H&D Summer Talks - part 1 - Connecting Otherwise

H&D Summer Talks - part 1 - Connecting Otherwise
Name	H&D Summer Talks - part 1 - Connecting Otherwise
Location	Framer Framed
Date	2022/07/16
Time	19:00-22:00
PeopleOrganisations	Hackers & Designers, Varia, Elaine W. Ho, Display Distribute, Question Collective
Type	HDSA2022
Web	Yes
Print	No

Join the first part of our public program with talks and performances at Framer Framed with talks and performances by Hackers & Designers, Display Distribute, Varia, and Question Collective. During this evening we will dive together into the theme of this year's Summer Academy: 'Connecting Otherwise' through the lens of the differents invited guests.

Living in a global pandemic for the last two years made apparent how our internet use impacts our co-habitation with each other – other humans, other species – in social, material and psychological ways. The evolving monoculture of the handful of companies that mediate our online connectivity, as well as their pervasiveness and extractivist nature, has created a condition in which it is difficult to imagine alternative, affective, and sustainable ways of coexisting and connecting online.

Within the theme of 'Connecting Otherwise': we will explore the intersections of accessibility and sustainability of hybrid cultural work and techno-social life—the cultural, economical, ecological, and geographical implications of our increasingly complex entanglements with technology.

This year's summer academy will be facilitated and co-constructed with collectives that work in their respective local environments at the intersection of art, design and technology, environmental, queer, trans* and disability justice, free/libre/open source software development, and radical pedagogies. Together, we invite participants to join us in questioning, reimagining and putting into practice other conscious, creative, and response-able ways of working, creating, and co-existing online.

• Price: €5
• Book your ticket here!

Program

• 18:30 doors open
• 19:00 Introduction by H&D
• 19:15 SolarPunk, a talk Pernilla and Loes from H&D
• 19:45 VLTK, a talk by Cristina, Julie, and Manetta from varia
• break
• 20:30 Book presentation of Making Matters – A Vocabulary of Collective Arts with H&D members and Elaine W. Ho from Display Distribute (online)
• 21:00 Internet: the Musical, a performance by Question Collective
• 22:00 End

All interventions will be followed by a Q&A

About the contributors

varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam) is a space for developing collective approaches to everyday technology. As varia members, we maintain and facilitate a collective infrastructure from which we generate questions, opinions, modifications, help and action. We work with free software, organise events and collaborate in different constellations. varia figures things out as they go, tries to keep notes, is multilingual, has open hours and can be contacted at info[@]varia.zone. Cristina Cochior, Manetta Berends and Julie Boschat-Thorez will introduce their publication, Vernaculars that Matter, and their research around VLTK, a Vernacular Language Toolkit. https://varia.zone/

Elaine W. Ho works between the realms of time-based art, language, and urban practice. She is the founder of artist-run project space HomeShop (Beijing, 2008–13) and continues to ask questions about the sociopolitics of syntax, more recently via ongoing collaborations with Amy Suo Wu, Display Distribute, and • • PROPAGANDA DEPARTMENT. Their work has been presented on a boat named Eleonore, docked along the Danube River (Linz, 2016), at the Singapore Biennial (2019), Hamburger Bahnhof (2017), Seoul Mediacity Biennale (2017), Power Station of Art (2016), Guangdong Times Museum (2021/2015), and on various street corners, among other places. indexofho.net

Display Distribute is a thematic inquiry, distribution service, now and again exhibition space and sometimes shop founded in Kowloon in 2013. Seeping via the capricious circulation patterns of low-end globalization into other subaltern networks and grammars, recent activities include manoeuvring and reading with the Black Book Assembly, experimental infrastructure LIGHT LOGISTICS, poetic research and archival unit Shanzhai Lyric, the readers’ digest publication 『CATALOGUE』 and a peripatetic radio programme of hidden feminist narratives known as Widow Radio Ching. displaydistribute.com

Question Collective is an Amsterdam based interdisciplinary female identifying collective, combining their backgrounds in design, art, theater, music and choreography in workshops, performances, exhibitions and theater productions. Questions Collective creates performative installations grounded in a sincere occupation with social issues. Their aim is questioning the status quo and effectuating true societal change to create a new world.

INTERNET THE MUSICAL is a wildly eclectic, interactive, dramatic and very fun musical theatre piece!

https://www.questionscollective.com/

Hackers & Designers is a non-profit workshop initiative organizing activities at the intersection of technology, design, art and education. By creating shared moments of hands-on learning H&D stimulates collaboration across disciplines and technological literacy. H&D organizes activities from the idea of a flattened hierarchy. 'Teachers' become participants, participants become workshop leaders – everyone is taken on a collective venture of shared response-ability – bringing in own expertise, urgencies and experiences.

H&D will reflect on a recent collaborative project: SolarPunk: intergenerational workshops to reimagine the Internet(s), in collaboration with Prototype Pittsburgh & Mz* Baltazar’s Laboratory in Vienna. link to ws 1 and ws 2.

H&D will also introduce the book Making Matters: A Vocabulary of Collective Arts, published with Valiz in June 2022.