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P203


Collective infrastructures 
Convenors:
George Simms (University of Plymouth)
Batool Desouky (University of the Arts London)
Katie Tindle (Goldsmiths, UoL)
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Chairs:
George Simms (University of Plymouth)
Batool Desouky (University of the Arts London)
Katie Tindle (Goldsmiths, UoL)
Format:
Combined Format Open Panel
Location:
HG-07A36
Sessions:
Thursday 18 July, -, Friday 19 July, -
Time zone: Europe/Amsterdam

Short Abstract:

This panel takes a critical look at digital "cloud" infrastructures and how to counter their centralised corporate models. We look to how collectives and communities are making transformations in infrastructures as system admins, forming protocols and ways of doing otherwise.

Long Abstract:

This combined panel aims to bring together voices as well as skills to develop an understanding of how we can work through digital infrastructures otherwise. Many institutional digital infrastructures as well as ones in the public realm are owned/controlled by for profit corporations, with their modes of profit coming from extractive approaches (Aouragh et al., 2020). This configuration of sociotechnical infrastructures, forms, tools and systems that work through prescriptive and exploitative dynamics. To explore how digital infrastructures can be done otherwise, we call on the experiences, knowledges and imaginaries of different communities and collectives, such as the likes of ATNOFS (Wynsberghe et al., 2022), to see how they understand and form their own situated digital community infrastructures.

The panel will expand into public blog and writing space to host the panel content and allow for others to contribute to the discussion - from outside the crelatively closed conversation space contained within panels. You will be able to read and contribute to the blog with questions or contribution to initiate discussions, and evolve a dialogue in a longer time span that enables reflection, contemplation and sharing resources.

On Friday, the day following the panel, we will conduct a workshop on how to set up and work with a small raspberry pi server, using the server hosting the blog space as the site for the workshop. It will be a quick intro into how these spaces operate, and the basic skills needed to work there collectively, working through a terminal session on a local Wi-Fi network. This server was developed between In-grid collective, CCI and CSNI, as well as Creative Crowds and Systerserver.

Panel Notes and Resources: https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/panelScriptNotes

Workshop resources: https://github.com/In-grid-collective/servPubWiki/tree/main/EasstWorkshop

Structure:

Panel - Thursday

Workshop - Friday

Accepted contributions:

Session 1 Thursday 18 July, 2024, -