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Venue:
HGB ceremony hall
Wächterstraße 11
04107 Leipzig

Partner:
Organised as part of (Un)Learning Digitalities by the Büro für Digitale Lehre (Eliza Goldox and Juness Beshir). The project is co-financed by the European Union and is co-funded by tax revenue on the basis of the budget approved by the Saxon state parliament.

It's one thing to talk about the negative impact of technology, it's however a whole different thing to radically reinvent one's practice, learning habits, pedagogical systems and the infrastructures that support digital production and communication. While art and design works are often lauded for their capacity to illustrate and communicate societal issues, they also struggle, paradoxically, to challenge the problematic systems and tools that enable such capacity. Just like any other field or sector, art, design and culture production does not exist in a distant plane of existence, but is also part of the problem and hostage of big tech and techno-optimist agendas. In this presentation we will first discuss the short but complicated historical relationship between art and ICT, then move on to the limits of thinking in terms of alternatives, and finally introduce permacomputing, a nascent community of practice that is trying to collectively problematise all this mess.

The lecture will be held in English.

Aymeric Mansoux (he/him) has been messing around with computers and networks for far too long. He is professor of applied research at the Willem de Kooning Academy Research Centre, Hogeschool Rotterdam. Recent collaborations include What Remains, an 8-bit Nintendo game about whistleblowing and the manipulation of public opinion in relation to the climate crisis; LURK, a server infrastructure and collective to host discussions around net/computational art, culture, and politics; and the Permacomputing wiki where a growing number of contributors document and discuss alternatives to extractive mainstream computation.

https://monoskop.org/Aymeric_Mansoux