a24bf0e095https://tv.undersco.re/w/8KPA8C96FQkYhSUwJysLr3https://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/996ccb0b-3827-49b5-be50-bc033ecfa8bf.jpgAvatars in Zoom for All — Eyal Gruss | ReclaimFutures2020[WORKSHOP REPLAY] 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. https://reclaimfutures.org/rf2020/events/avatars-in-zoom Intro music: [sumthing tethered - GOD69](https://god69.bandcamp.com/track/sumthing-tethered) More about [ReclaimFutures 2020](https://reclaimfutures.org/rf2020)https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/3ece47b9-1df8-4fae-b9b1-0c4dc3e1c5achttps://tv.undersco.re/w/t8DKHCgPAYafbDcZgbVUA9https://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/84139f22-5c5c-48c8-97e4-6c4b103f0856.jpgPGPoetry workshop — Yoav Lifshitz | ReclaimFutures2020[WORKSHOP REPLAY] 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. https://reclaimfutures.org/rf2020/events/pg-poetry-workshop Intro music: sumthing tethered - GOD69 (https://god69.bandcamp.com/track/sumthing-tethered) More about ReclaimFutures 2020: https://reclaimfutures.org/rf2020https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/dbb8377f-55b9-4f83-b284-5b85695aa514https://tv.undersco.re/w/3oYU9SwryebG7nSXZ6n6A8https://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/f8fe7430-f69d-4ea6-bd39-7e3f4eaaab13.jpgThe Museum of the Fossilized Internet — Michelle Thorne | ReclaimFutures2020[WORKSHOP REPLAY] 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. Gasp at the horrors of surveillance capitalism. Nod knowingly at the plague of spam. Be baffled at the size of AI training data and lament the binge culture of video streaming. In this participatory workshop, we’ll explore the major contributors to the internet’s carbon emissions as well as build upon and dream of positive steps towards a more sustainable internet. https://reclaimfutures.org/rf2020/events/the-museum-of-the-fossilized-internet Intro music: sumthing tethered - GOD69 (https://god69.bandcamp.com/track/sumthing-tethered) More about ReclaimFutures 2020: https://reclaimfutures.org/rf2020https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/1367b4a4-3b27-416a-8caa-22d21378f667https://tv.undersco.re/w/hdcMhK6Ar3ZQfrdnPZy6bchttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/65f63dc4-c7dc-4c1a-92c3-de0ba66e87b5.jpgThrough the Algorithmic Lens — Irini Papadimitriou | ReclaimFutures2020To 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. https://reclaimfutures.org/rf2020/events/through-the-algorithmic Intro music: sumthing tethered - GOD69 (https://god69.bandcamp.com/track/sumthing-tethered) More about ReclaimFutures 2020: https://reclaimfutures.org/rf2020https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/8346676c-8a35-446f-beb0-eb28e4f7d833https://tv.undersco.re/w/m7kEqKzKtNVsJ1iYSjthckhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/12771f06-3e01-4120-9b4b-d56d65c2c0af.jpgFrom cradle-to-grave- Tech won’t save us — Recyclism aka Benjamin Gaulon | ReclaimFutures2020“The future is already here..it’s just not very evenly distributed.” William Gibson 1993 ”From cradle-to-grave : Tech won’t save us” explores the social and environmental impacts of information and communication technologies, using the life-cycle analysis as a framework for that research. Using this systemic analysis, Benjamin will introduce works by new media artists, designers, researchers and hacktivists that are addressing those issues, using strategies such as Tactical Media, Retail Poisoning, Urban Hacking and more. https://reclaimfutures.org/rf2020/events/from-cradle-to Intro music: sumthing tethered - GOD69 (https://god69.bandcamp.com/track/sumthing-tethered) More about ReclaimFutures 2020: https://reclaimfutures.org/rf2020https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/a2d95a70-dad3-40ac-aa2d-ac6b2c4a7fe9https://tv.undersco.re/w/8RNZXyjA8DWraBC1c1RSLbhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/70b475b1-6f1d-4b32-b012-b1fcfde4741f.jpgPeek- creating games for understanding futures — Evan Raskob | ReclaimFutures2020[WORKSHOP REPLAY] In this workshop participants will make their own version of the science fiction/novel game, Peek. 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. https://reclaimfutures.org/rf2020/events/peek-creating-games Intro music: sumthing tethered - GOD69 (https://god69.bandcamp.com/track/sumthing-tethered) More about ReclaimFutures 2020: https://reclaimfutures.org/rf2020https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/3fa46132-cf63-4584-8c45-3e456b39b592https://tv.undersco.re/w/keYsr9fyTFyfPTFJL7dNXMhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/bfc841dc-6755-4e65-bdd3-9e4884678555.jpgTurbo Mañana — Andrew van Hyfte | ReclaimFutures2020[WORKSHOP REPLAY] 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. How and why is it that some experiential products that sell a feeling or vibe have license to “own” radically futuristic visions? Why do others all look the same? — At its core, it’s just about money. C.R.E.A.M (Humanist Blandcore) Attendees will explore what lies beyond capitalist realism. Philosophical/Existential/Socio-economic forces — I’ve mapped out philosophical axes and socio-economic drivers that motivate and fuel aesthetics and cultural production. We must realize that capitalism will consume Earth’s resources until it’s exhausted unless we find another way to live in-between abundance and scarcity. (McDaas/Capitalocene) What’s Next? — Are we going to get medieval again? (Neo-Feudalism) Or will we wake up and places bets on activities, provocation and cultural production that inspires imagination and multitudes of possible futures? (Turbo Mañana) A new sun rises. https://reclaimfutures.org/rf2020/events/turbo-manana Intro music: sumthing tethered - GOD69 (https://god69.bandcamp.com/track/sumthing-tethered) More about ReclaimFutures 2020: https://reclaimfutures.org/rf2020https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/9bd1187b-fad1-49bb-ab00-b46fc41369dbhttps://tv.undersco.re/w/9ARex6n9rjRkXwATesXqtjhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/da16fdb4-fa21-4844-aa8d-3643aba70011.jpgCritical thought around computational thinking - Mathieu Payn | ReclaimFutures2020Computational 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. https://reclaimfutures.org/rf2020/events/critical-thought-aroundhttps://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/45a6bd15-76e6-49de-9a4b-2e9b5b9eb8a8https://tv.undersco.re/w/tQ2q1zLsYkXVoccLWz7woXhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/4f10c307-569b-42fa-a262-aa02f909c91c.jpgThe afterlives of digital rubbish - Nicolas Nova | ReclaimFutures2020Among 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. https://reclaimfutures.org/rf2020/events/the-afterlives-of-digital-rubbish Intro music: sumthing tethered - GOD69 (https://god69.bandcamp.com/track/sumthing-tethered) More about ReclaimFutures 2020: https://reclaimfutures.org/rf2020https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/e15b50f0-5744-4e51-b49d-53f8452194abhttps://tv.undersco.re/w/1fYfUHWjQXxKqQwC5RFQS6https://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/86e6df77-fc8a-42bc-b22b-1c1e8e98eb73.jpgCan Computation Produce Novelty?- the Case of Live-Coding Music - Emma Stamm | ReclaimFutures2020The 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. Offering Deleuzean novelty as a theorization of “the new,” I argue that the cultural phenomenon of live-coded music exemplifies the computational production of novelty. Live-coding musicians improvise by writing source code which instantaneously plays out loud. I examine live-coding programs and artists’ reflections to propose that the new emerges at the interface of software and musician for the duration of live-coding performances. I also draw from Henri Bergson’s work on creative processes, which emphasizes improvisation and immediacy, to attest to the salience of live-coded music as a study in digital novelty. The final section of the paper situates my arguments politically. I write that digital capitalism secures its hegemony by means of algorithmic homogenization, statistical prediction, and cybernetic enclosure, and proceeds as an unfolding of similitude. That which is wholly new, I claim, defies and subverts this normative political program. https://reclaimfutures.org/rf2020/events/can-computation-produce Intro music: sumthing tethered - GOD69 (https://god69.bandcamp.com/track/sumthing-tethered) More...https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/02171519-7ca5-450d-bb37-acdfe01ce4c1https://tv.undersco.re/w/vzv3bPuU3JfraxFQ1wRdVJhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/8d7a44d7-c605-48f2-bdf6-bd554d60d9df.jpgUnderstanding the 5G controversy in the context of ecological breakdown – Gauthier Roussilhe | Re...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 ? https://reclaimfutures.org/rf2020/events/understanding-the-5-g Intro music: sumthing tethered - GOD69 (https://god69.bandcamp.com/track/sumthing-tethered) More about ReclaimFutures 2020: https://reclaimfutures.org/rf2020https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/ef8675ee-4cde-450c-af8e-fe2bcd56d5e4https://tv.undersco.re/w/1ANyGmwcUTpLuF73Tsq2yvhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/ad9c561c-4804-449e-b2c9-f710e70db778.jpgMelancholic Cryptonymy - Charlotte Norwood | ReclaimFutures2020Full title: Melancholic Cryptonymy and the Aesthetic Threshold of Detectability- The Blue Conceptualists, The Haunted Painter and The Existential Crisis of the Cadaver. Where the melancholic is resistant to mourn what is understood in psychoanalysis as the lost object, which instead of being replaced by the process of ‘introjection’ is ‘incorporated’ or ‘internally vomited’ into the subject forging a psychic crypt of which the phantom is harboured, I propose that due to the failed promises of modernity, hauntological practices resist to mourn the loss of the future it’s movement is denied by ‘incorporating’ it; signalled by visceral, linguistic disjecture and encrypted transmissions that are looped, relayed and brought back in coded ways, the operation of the psychic crypt, generated and sustained by repetition, is symptomatic of the function hauntological practices aestheticise by way of regurgitating and renewing un-activated potentials of the past for future constructs. If repetition is at the heart of hauntological practices providing an aesthetic threshold of detectability into melancholic cryptonymy, then the representation of this neurosis as a cultural movement can only respond to the ontological and temporal displacement of the present Colin Davis describes as ‘the figure of the ghost at that which is neither present, nor absent, neither dead nor alive’, (Davis, 2005, p. 373) by bequeathing the slow cancellation of the future: ‘Repetition’ as understood by Blanchot in the context of trauma is ‘neither mournful nor nostalgic, the undesired return, repetition, the ultimate over and over, general collapse, destruction of the present’. (Blanchot, 1995, p9). Incorporating the loss of the future, on the side of the pathology, not the cure, re-acting, repeating and escalating the symptom of the psychoanalytical dream, The Blue Conceptualists of Ryan Gander, the practice of the haunted painter Vanessa Disler and the existential crisis of Ed Atkins’ cada...https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/04dbfbed-73af-401e-8f17-fe87b2122d41https://tv.undersco.re/w/6cTTtncFCW4bDCBdVtKDo9https://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/0fbfb923-f433-4a6e-9d4d-0feb149e715c.jpgLast Seen Online - Ellen Lapper | ReclaimFutures2020In 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. https://reclaimfutures.org/rf2020/events/last-seen-online ...https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/2a26d9fe-ccb6-445d-8856-5b410eefab40https://tv.undersco.re/w/tgwBVVR9HvctpyA23Bm561https://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/4670ba3e-7eda-407a-8466-1da55279fa9c.jpgThings are people too - Adrian Demleitner | ReclaimFutures2020“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 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 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. 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? https://reclaimfutures.org/rf2020/ev...https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/dcd1c532-01bb-4939-889f-3f07ec91aa82https://tv.undersco.re/w/52hfRxzpcFXrjv1h472owVhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/7b7b02a9-3787-4a94-a246-1f73fa0cf26a.jpgI can remember - Guillaume Slizewicz | ReclaimFutures2020“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. This piece links three types of memories that, in interaction, form a new collective representation of moments of the past where the contributions of humans and machines can no longer be told apart. Personal, intimate memory The piece starts from photographs documenting daily life in the rural area as seen through a subject’s lense. They are the images of this moment, the memories that remain, partial, biased and framed. They represent the personal and intimate memory of the subject. Algorithmic memory The photographs are then put into poems and written words based on the memories of image recognition algorithms which can only recognise what they have been trained to recognise. The algorithms’ reading of the imagery unearths what the images represent to them who are restricted by the labels and words embedded inside them. The memories become a new kind of sentience, encapsulating the algorithmic understanding and experience of the world. Data workers memory Often unaccounted for, the poems are also shaped by the data workers memory, the memory of the people who trained the algorithm or on whom the algorithms have been trained. Image classification algorithms rely on people labelling data, classifying them or contouring them. The image description, the colour names, the handwriting styles in this piece are all derived from human work. This piece encapsulates their memories (muscle memories, lexical memories, and phenomenal memories). https://reclaimfutures.org/rf2020/events/i-can-remember Intro music: sumthing tethered - GOD69 (https://god69.bandcamp.com/track/sumthing-tet...https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/2092510c-2b3e-415d-bd57-1fd7fe823281https://tv.undersco.re/w/u5URFq9CHUsAKmKRRpRfMDhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/3535fb0b-6a12-489c-8543-612c2194a382.jpgpersonal archive / public action III - april vendetta | ReclaimFutures2020In 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. We believe in a world rooted in the practice of archiving. To record and review creative self-expression, something that can be an extremely empowering and humbling experience. To be witnessed and be a witness with empathy. To share our personal stories with each other without the threat of violence or imprisonment. Each shared archive has the ability to become a resource and generate conversations that have the potential to aid in reckoning with past and present injustices of the world. Excerpted and edited from archive.org/details/awaytobegintoregainaccesstoyourself personal archive / public action III access is a key component to obtaining data. data is written in many formats with various permissions. your personal archive informs your public action. when access is granted to others, there is potential for collaborative action to be set in motion. digital content for personal archive / public action III will livestream and then be archived on HUMAN TRASH DUMP on archive.org as a public repository. files generated during the duration of the event might be audio, image, video, or text among other formats. Potential considerations for digital content will involve ideas around privacy, collectivity, equity, tools, and manuals. Public Domain and Creative Commons will be encouraged. personal archive / public action launched on June 29th, 2020 for a live virtual audience as part of PERFORMANCY FORUM: CORPUS COLISEUM, produced in collaboration between t...https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/e36f6e7a-e559-40c1-8812-4e1cee5133c7https://tv.undersco.re/w/7675gezButJaCTiUbziRaAhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/8e5d56a3-a7c7-41f5-b09b-b76f5350ddff.jpgFeminist Data Set - Caroline Sinders | ReclaimFutures2020What 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? https://reclaimfutures.org/rf2020/events/feminist-data-set Intro music: sumthing tethered - GOD69 (https://god69.bandcamp.com/track/sumthing-tethered) More about ReclaimFutures 2020: https://reclaimfutures.org/rf2020https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/314d4b32-2106-4ca0-9c64-53ee420ba088https://tv.undersco.re/w/qxuK6Dcpk5GLDrd3a1SFmThttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/bc29c4f2-c785-4dbe-89fc-362b21924977.jpgBYMG - "Intoxicated Interface Infusion- Fermentation Tactics - Anna Tokareva | ReclaimFutures2020Unlike 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 BYMG, which may seep into a performance of a digital-fermentation ritual of intoxication and kneading out of capitalist kinks in our systems. https://reclaimfutures.org/rf2020/events/bymg-intoxicated-interface Intro music: sumthing tethered - GOD69 (https://god69.bandcamp.com/track/sumthing-tethered) More about ReclaimFutures 202...https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/c6c11926-c036-4ffd-a935-394cb15b3927https://tv.undersco.re/w/noQpkgxHDczmvXNx5ftv7Qhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/78ae7085-b650-472b-8989-52145d970e2e.jpgCritical Latinofuturism- Recontextualizing Modernity - César Neri | ReclaimFutures2020With 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”. Chiapas has since become a symbol of the resistance to the peculiar form of globalization that grants priority to capital (and the private tyrannies that control it) while leaving the interests of the people as incidental. The argument put forth by the Zapatistas painted a future for an alternative model of ruling structures that moves away from the conception of a Western modernity — one in which a globalized system would allow for the multiplicity of identities, conceptions, and ideologies. Mexico 44 acts as a catalyst for the collective redefining of our relationship to these prevailing structures of coloniality. Through the elaboration and execution of speculative critical narratives, the project proposes a space for contemporary design practices to engage in the spatial transformation of individual identities with hopes of fostering a dialogue that translates the argument put forth by the indigenous communities of Chiapas. The talk will present a brief overview of the Zapatista movement, introduce the opportunities and challenges presented by Latinofuturismo, and will go over the execution of Mexico 44 as case study. https://reclaimfutures.org/rf2020/events/critical-latinofuturism-recontextualizing Intro music: sumthing tethered - GOD69 (https://god69.bandcamp.com/track/sumthing-tethered) More about ReclaimFutures 2020: https://reclaimfutures.org/rf2020https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/ad401a90-4c67-4f5a-8e2f-9afb850563f8https://tv.undersco.re/w/tpEucg3fPyokgavXgNuFo1https://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/ea09dcbf-5b43-4384-a4d1-2a884ec713fd.jpgImagining a decolonized rural future: Agro-Commune - Stephanie Kyuyoung Lee | ReclaimFutures2020What 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. In sub-Saharan Africa, foreign corporations are vigorously irrigating vast rural areas for agro-industrial purposes, displacing local smallholders from their land to secure stable supplies for the rest of the western world. Since the global food crisis of 2007-2008, there has been an exponential growth in large-scale land acquisition in Africa. Western, Chinese, and Middle Eastern companies are leading a 21st-century land rush in African farmland where more than a forty million hectares are now under 99-year leases. Greenhouse colonies have become one of many architectural representations of unequal exchanges fostered by global capitalism. This workshop is based on research on the production system of Kenyan floriculture - and uses architectural language as a lens to investigate a speculative rural cooperative system for smallholder farmers. https://reclaimfutures.org/rf2020/events/agro-commune Intro music: sumthing tethered - GOD69 (https://god69.bandcamp.com/track/sumthing-tethered) More about ReclaimFutures 2020: https://reclaimfutures.org/rf2020https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/ddf49184-f4d4-4c4a-8deb-58728c837258https://tv.undersco.re/w/iiQUkmkFtyN7JUbjvq3G79https://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/0dc617d8-b5fc-4da5-9146-afaa03638ec1.jpgThe Mine of Humanism- in response to technological singularity — Reina Suyeon Mun | ReclaimFuture...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 https://reclaimfutures.org/rf2020/events/the-mine-of Intro music: sumthing tethered - GOD69 (https://god69.bandcamp.com/track/sumthing-tethered) More about ReclaimFutures 2020: https://reclaimfutures.org/rf2020https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/8c29236f-d9a9-4f04-b902-635b8d658974https://tv.undersco.re/w/nWcuy2JKkiUQ7HuKSEbUXYhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/3259f503-946b-41de-8d11-22a42b676e20.jpgThe Republic of Užupis - H.E. Max Haarich | ReclaimFutures2020I 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. Užupis was once established as a counterculture to challenge and support the authorities’ promises of freedom and democracy after the breakdown of Soviet Union. At the same time it was a desperate attempt to create a sense of unity within a neighbourhood formerly dominated by poverty and violence. With the help of arts, humour and paradoxy, Užupis managed to survive and unintentionally became a role model for friendly and tolerant community life. Užupis e.g. created a code of arms, a currency and even had a 13-men-army - which was later abandoned, because it was against the constitution. This constitution best reflects the unique world view of the citizens, which is the first one to ever mention artificial intelligence. Since 1997 more than 500 ambassadors and honorary citizens worldwide were appointed like Jonas Mekas and his holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. The ambassadors have the task to build bridges between people and to explore the power of paradoxy to solve problems. Today Užupis faces new challenges. It turned from the most rundown area to the most expensive area of the baltics. It seems the threat of Socialism was substituted by the pervasive power of techno-capitalism. Therefore, I would like to show how the republic and its embassies currently approache a productive conversation with the “outside” world, while at the same time caring less and less about the rest of the world and creating their Užupis ways of doing things. https://reclaimfutures.org/rf2020/events/the-republic-of Intro music: sumthing tethered - GOD69 (https://god69.bandcamp.com/track/sumthing-tethered) More about ReclaimFutures 2020: https://reclaimfutures.org/rf2020https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/b1a12866-2b02-4968-9501-9445b19ceeeehttps://tv.undersco.re/w/pyao8V59qLM6Afp5BYrTEuhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/d198d1fa-e57a-4b04-b35d-2a686c7daf1b.jpgThe Political Tragedy of Data-Driven-Determinism — Mushon Zer-Aviv | ReclaimFutures2020Polls 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? https://reclaimfutures.org/rf2020/events/the-political-tragedy Intro music: sumthing tethered - GOD69 (https://god69.bandcamp.com/track/sumthing-tethered) More about ReclaimFutures 2020: https://reclaimfutures.org/rf2020https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/bebfc57f-64c6-481f-a5cf-8f8a0dad2dachttps://tv.undersco.re/w/tUg7bRmUxDdMVar1mzU5cohttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/162cc456-1151-4033-8f84-41184143f236.jpgfuturities of the super like — Antoine Simeão Schalk & Azadbek Bekchanov | ReclaimFutures2020Technocapitalism 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 (1), 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 (2). In the absence of extensive queer archives, cruising utopias vanish, witnesses of liminal and forgotten histories. Our video proposition investigates contemporary sites of affection-making online. Digital platforms owned by conglomerates offer the prospect of finding love, whether easily, fast or through self-promoted complex algorithms. We investigate such sites and contradictions inherent to their business model (3). Acknowledging how apps like grindr, tinder, okcupid actively support the perpetuation of normative capitalism on one hand, we dig into the possibility of counter-discourse through acts of hacking, subversive behavior. Thus, such sites can offer windows of opportunity for users to create networks, exchange practices and knowledge. We investigate how online-dating apps can be localities for radical practices. Flirting, dating, sex are powerful catalysers for production of knowledge (4). Following epistemologies that are rooted in alternative pedagogy methods, we explore what knowledge can be created on such platforms, which narratives can be expressed. [1] Sarah Schulman, The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination [2] José Esteban Muñoz, Ephemera as Evidence: Introductory Notes to Queer Acts [3] Richard Mèmeteau: Sex friends - Comment (bien) rater sa vie amoureuse à l’ère numérique [4] Ashkan Sepahvand - Everything I learned about technocapitalism, I learned at Bergain https://reclaimfutures.org/rf2020/events/futurities-of-the Intro music: sumthing tethered - GOD69 (https://god69.bandcamp.com/track/sumthi...https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/e1f2bacc-3225-43ce-9db5-b70b83247c54https://tv.undersco.re/w/qz5NnzLmtvqssfh7JuFWjXhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/79b8caea-3a0b-41fc-930f-608a4bedc4df.jpg2023-03-27 Meet Phase 2 Democracy Machine Fellows Day 1Audio: https://desk.undersco.re/s/qrWXyqLw96xaJag Transcript: https://desk.undersco.re/s/rEekAW46DKZGjrThttps://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/c6f9d47e-b5fc-4a81-ac54-bbcdd0ea777bhttps://tv.undersco.re/w/vPPKjsQNwiCwrrxzcRkUNyhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/ce24bd62-2140-4fd8-9461-d6c6143ac424.jpgPhase II: Meet The Democracy Machine Fellows Day 2 - Cy X, Nushin Yazdani, and Peter Wu+Tuesday, March 28: 4:00 – 5:00 pm EDT Themes: Future Tech, Solidarity, Decolonization, Rethinking History, Care For the full experience, visit https://open.eyebeam.org Live caption backup stream here: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=Eyebeam Moderator: Sruti Suryanarayanan Artists: Cy X, Nushin Yazdani, Peter Wu+ How does the future of technology, solidarity action, decolonial practices, care, and history-making intersect? Join the free online conversation with queer agender love influencer, earth tender, and cyber witch cy x; transformation designer, artist, and AI design researcher Nushin Yazdani; LA-based technology artist Peter Wu+; moderated by Tamizh American craftsperson and writer Sruti Suryanarayanan.https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/f1866744-1100-4bbd-b312-4863230a1384https://tv.undersco.re/w/8tgJdKit3siuZ6tdTtdoYzhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/d4c719da-2e5c-49d5-8fa7-3c19a801a528.jpgPhase II: Meet The Democracy Machine Fellows Day 1 - Shawn Reilly, Yogesh Maitreya, and Astrid Go...Monday, March 27: 10:00 – 11:00 am EDT For the full experience, visit https://open.eyebeam.org Transcript: https://desk.undersco.re/s/rEekAW46DKZGjrT Themes: Storytelling, Language, Decolonization, Rethinking History, Care Moderator: Adela Licona Artists: Shawn Reilly, Yogesh Maitreya, Astrid González Join the free online conversation with educator, designer, and cultural organizer Shawn Reilly; poet, translator, essayist, and publisher Yogesh Maitreya; and multidisciplinary artist Astrid González; moderated by Dr. Adela C. Licona on the new Open Eyebeam platform. The artists and moderator will discuss storytelling activism, language as an identity tool, the impact of colonial systems, care as decolonial practice, and examining history as a tool of domination.https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/3c7ebebe-2ce9-42b2-b05b-51552a53a4d9https://tv.undersco.re/w/aciipzm4J2p5u6HT8NKQX3https://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/af251ac2-17b9-4747-bb30-69e72c79410d.jpgPhase II: Meet The Democracy Machine Fellows Day 4 - Zeina Baltagi, Elizabeth Pérez, and Daniela ...For the full experience, visit https://open.eyebeam.org Wednesday, March 29: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT Themes: Storytelling, Language, Decolonization, Rethinking History Moderator: Xin Xin Artists: Paula Baeza Pailamilla, Subash Thebe Limbu, Ryan Christopher Clarke Tune into the free online conversation with Mapuche artist and a member of the Mapuche collective Rangiñtulewfü and Yene Revista, Paula Baeza Pailamilla; Yakthung (Limbu) artist from eastern Nepal “quantumly” based in Newa Nation (Kathmandu) and London, Subash Thebe Limbu; tonal geologist from the Northern Gulf Coast who “notices the passage of time” as both a trained sedimentologist and artist-researcher Ryan Christopher Clarke as they discuss storytelling, language, decolonization, rethinking History with moderator and interdisciplinary artist Xin Xin.https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/4a76174a-9f53-42f9-9673-f4dd64f1ba70https://tv.undersco.re/w/cA6abfqH9CVDZEqDGFcqaEhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/d059c8c4-87cf-4b59-8ce2-1daffd134ad6.jpgTHE WAY THROUGH LOSS IS INVENTIONWe are building on a young, adventurous legacy and a fresh chapter has begun. A transformed, responsive Eyebeam now operates in a globally distributed format emphasizing network, community building, and social justice. Featuring interviews with artist alumni Torkwase Dyson, Zach Lieberman, Marina Zurkow, Rashaad Newsome, and Volumetric Performance Toolbox. Film by Whitney Legge and Brent Foster Joneshttps://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/5dd6fe07-b810-4e33-97ed-c984606acaf8https://tv.undersco.re/w/bZSUQ2rkvwu4vPbcywoQ5hhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/b3fafc5a-81e8-4bbc-9581-79e048cef5c3.jpgRapid Response: What Comes Next: Artist Interventions in Technology - Individual Autonomy and Bor...This talk explored the interplay between digital systems and individual agency. Hosted by Nora N. Khan, a critic and writer on emerging issues within digital visual culture and philosophy of emerging technology. Participating Artists: Harris Kornstein The Digital Prepper Toolkit (Sarah Grant, Rosa Menkman) Maxwell Mutanda Dillon Sung in collaboration with Stop LAPD Spying Coalition Juan Pablo García Sossa soft/WALL/studshttps://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/59102809-fb14-4320-9c1a-001464672dc8https://tv.undersco.re/w/8DWdRjkbcPMwvkm7jYREgphttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/a894269b-f97b-4b9a-9583-4999f1ef8d67.jpgRapid Response: What Comes Next: Artist Interventions in Technology - Engaging and Fortifying De...This talk addresses re-invigorating democratic engagement in a time of disinformation. Marisa Mazria Katz is a journalist and the former Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism Senior Advisor. Artists Dylan Gauthier Rodan Tekle Roopa Vasudevan Solidarity Study Group Adam Harvey Ari Melencianohttps://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/3dfbe7c3-cbfa-4cc7-ac46-de74d25c85bdhttps://tv.undersco.re/w/aw9PDkAZwMFQpRMNag8GZDhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/52b3c0ca-70f4-4db7-9b9d-b2dfdd92a4ab.jpgRapid Response: What Comes Next in Artist Interventions in Technology - Increasing Accessibility ...Instilling equitable access to digital tools, their functionalities, and community care. Jerron Herman is an interdisciplinary disabled artist creating through dance, text, and visual storytelling. Artists Morgen Bromell Xin Xin Thomas Tajo Christopher Clary Veil Machine (Sybil Fury, Niko Flux, MJ Tom) Rashaad Newsome Music: SONG - New Song ARTIST - Howard Jones ALBUM - Humans Lib WRITERS -Howard Jones [Merlin] Absolute Label Services (on behalf of Cherry Red Records); LatinAutorPerf, AMRA BR, LatinAutor, BMI - Broadcast Music Inc., Kobalt Music Publishing, AMRA, and 9 Music Rights Societieshttps://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/4d17ff58-c05f-46b2-93b0-ff96af4d3f57https://tv.undersco.re/w/h56CV4LQkHDqmD5itWedP3https://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/f3438c0e-6723-400c-ac63-b437aedab4cf.jpgRapid Response: What Comes Next: Artist Interventions in Technology - Creating Space for Imaginat...Working with the potentials of things yet to be. Prem Krishnamurthy is a designer, curator, writer, and teacher based in Berlin and New York. Artists Morehshin Allahyari Cassie Thornton Hyungi Park Constant Dullaart Beyond the Breakdown (Grace Lee, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Tony Patrick) Volumetric Performance Toolbox (Valencia James with Thomas Wester, Ben Purdy, ***Holly Newlands, Sorob Louie) ***Please note Thomas is Holly Newland's previous namehttps://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/8224aacf-dc89-4ef4-bfb9-9fbd43181ee0https://tv.undersco.re/w/paKhwZzVgzVAEzxbJedeKmhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/0b478de6-faeb-4b42-a1ea-fc534e33378f.jpgRapid Response: What Comes Next: Artist Interventions in Technology - Artificial and Natural Inte...Rapid Response: What Comes Next: Artist Interventions in Technology - Artificial and Natural Intelligence (Oct 9, 2020)https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/bb9e8ef8-e15b-459b-8e93-139b10b24596https://tv.undersco.re/w/hEK1T58NmhDxvgZ8YW668jhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/291b80ed-726c-4652-8e61-9eded7ac3fbe.jpgRapid Response: The Role of Artists in A Time of Systemic Collapse (Oct 10, 2020)Announcement and presentation of the Phase 2 Fellows, hosted by Tara Aisha Willis. This event will include a special panel featuring Lisa Kim, Gallery Director, Ford Foundation; Dr. Mariko Silver, President and CEO, Henry Luce Foundation; Ekene Ijeoma, artist and founder/director of Poetic Justice at MIT Media Lab; and Elissa Blount Moorhead, Eyebeam Resident Artist 2020. Tara Aisha Willis is the Associate Curator in Performance & Public Practice at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Music: SONG - Lovely Day ARTIST - Bill Withers LICENSES SME (on behalf of Legacy Recordings); The Royalty Network (Publishing), UMPG Publishing, ASCAP, PEDL, LatinAutorPerf, Forward Music Publishing Co., Ltd., Warner Chappell, LatinAutor - Warner Chappell, CMRRA, UNIAO BRASILEIRA DE EDITORAS DE MUSICA - UBEM, BMI - Broadcast Music Inc., and 13 Music Rights Societieshttps://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/86fafda9-7cfd-4f9e-8643-c2bd8ecbc9c4https://tv.undersco.re/w/hhQQgVEsJFJVRDsmV9YH42https://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/aa43137c-ce80-4581-b248-9a9a89709a9e.jpgThe 4th VH AWARD, Grand Prix Winner, Black Cloud by Lawrence LekLawrence Lek, Black Cloud, Single channel video, 10’50”, 2021, Commissioned by VH AWARD of Hyundai Motor Grouphttps://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/83ec367e-69ea-4825-a87a-86ad0f1ef7d3https://tv.undersco.re/w/39APm7kdZXMegaY7j8KPeDhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/a9190846-b9ea-4b67-8214-0dcc2fb8d63f.jpgThe 5th VH AWARD, Grand Prix Winner: Ladhamba Tayem; Future Continuous by Subash Thebe LimbuSubash Thebe Limbu, Ladhamba Tayem; Future Continuous, Single channel video, 14’51”, 2023, Commissioned by VH AWARD of Hyundai Motor Grouphttps://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/1165af0d-972c-45a5-a799-8fac9064de9bhttps://tv.undersco.re/w/pDhzk6Zb1G4xgNouNdLCGJhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/7ca80634-ddce-4a1d-ac62-12f555613194.jpgAza Raskin at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Future (Day 3)Aza is the co-founder of Earth Species Project, an open-source nonprofit dedicated to translating animal communication. He is also the co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, was featured in the new documentary The Social Dilemma, and is the co-host for the popular podcast Your Undivided Attention. Additionally, he is the co-founder of MakeSpace. Trained as a mathematician and dark matter physicist, he has taken three companies from founding to acquisition, is a co-chairing member of the World Economic Forum’s Global AI Counsel, briefs heads of state, helped found Mozilla Labs, in addition to being named FastCompany’s Master of Design, and listed on Forbes and Inc Magazines 30-under-30. -- From the Rupture: Ideas & Actions for the Future coincides with special project launches that were supported by Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future – a fully-digital artist fellowship that was launched in response to the onset of Covid-19 crisis, marking the beginning of a new kind of artist support at Eyebeam. This talk was recorded on February 19, 2021, the third day of the festival celebrating Aladin Borioli (APIAN) and Valencia James (Volumetric Performance Toolbox) with talks by Aza Raskin, Kara Gilmour, LaJuné McMillan, conversations with Amelia Winger-Bearskin & Valencia James, Paige Mulhern, Shay Willette, & Aladin Borioli, and hosted by Lauren Ruffin.https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/bf76ec54-0770-421d-802a-87a6575c5eaahttps://tv.undersco.re/w/pdbyZ5SGQjSSsFfr4wpVJjhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/1b30ce41-02da-43a7-a1ed-bd4748e6e695.jpgMutale Nkonde at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the FutureMutale Nkonde is an artificial intelligence policy analyst and founding CEO of AI for the People, a nonprofit creative agency that seeks to use journalism, television, music, and film to challenge the narratives around the assumed social neutrality of machine learning technologies. She is also the CEO and founder of Opps Management LLC, a management consulting agency that works with companies and nonprofits to help them reach their diversity and inclusion goals. -- From the Rupture: Ideas & Actions for the Future coincides with special project launches that were supported by Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future – a fully-digital artist fellowship that was launched in response to the onset of Covid-19 crisis, marking the beginning of a new kind of artist support at Eyebeam. This talk was recorded on February 17, 2021, the first day of the festival celebrating Rashaad Newsome and Xin Xin with talks by Chancey Fleet, Cydney Brown, Joan Greenbaum, Mutale Nkonde, conversations with Dorothy Santos & Xin Xin, Legacy Russell & Rashaad Newsome, and hosted by Salome Asega.https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/bbf5a0aa-f13c-4fae-957a-75101f2516a2https://tv.undersco.re/w/aVVeFUAQktqcJnsfsLw2Rkhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/4964e847-16a0-448e-83c1-9582ac940a1c.jpgFrom the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Future Teaser (2021)Teaser for Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Future Originally published on February 16, 2021 https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/506979c0-fe8e-480b-b084-156c62e99781https://tv.undersco.re/w/3Rn3ujya9hw21FuhP9ef8Khttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/34438bea-04a6-4d56-9d40-63a02dad96aa.jpgSalome Asega at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the FutureSalome Asega is an artist and researcher based in Brooklyn, NY. Salome has participated in residencies and fellowships with Eyebeam, New Museum, The Laundromat Project, and Recess. She has exhibited at the Shanghai Biennale, MoMA, Carnegie Library, August Wilson Center, Knockdown Center, and more. She has also given presentations and lectures at Performa, EYEO, Brooklyn Museum, MIT Media Lab, NYU, and more. Salome is currently a Ford Foundation Technology Fellow landscaping new media artist and organization networks. She is also on the boards of National Performance Network and POWRPLNT, a youth digital art collaboratory in Brooklyn. Salome received her MFA from Parsons at The New School in Design and Technology where she also teaches classes on speculative design and participatory design methodologies. -- From the Rupture: Ideas & Actions for the Future coincides with special project launches that were supported by Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future – a fully-digital artist fellowship that was launched in response to the onset of Covid-19 crisis, marking the beginning of a new kind of artist support at Eyebeam. This talk was recorded on February 17, 2021, the first day of the festival celebrating Rashaad Newsome and Xin Xin with talks by Chancey Fleet, Cydney Brown, Joan Greenbaum, Mutale Nkonde, conversations with Dorothy Santos & Xin Xin, Legacy Russell & Rashaad Newsome, and hosted by Salome Asega.https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/1716b0b0-dbd4-415c-a0dc-2cd7f289d3a1https://tv.undersco.re/w/g4zjim57HvApDx5VubVhzShttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/5ed4cc8b-7ae2-4790-a91b-25a703250d25.jpgJoan Greenbaum at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the FutureJoan Greenbaum has dabbled with technology since getting hooked on programming in the early mainframe computer days. Her research and work focuses on issues of interactive design and embodied action. Currently she is studying what she calls ‘digital squatters’—people who use cafes as workplaces, creating public privacy in their little corners with their digital triad (phone, laptop, ipod) of tools. She has written extensively on concerns dealing with work and technology as well as technology and gender. Among publications she is author of: Windows on the Workplace (Monthly Review Press, 2004); Design at Work (Erlbaum Press, 1991) and In the Name of Efficiency (Temple University Press, 1979). She currently teaches in Environmental Psychology with courses such as “Mobile Technology and Everyday Life” and “Interactive Environments”, and has taught Core I in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy for many years. Joan Greenbaum has pointed many students in the direction of the New Media Lab and serves as an advisor to many at the Lab. -- From the Rupture: Ideas & Actions for the Future coincides with special project launches that were supported by Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future – a fully-digital artist fellowship that was launched in response to the onset of Covid-19 crisis, marking the beginning of a new kind of artist support at Eyebeam. This talk was recorded on February 17, 2021, the first day of the festival celebrating Rashaad Newsome and Xin Xin with talks by Chancey Fleet, Cydney Brown, Joan Greenbaum, Mutale Nkonde, conversations with Dorothy Santos & Xin Xin, Legacy Russell & Rashaad Newsome, and hosted by Salome Asega. Originally published on February 24, 2021https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/79f8d7b5-be90-451f-971b-28772afef694https://tv.undersco.re/w/2nWzm6exEK1MeNqwSHDzvChttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/8b9a5e81-0094-4d92-b52c-6be309f1fcfa.jpgDorothy Santos and Xin Xin at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the FutureDorothy R. Santos is a Filipina American writer, artist, and educator whose academic and research interests include feminist media histories, critical medical anthropology, technology, race, and ethics. She is a Ph.D. student in Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz as a Eugene V. Cota-Robles fellow. She received her Master’s degree in Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts and holds Bachelor’s degrees in Philosophy and Psychology from the University of San Francisco. Her work has been exhibited at Ars Electronica, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the GLBT Historical Society. Her writing appears in art21, Art in America, Ars Technica, Hyperallergic. She is a co-founder of REFRESH, a politically-engaged art, and curatorial collective, and serves as the Executive Director for the Processing Foundation. Xin Xin is an interdisciplinary artist and community organizer working at the intersection of technology, labor, and identity. Xin co-founded voidLab, a LA-based intersectional feminist collective dedicated to women, trans, and queer folks. They were the Director and Lead Organizer for Processing Community Day 2019, a worldwide initiative celebrating art, code, and diversity, and they currently serve on the advisory board for the Processing Foundation. Their work has been exhibited and screened at Ars Electronica, DIS, Gene Siskel Film Center, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, and Machine Project. Xin received their M.F.A from UCLA Design Media Arts and teaches at Parsons School of Design as an Assistant Professor of Interaction and Media Design. -- From the Rupture: Ideas & Actions for the Future coincides with special project launches that were supported by Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future – a fully-digital artist fellowship that was launched in response to the onset of Covid-19 crisis, marking the beginning of a new kind of artist support at Eyebeam...https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/0b29640d-748c-467b-9fc1-0ad4f7c42c72https://tv.undersco.re/w/uRv5rkHBG8hU2s6TZ2NAVfhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/c1f559cc-f701-4e07-a19a-f57ff4ec4d67.jpgChancey Fleet at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the FutureChancey Fleet is a 2018-19 Data & Society Fellow and current Affiliate-in-Residence whose writing, organizing and advocacy aims to catalyze critical inquiry into how cloud-connected accessibility tools benefit and harm, empower and expose communities of disability. Chancey is the Assistive Technology Coordinator at the New York Public Library where she founded and maintains the Dimensions Project, a free open lab for the exploration and creation of accessible images, models and data representations through tactile graphics, 3d models and nonvisual approaches to coding, CAD and “visual” arts. Chancey was recognized as a 2017 Library Journal Mover and Shaker. -- From the Rupture: Ideas & Actions for the Future coincides with special project launches that were supported by Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future – a fully-digital artist fellowship that was launched in response to the onset of Covid-19 crisis, marking the beginning of a new kind of artist support at Eyebeam. This talk was recorded on February 17, 2021, the first day of the festival celebrating Rashaad Newsome and Xin Xin with talks by Chancey Fleet, Cydney Brown, Joan Greenbaum, Mutale Nkonde, conversations with Dorothy Santos & Xin Xin, Legacy Russell & Rashaad Newsome, and hosted by Salome Asega. Originally Published on February 24, 2021https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/e9a93f09-7a85-422b-99ba-9c175daca2f8https://tv.undersco.re/w/ib4c2i4yMa8WGKQJkdyHzUhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/22b65df2-6509-4d62-abec-5a40c8271296.jpgCydney Brown at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the FutureCydney Brown is the Black Masculinity Reimagined Training Coordinator at BEAM (Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective). They began their career in advocacy in LGBTQ youth and HIV advocacy, which led them to focusing their work in healing justice. They are currently a graduate student at Claremont Graduate University, where they are pursuing their Master’s degrees in public health and gender studies. Cydney is deeply invested in the nourishment and empowerment of black queer and trans people and views holistic, community oriented healthcare as a critical necessity for a better society. -- From the Rupture: Ideas & Actions for the Future coincides with special project launches that were supported by Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future – a fully-digital artist fellowship that was launched in response to the onset of Covid-19 crisis, marking the beginning of a new kind of artist support at Eyebeam. This talk was recorded on February 17, 2021, the first day of the festival celebrating Rashaad Newsome and Xin Xin with talks by Chancey Fleet, Cydney Brown, Joan Greenbaum, Mutale Nkonde, conversations with Dorothy Santos & Xin Xin, Legacy Russell & Rashaad Newsome, and hosted by Salome Asega. Originally published on February 24, 2021https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/8b12c2c7-2e09-4ec9-a963-174078beb892https://tv.undersco.re/w/u4CXP3NMtsX2WYmkLmx3jFhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/af198392-97af-450c-955a-b37fb64f8520.jpgLegacy Russell and Rashaad Newsome at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the FutureLegacy Russell is a curator and writer. Born and raised in New York City, she is the Associate Curator of Exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Russell holds an MRes with Distinction in Art History from Goldsmiths, University of London with a focus in Visual Culture. Her academic, curatorial, and creative work focuses on gender, performance, digital selfdom, internet idolatry, and new media ritual. Russell’s written work, interviews, and essays have been published internationally. She is the recipient of the Thoma Foundation 2019 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art, a 2020 Rauschenberg Residency Fellow, and a recipient of the 2021 Creative Capital Award. Her first book Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto (2020) is published by Verso Books. Rashaad Newsome is an interdisciplinary artist whose work blends several practices, including collage, sculpture, film, photography, music, computer programming, software engineering, community organizing, and performance. Using the diasporic traditions of improvisation and collage, he pulls from the world of advertising, the internet, and Black and queer culture to produce counter-hegemonic work that exists between social practice, abstraction, and intersectionality. His work reclaims the Black body, celebrates Black contributions to the artistic canon, and creates innovative and inclusive forms of culture and media. Newsome has exhibited and performed in galleries, museums, institutions, and festivals throughout the world, and his work is in numerous public and private collections. -- From the Rupture: Ideas & Actions for the Future coincides with special project launches that were supported by Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future – a fully-digital artist fellowship that was launched in response to the onset of Covid-19 crisis, marking the beginning of a new kind of artist support at Eyebeam. This talk was recorded on February 17, 2021, the first day of the festival celebrating Rashaad Newsome and Xin...https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/e341e480-f692-4f6a-a294-c1ea68073edbhttps://tv.undersco.re/w/gpS8vDpgZ2TKrcoke78Fy2https://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/e0203bdc-fbb2-4f7c-bf4d-6eafdb754add.jpgRashaad Newsome's Being 1.5 at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the FutureRashaad Newsome is an interdisciplinary artist whose work blends several practices, including collage, sculpture, film, photography, music, computer programming, software engineering, community organizing, and performance. Using the diasporic traditions of improvisation and collage, he pulls from the world of advertising, the internet, and Black and queer culture to produce counter-hegemonic work that exists between social practice, abstraction, and intersectionality. His work reclaims the Black body, celebrates Black contributions to the artistic canon, and creates innovative and inclusive forms of culture and media. Newsome has exhibited and performed in galleries, museums, institutions, and festivals throughout the world, and his work is in numerous public and private collections. -- From the Rupture: Ideas & Actions for the Future coincides with special project launches that were supported by Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future – a fully-digital artist fellowship that was launched in response to the onset of Covid-19 crisis, marking the beginning of a new kind of artist support at Eyebeam. This video was presented on February 17, 2021, the first day of the festival celebrating Rashaad Newsome and Xin Xin with talks by Chancey Fleet, Cydney Brown, Joan Greenbaum, Mutale Nkonde, conversations with Dorothy Santos & Xin Xin, Legacy Russell & Rashaad Newsome, and hosted by Salome Asega. Originally published on February 24, 2021https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/7cce147b-bd83-4ed3-a4cd-117dd5906d15https://tv.undersco.re/w/maj6Aasxj6mkRAMmBMhyVHhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/d5fc1c1b-a3dc-4394-8a0f-144497ef3639.jpgXin Xin's Togethernet at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the FutureXin Xin is an interdisciplinary artist and community organizer working at the intersection of technology, labor, and identity. Xin co-founded voidLab, a LA-based intersectional feminist collective dedicated to women, trans, and queer folks. They were the Director and Lead Organizer for Processing Community Day 2019, a worldwide initiative celebrating art, code, and diversity, and they currently serve on the advisory board for the Processing Foundation. Their work has been exhibited and screened at Ars Electronica, DIS, Gene Siskel Film Center, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, and Machine Project. Xin received their M.F.A from UCLA Design Media Arts and teaches at Parsons School of Design as an Assistant Professor of Interaction and Media Design. -- From the Rupture: Ideas & Actions for the Future coincides with special project launches that were supported by Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future – a fully-digital artist fellowship that was launched in response to the onset of Covid-19 crisis, marking the beginning of a new kind of artist support at Eyebeam. This video was presented on February 17, 2021, the first day of the festival celebrating Rashaad Newsome and Xin Xin with talks by Chancey Fleet, Cydney Brown, Joan Greenbaum, Mutale Nkonde, conversations with Dorothy Santos & Xin Xin, Legacy Russell & Rashaad Newsome, and hosted by Salome Asega.https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/a3439e91-9c75-4742-8027-ce2f88a6615bhttps://tv.undersco.re/w/nLXyjXb1wijzAnN5JwdStChttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/e5d37d01-c468-49e3-9171-cf23bba9cce1.jpgJerron Herman at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Future (Day 2)Jerron Herman is an interdisciplinary artist creating through dance, text, and visual storytelling. He's based in New York City. Jerron was born and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area where he began his career pursuing performance and playwriting. In 2009 he moved to New York City to study Dramatic Writing at the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. Continuing his dream of crafting stories to be performed, he then studied Media, Culture and the Arts, with an emphasis in Art History and Playwriting at The King's College where he graduated in 2013. While in school he was "discovered" by a choreographer who led him to audition for Heidi Latsky, quickly becoming a key member of her company, Heidi Latsky Dance. Jerron has performed at venues like Lincoln Center and The Whitney Museum of Art, resulting in the New York Times calling him, “the inexhaustible Mr. Herman.” As a strong advocate for disabled athletes and performers, he has been a featured model for both Tommy Hilfiger and Nike. -- From the Rupture: Ideas & Actions for the Future coincides with special project launches that were supported by Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future – a fully-digital artist fellowship that was launched in response to the onset of Covid-19 crisis, marking the beginning of a new kind of artist support at Eyebeam. This talk was recorded on February 18, 2021, the second day of the festival celebrating Juan Pablo García Sossa and Solar Protocol (Tega Brain, Alex Nathanson, and Benedetta Piantella) with talks by Elaine Díaz, Miguel López, conversations with Nisa Mackie & Solar Protocol, Julie Ricard & jpgs, and hosted by Jerron Herman. Originally published on March 23, 2021https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/b056e04d-32c5-413f-b014-756a1b21ce4ahttps://tv.undersco.re/w/s7x8W8BWx7mGULk5koyaHNhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/f230b54f-ae00-453c-a963-88eaa3ccbeb5.jpgSolar Protocol and Nisa Mackie at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Future (D...Nisa is the Head of Public Engagement, Learning and Impact at Walker Art Center. She is recognized as a leader in transforming arts and cultural institutions by implementing equitable practices and initiatives that span curating, learning, public programs, and community engagement. At the Walker, she curated Don’t let this be easy – a collection exhibition interrogating museum collecting practices through the lens of intersectional feminism; and teamLab: Graffiti Nature – Still Mountains and Movable Lakes. Recently she has worked with Des-Moines based artist Jordan Weber on a year-long residency with local organizations, activists, and community leaders, culminating in the commission of a public sculpture and community farm in North Minneapolis. Prior to joining the Walker Art Center, Mackie worked at Biennale of Sydney in Sydney from 2008–2010 and from 2013–2016. Tega Brain is an Australian-born artist and environmental engineer whose work examines issues of ecology, data systems and infrastructure. She has created wireless networks that respond to natural phenomena, systems for obfuscating fitness data, and an online smell-based dating service. Her work has been shown in the Vienna Biennale for Change, the Guangzhou Triennial, and in institutions like the Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the New Museum, among others. Benedetta is a designer turned educator and humanitarian technologist. She was involved in international development projects for the past fifteen years, ever since her experience of surviving the Tsunami in Sri Lanka in 2004 and organizing relief efforts from the ground. She has been teaching for almost two decades in different disciplines and to different age groups, from STEM and Robotics courses to K-12 students to Ideation & Prototyping, HCI, Physical Computing and Global Engineering classes to undergraduate and graduate students. Alex Nathanson is a multimedia artist, designer, technologist, and educator. His work is primarily focused ...https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/d37741aa-2b1e-45c6-a650-e319309ad37chttps://tv.undersco.re/w/gbo6J18fXQ8X4mUqNJXm9khttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/d3f733ee-48c9-4b75-9fae-d3d2ba401b29.jpgElaine Díaz at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Future (Day 2)Elaine Díaz Rodriguez is the editor-in-chief at Periodismo de Barrio, a Havana-based independent news digital magazine. Her work incorporates a radical, historical perspective on the distribution of media in Cuba. She is a former professor at the University of Havana and a Nieman fellow at Harvard University. -- From the Rupture: Ideas & Actions for the Future coincides with special project launches that were supported by Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future – a fully-digital artist fellowship that was launched in response to the onset of Covid-19 crisis, marking the beginning of a new kind of artist support at Eyebeam. This talk was recorded on February 18, 2021, the second day of the festival celebrating Juan Pablo García Sossa and Solar Protocol (Tega Brain, Alex Nathanson, and Benedetta Piantella) with talks by Elaine Díaz, Miguel López, conversations with Nisa Mackie & Solar Protocol, Julie Ricard & jpgs, and hosted by Jerron Herman.https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/7aec22eb-4ff9-4eb3-9411-72a950b4bcabhttps://tv.undersco.re/w/1XkEo9rEZwKh1jKpWHMrVqhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/0de9e7da-677f-4f45-a625-23442582c82c.jpgMiguel López at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Future (Day 2)Miguel A. López (Lima, 1983) is a writer, researcher and curator. His work investigates collaborative dynamics and feminist re-articulations of art and culture in recent decades. Between 2015-2020 he worked at TEOR/éTica, Costa Rica, first as Chief Curator, and since 2018 as Co-director. He has published in periodicals such as Artforum, Afterall, ramona, E-flux journal, Art in America, Art Journal, Manifesta Journal, among others. He is the author of "Ficciones disidentes en la tierra de la misoginia" (Pesopluma, 2019) and "Robar la historia. Contrarrelatos y prácticas artísticas de oposición" (Metales Pesados, 2017). He has recently curated “Cecilia Vicuña, a retrospective exhibition” at Witte de With, Rotterdam, 2019, and MUAC-UNAM, Mexico City, 2020; and “Victoria Cabezas and Priscilla Monge: Give Me What You Ask For” at Americas Society, New York, 2019. In 2016 he was recipient of the Independent Vision Curatorial Award from ICI (Independent Curators International), New York. -- From the Rupture: Ideas & Actions for the Future coincides with special project launches that were supported by Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future – a fully-digital artist fellowship that was launched in response to the onset of Covid-19 crisis, marking the beginning of a new kind of artist support at Eyebeam. This talk was recorded on February 18, 2021, the second day of the festival celebrating Juan Pablo García Sossa and Solar Protocol (Tega Brain, Alex Nathanson, and Benedetta Piantella) with talks by Elaine Díaz, Miguel López, conversations with Nisa Mackie & Solar Protocol, Julie Ricard & jpgs, and hosted by Jerron Herman.https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/07ba063a-f904-462a-81df-41421b803236https://tv.undersco.re/w/1dUDoTK3E8qA7HJkAsrJiHhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/8bc913a9-ce0f-44ab-a52b-e5c69ca70045.jpgSolar Protocol at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Future (Day 2)Solar Protocol is an experimental network of solar-powered servers installed at different locations around the world. As the sun rises and sets, each server turns on and off as its solar panel goes into sunlight or darkness. By using the logic of the sun, Solar Protocol reconfigures internet protocols with natural rather than artificial intelligence in an effort to circumnavigate dominant systems of surveillance capitalism. Just as significantly, the project demonstrates the potential for technology to be powered by alternative energy without the constraints and environmental repercussions of cheap fossil fuels. -- From the Rupture: Ideas & Actions for the Future coincides with special project launches that were supported by Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future – a fully-digital artist fellowship that was launched in response to the onset of Covid-19 crisis, marking the beginning of a new kind of artist support at Eyebeam. This talk was recorded on February 18, 2021, the second day of the festival celebrating Juan Pablo García Sossa and Solar Protocol (Tega Brain, Alex Nathanson, and Benedetta Piantella) with talks by Elaine Díaz, Miguel López, conversations with Nisa Mackie & Solar Protocol, Julie Ricard & JPGS, and hosted by Jerron Herman.https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/01cd5e63-ddac-49ed-abce-36d1a52c7973https://tv.undersco.re/w/2BC1R9PaNHuPu5SDWTqEtnhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/d595b5ab-e823-491e-b583-6e45d32aa67f.jpgSolar Protocol Launch at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Future (Day 2)Solar Protocol is an experimental network of solar-powered servers installed at different locations around the world. As the sun rises and sets, each server turns on and off as its solar panel goes into sunlight or darkness. By using the logic of the sun, Solar Protocol reconfigures internet protocols with natural rather than artificial intelligence in an effort to circumnavigate dominant systems of surveillance capitalism. Just as significantly, the project demonstrates the potential for technology to be powered by alternative energy without the constraints and environmental repercussions of cheap fossil fuels. -- From the Rupture: Ideas & Actions for the Future coincides with special project launches that were supported by Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future – a fully-digital artist fellowship that was launched in response to the onset of Covid-19 crisis, marking the beginning of a new kind of artist support at Eyebeam. This talk was recorded on February 18, 2021, the second day of the festival celebrating Juan Pablo García Sossa and Solar Protocol (Tega Brain, Alex Nathanson, and Benedetta Piantella) with talks by Elaine Díaz, Miguel López, conversations with Nisa Mackie & Solar Protocol, Julie Ricard & JPGS, and hosted by Jerron Herman.https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/0d125d8b-0827-4b74-a10a-ceb7c14d737bhttps://tv.undersco.re/w/oA9MordtjYdEZRXwN1urJqhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/75775200-2443-4b15-b1b5-bac40fda678f.jpgJPGS' Futura Trōpica at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Future (Day 2)Futura Trōpica takes the form of a decentralized network for lateral exchange among territories of the tropical belt, such as Bogotá, Kinshasa, and Bengaluru. It operates through an online and offline platform for sharing local resources, exploring new modes of distribution from a Tropikós perspective. The network is built for artists, designers, cooks, musicians, artisans and researchers from the tropical belt as a decentralized hub for unlearning, sparring and exploring other (endotic) forms of knowledge, designs, and technologies. -- From the Rupture: Ideas & Actions for the Future coincides with special project launches that were supported by Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future – a fully-digital artist fellowship that was launched in response to the onset of Covid-19 crisis, marking the beginning of a new kind of artist support at Eyebeam. This talk was recorded on February 18, 2021, the second day of the festival celebrating Juan Pablo García Sossa and Solar Protocol (Tega Brain, Alex Nathanson, and Benedetta Piantella) with talks by Elaine Díaz, Miguel López, conversations with Nisa Mackie & Solar Protocol, Julie Ricard & JPGS, and hosted by Jerron Herman.https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/b6edc049-d9d8-4483-97f9-0e0301622140https://tv.undersco.re/w/njZBUCQqnS3mABUXrBUeCmhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/7e2f77cf-5999-46c0-b7b1-b63ad76c85f2.jpgLauren Ruffin at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Future (Day 3)Lauren Ruffin is a thinker, designer, & leader interested in building strong, sustainable, anti-racist systems & organizations. She's into exploring how we can leverage new technologies to combat racial and economic injustice. Lauren is a co-founder of Crux, an Albuquerque-based immersive storytelling cooperative that collaborates with Black artists as they create content in virtual reality and augmented reality (XR). She also serves as co-CEO of Fractured Atlas, the largest association of independent artists in the United States. In 2017, she started Artist Campaign School, a new educational program that has trained 74 artists to run for political office to date. She has served on the governing board of Black Girls Code and Main Street Phoenix Cooperative, and on the advisory boards of ArtUp and Black Girl Ventures. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College with a degree in Political Science and obtained a J.D. from the Howard University School of Law -- From the Rupture: Ideas & Actions for the Future coincides with special project launches that were supported by Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future – a fully-digital artist fellowship that was launched in response to the onset of Covid-19 crisis, marking the beginning of a new kind of artist support at Eyebeam. This talk was recorded on February 19, 2021, the third day of the festival celebrating Aladin Borioli (APIAN) and Valencia James (Volumetric Performance Toolbox) with talks by Aza Raskin, Kara Gilmour, LaJuné McMillan, conversations with Amelia Winger-Bearskin & Valencia James, Paige Mulhern, Shay Willette, & Aladin Borioli, and hosted by Lauren Ruffin.https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/acb6cf0a-267e-4aa5-ac43-18f0c274d9c0https://tv.undersco.re/w/5ejRQk3u8pXVzhBzqtWBiFhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/f20d8e80-40e6-454c-82b5-0486beea1b96.jpgAladin Borioli with Shay Willette and Paige Mulhern at Eyebeam's From the Rupture (Day 3)Paige Mulhern is a Boston-based illustrator and Creative Director of The Best Bees Company. Her work is a colorful exploration of her surroundings, often focusing on the natural environment. This brought her to Best Bees, where her creative efforts can be found in Martha Stewart Magazine, VICELAND, and on the TEDx stage. Shay Willette is the head beekeeper at Best Bees, a company that installs and maintains honeybee hives on commercial and residential properties in urban centers across the US. Their mission is to improve bee health and expand the bee population. Since 2014, the DIY humanities research project called Apian has followed an ongoing and open-ended ethnography which explores the age-old interspecies relationship of bees to humans and humans to bees. Apain’s project takes the form of The Intimacy Machine, a new digital artwork in the form of a web platform that will serve as a refuge where humans are able to have egalitarian encounters with bees without the need for physical proximity -- From the Rupture: Ideas & Actions for the Future coincides with special project launches that were supported by Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future – a fully-digital artist fellowship that was launched in response to the onset of Covid-19 crisis, marking the beginning of a new kind of artist support at Eyebeam. This talk was recorded on February 19, 2021, the third day of the festival celebrating Aladin Borioli (APIAN) and Valencia James (Volumetric Performance Toolbox) with talks by Aza Raskin, Kara Gilmour, LaJuné McMillan, conversations with Amelia Winger-Bearskin & Valencia James, Paige Mulhern, Shay Willette, & Aladin Borioli, and hosted by Lauren Ruffin. https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/2240d896-2733-44bf-bdec-33f70df93fcdhttps://tv.undersco.re/w/eCy5ZaL1NBNeQuod4iALQEhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/0f7271a8-91d0-4143-9f6a-2a6972a4f601.jpgKara Gilmour at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Future (Day 3)Kara Gilmour is the Executive Director of BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange a multigenerational arts organization placing education, performance, and artistic process at the intersection of arts and social justice. Kara has decades of experience in arts education, administration, community engagement, and fundraising, and a strong focus on equity building. She joined BAX from Gibney, a Downtown NYC arts organization, where she was the Senior Director of Community Action and Strategic Initiatives. Her work at Gibney focused on innovative partnerships with artists, survivors of intimate partner violence, and disabled dancers alongside, foundations, city agencies, community-based organizations, and collegial institutions. Previously, at the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy, Kara founded the Education and Stewardship programs and spearheaded the Conservancy’s first Capital project, the Environmental Education Center. She has also worked with the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, Applied Research and Consulting, Education Development Center, Lincoln Center Institute, and Planned Parenthood. She holds a BA from Wesleyan University, was a 2016 New York Community Trust Leadership Fellow and a 2017 Advocate of New York City. -- From the Rupture: Ideas & Actions for the Future coincides with special project launches that were supported by Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future – a fully-digital artist fellowship that was launched in response to the onset of Covid-19 crisis, marking the beginning of a new kind of artist support at Eyebeam. This talk was recorded on February 19, 2021, the third day of the festival celebrating Aladin Borioli (APIAN) and Valencia James (Volumetric Performance Toolbox) with talks by Aza Raskin, Kara Gilmour, LaJuné McMillan, conversations with Amelia Winger-Bearskin & Valencia James, Paige Mulhern, Shay Willette, & Aladin Borioli, and hosted by Lauren Ruffin. https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/6e615a1b-0993-44a4-9d75-473ec0690776https://tv.undersco.re/w/h2vszixrGtFSfySVVPLjyphttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/5549fefc-90a9-4931-9b64-5162ea321738.jpgLaJuné McMillian at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Future (Day 3)LaJuné McMillian is a new media artist and creative technologist creating art that integrates performance, extended reality, and physical computing to question our current forms of communication. LaJuné has had the opportunity to show and speak about their work at National Sawdust, Creative Tech Week, and Art && Code’s Weird Reality. LaJuné was previously the Director of Skating at Figure Skating in Harlem, where they integrated STEAM and figure skating to teach girls of color about movement and technology. They have continued their research on Blackness, movement, and technology during residencies at Eyebeam, Barbarian Group, and Barnard College. -- From the Rupture: Ideas & Actions for the Future coincides with special project launches that were supported by Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future – a fully-digital artist fellowship that was launched in response to the onset of Covid-19 crisis, marking the beginning of a new kind of artist support at Eyebeam. This talk was recorded on February 19, 2021, the third day of the festival celebrating Aladin Borioli (APIAN) and Valencia James (Volumetric Performance Toolbox) with talks by Aza Raskin, Kara Gilmour, LaJuné McMillan, conversations with Amelia Winger-Bearskin & Valencia James, Paige Mulhern, Shay Willette, & Aladin Borioli, and hosted by Lauren Ruffin.https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/81c81dd7-e4bf-4f3c-8450-1af482f9670fhttps://tv.undersco.re/w/w4KQx6DykVs1CCzsFgDGPahttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/364cfbfc-0e7f-49a0-883f-90836b91a153.jpgAmelia Winger-Bearskin and Valencia James at Eyebeam's From the Rupture (Day 3)Amelia Winger-Bearskin is an artist/technologist who helps communities leverage emerging technologies to effect positive change in the world. She is a Senior Technical Training Specialist at Contentful in the SF Bay Area. In 2016 she went on to found and direct the DBRS Innovation Lab, an applied research lab that specialized in developing creative uses of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. Volumetric Performance Toolkit reimagines immersive web spaces as a site for addressing the need for more equitable representation of humans in mediated performance. Volumetric Performance Toolbox offers accessible, user friendly technology built to empower movement artists to perform from their own living spaces for a virtual audience. -- From the Rupture: Ideas & Actions for the Future coincides with special project launches that were supported by Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future – a fully-digital artist fellowship that was launched in response to the onset of Covid-19 crisis, marking the beginning of a new kind of artist support at Eyebeam. This talk was recorded on February 19, 2021, the third day of the festival celebrating Aladin Borioli (APIAN) and Valencia James (Volumetric Performance Toolbox) with talks by Aza Raskin, Kara Gilmour, LaJuné McMillan, conversations with Amelia Winger-Bearskin & Valencia James, Paige Mulhern, Shay Willette, & Aladin Borioli, and hosted by Lauren Ruffin. https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/f3786811-733c-452c-a385-6ba72927f867https://tv.undersco.re/w/8kf1w96jW6gbpgWYXkXzWNhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/2c7519c0-0d56-4f14-bfc9-f6864c8367b5.jpgAPIAN's Intimacy Machine at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Future (Day 3)The Intimacy Machine is a digital artwork and web platform exploring the age-old interspecies relationship between bees and humans. It presents a multi-dimensional artist-led ethnographic study on the effect of emerging for-profit technologies utilized within the world of beekeeping. The work points to the broader implications of these interventions across the larger agricultural industry, and offers a blueprint or call for technology that takes into account the perspective of bees and knowledge collected over thousands of years of human and bee relationships. How can technology open up opportunities for more intimate and thorough interspecies relationships? -- From the Rupture: Ideas & Actions for the Future coincides with special project launches that were supported by Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future – a fully-digital artist fellowship that was launched in response to the onset of Covid-19 crisis, marking the beginning of a new kind of artist support at Eyebeam. This video was presented on February 19, 2021, the third day of the festival celebrating Aladin Borioli (APIAN) and Valencia James (Volumetric Performance Toolbox) with talks by Aza Raskin, Kara Gilmour, LaJuné McMillan, conversations with Amelia Winger-Bearskin & Valencia James, Paige Mulhern, Shay Willette, & Aladin Borioli, and hosted by Lauren Ruffin.https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/3b5fbc4e-d595-4706-9065-4b35876d6436https://tv.undersco.re/w/eZqvm8TUzczLhgJ4PPS7K2https://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/f78c92b3-fa7d-4639-8982-6efd0f1cd555.jpgAPIAN, The Intimacy Machine Launch at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Futur...Since 2014, the DIY humanities research project called Apian has followed an ongoing and open-ended ethnography which explores the age-old interspecies relationship of bees to humans and humans to bees. Apain’s project takes the form of The Intimacy Machine, a new digital artwork in the form of a web platform that will serve as a refuge where humans are able to have egalitarian encounters with bees without the need for physical proximity -- From the Rupture: Ideas & Actions for the Future coincides with special project launches that were supported by Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future – a fully-digital artist fellowship that was launched in response to the onset of Covid-19 crisis, marking the beginning of a new kind of artist support at Eyebeam. This talk was recorded on February 19, 2021, the third day of the festival celebrating Aladin Borioli (APIAN) and Valencia James (Volumetric Performance Toolbox) with talks by Aza Raskin, Kara Gilmour, LaJuné McMillan, conversations with Amelia Winger-Bearskin & Valencia James, Paige Mulhern, Shay Willette, & Aladin Borioli, and hosted by Lauren Ruffin.https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/714b4cc1-03d4-4f8b-8b0f-314495f47577https://tv.undersco.re/w/gkNyKToCsE1cfY5S8TYzoehttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/8b2c80e4-b86a-4e0c-8df6-4f4e4daea4b6.jpgVolumetric Performance Toolbox Fellows at Eyebeam's From the Rupture (Day 3)Developed in response to the shuddering effects of Covid-19 on performers worldwide and their ability to connect with live audiences, Volumetric Performance Toolbox offers accessible, user-friendly technology built to empower creators to perform from their own living spaces for a virtual audience. VPT ushers in new possibilities for the creation of and experience of live performance in immersive web environments, while focusing on the creation of a product that requires minimal equipment or previous technical expertise. The toolbox aims to build an expansive community amongst the creators the tool is built for: Movement Artists of all backgrounds, orientations, and abilities, with priority on Black, Indigenous, POC, disabled, and other marginalized communities. -- From the Rupture: Ideas & Actions for the Future coincides with special project launches that were supported by Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future – a fully-digital artist fellowship that was launched in response to the onset of Covid-19 crisis, marking the beginning of a new kind of artist support at Eyebeam. This talk was recorded on February 19, 2021, the third day of the festival celebrating Aladin Borioli (APIAN) and Valencia James (Volumetric Performance Toolbox) with talks by Aza Raskin, Kara Gilmour, LaJuné McMillan, conversations with Amelia Winger-Bearskin & Valencia James, Paige Mulhern, Shay Willette, & Aladin Borioli, and hosted by Lauren Ruffin.https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/7c3ce878-83cc-41e7-9722-17e6ca11137dhttps://tv.undersco.re/w/8vKHGU7VJn15iVxZsRM2rvhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/7c01cad3-6a20-4801-a8af-71618a78c051.jpgValencia James and the Volumetric Performance Toolbox at Eyebeam's From the RuptureDeveloped in response to the shuddering effects of Covid-19 on performers worldwide and their ability to connect with live audiences, Volumetric Performance Toolbox offers accessible, user-friendly technology built to empower creators to perform from their own living spaces for a virtual audience. VPT ushers in new possibilities for the creation of and experience of live performance in immersive web environments, while focusing on the creation of a product that requires minimal equipment or previous technical expertise. The toolbox aims to build an expansive community amongst the creators the tool is built for: Movement Artists of all backgrounds, orientations, and abilities, with priority on Black, Indigenous, POC, disabled, and other marginalized communities. -- From the Rupture: Ideas & Actions for the Future coincides with special project launches that were supported by Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future – a fully-digital artist fellowship that was launched in response to the onset of Covid-19 crisis, marking the beginning of a new kind of artist support at Eyebeam. This talk was recorded on February 19, 2021, the third day of the festival celebrating Aladin Borioli (APIAN) and Valencia James (Volumetric Performance Toolbox) with talks by Aza Raskin, Kara Gilmour, LaJuné McMillan, conversations with Amelia Winger-Bearskin & Valencia James, Paige Mulhern, Shay Willette, & Aladin Borioli, and hosted by Lauren Ruffin.https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/3cd77b97-1ab0-4332-92bc-50f766da9703https://tv.undersco.re/w/maVn1KhD1CN4ybZ2Gqcf3rhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/7ab05a41-5378-4930-957d-6ef1a4b2c542.jpgnash sheard at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Future (Day 4)nash leads EFF's grassroots, student, and community organizing efforts. As the lead coordinator of the Electronic Frontier Alliance, nash works to support the Alliance's member organizations in educating their neighbors on digital-privacy best practices, and advocating for privacy and innovation protecting policy and legislation. nash's work is informed by lived experience with aggressive and militarized policing in the United States, Honduras, and Palestine, including racial profiling, the effects of biased broken windows policing tactics, and police brutality. nash has worked extensively to help mitigate the damage of harmful interactions with law enforcement online and in over-policed communities. Before joining EFF, as co-founder of Black Movement Law Project and a member of Mutant Legal, nash spent close to a decade training communities in crisis on how to document police conduct, exercise their legal rights, counteract state repression and actively participate in their own legal defense. -- From the Rupture: Ideas & Actions for the Future coincides with special project launches that were supported by Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future – a fully-digital artist fellowship that was launched in response to the onset of Covid-19 crisis, marking the beginning of a new kind of artist support at Eyebeam. This talk was recorded on February 20, 2021, the fourth (and final) day of the festival celebrating Veil Machine in collaboration with Kink Out Events and Dillon Sung in collaboration with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition with talks by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Vincent Southerland, Laurie Jo Reynolds and the Chicago 400, conversations with Juno Mac & Ze Royale, and hosted by nash sheard.https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/a3595a51-c0c4-4f5c-bda2-75db8458557dhttps://tv.undersco.re/w/8L4UcT4pWeo37NcfhwEYjchttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/7581af48-d853-4567-a482-1a1d628d8f87.jpgSasha Costanza-Chock at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Future (Day 4)Sasha Costanza-Chock (they/them or she/her) is a researcher and designer who works to support community-led processes that build shared power, move towards collective liberation, and advance ecological survival. They are known for their work on networked social movements, transformative media organizing, and design justice. Sasha is a Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a joint appointment in Media Arts & Sciences at the MIT Media Lab and the Department of Urban Studies+Planning. They are a Senior Research Fellow at the Algorithmic Justice League (ajl.org) and a Faculty Affiliate with the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Sasha is a board member of Allied Media Projects (alliedmedia.org) and a member of the Steering Committee of the Design Justice Network (designjustice.org). Sasha is the author of two books and numerous journal articles, book chapters, and other research publications. Their new book, Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need, was published by the MIT Press in 2020. -- From the Rupture: Ideas & Actions for the Future coincides with special project launches that were supported by Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future – a fully-digital artist fellowship that was launched in response to the onset of Covid-19 crisis, marking the beginning of a new kind of artist support at Eyebeam. This talk was recorded on February 20, 2021, the fourth (and final) day of the festival celebrating Veil Machine in collaboration with Kink Out Events and Dillon Sung in collaboration with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition with talks by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Vincent Southerland, Laurie Jo Reynolds and the Chicago 400, conversations with Juno Mac & Ze Royale, and hosted by nash sheard.https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/3ed7199a-5d58-4bac-b06b-7be6f14164cfhttps://tv.undersco.re/w/ngqkmCszTae81vaFBJuB48https://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/a4cfeae1-a16a-4d80-b115-f6eebd03ffb5.jpgVincent Southerland at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Future (Day 4)Vincent Southerland is the inaugural Executive Director for the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law at NYU Law. He has dedicated his career to advancing racial justice and civil rights. Southerland spent seven years at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), where he was a Senior Counsel engaged in litigation and advocacy at the intersection of race and criminal justice. -- From the Rupture: Ideas & Actions for the Future coincides with special project launches that were supported by Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future – a fully-digital artist fellowship that was launched in response to the onset of Covid-19 crisis, marking the beginning of a new kind of artist support at Eyebeam. This talk was recorded on February 20, 2021, the fourth (and final) day of the festival celebrating Veil Machine in collaboration with Kink Out Events and Dillon Sung in collaboration with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition with talks by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Vincent Southerland, Laurie Jo Reynolds and the Chicago 400, conversations with Juno Mac & Ze Royale, and hosted by nash sheard.https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/ac371089-661a-4b1b-9924-d2ecd93025c1https://tv.undersco.re/w/jLXw4d1hTZBYv4dZnT5fi6https://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/a5ddced2-2cc6-44bc-8650-6463a016e577.jpgVincent Southerland, Dillon Sung, and Hamid Khan at Eyebeam's From the Rupture (Day 4)Vincent Southerland is the inaugural Executive Director for the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law at NYU Law. He has dedicated his career to advancing racial justice and civil rights. Southerland spent seven years at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), where he was a Senior Counsel engaged in litigation and advocacy at the intersection of race and criminal justice. Dillon Sung is a multimedia artist and community organizer based in Southern California. Dillon's research as a Ph.D. student and Provost Fellow of American Studies & Ethnicity at USC is on the question of migrant self-determination and the conditions of possibility for full participation for stateless peoples—considering the historical function of Korean statelessness in particular. Her interdisciplinary work analyzes how affective practices—such as grief, missing, wanting of possibility—can generate resistive subject formations for the speculative potential of stateless socialities in imperiling the notion(s) of citizenship, settler colonialism, and nation-statehood. She also informs and engages her research with an art practice through discourses of fine art—namely social practice—and performance studies. She is a 2019 – 2021 Imagining America PAGE Co-Director and the lead artist in developing the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition Archive as a 2020 – 2021 Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future Fellow at Eyebeam. Hamid Khan (stoplapdspying@gmail.com): Hamid Khan is an organizer and coordinator with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition. The mission of the coalition is to build community-based power to dismantle police surveillance, spying, and infiltration programs. The coalition utilizes multiple campaigns to advance an innovative organizing model that is Los Angeles-based but has implications regionally, nationally, and internationally. As founder and former Executive Director of South Asian Network (1990-2010), Hamid helped create the first grassroots community-based organi...https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/980b6fa1-d225-4d9f-bc5e-14811b448407https://tv.undersco.re/w/r7DjuhSh4QbzCzFwkSQkFwhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/4d569bb5-364a-4e74-9bd4-54359a2196ba.jpgJuno Mac and Ze Royale at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Future (Day 4)Juno Mac is a sex worker and activist with the Sex Worker Advocacy and Resistance Movement (SWARM), a sex worker-led collective based in the UK. Along with Molly Smith, she is the co-author of REVOLTING PROSTITUTES: The Fight For Sex Workers' Rights, published in 2018. Ze Royale is a writer, performance artist, sexual anarchist, and pleasure activist whose philosophy of subjectivity and individualism is threaded in all of their work. Provocation, eccentricity, and erotic neurosis are shown through visual representation. Ze performs in text, film, and via chanting rituals in the music duo Zoid^. New work: performance installation called Daymares. -- From the Rupture: Ideas & Actions for the Future coincides with special project launches that were supported by Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future – a fully-digital artist fellowship that was launched in response to the onset of Covid-19 crisis, marking the beginning of a new kind of artist support at Eyebeam. This talk was recorded on February 20, 2021, the fourth (and final) day of the festival celebrating Veil Machine in collaboration with Kink Out Events and Dillon Sung in collaboration with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition with talks by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Vincent Southerland, Laurie Jo Reynolds and the Chicago 400, conversations with Juno Mac & Ze Royale, and hosted by nash sheard.https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/cb61ed78-781f-4382-985e-757b9f95a420https://tv.undersco.re/w/1FcqvfWPTqiK35hNzehhq6https://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/f37594c8-9123-4590-ba30-04d55ac7e295.jpgLaurie Jo Reynolds and the Chicago 400 at Eyebeam's From the Rupture (Day 4)Laurie Jo Reynolds is a policy advocate and artist who challenges the demonization, warehousing, and social exclusion of people in the criminal legal system, often long-term efforts at the margins of political viability. Focusing on the retributive extremes of solitary confinement and public conviction registries, Reynolds collaborates with justice advocates, state officials, cultural workers, and people directly affected by violence and incarceration to encourage policies that truly prevent victimization and restore and rehabilitate, rather than damage, people in the justice system. The Chicago 400 are parents, grandparents, veterans, providers, mentors, church members, hard workers, and faithful friends. We are also people with past convictions that require registration who are experiencing homelessness and therefore have to re-register weekly at Chicago Police Headquarters or receive a new felony conviction. Most of us are homeless due to housing banishment laws. The Chicago 400 Alliance are the individuals and organizations supporting us in our shared public safety goals: prevent crime, support survivors, and hold people accountable for harm—then let people with past convictions move on w/ our lives. For real. We are believers in God, peace, restoration, and in the possibility that our lives will change with the support of people like you. Twitter: @Chicago400 www.chicago400.net Joining today from the Chicago 400 are: Terrance Chism JC Clark Steven Diggs Benjamin Head Robert Priest Thomas C. Williams -- From the Rupture: Ideas & Actions for the Future coincides with special project launches that were supported by Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future – a fully-digital artist fellowship that was launched in response to the onset of Covid-19 crisis, marking the beginning of a new kind of artist support at Eyebeam. This talk was recorded on February 20, 2021, the fourth (and final) day of the festival celebrating Veil Machi...https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/05790be0-33db-4104-94d3-13addfdf8125https://tv.undersco.re/w/7Drdmg11F428HazTqUemuThttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/dbc9005f-f290-4555-ab02-9823aa033668.jpgBody of Workers with Kink Out Events at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Fut...Body of Workers is a private gallery created by and for sex worker artists. BoW intends to serve as an art sanctuary for sex workers, an act of resilience against the gentrification of the internet, and a peepshow to the art patron Please note the Body of Workers website is still a prototype and is only supported on your desktop with Chrome. -- From the Rupture: Ideas & Actions for the Future coincides with special project launches that were supported by Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future – a fully-digital artist fellowship that was launched in response to the onset of Covid-19 crisis, marking the beginning of a new kind of artist support at Eyebeam. This video was presented on February 20, 2021, the fourth (and final) day of the festival celebrating Veil Machine in collaboration with Kink Out Events and Dillon Sung in collaboration with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition with talks by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Vincent Southerland, Laurie Jo Reynolds and the Chicago 400, conversations with Juno Mac & Ze Royale, and hosted by nash sheard. https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/35d0e3b3-dbce-49a9-955d-a62109beefe3https://tv.undersco.re/w/oiHDmcHMQj99NbHdqRCV1hhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/61524cb3-2f0d-4de2-bfe0-13f31a7c9f86.jpgVeil Machine and Kink Out in conversation with Nash Sheard at Eyebeam's From the Rupture (Day 4)Veil Machine is a collaborative project where Cléo Ouyang, Thea Luce, and Empress Wu are creating a new form of digital riot to challenge SESTA/FOSTA and EARN IT. Their project is in collaboration with Kink Out Events to produce Body of Workers (BoW), a private online gallery created by and for sex worker artists as an act of resilience against the gentrification of the internet, and a peepshow to the art patron. Kink Out brings intersecting communities together. As an ever-evolving container, Kink Out is a performance space, screening room, art collaboration, panel discussion, S&M club, call to action, tattoo studio, art auction, and fundraiser for communities most affected by the injustice of censorship, criminalization, and demonization of our lives and livelihoods. -- From the Rupture: Ideas & Actions for the Future coincides with special project launches that were supported by Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future – a fully-digital artist fellowship that was launched in response to the onset of Covid-19 crisis, marking the beginning of a new kind of artist support at Eyebeam. This talk was recorded on February 20, 2021, the fourth (and final) day of the festival celebrating Veil Machine in collaboration with Kink Out Events and Dillon Sung in collaboration with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition with talks by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Vincent Southerland, Laurie Jo Reynolds and the Chicago 400, conversations with Juno Mac & Ze Royale, and hosted by nash sheard. https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/b4a25bcd-0a89-4d04-9331-9a2455439cb4https://tv.undersco.re/w/2FNzAbsDdqHRbkFmweZDsthttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/0fc7252f-7545-4aae-b149-c0820839dfde.jpgRoderick Schrock and Deana Haggag at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Future...Deana Haggag is the President & CEO of United States Artists, a national arts funding organization based in Chicago, IL. Before joining USA in February 2017, she was the Executive Director of The Contemporary, a nomadic and non-collecting art museum in Baltimore, MD, for four years. In addition to her leadership roles, Deana lectures extensively, consults on various art initiatives, contributes to cultural publications, and has taught at institutions such as Johns Hopkins University and Towson University. She is on the Board of Trustees of the Detroit Institute of Arts and The Underground Museum, as well as the Artistic Director's Council of Prospect.5 and Advisory Council of Recess. She received her MFA in Curatorial Practice from the Maryland Institute College of Art and a BA from Rutgers University in Art History and Philosophy. Roderick Schrock is an arts organizer and curator. As a non-profit executive, he leads the functional capacities of Eyebeam’s direct artist support and guides its focus to realign societal relationships with emergent technologies. He builds institutional capacity in order for artists to gain roles as cultural leaders and conceives and implements programs that elevate their work in society. He currently teaches in the Curatorial Practice MA Program at the School of Visual Arts and has taught at the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM), California College of the Arts, and New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. He is a member of the Guild of Future Architects, sits on the Netherlands America Foundation Cultural Committee, and is a founding board member of Art+Feminism. -- From the Rupture: Ideas & Actions for the Future coincides with special project launches that were supported by Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future – a fully-digital artist fellowship that was launched in response to the onset of Covid-19 crisis, marking the beginning of a new kind of artist support at Eyebeam....https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/0da7d9e1-73ee-49d5-8a29-0ded74576b2bhttps://tv.undersco.re/w/eLRFaMDxg2r9gF33eXA6Hthttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/b4357b5e-29eb-4664-8873-0d72191c56fc.jpgDillon Sung and the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition at Eyebeam's From the Rupture (Day 4)The SLSC Archive will be a digital, and eventually physical, resource built for civic engagement and open access to thousands of PRA (Public Records Act) documents received from the LAPD and the City of Los Angeles. The archive will support community members, organizers, artists, journalists, and researchers doing work against state surveillance, by providing access to information as well as models and archive tools for organizers who want to develop their own community-based archives locally. The archive represents the ongoing resistance against state surveillance, and aims to contribute to the building of community power towards abolition. -- From the Rupture: Ideas & Actions for the Future coincides with special project launches that were supported by Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future – a fully-digital artist fellowship that was launched in response to the onset of Covid-19 crisis, marking the beginning of a new kind of artist support at Eyebeam. This video was presented on February 20, 2021, the fourth (and final) day of the festival celebrating Veil Machine in collaboration with Kink Out Events and Dillon Sung in collaboration with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition with talks by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Vincent Southerland, Laurie Jo Reynolds and the Chicago 400, conversations with Juno Mac & Ze Royale, and hosted by nash sheard.https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/6f8a2457-d908-4010-8592-5a8610c07279https://tv.undersco.re/w/9tV1bLuQEGoQDcw7p9LiBvhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/10d4442d-20d4-42fc-a05b-7179e994223e.jpgDillon Sung and the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition Launch at Eyebeam's From the Rupture (Day 4)The SLSC Archive will be a digital, and eventually physical, resource built for civic engagement and open access to thousands of PRA (Public Records Act) documents received from the LAPD and the City of Los Angeles. The archive will support community members, organizers, artists, journalists, and researchers doing work against state surveillance, by providing access to information as well as models and archive tools for organizers who want to develop their own community-based archives locally. The archive represents the ongoing resistance against state surveillance, and aims to contribute to the building of community power towards abolition. -- From the Rupture: Ideas & Actions for the Future coincides with special project launches that were supported by Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future – a fully-digital artist fellowship that was launched in response to the onset of Covid-19 crisis, marking the beginning of a new kind of artist support at Eyebeam. This talk was recorded on February 20, 2021, the fourth (and final) day of the festival celebrating Veil Machine in collaboration with Kink Out Events and Dillon Sung in collaboration with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition with talks by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Vincent Southerland, Laurie Jo Reynolds and the Chicago 400, conversations with Juno Mac & Ze Royale, and hosted by nash sheard.https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/44aedafe-f6a8-43ff-b965-cdadc008fdafhttps://tv.undersco.re/w/iK1PSCKQQnxkDZEA9zKjg1https://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/e6dbc69d-8f5d-407f-af4a-0180de68e55f.jpgBody of Workers Project Launch at Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Future (D...Veil Machine is a collaborative project where Cléo Ouyang, Thea Luce, and Empress Wu are creating a new form of digital riot to challenge SESTA/FOSTA and EARN IT. Their project is in collaboration with Kink Out Events to produce Body of Workers (BoW), a private online gallery titled created by and for sex worker artists as an act of resilience against the gentrification of the internet, and a peepshow to the art patron. Kink Out brings intersecting communities together. As an ever-evolving container, Kink Out is a performance space, screening room, art collaboration, panel discussion, S&M club, call to action, tattoo studio, art auction, and fundraiser for communities most affected by the injustice of censorship, criminalization, and demonization of our lives and livelihoods. -- From the Rupture: Ideas & Actions for the Future coincides with special project launches that were supported by Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future – a fully-digital artist fellowship that was launched in response to the onset of Covid-19 crisis, marking the beginning of a new kind of artist support at Eyebeam. This talk was recorded on February 20, 2021, the fourth (and final) day of the festival celebrating Veil Machine in collaboration with Kink Out Events and Dillon Sung in collaboration with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition with talks by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Vincent Southerland, Laurie Jo Reynolds and the Chicago 400, conversations with Juno Mac & Ze Royale, and hosted by nash sheard.https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/8facd916-6d44-4196-aaec-507a96dfa336https://tv.undersco.re/w/r6TdbSECYv5dqBST1tqEothttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/88455366-d74a-4800-af4e-4d0f4246a4a7.jpgEyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Future (Day 1 & 2)Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Future (Day 1 & 2)https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/cb46bea5-827a-4208-9fa5-323c4a002b9fhttps://tv.undersco.re/w/4Drb14PGSzxSgwvjKHExCdhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/904a8c89-666c-4b04-86af-a8c2736ecfe3.jpgEyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Future (Day 3 & 4)Eyebeam's From the Rupture: Ideas and Actions for the Future (Day 3 & 4)https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/1d8572d3-12c5-47ae-a1d6-6a5ca0292ff0https://tv.undersco.re/w/obfb5UsnLPNc4UKb4z44kGhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/82140cdb-79e2-45d5-9b9f-9b32cb9cac2e.jpgTrust Resident: American ArtistAmerican Artist was a 2018 Eyebeam Resident. American is an interdisciplinary artist thinking about blackness, being, and resistance in the context of networked virtual life. They use video, installation, new media, and writing to reveal how the history of power is embedded in our daily lives. They spend a lot of my time thinking about how we create equality for those left out of history, and what that might visually look like. Due to their legal name change they’ve only very recently become googleable… though still not recognized by many systems (technological or societal).https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/b3973922-3acd-47d0-a4b4-0708c08e3a4ahttps://tv.undersco.re/w/2bGsU3PAVJFtSrJmCdz3oihttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/cb4211d8-4881-4bfc-8660-6ef8f4cbbec1.jpgTrust Resident: INFRA – Ingrid Burrington and Surya MattuSurya Mattu and Ingrid Burrington are the inaugural residents for our R&D Program for the Future of Journalism, a new pilot program that takes an artist-led approach to fighting misinformation and fake news funded in part by Craig Newmark.https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/09978355-fc20-454b-8ccf-0c621122acbdhttps://tv.undersco.re/w/cF81X9gmBWZdgWpAyzoFjPhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/405313e6-b796-4048-b20b-fd9bd7438ed0.jpgTrust Resident: Dhruv MehrotraDhruv is an activist and engineer who thinks about networks, power, and policy. He's currently a Researcher at the Risk Econ Lab at New York University working on open-source cellular networks with Saycel.https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/5e8adb36-26e8-49e8-ae5a-a0fce524613fhttps://tv.undersco.re/w/tZUymBgLNTHwJijaoxF7CThttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/61501abc-a51b-4d58-8cd9-5814bbb58798.jpgTrust Resident: Stephanie DinkinsStephanie is an artist who is interested in creating platforms for ongoing dialog about artificial intelligence as it intersects race, gender, aging, the proliferation of knowledge(s) and our future histories.https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/e2bc8754-abd9-449a-8d39-8b246fbd1e3bhttps://tv.undersco.re/w/65BGrMh4Aijm3pQ7ChiXNFhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/017ba28a-33a2-460f-9687-588fdfc2fd58.jpgTrust Resident: BUFUBUFU were a collective in residence at Eyebeam in 2018. BUFU is a collaborative living archive centered around (pan)Black and (pan)Asian cultural and political relationships. We, the founders of this project, are a collective of queer, femme and non-binary, Black and East-Asian artists and organizers. Our goal is to facilitate a global conversation on the cultural contact between Black & Asian diasporas, with an emphasis on building solidarity, de-centering whiteness, and resurfacing our deeply interconnected and complicated histories. We attempt to achieve this through our collaborative programming, visual archives, and through building long-term partnerships with collectives, organizations, and individuals. https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/2922aaea-1585-417d-af9d-b64d9a84cdf7https://tv.undersco.re/w/pkHETRJovn7TQuYod8Uu5xhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/36d14546-1ff0-4deb-bf3e-2055eefe29c8.jpgPhase III: 2024 Democracy Machine Open Call Info Session, 09 27 2023Please find the audio-only recording, chat log, closed captions, and FAQ Sheet from today’s information session hyperlinked below. Feel free to share this video with friends and colleagues who were not able to attend today. Audio-only recording: https://cloud.undersco.re/s/fn6ZnrL7FD6Y3RT Chat log: https://cloud.undersco.re/s/7nwESBrriDQX96J Closed captions: https://cloud.undersco.re/s/PJfxegjZfcit7Hq FAQ Sheet: https://cloud.undersco.re/s/cPGfaKNDxiBfM6S Here’s another sharable link to the recording, in case you have any difficulties opening the links above: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/WojSfodrDSDYoa-h2ShnnVWEphIO19KWlRtlkenBOaZcVS9i9-EWOAL2DHRuGvkZ.EUDTDsGbllt6VOhm?startTime=1695837660000 Passcode: uZ1Q=MYd The deadline is October 1 @ 11:59 PM EDT. Apply here: https://bit.ly/2024OpenCall https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/bd030050-14aa-47ac-bce7-b77bc8321d87https://tv.undersco.re/w/jHdreM4gNbkT6q1Q14Jcdqhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/9274babf-ad3f-4c70-b3e8-5eb62c357fdc.jpgPhase III: Meet The 2024 Democracy Machine FellowsAs Eyebeam Staff, we are tremendously excited to welcome the third cohort of The Democracy Machine, our multi-year anti-disciplinary art & activism program shaped and led by artists. This new group of visionary artists—five New York City-based fellows and five others currently based in California, India, Iran, and Taiwan–have recently started their six-month digital fellowship, and through this period, the artists will focus on building alternatives to the abusive technologies that propel harm in oppressed communities. Eyebeam will support the fellows in realizing projects prioritizing human well-being and agency, developing tech focused on decolonization, care, and healing the digital divide. Eyebeam introduced these artists with a panel on March 15th, 2024, archived here for the future. This group arrives at Eyebeam with clear-hearted and daring visions of self-determination and interdependence. Their projects counter, bypass, and create fissures in dominant power’s oppressive infrastructures of bias, surveillance, and censorship. Through evocative archives and memory work, through counter-mythologies and community-owned digital networks, Eyebeam’s Democracy Machine Fellows expand the possibilities of contemporary life alongside and against technology and its uses. Eyebeam is excited to share with you our enthusiasm for this group of artists, and they are thrilled to share their work with you all. Transcript: https://desk.undersco.re/s/nTLDZaGsfMreCPq Resources and links shared in chat: https://desk.undersco.re/s/Yz4cx79weQXqjfZhttps://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/9785a764-14a0-4beb-8726-522db4b38f1chttps://tv.undersco.re/w/12VXBAsBnTyHN3bjBSbVNShttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/63eb6986-414c-49e5-8dd6-65011300e0db.jpgSelfhosted Infrastructure Any%Deploying chat (Matrix / Fluffychat), microblogging (Hometown), and file-/calendar-sharing (Nextcloud) behind single sign-on (Keycloak). Didn't beat my personal best time, but had fun trying!https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/0044ff41-bf84-4b53-a6e0-4f7d7ce38622https://tv.undersco.re/w/cEN9KDRvGDasmMpjuGYmyFhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/2dbc6a37-ccbf-4582-b186-4a9f02be19b6.jpgResearch Notes On Digital Identity (New Design Congress)Despite years of information security innovation, the state of user safety continues to decay and digital systems remain vulnerable. This is because the majority of attacks rely on a flawed first principle of digital identity assembled from entrenched assumptions around presentation, authentication, enforcement and trust. As societies continue to digitize with digital identity as the endpoint for all socio-technical contact between citizens, institutions and infrastructure, the collective inability to imagine new designs for digital identity will shatter how we cultivate social trust. How else can this depressing state of affair, where no single attribute of a person can escape the reach of bad actors, be brought to an end? Since 2023, New Design Congress has applied a combination digital anthropology cum- adversarial security research methodology to the question of the flawed digital identity -- its definitions, implementations, and implications on the present and future. From FaceID to BankID, from Facebook to the fediverse, from Worldcoin to the world's passports, this is an exhaustive study of the opportunities and risks that emerge from how we represent entities in the information age. At the centre of all this is a core hypothesis: today's digital identities are inherently vulnerable to attack, and this leads to brittle digital societies. With first findings due just weeks from this seminar, NDC has since January been drip-releasing research notes -- abridged chapters from the forthcoming report. Parts one (Identifying & Defining the Digital Self) and two (Self-(De)termination: The Fatal Ambiguity of Digital Identity) having already been released (initiating discussion in the Metagov Slack). Part three Spheres of Identity" - coauthored by Roel Roscam Abbing - is forthcoming, and will look at the properties of centralized/decentralized/federated identity systems. From their first research note: "Despite the popular concepts of digital identity be...https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/5e7f3ae3-0ee8-491a-b7dd-a78d5d96a5f7https://tv.undersco.re/w/nXy3ZfrrAm8cENSnnRJaFjhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/4ff871b4-9780-4f51-a797-5c1613012300.jpgWhat Comes Next is Nothing: FOSS, subculture and platform collapseDespite their widespread use, OS makers have made irreversible missteps that break trust. Now, a new generation of users have woken up to the political nature of platforms and their alternatives. This presents a unique opportunity to bring new users to FOSS. Who are these users? What are their motivations, and how might they different from assumptions made by free software?https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/b1d19257-96a8-4ca2-bee2-b526e8e8ee2chttps://tv.undersco.re/w/xkwTn4VCTeEEciUnU8GN1Khttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/6ffd8645-e8fd-4b1e-8f2c-13077d0e9eae.jpgThere is Pain In the World but Not At This Con: Furry Solidarity and the Para-Real**There is Pain In the World but Not At This Con: Furry Solidarity and the Para-Real** **[Furality Umbra](https://furality.org/), June 6th - 9th, 2024** Spend enough time online and you’ll come across a meme that ‘Furries run the internet.’ Some of us build networks, write code or work as sysadmins, but alongside those who build or maintain our spaces are those who shape the world we want to live in – creatives, organisers, educators and other non-technical furs. And yet, although we are stronger together, we rarely look back out into the wider world to compare. At a time of intense real-world uncertainty, what could the wider world learn from the furry community for safety, community and economic resilience? Join a live conversation with [Ån](http://an.foxriot.com) (Systems Design Lead at VRChat) and [Shibco](https://post.lurk.org/@shibacomputer), (founder of New Design Congress). We will discuss how the social and technical savvy of the furry community offers hope for a more just wider world, and how the tools of furry expression – VRChat, Blender, Unity, OBS, Godot and others – serve as a hybrid “third space” between the digital and the physical, in stark opposition to the doomscrolling mainstream. https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/fdc576c8-b9bc-4710-87d2-d694a7be3f13https://tv.undersco.re/w/atEiDmMNTu9R5PopYZTPfkhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/03ba7966-dbd3-4840-a848-9e10c9389485.jpgPhase II, Radical Experiments: Zeina Baltagi in conversation with Chris Christion & Jessica WimbleyThe artist spotlights their work addressing their experiences within the intersection of access, decolonization of the self and identity. Zeina Baltagi in discussion with artists and curators Jessica Wimbley and Chris Christion. As a curatorial team, Wimbley/Christion developed a series of curatorial projects contextualizing the visual arts within “biomythography” @biomythart.https://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/4cbeef7f-5f80-4abc-bc0a-7f94f4f05823https://tv.undersco.re/w/3KXDjZr1JHWemx5MfKF12ihttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/4cc4f137-7eb2-414e-a022-06b87a958af1.jpgCo-op Cloud Grow Your Own International Democratic Tech FederationCo-op Cloud Grow Your Own International Democratic Tech Federationhttps://tv.undersco.re/videos/embed/16558d0e-7a96-42b2-aef6-cf6275a39b13https://tv.undersco.re/w/aJGLdyfkWZttwnWD3i7oLPhttps://tv.undersco.re/static/thumbnails/b31a0f02-c35d-4064-a06e-64374be33f73.jpgPlatform Surveillance and Data AutonomyMarlon from [MIR](https://mirnet.org) gave a great talk at [CounterSpy conf](https://counterspy.zip) featuring Co-op Cloud 🎉 > How can we gain meaningful control over data in an era where instant collaboration and "cloud-based" applications are the norm? Why did the early internet dream of radically distributed networks turn into the centralized architecture of 2025? We will look at the infrastructure of the modern web - from humming server racks to law enforcement surveillance portals - and explore what it takes technically and politically to build autonomous data platforms for the needs of today's social movements. 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