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 … Read More

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 … Read More

The New Turing Test

Sentinela del Norte (1985) is a Chilean rapper and literature scholar. He’s known for being part of the cult hip hop band Colectivo Etéreo and for his career in the local rap and electronic scene. For his most recent album, Parte del Paisaje (Part of the Landscape, Discos Pegaos, 2019), he created the song Mr Darcy se Somete al Test de Turing (Mr Darcy Takes the Turing Test), a critique on aspirational and vacuous social behaviors. We had a conversation about this song, its inspiration from British figures such as computer science pioneer Alan Turing and John Darcy, character by Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice. We also discussed the possibility of a new version of the Turing test that could determine degrees of humanity in individuals.

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 … Read More

Magical Cohabitations

Incluso hoy, en nuestro mundo aparentemente conectado y, en muchos sentidos, científicamente explicable, nos enfrentamos a la pregunta de cómo las incertidumbres nos definen, así como nuestras relaciones con otras criaturas y fuerzas que cohabitan este mundo con nosotros. En los tiempos actuales de inseguridad, conspiraciones y traición, nuestro mundo se convierte en un lugar … Read More

Sex is a Security Vulnerability: First Hacking Encounters

Artistry, trolling, collective knowledge and compelling visuals surround the world of hacking. This is a selection of our favourite content from the hackcur.io platform, a repository of clips depicting the ethics and aesthetics of hacker cultures.

Next Level Autopoiesis

The posthuman art will not have an author, much less an owner, it will be non-human and will be self-reproduced. It will be autopoietic.