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Have you been forced to assimilate into a dominant culture? Do you speak a non-native language as your primary language? Are you femme, lesbian, intersex, non-binary, trans, or agender? If you answered yes to these questions, you are elegible to participate in ๐๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐๐๐ฟ๐๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ง๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ต ๐๐๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐: ๐ ๐ช๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ๐๐ต๐ผ๐ฝ ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น ๐๐บ๐ฎ๐ด๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป with allapop and Dinara Rasuleva. Who gets to tell the story of the future, when the present is falling apart and the past is a lie? Whose stories havenโt been told and what technological ways unimagined, labelled wild and rendered invisible, known to few other languages, cultures and territories, but to themselves? What role do technologies play in reproducing power disbalances and how could such technologies be used as means of political participation?
According to Sarah Wachter, 96% of the world does not live in the United States, but a majority of our digital tools and platforms are based on US customs, political culture, and lawsโ. Ruha Benjamin criticises the Silicon Valley for focus on the utopian vision because they evoke it to sell gadgets, and the Hollywood's dystopian version because it helps sell tickets.
In the processes of colonization, imperial oppression, and forced erasure, entire indigenous cultures die out, languages get forgotten, literatures disappear. Unique stories remain untold and unheard, experiences remain unshared. Many indigenous people are forced to assimilate, losing their identities and having to study and work in the dominant languages. This leads to a future created by dominant voices, where we no longer exist. Do our cultures need to adapt to survive in the future? Is it necessary and possible to change and develop them according to values that contradict patriarchal traditions and cultural norms? How can we reappropriate religions and traditions and create a new future without erasing them? In this conversational and imaginative workshop, we will address the need to deconstruct and shift the rather homogeneous dominant narratives of technological futures, and focus on exploring potentials and ways of fostering new world visions, as acts of self-empowerment and possibilities for political participation and change, which center our experiences and imaginations, rooted in migrant cultures, by and for those who have so far been excluded from the matrix of technological modernity.
The workshop is part of the programme of the 33rd conference of Disruption Network Lab: Hacking Alienation ยท Migrant Power, Art & Tech.
Learn more: https://dnlb.org/w33.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin, Deutschland, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin, Deutschland,Berlin, Germany
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