The 'Nettime' Listening Post
Workshop, Panke Gallery, Gerichtstr. 23, Berlin;
https://www.panke.gallery/contact/
Saturday 3 February 2024, 12:00-15:00 hrs
Tickets: https://transmediale.stager.co/Workshops/tickets
Moderator: Diana McCarty
The 'Nettime' Listening Post workshop discusses the Nettime mailing
list, taking stock of recent changes and looking to the future of online
communication. From its inception back in 1995 to the present day the
list has been a crucial node for discussions of net-critique and radical
cultural politics. Typically, Nettime encourages ambitious long-form
texts that spin out into extended discussion threads in a process of
"collaborative text filtering." Nettime is an international forum whose
contributors, both writers and lurkers, form what has been called an
"open collectivity."
This workshop offers the opportunity of a convivial in-person encounter
of list members, but it is also intended as a public discussion of the
more general state of online debates and of net criticism. Over the past
year, Nettime has seen the transition to a new team of moderators who
manage the Mailman list software, as well as the creation of a Mastodon
instance in the Fediverse. Time for an open discussion about platforms
and formats, about individual online habits and collective strategies.
Another topic that has recently been debated on the list under the
keyword of "silence" and that we want to follow up on, is the
relationship between reading and writing, between the active
contributors and the lurkers who more or less actively follow, augment,
relay and push the list discussions into other sectors.
On a more exploratory trajectory, there are attempts to probe Nettime's
extensive archive through machine learning systems. Might these offer a
means of imaging alternative or fictional histories and of discovering
latent spaces in collective memory through a series of iterative
prompts, revealing marginalised and excluded voices?
https://www.nettime.org
https://tldr.nettime.org
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# collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets
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