POST Nijmegen
ECHO
ECHO // On Luddism, Speculative Worldbuilding and Infrastructural Autonomy
Wednesday 9 April
20.00 - 22.00, doors open 19:45
POST NIJMEGEN: Van Oldenbarneveldtstraat 69A, Nijmegen
Language: English
Entrance fee: €5 including one beverage
Students: €2.50 including one beverage
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Considering contemporary Luddism, bottom-up coding, alternative digital infrastructures and speculative futures thinking: what perspective do we take when we look at the current state of labour? How can we (collectively) resist the automation of our work?
Amid the exhibition We Work Like Peasants While AI is Out There Painting and Writing Poetry, ECHO will take place: an evening of in-depth talks about the exhibition in which speakers from different fields of expertise will shine their light on the exhibition's themes.
The speakers at ECHO are Gavin Mueller, Assistant Professor of New Media and Digital Culture, artist and graphic designer Ana-Maria Cojocaru and transfeminist infrastructure artist Vo ezn of the collective Hackers & Designers. They zoom in on how we can resist the algorithmisation of work. The speakers each share their thoughts on the issue to offer not only a mosaic of perspectives, but also a set of concrete tools. With these perspectives, we can critically engage with the current state of labour and the latest technologies affecting it.
Gavin Mueller (VS/NL)
Gavin Mueller is Assistant Professor of New Media and Digital Culture as part of Media Studies at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam and teaches Marxist Theory at the Sandberg Institute's Critical Studies Master. He is the author of Media Piracy in the Cultural Economy (Routledge 2019) and Breaking Things at Work (Verso 2021) .
Ana-Maria Cojocaru (RO/NL)
Ana-Maria Cojocaru is a graphic designer from Iași, Romania, and now based in Arnhem. She specialises in motion graphics, 3D animation and speculative, research-driven projects and graduated from ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Arnhem, in 2024. Cojocaru is the co-founder of local:local, an Arnhem-based collective that organises workshops and events and takes on various design projects.
Her work 2174: Future Ruins of an Automated Past will be shown at the exhibition.
vo ezn (GE)
sound & infrastructure artist, working on server-side tensions & introverted interfaces ][ configurations grounded in personal experiences & {material} realities { labor conditions & server-person capacities }-
part of feminist server collectives/networks systerserver/ anarchaserver/ minadoraserver, and workshop coop hackers & designers