I like the strapline 'The greenest technology is the one you already have'.
On 18/11/2021 07:00, lauraplanagracia via NetBehaviour wrote:
smoltech
exhibition (works by mathr)
opening Friday 26th November 2021, 7pm
artist talk Saturday 4th December 2021, 5pm
until Saturday 11th December 2021
CT20, 73 Tontine Street, Folkestone CT20 1JR, ct-20.org <http://ct-20.org>
workshops
Clive with mathr - Saturday 15th January 2022, 12-5pm
Improviz with Rumble‑San - Saturday 22nd January 2022, 12-5pm
IKLECTIK, "Old Paradise Yard", 20 Carlisle Lane (Royal Street corner)
next to Archbishop's Park, London SE1 7LG, iklectikartlab.com
<http://iklectikartlab.com>
concert with mathr, xname, rumblesan, digital selves & heavy lifting
Saurday 29th January 2022, 7-10pm
IKLECTIK, "Old Paradise Yard", 20 Carlisle Lane (Royal Street corner)
next to Archbishop's Park, London SE1 7LG, iklectikartlab.com
<http://iklectikartlab.com>
curatorial text
The exhibition is presented as expressing concern about
techno-surveillance capitalism and abuse of power of hyper-structures
such as industrial-scale operation data centres consuming a massive
amount of electricity, and server farms consisting of thousands of
computers which require a large amount of power to run and to keep
cool. Also, crypto mining has grown exponentially in the last few
years, growing their energy consumption. In other words,
cryptocurrency mining surpasses entire countries’ energy consumption,
so it urges to spread awareness about the potential environmental
costs of technology.
Furthermore, we are entering an age of mass extinction brought on by
excesses of technology resources exploitation, when obsolescence
becomes a transformative situation of the human social landscape.
Economically and ecologically, e-waste presents a massive
environmental catastrophe, transforming planetary geological eras and
environments.
The exhibition proposes using technology in an ethical/ecological
applicability, searching for a lower ecological impact, representing
an alternative to Big Tech (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft,
Apple). Most of these alternatives are connected to the open- source
movement and also degrowth. Smoltech is one of these technological
movements representing an alternative to tech development, usage, and
consumption. Smoltech is a movement to reduce wasteful technology use.
It promotes a long-term usage of technology, discouraging throw away
culture, preventing e-waste, and developing hacker practices in media
archaeology labs that collect old computers and tech for their survival.
Individuals are using their newly expanded practical freedom to act
and cooperate with others in ways that improve the practised
experience of democracy, justice and development of a critical culture
and community, where collaboration and self-organisation are shared
across both business and free software / open hardware, as declared by
Yochai Benkler. The degrowth movement proposes an autonomous
perspective towards capitalism and the globalised world through
artivism, care revolution and climate justice based on the
environmental movement and radical ecology democracy, proposing food
sovereignty practices that serve as a model for Technological
Sovereignty. In addition, degrowth practices apply the principles of
free software movement and the commons’ policies towards a solidarity
economy and unconditional basic income.
The exhibition consists of different works such as pure-data sound
works and different audio-visual, multimedia, and interactive
installations. The artist works using free software and develops his
programs to create beautiful fractals, digital creations and new media
environments. Claude Heiland-Allen’s (aka mathr) works show the
relationship between technology and creativity using computing to
challenge conservative positions of technological corporations because
of the potential for social change that new/old media and open source
have. The audiences will gain an aesthetical experience within the
exhibition by combining computer science, performance art, music,
technology, fractals, maths, and software programming.
Curated by Laura Netz.
smoltech | netzzz.net <http://netzzz.net>
http://netzzz.net/smoltech/
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