Trust, KluckStr. 25, Berlin (2024)

23/04/2024

April 28th | 12-17h
Trust Fleamarket
DM us to reserve a spot and come hang out 🫂🛍️

17/04/2024

In this reading group session, we will examine how interspecies relations in the medieval through early modern period contributed to the evolution of animals as nascent political and moral subjects in Western Europe.

Beginning with the Black Death-era judicial practice of ‘criminal’ animals being granted legal personhood and forced to stand trial for their offenses in human courts, we’ll first read a selection of excerpts from American historian E.P. Evans’ book The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals before moving on past the advent of Descartes’ “bête machine” to Jean Denis’ decidedly anti-Cartesian xenotransfusion experiments in the 1660s, which successfully convinced half of Paris that introducing ‘pure’ animal blood into one’s veins would positively affect one’s moral character. We welcome a discussion on how these curious forms of relationality renegotiate the ontological gap between humans and nonhumans, as well as any other contributions members wish to add.

The Multispecies Collective Research Unit is a quest aiming to recalibrate the discourse surrounding animals, spirituality, and technology. Through the lens of cybernetic animism, we develop a collective practice that breaks down illusory barriers between human and non-human animals, forging a new vocabulary for understanding these relations. The ongoing unit is led by our maintainer Jovana Maksic and Kat Schneider .

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14/03/2024

Plant Communication: FACT VS LORE

The controversial debate around plant communication is ignited by concepts like the Wood Wide Web, suggesting plants can not only share nutrients but also intentional communicative signals. These emerging theories challenge traditional views on plant interactions and forms of sentience. However, some criticise these interpretations and warn against potential misinformation, arguing that these biological responses lack intentionality. This creates a contentious divide in the scientific community and beyond.

Join us next Tuesday for the inaugural Trust Debate - a format turning the server’s most heated conversations into a research combat arena! In one corner, we have Shanhuan Manton () a filmmaker and multimedia artist focusing on interspecies interactions, biosemiotics, and transitions towards ecocentricity. Shanhuan is ready to defend plant communication, arguing for sign-mediated processes - plants communicate, feel, connect through mycorhizzal networks and more. And in the opposite corner - the physicist Abel Jansma (.j) who studies the mathematics of emergence in complex systems at the Max Planck Institute. He’s there to question and dissect the existing hype, presenting existing evidence (or lack of it) on the issue.

The bell rings, the question remains - plant communication: FACT vs LORE? A complex phytosemiotic dialogue or merely information transfer without intentionality? The arena is set, the crowd is ready, and the judges - you, the members - get to decide whose arguments win.

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12/03/2024

Trust Fund Round 6 is now open!
Submit in Discord 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝟑 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 ♡

12/03/2024

Trust Fund Round 6 is now open!
Submit in Discord before 3 April ♡

23/02/2024

MYSTICAL TECH RESEARCH UNIT

TUE, March 5 8PM CET | Discord and IRL @ Trust

𝕭𝖑𝖊𝖘𝖘𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕯𝖊𝖛𝖎𝖈𝖊𝖘

The devices we use every day are a portal to knowledge and spiritual mysteries, they contain tiny angels, devils and magical encounters. Neopagan belief systems have incorporated machines into their witchcraft, responding to the post-modern age by integrating technology into their perception of the sacred. Meanwhile, Protestant churches are offer services for blessing the devices that have gifted them with new tools and resources to practice their faith.

In this hybrid session of The Mystical Tech Research Unit, we invite you and your devices to Trust IRL and online for the ceremony: 𝕭𝖑𝖊𝖘𝖘𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕯𝖊𝖛𝖎𝖈𝖊𝖘. Bring your electronic temples (phones, laptops, other), and together we will consecrate our devices to serve us in this wired world, followed by readings and discussion of Venetia Robertson’s paper ‘Deus Ex Machina? Witchcraft and the Techno-World’ and Chapter 6 (‘A Most Enchanting Machine’) of Erik Davis’ TechGnosis.

Mystical Tech Research Unit (MTRU) is led by - researcher, writer and magical practitioner that is currently in residency at Trust. In this session we will be joined in ceremony by sorceress and trust member . We meet every 2 months for reading and discussion, engaging in online tech rituals, and IRL summonings in between.

14/02/2024

A behind-the-scenes, unhinged look at the work of Fantasia Malware () - a video game and performance collective. Includes never-before-seen DVD commentary on classic games such as S*X! At Alexanderplatz and The Life of Saint Fiona Bianco Xena!!!!

Chloê Langford is an artist who makes art, performances and video games using web technology + game engines. She is interested in using computers to channel the superstimulated, hyperchromatic, fractured experience of being a body in this moment in time. Langford is part of the the experimental video game label and collective Fantasia Malware. Fantasia Malware is a tiny cross section of the fizzing underbelly of video games - a late capitalist medium wrenched free from the grasp of the marketing team to make boundless alien dream worlds.

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02/02/2024

Mapping Utopian Conspiracy I/II

In “What Happened to the New Internet?” Bryan Lehrer () explores the various attempts to reform the internet - including decentralized web technologies, crypto, and regulatory efforts - questioning why these efforts have not yet succeeded in changing the internet’s landscape. Despite the movement’s fragmentation and challenges, he argues that the quest for a more open, equitable, and user-friendly internet remains vital and ongoing.

In this sandbox we will attempt to create a literal map of the digital space that is Trust and its neighboring domains. Bryan will lead participants through a collective version of a personal cartographic exercise carried out in the essay. In addition to creating a useful artifact, the goal for the Sandbox session will be to better understand mapping as an imperfect tool used for grounding reality in increasingly messy digital environments.

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25/01/2024

How can para-institutions drive systems change through culture and technology?

“Para-institutional spaces exist besides and beyond the institution, forming alternatives while overlapping. They are peripheral and ad-hoc, part, but not part. They move beyond logics of extraction, remove barriers to accessibility, while embracing new models of knowledge transmission.” (Darkstudy description by Cherry & Maloof)

Trust hosts an unconference-style event to explore the role of para-institutions in driving systems change through culture and technology. The catalyst for this convening is the German response to the ongoing genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people, and domestic policies that have censored and repressed the educational, arts and cultural spheres. Participants are invited to investigate the role para-institutions might play in altering underlying structures, patterns, and processes shaping the social environment in Berlin and beyond. The event creates space for building common-ground between Berlin’s tech and arts scenes and for sharing actionable tools for para-institution building.

10 EUR (5 for Trust members)*
Register via link in bio – We will email accepted participants ticket and location details.

16/01/2024

Multispecies Collective Research Unit

TUE, Jan 23 | 8 PM | Discord

𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴: 𝘈 𝘚𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥

In this reading group session, we will be reading a chapter from Donna Haraway’s Primate Visions (1989) titled “A Semiotics of the naturalistic field: From C.R. Carpenter to S. A. Altmann, 1930-1955”. In the decade after World War II, the wider field of evolutionary biology became enmeshed with the fields of cybernetics, giving rise to a bio-technical picture of organisms and animal societies, including primates, as command-control-communication systems. The naturalistic field became an epistemological and material space for producing knowledge about the primate order as a problem in semiotics.

In this session, we will (re)visit this socio-political and technoscientific entanglement to understand how primates as animals and early anthropoid study objects constitute this unique interface. We invite a discussion on simians, zoosemiotics, and whichever contributions members would like to offer to the topic.

The Multispecies Collective Research Unit is a quest aiming to recalibrate the discourse surrounding animals, spirituality, and technology. Through the lens of cybernetic animism, we will develop a collective practice that breaks down illusory barriers between human and non-human animals, forging a new vocabulary for understanding these relations. The ongoing unit is led by our maintainer Jovana Maksic () and Kat Schneider ().

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04/01/2024

From assembly to techgnosis and with much in between. We’ve recapped the 2023 Trust Alphabet.

13/12/2023

SIMIYYA – Palliative Worldmaking

In this Sandbox Assem Hendawi () and Mandus Ridefelt () are soft launching SIMIYYA (arabic for “Epistemology of Wisdom”.) Simiyya joins an ecology of platforms trying to reconfigure cultural production and infrastructural speculation across the strange lands of the global and the local, the top/down and the bottom/up orders of power the making of worlds or the undoing of worlds. During the Sandbox they will narrate their formats and ideas so far and reflect on how the events of the 7th of October ripples through para-institutional forms of culture as a call for both unknown internationalisms and pallative forms of worldmaking. What does world making entail in a world that seems to have reached its limits?

Assem Hendawi is an artist who mainly works with still and moving images as well as text. With a conceptual approach, Hendawi uses a visual vocabulary that addresses many different social and political issues. By merging several seemingly incompatible worlds into a new universe, he focuses on the ideas of “public space” and spaces that could be or spaces to come: the non-private space, the virtual owned space, space that is accessible by imagination. His works are often about contact with architecture and systems. Space and landscape are examined in less obvious ways and sometimes developed in absurd and abstract ways. He currently lives and works in Egypt.

Mandus Ridefelt works across art, science and music as writer, researcher and facilitator. Mandus has worked with/for/at Diakron (DK), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (DK), Index – The Swedish Contemporary Arts Foundation (SE), Passive/Aggressive (DK) and others. Mandus is a graduate from Dutch Art Institute (Art Praxis) and Uppsala University (Molecular Biology and Theoretical Philosophy).

As of 2022-23, Mandus lives in Copenhagen.

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29/11/2023

Hidden in the walls of the digestive system, the gut responds to complex signals in our environments, silently influencing behaviour and decision-making. The gut brain represents Trust’s embodied and intuitive cognition organ. Quietly tuning anonymous or unspoken elements, like in , it nurtures our own sense of a collective gut feeling.

Trust dedicates December to intuitive, decentralized, cortex-less forms of knowing. Drawing on her work around beyond-human logic, Jenna Sutela will reflect on the gut brain as a window into amorphous intelligence forms and their pluralities. Together with our maintainer , she will join a conversation on “brains as open systems” and their (lack of) confinement by bodily boundaries. They will discuss the possible implications of this approach in the context of neurohacking, light therapy, and the occult.

Jenna Sutela is a Finnish artist based in Berlin. She works with biological and computational systems, including the human microbiome and artificial neural networks to create sculptures, images and music. Sutela’s work has been presented at museums and art contexts internationally, including Swiss Institute, New York (2023), Haus der Kunst, Munich (2022); Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Turin (2022); Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (2022); Shanghai Biennale (2021); Liverpool Biennial (2021); Kunsthall Trondheim (2020); Centre d’Art Contemporain Genéve (2020); Serpentine Galleries, London (2019); and Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2019). She was a Visiting Artist at the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) in 2019-21.

28/11/2023

MYSTICAL TECH RESEARCH UNIT

TUE, Dec 5 | 8 PM | Discord
CHAPTER 3: The Gnostic Infonaut

“𝕴𝖋 𝖊𝖑𝖊𝖈𝖙𝖗𝖎𝖈𝖎𝖙𝖞 𝖎𝖘 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖔𝖚𝖑 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖒𝖔𝖉𝖊𝖗𝖓 𝖆𝖌𝖊, 𝖎𝖓𝖋𝖔𝖗𝖒𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖎𝖘 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖕𝖎𝖗𝖎𝖙.”

In this session of the MTRU, we will unpack how the introduction of information theory unleashed a new reality upon the world, one which wove humans into a global web of messages and signals. Together, we will attempt to make sense of how information flow throughout history has been an instrument of religious, economic an political control, as well as unpack how Davis claims we can use the lens of religious and esoteric myth to understand the dominance of information culture and the digital zeitgeist. In preparation for this session, open your receivers to accept incoming signals

Mystical Tech Research Unit (MTRU) will be led by - researcher, writer and magical practitioner that is currently in residency at Trust. We meet every 2 months in Discord for reading groups, and engage in online tech rituals, geocaching exercises and IRL summonings in between.

24/11/2023

Bubble dump 🫧

16/11/2023

Active decoys: The weaponisation of fact-checking in times of live-streamed genocide

Trust hosts a conversation between Francesco Sebregondi and Maksym Rokmaniko who will comparatively analyze the information landscapes of both the Israeli invasion of Gaza and the Russo-Ukrainian war.

The ongoing military offensive in Gaza stands apart from the five preceding Israeli bombing campaigns on the besieged Palestinian enclave since 2006. Both the number of casualties and the level of destruction of civilian infrastructure are unprecedented and completely aberrant in modern conflict. But this shift in the scale of destruction also marks a change in the nature of framing – legal, political, or discursive – traditionally associated with the conduct of warfare. It signifies the abandonment of established "rules of war" through neutralisation of all its customary mechanisms. Full green-light, no red lines: the Israeli war machine has entered savage mode, both on the material and informational layers.

This Samdbox will outline some of the tactics deployed to this effect. One such tactic, informational submersion, relies on an overwhelming international awareness of war by creating a frenetic accumulation of ground impacts, producing substantial waves of information that the audience struggles to follow. Another tactic involves deception, evident in the daily release of doctored images, grossly staged videos, or false evidence. Leveraging the cultural trend of meticulous debunking and open-source intelligence (OSINT) as a form of activism in the Western world, the information space is saturated by efforts to prove that such claims are fake. Fast-spreading factual controversies therefore function as active decoys, diverting attention and energy from collective endeavours aimed at demanding an end to the unfolding genocidal violence.

Francesco Sebregondi is Paris-based architect and researcher, exploring the intersections of violence, media, and the urban condition. He is also the founding director of INDEX .ngo.

Maksym Rokmaniko is an architect, researcher, and founding director of the Center for Spatial Technologies (CST) .info in Kyiv.

14/11/2023

’s “A Catalogue of Simple Pleasures” Cards Launch in Berlin

When: November 22, 2023, 8-10pm (20:00 - 22:00)

Where: Trust | Kluckstraße 25, 10785 Berlin, Germany

If you’re in Berlin, you’ll be pleased to know that Are.na will be celebrating the launch of “A Catalogue of Simple Pleasures” card deck, the fourth item of the Are.na Gift Shop, by Alex Singh and many contributors.

We hope you'll join us at Trust the evening of Wednesday, November 22nd from 8-10pm with a reading by Singh at 8:45pm.

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03/11/2023

Multispecies Collective Research Unit ft. and

TUE | Nov 7 | 8 PM CET

The Multispecies Collective Research Unit is an open-ended quest aiming to recalibrate the discourse surrounding animals, spirituality, and technology. Through the lens of cybernetic animism, we will develop a collective practice that breaks down barriers between human and non-human animals and forges a new vocabulary for understanding these relations.

Hosted primarily on Discord, reading group sessions will form the backbone of the research unit, beginning with “Cosmodolphins: Feminist Cultural Studies of Technology, Animals, and the Sacred.” This expansive work by Mette Bryld and Nina Lykke will guide our initial sessions and lay the groundwork for a series of explorations into the complex tapestry of multispecies relationships. As we move forward, we will engage with a diverse range of literature aimed at forging a comprehensive understanding of the animal-tech-spirituality interface.

With sufficient interest from our IRL members, we will also organize film screenings on the spiritual dimension of human-animal relationships, as well as writing workshops focusing on animal POV’s.

The Multispecies Collective Research Unit will be led by Kat Schneider and Jovana Maksic. Kat () is an artist and researcher focusing on the historical and linguistic origins of cultural conceptions of the ‘human’ versus who or what can be defined as ‘animal’, and the broader environmental and biopolitical implications thereof. Jovana () is a Trust maintainer and scientist focusing on cognition, communication and culture of human and nonhuman primates.

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02/11/2023

Multispecies Collective Research Unit ft. and

TUE | Nov 7 | 8PM | DISCORD

The Multispecies Collective Research Unit is an open-ended quest aiming to recalibrate the discourse surrounding animals, spirituality, and technology. Through the lens of cybernetic animism, we will develop a collective practice that breaks down illusory barriers between human and non-human animals and forges a new vocabulary for understanding these relations.

Hosted primarily on Discord, reading group sessions will form the backbone of the research unit, beginning with “Cosmodolphins: Feminist Cultural Studies of Technology, Animals, and the Sacred.” This expansive work by Mette Bryld and Nina Lykke will guide our initial sessions and lay the groundwork for a series of explorations into the complex tapestry of multispecies relationships. As we move forward, we will engage with a diverse range of literature aimed at forging a comprehensive understanding of the animal-tech-spirituality interface.

With sufficient interest from our IRL members, we will also organize film screenings on the spiritual dimension of human-animal relationships, as well as writing workshops focusing on animal POV’s.

The Multispecies Collective Research Unit will be led by Kat Schneider and Jovana Maksic Kat () is an artist and researcher focusing on the historical and linguistic origins of cultural conceptions of the ‘human’ versus who or what can be defined as ‘animal’, and the broader environmental and biopolitical implications thereof. Jovana () is a Trust maintainer and scientist focusing on cognition, communication and culture of human and nonhuman primates.

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02/10/2023

THIS THURSDAY

Post-Clock Rationalisations
with Martina Cavalot and Wassim Z. Alsindi of 0xSalon

IRL ⌂ Thu 5 Oct – 19:30 CET
5€ (free for members)
STREAM • Thu 5 Oct – 20:00 CET – Twitch

A collective body is a chimera of organs and entanglements that move beyond the limits of legal and technical approaches to organizing.

The auricle is the part of the ear external to the body, made up of cartilage and skin, its curved shape collects sound waves and delivers them to the inner ear. Detecting gravity and motion, the ear is an integral part of how the body moves through its environment and thus shapes our relationship to time. Oracle and auricle share etymological roots in sound and speech acts.

For the month of October, Trust explores how the auricle stands in for time sensing, listening and manifestation or prophecy – thinking about the role of organisations in calling out to alternate horizons.

Spawned within and incubated by Trust for the past few years, the 0xSalon (.salon)conducts experiments in creative and scholarly collaboration. Activities take the forms of an event series, a residency program, physical objects, and a project studio. We like to think of its collective body as an amorphous bricolage of concepts, contexts, and practices.

Drawing upon recent publications and an upcoming book, Wassim Z. Alsindi ()will be connecting several strands of long-standing research into network communities: synthetic temporalities; ideologies of scarcity; and relationships between prophecy, capital, and technology.

Martina Cavalot ()will be presenting the 0xSalon as a collective digital and physical body: focusing on the intellectual commitments; the organisational manifestations; and the historical trajectory of the project, to delineate its scope as an experimental space for epistemic inquiry.

06/09/2023

Changing Natures: Ecocene

Talk and public playtest by
Trust & Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
IRL ⌂ Wed 13 Sep – 19:30 CET
5€ (free for members)

𝘈 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘢 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘨.

Trust’s collective anatomy moves to focus on the mouth – the gateway to voice, the vessel of expression, and the cradle of tales passed down through generations. The mouth shapes and modulates the voice and amplifies narratives that have been silenced, forgotten, or overwritten.

Changing Natures: Ecocene is a web-game that invites you to explore the Ecocene, a model of an alternative world populated by memories from the past. Initially built as a powerful computer simulation, empowering every living and non-living entity with a voice, the Ecocene took the wrong course, fed on model-generated data. The line between reality and deep dream got blurred…

The player is sought to help Ecocene’s machine elves synchronize shifted relations between the objects and memories in the simulation. With their uniquely human perspectives, Ecocene hopes – perhaps naively – that it will finally be able to make sense of what it was that defined human life on Earth.

All items in the game stem from the Changing Natures collection, a participatory project run by the natural history museums in Berlin and Paris on local knowledge about anthropogenic environmental change. The open collection invites the public to contribute their individual perspectives and personal objects that show how they experience the changes in their environment. New contributions to the growing collection will continue to find their way into the game world.

The Changing Natures: Ecocene game is a collaboration of Trust (Calum Bowden & Son La Pham ) and the project “Changing Natures” at Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Ministère de l‘Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (MESR).

28/08/2023

THIS WEEK 🪱

𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀: 𝗥𝗼𝗼𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗠𝗮𝗶 𝗜𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗸𝗮𝘄𝗮 𝗦𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝘆𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗲

Thu, Aug 31 – 19:30 CET
5€ (free for members)
STREAM – 20:00 CET – Twitch

𝘈 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘢 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘨.

Trust begins its exploration of collective bodies, sustainable infrastructure, and imaginative metaphors with an event on ‘Roots’. In collective bodies, roots signify lore, history, situated knowledge, infrastructure, maintenance, and nutrient delivery. The roots metaphor extends beyond human understanding into the world of mycorrhizal fungi, organisms that form symbiotic relationships with plants through their roots. In some cases, these networks help the system distribute resources evenly, while in others they help larger plants receive a larger benefit.

Glimpsing the ways in which collective bodies harvest and distribute resources via their roots, Trust invites Mai Ishikawa Sutton () and Grayson Earle () to explore symbiosis within digital infrastructures, and the political dimensions of network forms and resource distribution strategies. Mai delves into the digital commons and solidarity tech through their work developing open source publishing tools and the Internet Archive’s DWeb movement. Grayson Earle unravels socialism on the blockchain and a novel approach to mining cryptocurrency for justice.

23/08/2023

TROPEZ 𝔁 TRUST PRESENTS

COLLECTIVE BODIES: AURICLE

Sun, Aug 27 | 16:00
Sommerbad Humboldthain

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯. 𝘈 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘦𝘹𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢, 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘢𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴.

This Sunday Trust maintainers Lina () and Jovana () will host a workshop and picnic at TROPEZ () in outdoor pool Sommerbad Humboldthain 🫧

Expect collective bodies, ARC II extravaganza and a guided sonic tour of animal vocalisations - an interspecies community exercise designed to increase empathy towards the more-than-human.

Event entry via pool ticket, coffee ans cake will be provided.

See you there ♡

16/08/2023

THIS IS NOT A DAO

Introducing Trust Fund & Bubble Voting º❍｡

✿ 2x 1K US$ monthly grants for Trust members
❀ Bubbling up ‧₊˚ interesting ideas in Discord w continuous voting
❋ Post as you post, upvote what deserves funding – low effort application process

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26/07/2023

⦿ 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 - 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁 (𝗖𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗺 𝗕𝗼𝘄𝗱𝗲𝗻, 𝗝𝗼𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗮 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝘀𝗶𝗰, 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻-𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻) ⦿

15 Jul 2023

Trust (Calum Bowden, Jovana Maksić and Lina Martin-Chan) introduces Arc II – an errand into the collective body, focusing on sustainable infrastructure and imaginative metaphors. An arc is made up of events and moves us through peaks and plateaus, allowing us to renew and transform. Legal and technical approaches to organizing are limiting in their capacity to build worlds, Trust embarks on a new quest to anatomize, examine, dissect and assemble collective bodies.

What the ploof is a collective body?!

Trust is a collective body! A chimera of organs and entanglements.

The head dreams rules and protocols to consciously regulate its body. The hand makes finances visible. Bones hold the body’s parts in a set of skeletal relations. The heart beats a rhythm of rituals and practices, circulating implicit vibes and affects. The melon sends vibrations – like this newsletter – far beyond the body’s sensory limits. And tunneling into the depths of our world, roots build networks of memory and lore, delivering nutrients to its body.

A collective body is a sack, a bag. It holds people and things and meanings. Roots and vessels – infrastructures – circulate life blood through organs. A collective body holds things in particular, powerful relations to one another and to us.*

*Adapted from Ursula K. Le Guin’s Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

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03/07/2023

𝕾𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖇𝖔𝖝 ✦ Divine Embeddings

From the creation dance of Lord Shiva to the multidimensional vector space of word embeddings

Tue, July 18th 8PM CET / 2PM EST / DISCORD

From Lord Shiva's Tandava to the multidimensional vector space of Word Embeddings, the divine essence of language unravels. The dance continues, inside the boney rigs of A100 industrial-grade GPUs into realms we are just beginning to imagine. In this Sandbox, we first look at the parallels between Sanskrit and Ancient Hebrew and the belief they are the basic building blocks of the universe. Then, we try to conceptualise the creation process as a mixing of primal energies in multidimensional coordinate systems, and at the end, we look at the problem of word embeddings used to encode language in large language models such as GPT. What parallels can we find between the naming magick, sacred alphabets and computational intelligence?

Karin Valis () is a Berlin-based machine learning engineer and writer with a deep passion for everything occult and weird. Her work focuses mainly on combining technology with the esoteric, with projects such as Tarot of the Latent Spaces (visual extraction of the Major Arcana Archetypes) and Cellulare (a tool for exploring digital non-ordinary reality for the Foundation for Shamanic Studies Europe). She co-hosted workshops, talks and panel discussions such as Arana in the Feed (Uroboros 2021), Language in the Age of AI: Deciphering Voynich Manuscript (Trans-States 2022) and Remembering Our Future: Shamanism, Oracles and AI (NYU Shanghai 2022). She writes Mercurial Minutes and hosts monthly meetings of the occult and technology enthusiasts Gnostic Technology.

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