Lecture

Pirouette Machines. Fluid Components: This lecture follows the path of an ex-ballerina through fluid computers, handmade semiconductors, and cosmetic synthesisers. We will tackle the seductive side and hidden narratives of circuitry to natural systems, salty fluids, and minerals and discuss the importance of alternative hardware morphologies.

In a world of social bubbles, immediate gratification and geopolitical upheaval, sound in art can help establish new ways of acknowledging the ‘other’, a first step towards a renewed mutuality. In this talk, Marco will focus on his latest series of works, I Am Your Body, an ongoing collection of performances and installations that leverage participative research on Deaf perception of sound as a means for new artistic aesthetics. Computational and prosthetic technology plays a crucial role in these works, but rather than being passive media, they are subverted and transformed into machines that act as new organs for a shared perception.

Under the banner of “digital sovereignty,” significant investments are currently being directed toward digital infrastructure projects "made in Germany.” In this context, corporations are increasingly intervening in AI development, academia, and education, while invoking notions of national (digital) identity.

As the biohacker collective Quimera Rosa suggests, witches were “the most high-tech of their time”, already cyborgs embodying situated, corporeal knowledge and the ability to manipulate signs and matter.

When computers were introduced in the mid to late 20th Century, they were often described as a new, clean form of industry. The (mad) rush to create data centers has put the lie to these utopian visions, as exponentially growing massive data centers create noise pollution and heat, use tremendous amounts of energy, and burn through our remaining carbon budget. For local communities, the environmental and health impacts are intolerable.

"> Do we need a shared understanding of democracy as a society? > Would such an understanding help us work for peace and against polarisation? > And how would we get there? We are convinced that political systems and structures themselves should be more consistently understood, managed, and, above all, continuously developed as common goods.  From this perspective, we want to discuss and explore the idea of institutionalising the development of democracy and our constitution. In practice, we envision a new constitutional body for democracy development.

What does it mean to "become unreadable" in the face of technofascistic and hyperindividualizing regimes? To read reality, read others that exist outside our bubbles, read other species and types, read realities beyond our radius, habitus, and syllabus.

Based on the practices of eeefff — an artistic cooperation and made-up institution working across poetic computations and “infrastructures of imagination” — the lecture will focus on techno-politic-poetic imaginations and scenes of their unrolling.

Under the guise of “cutting unnecessary red tape”, the European Commission proposed profound changes to the Union’s regulatory framework for the protection of personal data.

From state censorship to monitoring online behavior, the mechanisms and techniques used to suppress dissent and keep citizens in a digital prison are analyzed. The IR infringes upon the freedom and privacy of individuals, creating a constant state of surveillance among the population through espionage tactics like facial recognition. Digitalization in Iran also brings positive aspects, such as access to education and information, and improved networking through social media, especially during the Jin Jiyan Azadî movement, both domestically and internationally.