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Tactics&Practice [podcast]
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S5E5 S5 [Are You A Software Update?] E5: Silence in the Dark Forest [w/Bogna Konior]
What if the universe is silent not because it’s empty, but because intelligence knows when to hide? Writer and theorist Bogna Konior traces a forgotten genealogy linking early internet pioneers,…
S5E4 S5 [Are You A Software Update?] E4: Revolution in the Minor Key [w/Carolyn Pedwell]
In a time of live-streamed genocide, it has truly never been more clear that witnessing suffering will not automatically trigger social transformation. If the answer is not in shocking jolts and…
S5E3 S5 [Are You A Software Update?] E3: Hexing the Algorithm [w/Shaka McGlotten]
What if seduction—not dissection—could fracture algorithmic control? Artist, researcher and author Shaka McGlotten guides us through witchy warfare against quantification, deploying computational…
S5E2 S5 [Are You A Software Update?] E2: The Girl’s Inhuman Arsenal [w/Alex Quicho]
Forget Boy-Philosophy: here, we know that surfaces are sites of power and lambs are fluent in the noise of the world. But where is the difference between poetry and theory? In this episode, theorist…
S5E1 S5 [Are You A Software Update?] E1: Memes as Sympoietic Agents [w/Sophie Publig]
Is there a way to define memes without implicitly memifying everything? We move through the definitional morass of memetics and meme studies towards researcher Sophie Publig’s critical posthumanist…
S4E10 S4 [The Future Behind Us] E10: What Are the Limits of Interspecies Communication? [w/ Maja Smrekar]
We have lived alongside dogs for thousands of years. How close have we grown to each other since we first domesticated them? In one of her performances, artist Maja Smrekar biologically manipulated…
S4E9 S4 [The Future Behind Us] E9: When an AI Governs Your City [w/ Pinar Yoldas]
Smart cities across the world are pioneering chatbots, autonomous vehicles and AI technologies to help streamline bureaucratic services, facilitate police recruitment, fill in potholes or locate…
S4E8 S4 [The Future Behind Us] E8: Taming AI, Playing AI [w/ Sanela Jahić]
Can everything – including vision, flexibility, imagination and other skills often associated with creative practices – be turned into data? Should artists feel threatened by AIs that compose music,…
S4E7 S4 [The Future Behind Us] E7: Solidarity, Perils and Ethics on Darknet Markets [w/ !Mediengruppe Bitnik]
Darknet markets, identity shielding, bots and cryptocurrencies have revolutionised commerce and society, each in its own way. What happens when you bring all these disrupting ingredients together?…
S4E6 S4 [The Future Behind Us] E6: Chasing the Physicality of the Internet [w/ Evan Roth]
Internet has obliterated borders, distances and other hallmarks of geography, making us forget its material reality: its data centres, wires, routers, processors and a vast network of…
S4E5 S4 [The Future Behind Us] E5: Social Justice, Satire and Video Games [w/ Paolo Pedercini from MOLLEINDUSTRIA]
Can you make video games about environmental justice or labour? How about religion, the military, gun violence, mass incarceration, immigration or the Anthropocene? Can you entertain players with…
S4E4 S4 [The Future Behind Us] E4: Up-Close and Personal with Impersonal Power Structures [w/ Jill Magid]
What does it feel to infiltrate or work alongside structures of power that most of us find impersonal and intimidating? How do you capitalise on the systemic loopholes and quirks inherent to…
S4E3 S4 [The Future Behind Us] E3: How Much is Your Democracy Worth? [w/ UBERMORGEN]
In 2000, during the presidential race between George Bush and Al Gore, a group of “Maverick Austrian Business People” launched a platform that gave US voters the possibility to auction off their…
S4E2 S4 [The Future Behind Us] E2: Decolonising Museum Collections [w/ Nora Al-Badri]
The discussion about the growing list of looted and illicitly acquired museum treasures is one that most Westerners would rather not think about. Unless a scandal, a protest, a movie or a…
S4E1 S4 [The Future Behind Us] E1: PsyOps and Other Secret Military Programmes [w/Trevor Paglen]
Over the years, Trevor Paglen has documented operations, locations and activities that were meant to remain hidden from the public. He has tracked and photographed the world of secret satellites,…
S3E5 S3 [(un)real data] E5: The Liminal Vibes Beyond Digital Conformity [w/ Valentina Tanni]
Internet aesthetics like vaporwave, the Backrooms and weirdcore seem to offer glimpses of alternate realities beyond the threshold of the real. From Freud’s “uncanny” to hauntology’s spectral…
S3E4 S3 [(un)real data] E4: How Mind-Flattening Algorithmic Tweaks Ruined Posting [w/ Günseli Yalcinkaya]
If we paraphrase McLuhan, today’s medium is the algorithm: how is this universal mediator shaping us as content creators and consumers? How does it feel to be online amid different polarising forces,…
S3E3 S3 [(un)real data] E3: Unmasking AI’s Pixel Puppetry [w/ Eryk Salvaggio]
What exactly is in the images generated by AI? Is it possible to decode training datasets and detect biases that fusion models, such as Dall-E or Midjourney, reproduce? Eryk Salvaggio, researcher and…
S3E2 S3 [(un)real data] E2: Could We Stop Reproducing a Deepfake Past? [w/ Wendy Chun]
Predictive models based on big data are founded on the idea that knowing the past enables us to predict the future, but what kind of future are we constructing when the models are based on a deepfake…
S3E1 S3 [(un)real data] E1: (In)dividuality and the Quantified Self [w/ Felix Stalder]
The rise of computation in the 1950s shifted society to one constructed purely in commercial terms, where selling and buying have become the main social relation and every possible human form of…
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