[COMING IN NOVEMBER] ๐๐ (๐๐ป)๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐น ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐๐ฎ โ๏ธ โ (๐ง)๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐น ๐ฒ๐ณ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐ explores the inherent ambiguity of data as an opportunity to not only describe the world but strategically intervene in it.
Authors and artists featured in this reader explore the production of unreal data as acts of resistance and opposition, and as attempts to carve out small and often temporary spaces of agency and autonomy when faced with systems that seem to leave little room for imagination and choice.
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With texts by Rรฉgine Debatty, Xiaowei R. Wang, Gรผnseli Yalรงฤฑnkaya, Milia Xin Bi and Thomas Spies, artworks by Simon Weckert and Total Refusal, and the collaborative project by Selena Saviฤ, Gordan Saviฤiฤ and !Mediengruppe Bitnik.
The book HANDMADE NETWORKS by #SteffenKรถhn and #NestorSirรฉ is out!
Read on exploration of Cubaโs alternative digital #infrastructures, highlighting innovative #grassroots solutions to #internet scarcity and reimagining these networks as alternatives to the capitalist #digital infrastructures dominated by Big Tech.
aksioma.org/handmade-networks
HANDMADE NETWORKS presents a body of research-based artworks by #SteffenKรถhn and #NestorSirรฉ. Their collaborative projects explore how the Cuban people have compensated for their lack of #internet #connectivity by building massive #alternative #infrastructures, such as grassroots community computer networks or offline โsneakernetsโ. They document how Cubans defy material scarcity by recycling or appropriating obsolete technologies, creating digital exchange platforms on messenger applications, or engaging in play-to-earn blockchain games. By examining the resilient and resistive potentials of these vernacular infrastructures, Kรถhn and Sirรฉโs work also reimagines such networks as viable alternatives to the capitalist, consumerist digital infrastructures controlled by an oligopoly of Big Tech companies that have homogenised the global internet.
With contribution by Cuba's best-known #cyberpunk writer #ErickJMota and by curator, educator and researcher #BaniBrusadin.
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PREORDER: aksioma.org/handmade-networks
A Short Incomplete History of Technologies That Scale
To engage with the word #scale requires an act of imagining and bringing together a multitude of things. It requires thinking about automated images, hidden labour, logistics, surveillance systems, infrastructures and networks. It requires an in-depth consideration of how technical conditions of perception operate upon the very material fabric of the world, and how feelings, emotions and beliefs are deeply connected to and are at stake in the scalar reorganisation of the world.
The publication ๐ ๐ฆ๐ต๐ผ๐ฟ๐ ๐๐ป๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐ฝ๐น๐ฒ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ง๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ต๐ป๐ผ๐น๐ผ๐ด๐ถ๐ฒ๐ ๐ง๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น๐ฒ, published by Aksioma & transmediale is available for order at ๐ aksioma.org/scale-book
With contributions by #JussiParikka #LauraTripaldi #AnthonyDowney #ChrisLee #FRAUD #AudreySamson #FranciscoGallardo #RanjodhSinghDhaliwal and #AsiaBazdyrieva.
#aksioma #transmediale #book
Another great year is behind us! Thank you all for being part of Aksioma's story! ๐