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Interference, n:
1. preventing (a process or activity) from continuing or being carried out
properly.
2. the combination of two or more electromagnetic waveforms to form a
resultant wave in which the displacement is either reinforced or cancelled.
Interference is a gathering of people, perspectives, theories, and actions that
share a critical approach to society and technology. It will take place at the
Binnenpret in Amsterdam, NL from 15th to the 17th of August 2014. It will be a
space where we can meet, debate, share, learn, and find our affinities and
oppositions. The event comes as a response to the lack of a common ground for
confrontation and discussion over themes like hacking, technology, art and
politics that could break out of the existing containers and roles for such
concepts and practices.
Interference is not a hacker conference. From a threat to the so-called
national security, hacking has become an instrument for reinforcing the status
quo. Fed up with yet another recuperation, the aim is to re/contextualize
hacking as a conflictual praxis and release it from its technofetishist
boundaries. Bypassing the cultural filters, Interference wants to take the
technical expertise of the hacking scene out of its isolation to place it
within the broader perspective of the societal structures it shapes and is part
of.
Interference tries not to define itself. Interference challenges hacker's
identity, the internal dynamics of hackerculture and its ethical values. It
undermines given identities and rejects given definitions. Interference is a
hacking event from an anarchist perspective: it doesn't seek for uniformity on
the level of skills or interests, but rather focuses on a shared basis of
intuitive resistance and critical attitude towards the techno-social apparatus.
Interference is three days of exploring modes of combining theory and practice,
breaking and (re)inventing systems and networks, and playing with the art and
politics of everyday life. Topics may or may not include philosophy of
technology, spectacle, communication guerrilla, temporary autonomous zones,
cybernetics, bureaucratic exploits, the illusions of liberating technologies,
speculative software, the creative capitalism joke, the maker society and its
enemies, hidden- & self- censorship, and the refusal of the binarity of gender,
life, and logic.
Interference welcomes discordians, intervention artists, artificial lifeforms,
digital alchemists, oppressed droids, luddite hackers and critical engineers to
diverge from the existent, dance with fire-spitting robots, hack the urban
environment, break locks, perform ternary voodoo, decentralise and disconnect
networks, explore the potential of noise, build botnets, and party all night.
The event is intended to be as self-organised as possible which means you are
invited to contribute on your own initiative with your skills and interests.
Bring your talk, workshop, debate, performance, opinion, installation, project,
critique, the things you're interested in, the things you want to discuss.
Especially those not listed above.
Please let us know how you would like to interefere by sending a (brief)
abstract of your proposal before June 15 to interference [at] puscii.nl.
Updates and more information can be found on http://interference.io
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