dcwalk
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6 years ago Too bad the timing didn't work out 😢 Hopefully next time!
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dcwalk
commented
6 years ago Too bad the timing didn't work out 😢 Hopefully next time!
Distributed Web of Care
Description
Distributed Web of Care (DWC) is an initiative to code to care and code carefully. Through collaborations with artists, engineers, social scientists and community organizers, DWC imagines distributed networks as a form of interdependence and stewardship, in critical opposition to the networks that dominate the world today.
Type: [talk | performance ]
Length: [ 1.5 hour ]
Additional considerations: [Large indoor space or outdoor space preferred for performance]
Session Objective
First part will be a presentation and discussion for 60 minutes.
The presenter will introduce the 'Uncomputable,' a series of lectures by Alexander R. Galloway and an exhibition by Taeyoon Choi at the School for Poetic Computation in NYC.
They will also talk about Distributed Web of Care fellowships and artists in residences, as well as the DWC Party planned for the end of July.
The presenter will talk about how the word 'care' is important because they think about care as an alternative to control. Care is a soft sense of responsibility and accountability that respects inclusivity and diversity. Without care, everything becomes code. For DWC, code of conduct is as important as the code (software, hardware, protocols and systems).
The presenter will ask "Can we code to care, and can we code carefully? Let’s think about care instead of control. Let’s think about person instead of user. Let’s try and unlearn instead of machine learn." – More on the Ethics and Archiving the Web.
In a group discussion, participants will explore how we can resist the capitalist means of control and instead care for each other through the network.
Second part will be a collective performance for 30 minutes. Participants will join physical activity using strings and stickers to visualize and embody the distributed network. The group will follow and interpret a structured improvisational choreography.
Image: Distributed Web of Care Workshop at the Ethics and Archiving the Web, Rhizome/ The New Museum in New York City.
Material and Technical Requirements
Video projector or monitor, sound amplification, wireless mic.
Presenter(s)
Name: Taeyoon Choi Email: studio@taeyoonchoi.com Url(s): taeyoonchoi.com Twitter: @tchoi8 GitHub: [@tchoi8)
Interested in attending the sprint July 16-18: [Y]
Interested in a community billet: [host|billet|Y]
Presenter Bio
Taeyoon Choi is an artist and cofounder of School for Poetic Computation and a 2017 - 2018 fellow at the Data and Society.
Depending on the funding and schedule, Taeyoon Choi and/ or the Distributed Web of Care fellows may co-present.