[spectre] EVENT: "Reclaiming Digital Agency!" (Utrecht + online, 1 July)

2022-06-15 Diskussionsfäden Michelle Franke - IMPAKT
Digital rights are more relevant than ever, from big-tech companies that can 
target us based on data about our location, health, finances, gender, race, and 
other personal information, to potentially discriminatory AI. In Brussels a new 
law for the protection of our digital rights and principles is being drafted. 
What should this law contain? How should we regulate the digital space? What 
can we, as concerned digital citizens, researchers, and artists do to support 
this process?

We invite you to join the discussion on Friday 1 July at "Reclaiming Digital 
Agency!", a hybrid event at Het Huis Utrecht and online.
We will discuss how artists, activists and policymakers can work together to 
raise awareness of our digital rights and what is needed for better laws and 
legislation that will protect us as digital citizens and consumers.

Speakers include: councillor for the Dutch liberal-democratic party D66 Utrecht 
Dirk-Jan van Vliet, artist and researcher Benjamin Gaulon and media theorist 
and activist Geert Lovink.

BOOK LAUNCH i.c.w. VALIZ: STUCK ON THE PLATFORM
During the event Geert Lovink will also present his new book Stuck on the 
Platform (Valiz, 2022). In this book, Lovink calls for internet users to 
reclaim the internet as a way to fight digital dullness. Describing and 
contesting internet trends during the turbulent Brexit-Trump-Covid era between 
2019-2021, Lovink wrote this book as a relapse-resistant story, calling us to 
resist platform-culture.


Date: 1 juli, 16:00-19:00h
Location: Het Huis Utrecht + online
Info & tickets: impakt.nl/code2022


The event is part of CODE 2022, a European collaboration between IMPAKT [Centre 
for Media Culture], School of Machines, Making & Make Believe (Berlin), 
Werktank (Leuven) and Privacy Salon/Privacytopia (Brussels). With the support 
of Fonds Soziokultur, Fonds voor Cultuurparticipatie, Creative Industries Fund 
NL, Dutch Embassy in Belgium, Dutch Embassy in Berlin and Goethe Institut.



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IMPAKT Foundation
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3512 PH Utrecht | The Netherlands
t. + 31 30 2944493
www.impakt.nl




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[spectre] Reminder: TRANSITIONING: Art, Politics & Technologies of Gender Change, June 17–19

2022-06-15 Diskussionsfäden Tatiana Bazzichelli
Dear all,

On June 17–19, the LGBTQI+ conference TRANSITIONING: Art, Politics &
Technologies of Gender Change will take place at Kunstquartier Bethanien
(Berlin).
https://www.disruptionlab.org/transitioning

The 27th conference of the Berlin Disruption Network Lab is dedicated to
the dimensions of gender transitioning from the perspectives of
politics, medicine, technology, culture and art. Over three days,
experts, activists and artists from Europe, Asia and the USA will
network with the Berlin community in panels, keynotes, workshops, film
screenings and meetups.

The Disruption Network Lab's programme TRANSITIONING: Politics &
Technologies of Gender Change aims to address the complexities of gender
transition for both young people and those who have long fought for this
right, and to present the implications of this practice in the realms of
art, culture, society and human rights. The programme series includes a
conference, film screenings, a community meet-up and two community
workshops.

The conference includes a performative talk on legacies of violence in
times of conflict by Drew Pham, a queer, transgender writer of
Vietnamese heritage and U.S. military veteran, who reckons with the
consequences of American wars in Afghanistan and Vietnam; Ukrainian
transgender activist Anastasiia Yeva Domani will discuss the current
worsening of medical care for trans people in Ukraine as well as the
human rights situation and especially the problem of trans women leaving
the country; gender, tech and (counter)power researcher Os Keyes, who
will speak about the politics of scientific research into trans
healthcare; Berlin performer Bridge Markland who will cross gender
boundaries exploring the artistic potential of transitioning through
role-play and transformation - and many others.

The programme will be opened and followed by film screenings of the work
of artist Diane Torr (1948-2017), a central force in the drag king scene
in the USA, Europe, Istanbul and New Delhi.

Schedule:
https://www.disruptionlab.org/transitioning#schedule

Full Programme:
https://www.disruptionlab.org/transitioning#programme

Tickets:
https://pretix.eu/disruptionlab/transitioning/

I hope to see many of you there!

All the best,

Tatiana

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Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director
Disruption Network Lab
http://disruptionlab.org
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