eeefff

dear,

— have you been to this factory?
— no.
— how many of them do you see?
— 10. Maybe 15. All are in workers’s overalls.

(Sound and karaoke.)

U-HA-DZI

U-HA-DZI

U-HA-DZI

— is there any visible aim?
— they are going through the hallway of the workshop building.
— is there any visible aim?
— machines are surrounding them. [*]

Rhythmic sounds, karaoke lines being sung while waiting, walking, while-being, repeating the everyday, memorising patterns, screaming riffs, pronouncing instructions, whispering secrets needed for community safety… Rhythms of revolution that seem to be in the past. Last months we spent a lot of time with materials that evoque feelings of loss - in public we say that revolution is not over, its temporality is not linear, but what do we feel while pronouncing it? [**] We started to dig in an (unexisting?) archive of revolutionary events in Belarus 2020, looking through hours of amateur (but who is not an amateur during the revolution?) videos. As it was developing, we replaced all visuality with almost-not-moving images of a new district of the city we used to live nearby: empty streets, empty playgrounds, not-yet-ready roads and block houses. They are forming an uneasy temporality of the co-presence at the distance, together with loud slogans and not that loud breath of someone else. You can join anytime from your streets and chant in an empty - or maybe if someone else is there too - not-that-empty audio-conference: https://rhythms.eeefff.org/ [***]

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* Lines of our draft text.
** We were entangled in this temporality several times during last years: https://eeefff.org/en/projects/tactical-forgetting.html and in a text (https://www.ecology-attention.mmpraxis.com/contributions/eeefff/). As well as in events we co-organised as members of Work Hard! Play Hard! working group, together with Aleksei Borisionok and Olia Sosnovskaya.
*** We made this interface in the frame of “World Wide Wiki”, a cooperation between HAU Hebbel am Ufer, ARGEkultur Salzburg, and Schauspiel Graz, and supported by Wikimedia Deutschland.

laboratory: intertwined materiality of infrastructures --> https://eeefff.org/en/pages/intertwined-materiality-of-infrastructures.html

laboratory: intertwined materiality of infrastructures --> https://eeefff.org/en/pages/intertwined-materiality-of-infrastructures.html

laboratory: intertwined materiality of infrastructures --> https://eeefff.org/en/pages/intertwined-materiality-of-infrastructures.html

We have recently been intertwining and twisting from:
– fiber optic cables, that are used for military drones, underwater and land network connections, leisure relaxation toys, frontex border control sensors infrastructures, but they are also used now by birds to build their nests in Ukraine full of left-overs from war-drones;
– pipes of different kinds used for modeling of the oil pipelines, watering plants, building fountains for cats and aquariums as well as for artificial lungs and hearts;
– sabotage wires: leftovers of the session “is it possible to feel the infrastructural time?”;
– found parts of trees, plants and mundane objects near the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp.

laboratory: intertwined materiality of infrastructures --> https://eeefff.org/en/pages/intertwined-materiality-of-infrastructures.html

is it possible to feel the infrastructural time? --> https://eeefff.org/en/projects/infrastructural-time.html

In our session during transmediale 2023, we wanted to work with infrastructural time and how it can be embodied (if even it is possible). Taking some concrete timing events – delays in cables, time to get particular knowledges about a railway infrastructure, time of burning the cabinets responsible for the algoritmization of the railway in case of sabotage, time of flying rocket from Gomel region to Kyiv, time of masking the wires that can make a signal for the whole system to slow down the train, time of a decision of an operator in a control room – we were shuffling around them, trying to navigate and be navigated, trying to mix the “precision of the computer” with events that act upon it, that can be error-friendly towards the infrastructures, that can wrestle this precise time down. As we think we need to unpack the seemingly untouchable algorithmic processes.
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LINK: https://2023.transmediale.de/de/event/algorithmic-solidarities
transmediale 2023, Algorithmic Solidarities, CCBYNCSA Laura Friorio

fairytale about love
from: https://eeefff.org/en/projects/can-colonialism-be-encoded.html

our text "Can Colonialism Be Encoded?" that is looking into the recent leaked source code of the biggest IT corporation, which is very close to russian government. The source codes of the Yandex company were copied in July 2022 and published on the Internet on January 25, 2023. The size of the leak is 44.71 gigabytes. Yandex services, whose algorithms were published, include maps, electronic assistant, taxi, web search engine, mail, cloud storage of documents, marketplace, travel agency, electronic payments, and delivery — tools that can cover needs of a modern paying user.

Following the LINK you can find a script for the video that was made as supplementary material for sessions of collective reading of the code in the frame of the School of Algorithmic Solidarity. The script consists of excerpts from the leaked algorithms, screenshots from the video materials, as well as short texts that position the algorithms in a broader, not only technical, context.

For the reading sessions we have made a counter search engine to navigate through the codes. It is running on our server, which we turn on and off due to the huge amount of data. If you need access to the counter search engine, please contact us.

LINK: https://antiwarcoalition.art/texts/d4bdbfa3-8eea-4364-a2cc-6dffcbd594a2

A temporary community gathers. They are sitting on the reused structures of installations that previously occupied the space before their arrival, chilling on green fabric. They are simultaneously here and there. For 'here' they have food, drinks, laptops for collective usage. For 'there' a small video cam is responsible, that looks at gathered readers of code lines, and cuts them from a background. Their bodies virtually sit on streets, future block-houses that are in the process of construction, hill with a mine underneath, and ... They are asking questions: Where is there a public space to debate, to contest, to confront the code that was leaked by a former worker? Did this worker want to reveal something important? Why are all the dates in the leak the same, coinciding with the start of russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine? They do not know the answers, at least, they do not know the answers alone. Maybe these temporary gatherings, sittings, readings, swipings, and tiredness could be a collective attempt to do something with 44.71 gigabytes.
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Reading-Session of The School of Algorithmic Solidarity in frame of decolonial research laboratory “Mycelium” at Solidarny Dom Kultury “Słonecznik”, Warsaw (PL).