[JoPP-Public] Interference conference in Amsterdam in August

[george dafermos]

hello JoPP-ers!

this might be of interest to list members:

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Call for Papers

Interference, n:

    1. preventing (a process or activity) from continuing or being carried
out properly.

    2. the combination of two or more electromagnetic waveforms to form a
resultant wave in which the displacement is either reinforced or cancelled.

Interference is a gathering of people, perspectives, theories, and actions
that share a critical approach to society and technology. It will take
place at the Binnenpret in Amsterdam, NL from 15th to the 17th of August
2014. It will be a space where we can meet, debate, share, learn, and find
our affinities and oppositions.
Interference  is not a hacker conference. From a threat to the so-called
national  security, hacking has become an instrument for reinforcing the
status  quo. Fed up with yet another recuperation, the aim is to
 re/contextualize hacking as a conflictual praxis and release it from its
 technofetishist boundaries. Bypassing the cultural filters,  Interference
wants to take the technical expertise of the hacking scene  out of its
isolation to place it within the broader perspective of the  societal
structures it shapes and is part of. The gathering comes as a  response to
the lack of a common ground for confrontation and discussion  over themes
like hacking, technology and politics that could break out  of the existing
containers and roles for such concepts and practices.

Interference  does not wish to define itself. Interference challenges
hacker's  identity, the internal dynamics of hackerculture and its ethical
values.  It undermines given identities and rejects given definitions.
 Interference is a hacking event from an anarchist perspective: it  doesn't
seek for uniformity on the level of skills or interests, but  rather
focuses on a shared basis of intuitive resistance and critical  attitude
towards the techno-social apparatus.

Interference  is three days of exploring modes of combining theory and
practice,  depunctualization, breaking and (re)inventing systems and
networks, and  playing with the art and politics of everyday life. Topics
may or may  not include hacking shenanigans, spectacle and communication
guerrilla,  temporary autonomous zones, refuting the cybernetic hypothesis,
 exterminating "social media experts", unraveling the illusions of
 liberating technologies, ruining the creative capitalism joke, exposing
 hidden- & self- censorship, and refusing the binarity of gender, life, and
logic.

Interference  welcomes discordians, intervention artists, artificial
lifeforms,  anarchist militants, digital alchemists, oppressed droids,
luddite  hackers and critical engineers to diverge from the existent, dance
with  fire-spitting robots, hack the urban environment, break locks,
perform ternary voodoo,  decentralise and disconnect networks, build
botnets, and party all night.

The  event is intended to be as self-organised as possible which means you
 are invited to contribute on your own initiative with your skills and
 interests. Bring your talk, workshop, debate, performance, opinion,
 installation, project, critique, the things you're interested in, the
 things you want to discuss.

Please send a (brief) abstract for your proposal before June 15 via e-mail
to interference [at] puscii.nl.

Updates and more information can be found on http://interference.io

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