Lecture

A session on Resisting Reclaiming Appropriating

moderated by Adnan Hadzi

The Cultural Meaning of the User Aesthetics and Politics of the Everyday (Shusha Niederberger)
https://art-meets.radical-openness.org/2024/program/the-cultural-meaning-of-the-user-aesthetics-and-politics-of-the-everyday/

The internet is dead, long live the internet! (Patrick Derieg, Christoph Döberl)
https://art-meets.radical-openness.org/2024/program/the-internet-is-dead-long-live-the-internet-lecture/

A session about sustainability & degrowth, practices & aesthetics.

moderated by Joak

Permacomputing in the Arts (Aymeric Mansoux)
https://art-meets.radical-openness.org/2024/program/permacomputing-in-the-arts/

A session on Magic and Metaphors.

moderated by Diane Pricop

Techronologies (Anna Kraher)
https://art-meets.radical-openness.org/2024/program/techronologies/

At present, most natural language processing tasks work best in English. The over-representation of English starkly juxtaposes the minimal linguistic representation of the global majority within language models. These languages, otherwise known as 'Low resource languages' (LRLs) lack the data needed to perform NLP tasks well. Within the context of machine translation (MT) systems, languages and by extension, cultural identities get lost in translation.

AMRO starts with a session dedicated to critical reflection about historical narratives, on the extractivism and colonialism of the cloud, as well as the possibile modes of reseeding resistance.

Open Mic: Workshop annoucement
What is the sound of the conflict we cannot hear?
Elliot Perkins / Ultra-red

Short presentation on habiTAT https://habitat.servus.at/ by Taro

Then a session on the relation of AI, open source, work and labor, ethics and content moderation. Moderated by Sabina Köfler

Drawing from a conspiracy theory from the late 2010s/early 2020s, known as the Dead Internet Theory, which suggested that the majority of online content and interactions were generated by bots, our upcoming workshop seeks to delve into a speculative future. Once a paranoid fantasy, this theory gains new relevance amidst the rapid advancements in AI and the ongoing degradation of service quality of the major platforms. Our workshop proposes to explore a near future where the "Dead Internet" becomes a lived reality for the average user.

Putting artistic research and practices at work within political contexts is discussed in an informal gathering. In this frame, ‘artistic’ is understood broadly as ‘semi-formal’, ‘unconventional’ or ‘uncomputable’ habits. The discussion begins by presenting an early project for appropriating technical artefacts such as low-level documentation and scientific papers by applying artistic strategies. During the conversation, civil societies, arts, and technologies are distinct categories that outline each sociopolitical embedding.

The user is a cultural form associated with everyday technological practice. As cultural studies emphasises, everyday practice is part of a performative process of sense-making in a complex process involving things, identities, production, consumption and regulation. Yet the everyday is a deeply neglected space in both education and the arts. In my talk I will discuss how Mastodon and Trans*Feminist Servers produce difference for everyday practice on an infrastructural, but also on a narrative level.