Rob Collins

@robmakesthings
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Antidefuturist / PhD Researcher / Agonistic Designer
Assembler of Critical Things
Websitehttp://www.robbycollins.com/
Publicationshttps://www.umu.se/en/staff/robert-collins/?flik=publikationer
Rob CollinsJul 17, 2025

Made a simple web page that gives 100 suggestions on how to disrupt Algorithmic Decision Systems. Mostly written and suggested by my own local AI server:
https://agonisticdesign.com/disrupt/

#agonisticdesign
#antidefuturing
#algorithms

Disrupting Algorithmic Decision Systems

Rob CollinsJul 10, 2025
The first #AGON event was held on Whiddy Island last weekend. A bunch of amazing folk gathered to talk, eat and walk under the theme of #antidefuturing. As a prototype for this kind of cross-disciplinary collaboration and knowledge sharing, it was a big success. Planning our next iteration already. https://agonisticdesign.com/
Rob CollinsDec 6, 2024
PaulDec 6, 2024
It's bad enough that Trinity College reneged on their promises to reopen Science Gallery Dublin but to nuke the website/archive is some really sorry shit.
Rob CollinsNov 22, 2024
Starting to get some of the documentation of the Contestation Café event I ran across the #ArsElectronica weekend hosted by the amazing and inspiring folks at the #stadtwerkstatt and @servus
Rob CollinsNov 19, 2024

On-the-nose response by Prof. Eileen Culloty from DCU School of Communications on my Conspiracy Capitaliser. Honoured. https://www.adaptcentre.ie/eileen-culloty-responds-to-conspiracy-capitaliser/
Check out her book on disinformation here: https://www.routledge.com/Disinformation-and-Manipulation-in-Digital-Media-Information-Pathologies/Culloty-Suiter/p/book/9780367515270

#conspiracycapitaliser

#posttruth

#disinformation

Eileen Culloty Responds to Conspiracy Capitaliser · ADAPT, the SFI Research Centre for AI-Driven Digital Content Technology

ADAPT, the SFI Research Centre for AI-Driven Digital Content Technology
Rob CollinsNov 15, 2024
Thanks to the Fire Station Artist Studios in Dublin for inviting me to talk about #Defuturing and being an #Antidefuturist at their New Obsolescence day last week.
Meeting with @recyclism and the other speakers and attendees really helped me start to define a fundamental part of my PhD thesis. Exciting people and exciting times!
Rob CollinsNov 2, 2024
Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱Nov 1, 2024

It is not “revolutionary” to break things. Everything is breaking. That’s the problem.

If you want a revolution, fix something.

Rob CollinsOct 31, 2024
I'll be pottering about Dublin next week (6-10th). Giving a talk as part of the Fire Station's New Obsolescence - Critical Media Conversations event, admiring my work at the Beta Festival and generally being a Dubliner throughout.
https://www.firestation.ie/news/new-obsolescence-critical-media-conversations-7-november-2024/
New Obsolescence – Critical Media Conversations, 7 November 2024 - Fire Station Artists' Studios

This one-day symposium bringing together artists, researchers, and curators to consider alternative ways with which to engage technological practices and processes within contemporary arts practice while situating them within wider social and cultural contexts. When: Thursday, November 7 2024, 11am-4:30pm Where: Fire Station Artists Studios, 9-12 Buckingham Street Lower, Dublin 1 Cost: €25  New Obsolescence […]

Fire Station Artists' Studios
Rob CollinsOct 22, 2024
It's been a long hand-waving week running a workshop at NordiCHI in Uppsala and presenting research at the DCODE project's final event in Amsterdam. Looking forward to hyperfocusing my way to the end of this PhD now.
Rob CollinsAug 16, 2024
...also, I'll be part of this talk and exchange at hashtag#STWST48x10 at 8pm on the 7th of September in Linz during hashtag#ArsElectronica this year. In some very good company!
https://stwst48x10.stwst.at/en/cooking_and_repairing_the_algorithm_talk