#critical making

[algorithmsoflatecapitalism]

Reflecting the growing concern about the intersections of state surveillance, systemic racism, and predictive machine learning technology, we bring you the Algorithms of Late-Capitalism Issue 3: Minorities Report zine:

🤖 Digital Edition 🤖 Self-printing Edition 🤖 Epub Edition

—————————————— This zine was produced as part of an online zine co-creation workshop by internet teapot presented to the Design Justice students at the Humboldt University of Berlin. We would like to thank all the contributors for joining the workshop, making it a unique experience, and adding their insightful and idiosyncratic creations to this co-created zine. ——————————————

[inexperiencedexpert]

I need a shower.

Beau after feigning heterosexuality.

[learningnewstuff]

As part of the Making Futures conference the Arts University Plymouth Fashion studio hosted a practice-based research workshop and an exhibition. The workshop explored zero waste and modular pattern cutting methods based upon the UN-MAKE + RE-CLOTHE research and the exhibition featured the fashion-based Workroom residents; Anna Masclans - Studio PL1 Mia Cooper - Mia Grace Cooper and Megan Trapnell - Dart and Grey and garments prototypes from the UN-MAKE + RE-CLOTHE academic design research.

Feedback and conversations had in the workshop and during the workshop and exhibition will feed back in the UN-MAKE + RE-CLOTHE research and will also be incorporated into the Arts University Plymouth, Fashion Design teaching practice.

[learningnewstuff]

THE NEW RURAL

BUILDING FASHION COMMUNITIES AT THE EDGE

JOIN US // DATE: FRIDAY 19TH APRIL 2024

LOCATION: NEWLYN EXCHANGE

Princes Street Penzance, TR18 2NL

TIME: 12:00 - 15:00

In light of shifting perspectives relating to sustainable and inclusive fashion practices, disrupted supply chains, regenerative farming initiatives and an evolving employment market, it is time to reframe Fashion’s urban-centric perspective to better understand the growing dialogue around creative practice outside of the city.

Arts University Plymouth BA Fashion Design brings together a group of established and independent fashion design creatives to discuss making work - just where you are and building a networked creative community at the furthest edges of the Southwest in Cornwall, England.

AGENDA

12:00 Arrive - Newlyn Exchange, Penzance  // The Engine Room

12:15 Welcome & Introduction - Heather Martin, Arts University Plymouth BA Fashion Design Course Leader

12:30 Speaker - Ella McGregor - Raine Studio

13:00 Speaker - Teagan Pharoah Green - Fierce Flora Clothing

13:30 Break

13:45 Speaker - Alice Sainsbury - Tao Studio

14:15 Q & A - with speakers

14:30 Networking

15:00 Close

[digidopamine]

Center for Technological Pain produces a selection of DIY and Open Source objects to relieve pain caused by digital technologies such as smartphones and laptops. Among the prototypes it has developed are mechanical eye shields that reduce eye-strain, a headset to free the user’s hands, an insomnia-free box and various more or less absurd contraptions to relieve strained elbows and fingers. CTP also offers DIY manuals on how to build low-tech accessories from cheap materials.

[zheniavasiliev]

Being human in the age of artificial intelligence

9/30/2018

With technology becoming more accessible to public, and with behaviour of inhuman agents becoming as complex as human, it raises a question what it actually means to be human. Fields of critical inquiry close to technology argue that this is a more important question to address than traditional issues of critical theory, such as race, class and gender. Is it so? New ‘online media’ class is created through different types of exchange happening through human sense of vision and the interface and is a political process. Art here is seen as technology’s aesthetic, existential, social and ethical (AESE) values that lie outside of traditional capitalist exchange-production cycle. The class that produces those values is an ‘aesthetic’ class, because it produces aesthetic, existential, social and ethical values and resists traditional capitalism in a novel way due to the non-commercial nature of knowledge sharing on digital networks. Human actors in such communication are ‘distributed beings’ - organisms whose behaviour or even genetic code is modified by digital networks. New mode of production on digital networks does not belong within capitalism that operates through production-exchange cycle, because it places value in the process rather than outcome. Examples of non-human agents include Stuxnet virus, search agents, chatbots and other entities that do not produce AESE values. Conclusion: being human means to be able to produce AESE values (non-human agents are designed to either analyse or destroy them). What is the relation to social class?

[inexperiencedexpert]

Oceanic scenes, mother-daughter reconnection, and French accents make this a wonderful episode.