Workshop Algorithmic solidarity: can colonialism be encoded into algorithms?

Algorithmic solidarity: can colonialism be encoded into algorithms? - eeefff © eeefff

Sun, 24.03.2024

4:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Kunsthaus ACUD

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The participatory workshop by eeefff invites the audience to enter a speculative public space in which traces of Russian colonial relations with Belarus and other territories are sought.The main point of interest will become violence through infrastructures, and possibilities to find a way to algorithmic solidarity.

During the workshop we will look into the recently leaked source code of the biggest IT corporation which is very close to the Russian government. The source codes of the yandex company were copied in July 2022 and published on the Internet on January 25, 2023. The size of the leakage is 44,71 gigabytes. The artist duo eeefff wants to read the code collectively and dive into different thematic fields.

No programming or any other skills are needed. eeefff will guide the session and prepare a tool to search inside of the code.


Who is behind?

eeefff (Minsk/Berlin) are artistic cooperation / made-up institution / cybernetic political brigade / poetic computations / hacking unit / queer time. It is neither one of these, nor all together. Active from 2013, eeefff make software-based projects, publications, networks, and platforms that critically explore digital labour, value extraction, and community formation. Methods include: public actions, online interventions, performative seminars, software and hardware hacking, framing environments and choreographing social situations. Co-organisers of several events, spaces and agencies, among them: Work Hard! Play Hard!, Flying cooperation, School of Algorithmic Solidarity. The School of Algorithmic Solidarity focuses on the infrastructures of colonialism and the infrastructures of solidarity opposed to them. Specifically looking into infrastructural time, algorithmic abstractions and bodies. By form, it can be a collective experience / radical pedagogy practice / walk to the specific location / LARP protocol / digital togetherness / open-ended situation / affective temporary training zone. More info can be found here: https://eeefff.org/
 

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