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_data/rf2020/events.yml

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     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.
   participants: [0]
-  peertube-id: 3oYU9SwryebG7nSXZ6n6A8
+  peertube-id: 28a8d898-aad3-4b42-97c1-e9380e8fca66
 
 - id : 1
   title_ : Peek- creating games for understanding futures
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
   description: |
     In this workshop participants will make their own version of the science fiction/novel game, [Peek](http://thepeekgame.com/). 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.
   participants: [1]
-  peertube-id: 8RNZXyjA8DWraBC1c1RSLb
+  peertube-id: 34a443cf-f110-4de1-9867-3834adff47f4
 
 - id : 2
   title_ : Avatars in Zoom for All
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
   description: |    
     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.
   participants: [2]
-  peertube-id: 8KPA8C96FQkYhSUwJysLr3
+  peertube-id: 23d2acf3-4dc8-4ad4-b8b1-a32025725317
 
 - id : 3
   title_ : PGPoetry workshop
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
   description: |
     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.
   participants: [3]
-  peertube-id: t8DKHCgPAYafbDcZgbVUA9
+  peertube-id: 3e9dae3a-1d6b-43b9-9a5b-b0faa65e41a6
 
 - id : 4
   title_ : Futures Literacy for the Regenerative Economy
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
     
     A new sun rises.
   participants: [5]
-  peertube-id: keYsr9fyTFyfPTFJL7dNXM
+  peertube-id: 8e1b2170-5ba5-47a8-a7f5-7e9a856a287f
 
 - id : 6
   title_ : Feminist Data Set
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@
   description: |
     What 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?
   participants: [6]
-  peertube-id: 7675gezButJaCTiUbziRaA
+  peertube-id: 85c3e93d-ce49-4db4-8bcf-7407ba078da5
 
 - id : 7
   title_ : personal archive / public action III
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@
     
      -Kent Bellows
   participants: [7]
-  peertube-id: u5URFq9CHUsAKmKRRpRfMD
+  peertube-id: a2363aca-b819-4a69-945d-354ca5363320
 
 - id : 8
   title_ : The Republic of Užupis
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     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.
   participants: [8]
-  peertube-id: nWcuy2JKkiUQ7HuKSEbUXY
+  peertube-id: 51d35d1f-1b2d-4c0e-9a33-f3f25cc83f2d
 
 - id : 9
   title_ : Through the Algorithmic Lens
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   description: |
     To 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.
   participants: [9]
-  peertube-id: hdcMhK6Ar3ZQfrdnPZy6bc
+  peertube-id: 5b48b648-090e-4a16-9615-353820a363b9
 
 - id : 10
   title_ : From cradle-to-grave- Tech won’t save us
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@
     
     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.
   participants: [10]
-  peertube-id: m7kEqKzKtNVsJ1iYSjthck
+  peertube-id: 51107f34-b18b-47b7-a4ca-704ff2348f71
 
 - id : 11
   title_ : Critical Latinofuturism- Recontextualizing Modernity
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@
     
     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.
   participants: [11]
-  peertube-id: noQpkgxHDczmvXNx5ftv7Q
+  peertube-id: 1165402f-9903-4e3e-9f30-526c3f122ad2
 
 - id : 12
   title_ : futurities of the super like
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     [4]Ashkan Sepahvand - Everything I learned about technocapitalism, I learned at Bergain</small>
     
   participants: [12, 29]
-  peertube-id: tUg7bRmUxDdMVar1mzU5co
+  peertube-id: 6faedf45-c907-4bc8-84b3-6f9463bd8876
 
 - id : 13
   title_ : BYMG - "Intoxicated Interface Infusion- Fermentation Tactics"
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@
 
     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.
   participants: [13]
-  peertube-id: qxuK6Dcpk5GLDrd3a1SFmT
+  peertube-id: f72e611a-d0d1-454d-bbba-e562905d74df
 
 - id : 14
   title_ : "Imagining a decolonized rural future: Agro-Commune"
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@
 
     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. 
   participants: [14]
-  peertube-id: tpEucg3fPyokgavXgNuFo1
+  peertube-id: b9486767-b68a-4071-a987-f931175f42fc
 
 - id : 15
   title_ : Critical thought around computational thinking
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@
   description: |
     Computational 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.
   participants: [15]
-  peertube-id: 9ARex6n9rjRkXwATesXqtj
+  peertube-id: 95bd6266-e83e-4b89-9f73-2ae534245f61
 
 - id : 16
   title_ : The Political Tragedy of Data-Driven-Determinism
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@
   description: |
     Polls 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?
   participants: [16]
-  peertube-id: pyao8V59qLM6Afp5BYrTEu
+  peertube-id: 0d309db6-bfc8-4e11-997b-90ee04278d55
 
 - id : 17
   title_ : Last Seen Online
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@
   description: |
     In 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.
   participants: [17]
-  peertube-id: 6cTTtncFCW4bDCBdVtKDo9
+  peertube-id: 84428ed6-c81e-4ffe-b2df-67c8b0ad7224
 
 - id : 18
   title_ : I can remember
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     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).
   participants: [18]
-  peertube-id: 52hfRxzpcFXrjv1h472owV
+  peertube-id: 2100354c-0b42-4f62-a0be-ca66fb133765
 
 - id : 19
   title_ : The afterlives of digital rubbish
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   description: |
     Among 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.
   participants: [19]
-  peertube-id: tQ2q1zLsYkXVoccLWz7woX
+  peertube-id: bb51edaf-a2ff-44aa-b32f-1b2b912153d7
 
 - id : 20
   title_ : Understanding the 5G controversy in the context of ecological breakdown
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   description: |
     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 ?
   participants: [20]
-  peertube-id: vzv3bPuU3JfraxFQ1wRdVJ
+  peertube-id: 7d296e24-f093-4358-b0a6-1cd39813c7b1
 
 - id : 21
   title_ : The Mine of Humanism- in response to technological singularity
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   description: |
     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
   participants: [21]
-  peertube-id: iiQUkmkFtyN7JUbjvq3G79
+  peertube-id: ccd8a4f1-8143-42e3-a6a3-74c8d0d71cb4
 
 - id : 22
   title_ : Can Computation Produce Novelty?- the Case of Live-Coding Music
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@
     
     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.
   participants: [22]
-  peertube-id: 1fYfUHWjQXxKqQwC5RFQS6
+  peertube-id: 236d6df2-5da0-42d6-bab3-62e83a3a147d
 
 - id : 23
   title_ : lookingGlass — Play-along session and artist Q&A
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@
     by endlessly living out its own death.
   
   participants: [25]
-  peertube-id: 1ANyGmwcUTpLuF73Tsq2yv
+  peertube-id: f8ace407-e8ec-483f-b6e5-ca73a3f8814d
 
 - id : 26
   title_ : Things are people too
@@ -462,7 +462,7 @@
 
     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?
   participants: [26]
-  peertube-id: tgwBVVR9HvctpyA23Bm561
+  peertube-id: 12931963-5bc2-4237-8281-68c229b9ba92
 
 - id : 27
   title_ : This is Fine
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   participants: [27]
   links: 
     - https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/this-is-fine
-  peertube-id: tBva2VUxfac8HetQUbtiWQ
 
 - id : 18
   title_ : NOD (Neural Optimal Decisor) - Play-along and Artist Q&A