<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Krystian Woznicki via Commoning</strong> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:commoning@lists.commons-institut.org">commoning@lists.commons-institut.org</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 10:58 AM<br>Subject: [commoning] CfR: "Challenge Artificial Intelligence!"<br>To: <<a href="mailto:commoning@lists.commons-institut.org">commoning@lists.commons-institut.org</a>><br></div><br><br>Hello Commoners,<br>
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the Berliner Gazette is launching the Call for Registration (CfR) for<br>
the BG annual conference, this year entitled AMBIENT REVOLTS. You can<br>
register now for five different workshop tracks that will be exploring<br>
political agency in times of autocrats and AI. All info below and on<br>
this website: <a href="https://bit.ly/2mXd0bJ" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/2mXd0bJ</a><br>
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Best wishes, Krystian<br>
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*CHALLENGE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE*<br>
Join the workshops at the AMBIENT REVOLTS conference! Register by<br>
October 20!<br>
<br>
The growing interconnectedness of everyone and everything is<br>
transforming our world into an unprecedented techno-social environment.<br>
The boundaries between atmosphere and politics are being suspended;<br>
already, tiny ruptures can cause cascade-like repercussions – think of<br>
cyber-attacks or stock market crashes, right-wing resentment or<br>
hashtag-based protest. Such ambient revolts are increasingly driven by<br>
artificial intelligence (AI) – involving human interaction but seemingly<br>
beyond human oversight. Set against this backdrop, the conference poses<br>
the questions: What are the techno-social logics of both regressive and<br>
repressive tendencies? What are emancipatory movements up against? What<br>
potential do micro-political acts have in day-to-day life? What<br>
regulations of automated systems at the macro level will enable<br>
democracy to emerge in the age of AI? The Berliner Gazette conference<br>
will explore these questions in the context of performances, lectures<br>
and workshops. The 18th edition of this annual Berliner Gazette event<br>
will be held for the second time in collaboration with the ZK/U – Center<br>
for Art and Urbanistics and will take place on November 7-10, 2018.<br>
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*Register + join workshops*<br>
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The conference workshops will bring together more than 100 activists<br>
from all over the world. The BG will invite key actors from the<br>
international scene to form the core of the five workshop tracks, and<br>
will issue an open call for the general public to register.<br>
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This open call for registration targets (up-and-coming) hackers,<br>
journalists, activists and researchers. A limited number of participants<br>
is able to register by contacting the following email:<br>
<a href="mailto:info@berlinergazette.de" target="_blank">info@berlinergazette.de</a> Deadline: October 20. Registration fee: 50 Euro,<br>
incl. catering. Please note: As the five workshops will be running in<br>
parallel, everyone is invited to commit to a single track. On November<br>
8-10, the workshops will take place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The<br>
conference hosts will provide catering throughout the entire conference,<br>
including a warm lunch. A series of guided city walks is planned for<br>
lunch breaks!<br>
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To tackle the key issues of the conference, five parallel workshop<br>
tracks will offer five different approaches for a pragmatic critique of<br>
citizenship as a framework for political participation, addressing the<br>
following issues: “Re-Coding Populism?”, “Challenging the Capitalocene”,<br>
“Involuntary Community”, “Unlearning Learning”, “Hacking the Urban Backend”.<br>
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The workshop groups will communicate before the conference in order to<br>
flesh out the workshop design collaboratively. Led by experienced group<br>
leaders, participants will be invited to come up with possible answers<br>
to the questions outlined in this project paper. The results will be<br>
made available as online resources by Berliner Gazette: they may include<br>
position papers, multimedia storytelling projects and collections of ideas.<br>
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*Workshop Tracks*<br>
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*Re-Coding Populism*<br>
Right-wing populism (and populism in general) thrives on social media,<br>
which amplifies the voices of the extremist few rather than the voices<br>
of the many. Can the top-down logics of demagogy be reversed or even<br>
transgressed for democratic ends? This workshop tackles the rise of<br>
right-wing populism in the context of social media and explores the<br>
potential of proto-populist bottom-up approaches such as liquid democracy.<br>
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*Challenging the Capitalocene*<br>
Capitalism has turned most of its operations into a quasi-automated<br>
matter. If algorithms operate according to discriminatory categories<br>
(race, ethnicity, gender, etc.), then how does discrimination play out<br>
in capitalism's automated processes? What are strategies against<br>
dehumanization? This workshop tackles the connex of automation,<br>
dehumanization and discrimination in AI-driven capitalism.<br>
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*Involuntary Community*<br>
Under the conditions of all-encompassing interconnectedness, right-wing<br>
populist moods can spread in a quasi-contagious fashion. What role do<br>
system errors, glitches and other (planned or unplanned) disruptions<br>
play in this context? Can the surprise element of unforeseen<br>
(dis-)connectedness gain a political valence? This workshop explores new<br>
potentials for emerging solidarity and community.<br>
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*Unlearning Learning*<br>
Self-learning systems define our age, thereby changing also the domain<br>
of learning. AI-driven social media are coming to provide<br>
pseudo-classrooms. Meanwhile traditional media are losing their<br>
authority as ‘educational institutions’. What is the present and future<br>
of pedagogy? What kind of unlearning needs to be done vis-à-vis<br>
self-learning systems? This workshops explores the politics of<br>
(un-)learning in the context of AI and self-learning systems.<br>
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*Hacking the Urban Backend*<br>
In today’s smart city the urbanite is challenged to negotiate her/his<br>
entanglement with the programmed environment. What does this mean for<br>
political action? Is public space still available or is the arena of<br>
political intervention being relocated to the invisibilized backend of<br>
the city? This workshop politicizes the rise of the smart city and<br>
searches for means of appropriation.<br>
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*More info* <a href="http://ambient-revolts.berlinergazette.de" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://ambient-revolts.berlinergazette.de</a><br>
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AMBIENT REVOLTS is the 18th annual conference of the Berliner Gazette.<br>
This project is a cooperation with ZK/U – Center for Art and<br>
Urbanistics, funded by the German Federal Agency for Civic Education/<br>
bpb, Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and the Rosa<br>
Luxemburg Foundation.<br>
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*Contact us* <a href="mailto:info@berlinergazette.de" target="_blank">info@berlinergazette.de</a><br>
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DOCU OF LATEST BG PROJECTS:<br>
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FRIENDLY FIRE – BG Annual Conference 2017 <br>
<a href="https://berlinergazette.de/friendly-fire" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://berlinergazette.de/friendly-fire</a><br>
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SIGNALS – Exhibition of the Snowden Files <br>
<a href="http://berlinergazette.de/signals" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://berlinergazette.de/signals</a><br>
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BG BOOKS OUT NOW @ DP: <br>
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FUGITIVE BELONGING<br>
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A FIELD GUIDE TO THE SNOWDEN FILES <br>
<a href="http://diamondpaper.net/title_26" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://diamondpaper.net/title_26</a><br>
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AFTER THE PLANES<br>
<a href="http://diamondpaper.net/title_25" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://diamondpaper.net/title_25</a><br>
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