<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Örsan Şenalp</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:orsan1234@gmail.com">orsan1234@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 9:40 PM<br>Subject: [Networkedlabour] interference↘15.08/17.08↘amsterdam<br>To: squares <<a href="mailto:squares@lists.takethesquare.net">squares@lists.takethesquare.net</a>>, "<a href="mailto:transcollab@lists.so36.net">transcollab@lists.so36.net</a>" <<a href="mailto:transcollab@lists.so36.net">transcollab@lists.so36.net</a>>, "<a href="mailto:networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org">networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org">networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org</a>><br>
<br><br><a href="https://interference.io/" target="_blank">https://interference.io/</a><br>
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Interference, n:<br>
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preventing (a process or activity) from continuing or being carried<br>
out properly.<br>
the combination of two or more electromagnetic waveforms to form a<br>
resultant wave in which the displacement is either reinforced or<br>
cancelled.<br>
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Interference is a gathering of people, perspectives, theories, and<br>
actions that share a critical approach to society and technology. It<br>
will take place at the Binnenpret in Amsterdam, NL from 15th to the<br>
17th of August 2014. It will be a space where we can meet, debate,<br>
share, learn, and find our affinities and oppositions. The event comes<br>
as a response to the lack of a common ground for confrontation and<br>
discussion over themes like hacking, technology, art and politics that<br>
could break out of the existing containers and roles for such concepts<br>
and practices.<br>
<br>
Interference is not a hacker conference. From a threat to the<br>
so-called national security, hacking has become an instrument for<br>
reinforcing the status quo. Fed up with yet another recuperation, the<br>
aim is to re/contextualize hacking as a conflictual praxis and release<br>
it from its technofetishist boundaries. Bypassing the cultural<br>
filters, Interference wants to take the technical expertise of the<br>
hacking scene out of its isolation to place it within the broader<br>
perspective of the societal structures it shapes and is part of.<br>
<br>
Interference tries not to define itself. Interference challenges<br>
hacker's identity, the internal dynamics of hackerculture and its<br>
ethical values. It undermines given identities and rejects given<br>
definitions. Interference is a hacking event from an anarchist<br>
perspective: it doesn't seek for uniformity on the level of skills or<br>
interests, but rather focuses on a shared basis of intuitive<br>
resistance and critical attitude towards the techno-social apparatus.<br>
<br>
Interference is three days of exploring modes of combining theory and<br>
practice, breaking and (re)inventing systems and networks, and playing<br>
with the art and politics of everyday life. Topics may or may not<br>
include philosophy of technology, spectacle, communication guerrilla,<br>
temporary autonomous zones, cybernetics, bureaucratic exploits, the<br>
illusions of liberating technologies, speculative software, the<br>
creative capitalism joke, the maker society and its enemies, hidden- &<br>
self- censorship, and the refusal of the binarity of gender, life, and<br>
logic.<br>
<br>
Interference welcomes discordians, intervention artists, artificial<br>
lifeforms, digital alchemists, oppressed droids, luddite hackers and<br>
critical engineers to diverge from the existent, dance with<br>
fire-spitting robots, hack the urban environment, break locks, perform<br>
ternary voodoo, decentralise and disconnect networks, explore the<br>
potential of noise, build botnets, and party all night.<br>
<br>
The event is intended to be as self-organised as possible which means<br>
you are invited to contribute on your own initiative with your skills<br>
and interests. Bring your talk, workshop, debate, performance,<br>
opinion, installation, project, critique, the things you're interested<br>
in, the things you want to discuss. Especially those not listed above.<br>
<br>
Please let us know how you would like to interefere by sending a<br>
(brief) abstract of your proposal before June 15 to interference [at]<br>
<a href="http://puscii.nl" target="_blank">puscii.nl</a>. (Our PGP key)<br>
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Interference's blog<br>
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Preliminary program<br>
<br>
Interference is happy to announce that the preliminary program is<br>
online and can be found here. This is program release v0.1alpha,<br>
expect several updates in the upcoming weeks.<br>
<br>
Apart from the sessions mentioned in the program - and for everyone<br>
who missed the deadline, but still wants to contribute something -<br>
there are also the self-organised sessions.<br>
<br>
You are cordially invited to come interfere with us. If you plan to do<br>
so, please register and don't forget to donate.. thanks!<br>
<br>
Read MoreAbout Preliminary Program<br>
<br>
The anti-program<br>
<br>
We know, we promised to present an exciting and eclectic program by<br>
the end of the month. We lied. The proposals we received are both<br>
exciting and eclectic, but the program is still a work in progress, so<br>
you will have to bear with us. In the meantime we don't want to<br>
withhold from you a handful of sessions we can confirm at this moment:<br>
<br>
Tincuta Heinzel and Lasse Scherffig will set up their radio-based<br>
sound installation "Signal to Noise", dealing with the concreteness of<br>
ideological discourses and imaginary of the "Other". A volatile<br>
acoustic space is created in which two concurring voices and<br>
ideologies compete by broadcasting on the same frequency.<br>
<br>
Johan Söderberg will present us with a reflection on the limitations<br>
of instituted, sovereign power by means of a comparison between<br>
hackers and psychonauts. Both assert their autonomy vis-à-vis the<br>
State through the no-mans-land of the ever-evasive near future. Yet<br>
this legal greyzone is concurrently being turned into an incubator for<br>
corporate innovation.<br>
<br>
Strike Now Collective will show and discuss their tool Universal<br>
Automation, an hacktivist intervention against the destruction of the<br>
social safety net in the UK referred to as the austerity programme,<br>
and the use of digital technologies by the government to enact it. The<br>
project challenges the prevailing work ethics and discusses how<br>
digital automation is used to immiserate people.<br>
<br>
Visy and Viznut from the demogroup Pers' Wastaiset Produktiot will<br>
screen some of their work and share their insights - gained through<br>
coding on archaic systems - in the chaotic, uncontrollable, and<br>
profoundly non-modular areas of the possibility space within<br>
computing.<br>
<br>
The people from Critisticuffs will host a workshop in which the notion<br>
of free software as a critique of capitalism is challenged. The<br>
argument that information wants to be free as these "goods" can be<br>
copied almost infinitely often begs the question: what is it about<br>
material wealth that makes it right, without alternative even, to<br>
treat it as private property?<br>
<br>
Apart from those, you can expect a wide range of talks, workshops,<br>
performances and discussions. It would be impossible to summarize them<br>
adequately, but topics will include human-machine interfacing, liquid<br>
surveillance, cryptocoins, and many others.<br>
<br>
If that has triggered your curiosity and you are planning to attend,<br>
please register and keep an eye on this site for further updates.<br>
<br>
Read MoreAbout The Anti-Program<br>
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On the relativity of time and deadlines<br>
<br>
It's June 16th, so the deadline for the call for papers is officially<br>
over. We would like to thank everyone who sent in their proposal and<br>
we are looking forward to present an exciting and eclectic program by<br>
the end of the month.<br>
<br>
For those who are late, but still wish to interfere with the event, we<br>
have good news. Apart from welcoming spontaneous action during the<br>
event itself and providing plentiful space for self-organised sessions<br>
- updates on that will follow soon - we will anachronistically be<br>
accepting proposals until the program is ready. This leaves us with<br>
the following propositions:<br>
<br>
d: The deadline has passed<br>
p: Proposals are accepted<br>
y: You should mail your proposal to interference [at] <a href="http://puscii.nl" target="_blank">puscii.nl</a><br>
<br>
Given ¬p ↔ d, p we may conclude ¬d<br>
Given ¬d, d we may conclude y<br>
<br>
Hence, you should mail your proposal to interference [at] <a href="http://puscii.nl" target="_blank">puscii.nl</a>. QED.<br>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div><b>Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..</b></div><div><br></div>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a> - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br>
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