The Silicon Friend camp started and day 1 is going great...we have internet!
Today we had the chance to meet the 11 participants here with us on site and got in touch with the two remote ones.
After starting the works and a great dinner, we talk tonight about anthropomorphization, symbols and thinking machines.
#gosau #camp #austrian #alps #ai #neuralnetworks #anthropomorph #machines #worksession #servus #researchlab
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#OpenCall : Bureaucracksy
Between 7 and 12 December 2020, #Constant organises the #worksession Bureaucracksy in Brussels.
This work-session investigates the governance of techno-social systems through the prism of #bureaucracy. The execution of rules is an essential element of computation, of digital infrastructures, and of the societies that they operate with.
The work-session invites #artists and #activists to share imaginations of counter-accountancies and -accountabilities, of how to engage with paperwork, systemics and logistics.
More more more (ask me or) https://constantvzw.org/site/Open-Call-Bureaucracksie.html?lang=en
We're exploring the UX design of the IM app Conversations during the WttοΏ½F worksession today. Currently exploring the Wechat interface and their sticker options and hidden animated features.
You can follow our notes here: https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/WttF.The-Ecosystem-is-Moving.worksession
On the 1st and 2nd of June #varia will host the first of a series of events on #opensource #federated social media and how #design can play a role in making that succeed.
For the first edition we invited Daniel Gultsch, the developer of the #conversations #XMPP client to talk about federated instant messaging. He'll do a talk about his work and project and we'll host a one day #worksession we'll do hands on work contributing to it . More infos:
Over the past few years there has been a renewed interest in 'alternative' on-line services such as social media and chat1. These are services that promise to provide different experiences and models to the ones we are used to seemingly for free from corporations like Google, Facebook and Apple. Some of these alternatives are that in name only. These alternatives promise to be something else from the start, but often end up being more of the same since they use similar or identical business models as the platform they pretend to be an alternative to. In essence a different brand serving the same product.
Tonight one of the first https://homebrewserver.club/
meetings in many months.
and Friday and Saturday
http://varia.zone/en/algologs.html
A good week for our floss culture space
#algologs #algolit #event #worksession #varia #hbsc #selfhosting
Calling all extra-amateurs, protoprofessionals and circumstantial algologgers.
Algologs = a 1 + 1 day dialog with algorithmic practices. This two-day event is an extention of Algolit, a workgroup where text-based practices and algorithms meet. Algologs is part of a series of occurances meant to open up the usually Brussels-based Algolit meetings by inviting external speakers, presenters and participants to join the conversation. During Algologs, we will increase the % of engagement with everyday algorithms.
More information can be found on this page: http://varia.zone/en/algologs.html