How do algorithmic, economic and bodily rhythms overlap? – a walking and reading session with „The school of algorithmic solidarity“
eeeefff invites you to a two-part session: The first part will be a walking session connected to a collective exploration of the city by looking at the intersection of legal processes, bodily experience and platform or „sharing“ economies. We will walk through Leipzig, playing with the decomposition of material objects, interfaces and protocols, considering what the resistance of algorithms might do to our bodies and vice versa.
The second part will be a reading session combined with a dive into the programming code, which will allow us to think about the infrastructural level of the functioning of platform economies, who is in charge of what, what (il)legal matters are on stage. We will read through different modes of acting on distance, following the leakage that covers a multitude of services that form the horizon of activity of the subject of today – starting from electronic assistants, mail, cloud storage, interfaces of management of affective and logistical work, as well as interfaces of affective and infrastructural workers: namely taxi drivers, call centers and delivery workers.
No necessary programming or any other skills are needed.
About:
eeefff (Minsk/Berlin) is artistic cooperation / made-up institution / cybernetic political brigade / poetic computations / hacking unit / queer time. It is neither one of these, nor all together. Active from 2013. The group makes software-based projects, publications, networks, and platforms that critically explore digital labour, value extraction, and community formation. Methods include: public actions, online interventions, performative seminars, software, and hardware hacking, framing environments, and choreographing social situations. Co-organizers of Work Hard! Play Hard! in Minsk (2016-2020) and Decentric Circles Assembly in Warsaw (2024). The school of algorithmic solidarity was initiated by eeefff in 2022 to explore the relations between infrastructural time, algorithmic abstractions, and bodies. More info: https://eeefff.org/
