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? —
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)
Or will we wake up and places bets on activities, provocation and cultural production that inspires imagination and multitudes of possible futures? (Turbo Mañana)
The last fifteen years has seen a surge of interest in decentralised technology. From well-funded blockchain projects like IPFS to the emergence of large scale information networks such as Dat, Scuttlebutt and ActivityPub, this is renewed life in peer-to-peer technologies; a renaissance that enjoys widespread growth, driven by the desire for platform commons and community self-determination. These are goals that are fundamentally at odds with – and a response to – the incumbent platforms of social media, music and movie distribution and data storage. As we enter the 2020s, centralised power and decentralised communities are on the verge of outright conflict for the control of the digital public space. The resilience of centralised networks and the political organisation of their owners remains significantly underestimated by protocol activists. At the same time, the decentralised networks and the communities they serve have never been more vulnerable. The peer-to-peer community is dangerously unprepared for a crisis-fuelled future that has very suddenly arrived at their door.
I am working on a series of projects examine the human’s relationship with data and AI in the future. I want to address the iteration of ourselves and the iteration of computing. In the iteration process, how might we design a space that is safe for everyone, and how should we detail with our personal privacy with Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT)? And, when we have the technology to understand and communicate with every object, what’s the relationship between humans? If we live in a fully virtual world, how might we sense and feel the reality? The projects includes a fiction story, a critical essay, a short film, and a speculative design solution. Through storytelling, I invite viewers to experience and rethink about the information revolution. For the talk, I want to discuss about my art and design research process, and how might us as artists, designers, and technologists to help build a positive future with data. I want to share my findings about our data culture, and how the current system might drive us to a world we don’t want to live in. These projects I am working on can’t be the solution for the data-driven world, but hopefully we can starting a conversation and some actions to protect our digital selves.
