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.

The event will be (audio) broadcasted live and documented by echo radio.

• Location: Framer Framed, Oranje-Vrijstaatkade 71, 1093 KS Amsterdam
• 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.

Access notes

For all participants: The event will be held in English. If you have any access needs that are not addressed on this page, especially something that might need to be communicated in advance to everyone, for instance with regards to social distancing or other health-related measures, please let us know via email. Tell us what you need to participate. We wish to reduce barriers!

The price of the event is €5 but in case you would like to participate but can't pay this amount, write us an email.

For participants joining onsite: the event takes place at Framer Framed, which can be accessed via a 5 minute walk from tram/bus stop Ostpoort and a 7 minute walk from train station Muiderpoort (both walks have very small changes in elevation). We will host the event on the ground floor and the WC is wheelchair accessible and gender neutral. Measurements of the entrance door is 104 cm (when double doors are open: 210cm) height 265 cm with a theshold of 2 cm. The toilet door is wide: 87 cm, high: 228 cm with theshold of 1 cm. Chairs with backs are available. Movement, taking breaks etc. are welcome. There is space to store walkers, canes etc. Please come with no or low scent. This part of the building is spacious and well ventilated. It will also be hosting the exhibition "The Silence of Tired Tongues", who's audio and video output can be turned off upon request. There will be a photographer on location; so if you prefer not to be included in photographs, please inform the moderator or email us in advance. Automated (English) closed captions will be available on a display in the space. We are expecting approximately 30 people in a space that can host 50. We will provide simple refreshments such as water and tea. Framer Framed will be selling alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages after the program is over.

This event is made possible with the generous support of Stimuleringsfonds and AFK.