The session will focus on finding ways to communicate privatized expert engineering knowledge through collective experiments and sharing bodily knowledge. To do so, the duo eeefff proposes to reenact the inners of algorithms. We will embody the formal choreography and rhythms of data flows and perform different visible and non-visible conflict positions clashing together in computational systems.
The script of the session will be built around everyday machinic operations, actions and tasks performed thousands of times per day. Riding a taxi. Looking for a partner. Taking measures against scooter “frauds” or those who do not pay for their ride. Moderating and labelling data. Punishing those who are too late at the delivery spot. Routines for calculating paths and surge prices for the fulfillment of desires and logistical needs. Mapping territories. You will choose your role(s) in this algo-aided landscape. The starting point will be the very specific codes and material artefacts. The workshop group will look closely into distant temporalities, work regimes, slip errors, leisure and punishment on a distance, and hardcoded tricks supporting them.
This session is part of the ongoing School of algorithmic solidarity, initiated by eeefff in 2022 to explore the relations between infrastructural time, algorithmic abstractions, and bodies.
Requirements: Participants should bring warm clothing (to spend some time outside), warm socks (for inside), phone, powerbank (if possible), mobile internet, and headphones.
eeefff is artistic cooperation / made-up institution / cybernetic political brigade / poetic computations / hacking unit / queer time. It is neither one of these, nor all together. Active from 2013. The group makes software-based projects, publications, networks, and platforms that critically explore digital labour, value extraction, and community formation. Methods include: public actions, online interventions, performative seminars, software, and hardware hacking, framing environments, and choreographing social situations. Co-organizers of
Work Hard! Play Hard! in Minsk (2016-2020) and
Decentric Circles Assembly in Warsaw (2024).
https://eeefff.org
