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October 2020
Oracle Bots at Control Shift Festival
The computational world is full of mystical references and similarities with magical traditions. In this workshop we'll explore parallels between coding and casting a spell through the making of oracle-bots.
Find out more »Thinking the Digital through the Indigenous
Danae Tapia from The Digital Witchcraft Institute will participate in the panel Thinking the Digital through the Indigenous at the Control Shift festival in Bristol.
Find out more »March 2021
Intentionality, Prophecy and Ancestry – Live Panel at Magical Cohabitations
Live event with contributions by Lark Alder aka Lark VCR and Sol Sarratea, Marie-Eve Levasseur, Shirin Fahimi, Danae Tapia, and Nkhensani Mkhari, followed by a 30-minute talk moderated by Denise Helene Sumi (with Q&A via Signal)
Find out more »April 2021
Contestational Computing: Perception, Communication, Justice and Rationality – Panel at KI-Camp
Discussion with Grayson Earle, Sabina Hyoju Ahn, Danae Tapia, Shirin Fahimi and Peter Polack. This session presents the work of five artists who use computational media to challenge normative ideas of perception, communication, justice, and rationality. Through research threads, that concern policing, algorithm regulation, practices of divination and biological systems, the artists will discuss how creative engagements with algorithmic and digital systems can inform our understanding of social relationships at the same time as they open up new avenues for knowledge…
Find out more »Sex Tech Talk Show
Technology is changing intimacy. As our reliance on technology to live, work and socialise grows, we are becoming increasingly comfortable with inviting it into the most intimate and personal moments of our lives. Join us to hear hear our speakers explore the delicate linking of sex and technology with psychology, philosophy, design, culture, education, spirituality and the supernatural, in an attempt to evolve a conversation around what Sex Tech should or could be in the years to come. Tickets here
Find out more »May 2021
Reading Workshop and Evening Talk with Alicia Juarrero
16:00-17:30 Slow Reading Workshop with Alicia Juarrero (10 spots available) Participants will be sent a text which will be read and analysed together during the workshop. During this afternoon session, we will be collectively reading and studying the text with the guidance of Alicia Juarrero. Subscribe here (fully booked, if you inscribe we'll put you on a reserve list) 19:00-21:00 Evening Talk with Alicia Juarrero Followed by a panel discussion with SLOW READERS, Danae Tapia and Sonia de Jager Join…
Find out more »November 2021
Fiction as a Critical Design Strategy
Workshop at Attending to Futures by Elvia Vasconcelos and Danae Tapia. This is a session in which we will investigate the uses of live sketching combined with creative writing as the starting points of a design methodology of exchange. We will engage in a back and forth experiment between ourselves and the participants. The output will be a piece of fiction produced in the workshop plus the documentation of the exchange.
Find out more »December 2021
Creative strategies to tackle the intersection between digital technologies and the climate emergency – Lightning Talk at IGF 2021
Gato.Earth is an independent activist project that since 2019 seeks to document and reflect on how digital technologies have contributed to the current climate emergency with a feminist anti-colonial approach. In the context of an unprecedented ecological crisis due to the extractivist model of capitalism, Gato.Earth is a unique space for researchers and activists to find critical approaches, produce artistic projects and find inspiration to work on how digital technologies (in material and epistemological aspects) are contributing to the climate…
Find out more »January 2022
The Season of the Witch
For the first IMPAKT event of the year, we take you into the mystical world of digital witchcraft. Join us on 20 January 2022 to hear more about the subject from artists and researchers working with digital witchcraft. Speakers include artist and ‘digital witch’ Ginevra Petrozzi and feminist writer, artist and founder of The Digital Witchcraft Institute Danae Tapia. More names will follow soon… Meanwhile you can claim your tickets here The event will be live-streamed at planet.impakt.nl Get tickets…
Find out more »March 2022
A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers – On communism and mysticism
A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers (ATNOFS) is a collaborative project formed around intersectional feminist, ecological servers. Understanding servers as computers that host space and services for communities around them, this project exists inside, and in between, roaming servers and different networks. Our decentralized programme will occur in 5 locations (The Netherlands, Belgium, Romania, Greece, Austria) with the collaboration of 6 partners (Varia, LURK, Constant, HYPHA, Feminist Hack Meetings, and ESC). In the first session, hosted in Varia, we will…
Find out more »April 2022
The Grave – Open studio presentation at Next Cloud Atelierhaus
The Grave is a digital device that produces oracular knowledge of Marxist characteristics. The oracle can be refreshed infinite times and will present a juxtaposition of visual and textual outputs. This is a product of the Next Cloud Atelierhaus residency organized by Servus.at and it will be presented publicly along with the works of the other resident artists.
Find out more »May 2022
The Grave – Performative lecture at Fragile Solidatities / Fragile Connections
Performative lecture, Kunstverein Wagenhalle and livestream The Grave uses excerpts from the Communist Manifesto and combines them with curated images collected by Danae Tapia from signal chats with friends. The intention is to create an oracular instance that uses the spiritually charged aesthetics of Marx and Engels’ text and visual media in conjunction with digital intimacies. Ultimately, it is an exercise in re-territorialization with the potential to unleash a multiplicity of meanings that align with socialist ideals. She will map…
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