[Air-L] TEI'24 call for participation @ studio From Individual Discomfort to Collective Solidarity: Choreographic Exploration of Extractivist Technology

[Joana Chicau]

Dear list,

Sharing an invitation to our upcoming studio at TEI'24 conference, in February, Cork Ireland.


We invite technology practitioners to join us in the collaborative exploration of discomfort associated with technology in the age of surveillance capitalism. With the help of body-based exercises inspired by choreography we will articulate the discomforts of living and designing with extractivist technology. Our studio is aimed at technology practitioners of a broad range of expertise who have experienced discomfort in relation to data-driven extractivist systems. In the first part of the studio participants will share their experiences of resisting such systems both as users and creators of technology. In the second part, participants will engage in an ideation session to propose forms of countering existing technologies. Embodied methods and choreographic approaches will be used for making digital discomfort tangible and for guiding the exploration of the topics at stake. As an outcome, participants will collectively design a toolbox to conceptualise discomfort in a tangible, embodied way, and form a network to continue discuss these matters post-studio in an online community discussion group.


Studio Organizers

Joana Chicau, University of the Arts London
Kristina Popova, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Rebecca Fiebrink, University of the Arts London


For more information, please visit our studio website: https://cci.arts.ac.uk/~jchicau/TEI-studio-24/index.html

TEI studio program: https://tei.acm.org/2024/index.php/studios/<https://tei.acm.org/2024/index.php/studios/>


Feel free to get in touch with any questions.

Hope to see some of you at the conference!

Warmly,

Joana Chicau
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associate lecturer (FHEA)
designer, researcher, performer
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University of the Arts London
Creative Computing Institute
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