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Bureaucracktic Bedtime Stories

Peter Westenberg — 2022-03-27T18:29:00Z

Bureaucracktic Bedtime Stories is a collection of contributions in many media that originate from the worksession Bureaucracksy.

You can still register to the publication Bureaucracktic Bedtime Stories
untill June 1.

This is a time base estaffette naration originating from artivist
practices around the imaginative re-appropriations of rules and regulations.
You will receive 1 story per day for a sequence of 21 days. These can be
enjoyed as a podcast or through a mailinglist, on your phone or your
laptop. Whatever you prefer as a bedside reading companion technology.

<https://constantvzw.org/site/Bureau...>

How to receive this
Subscribe before 1 june 2022, by:

E-Mail:
* you can register to the mailing list here:
<https://boucan.domainepublic.net/ma...>

Podcast:
* add this link to your podcast feed:
<https://bureaucracksy.constantvzw.o...>

After registration, you will be presented one story per day, at 20:30 CET, 21 days in a row. Once you have received all contributions, you will have to unregister. Unless you want to enjoy another cycle !

Contributions
Bureaucracktic Bedtime Stories contains contributions by:
Sarrita Hunn, Loup Cellard, Richard Wheeler, Temporary Bureaucracksy Collective, Elodie Mugrefya, Muslin Brothers, Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence (O.J.A.I.), Lucia Palladino, Wendy Van Wynsberghe, Laura Oriol + Peter Westenberg, Melt - Loren Britton & Isabel Paehr, Francis Hunger, Brendan Howell, Caterina M, Simon Browne, An Mertens, Eric Snodgrass, Jonathan McHugh, Simon Browne

Credits:
Constant 2022. Copyleft with a difference: This is a collective work, you are invited to copy, distribute, and modify it under the terms of the CC4r https://constantvzw.org/wefts/cc4r.en.html.

Editing
Peter Westenberg, Wendy Van Wynsberghe, Manufactura Independente

Design
Manufactura Independente

Financial support
Federation Wallonie Bruxelles, Vlaamse Overheid, Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie

Warp: Bureaucracksy documentation

Femke Snelting — 2021-04-03T19:40:13Z

This Warp* documents the worksession Bureacracksy.

Bureaucracksy took place between 7 and 12 December 2020 and brought together artivist practices around the imaginative re-appropriations of rules and regulations. Critical attitudes, artistic positions, creative bureaucrats re-purposed and re-oriented operators of bureaucratic power. The Warp links recordings, images, notes and other outcomes of the session.

*Warp and weft are weaving terms, which Constant uses to weave stories about and in-between different projects.

View online : https://constantvzw.org/wefts/burea...

Open Call: Bureaucracksy

Peter Westenberg — 2020-07-16T12:54:01Z

Between 7 and 12 December 2020, Constant organises the work-session Bureaucracksy.

This work-session investigates the governance of techno-social systems through the prism of bureaucracy. The execution of rules is an essential element of computation, of digital infrastructures, and of the societies that they operate with.

Critical practices of listing, naming, filtering, tool making, care and sharing require that some books are kept.

Initiatives around Free/libre, Open Source software for example insist on producing transparent procedures and thereby contribute to the creation of commoning structures, collective resources and addressing the Conducts of Code.

The work-session invites artists and activists to share imaginations of counter-accountancies and -accountabilities, of how to engage with paperwork, systemics and logistics.

The session takes place in Hacktiris, the shared workplace that Constant and many other artists and cultural organisations use in the center of Brussels. As the former headquarters of Actiris, the Brussels Regional Employment Office, the building has an infamous history of paperwork itself.

Program elements (among others):

A series of visits to Bureaucra(ck)tic hot-spots in Brussels and Belgium.
Collective exchanges of participants practices.
Federation, organisation and moderation of distributed software repositories.
Subversioning the figure of the Data Protection Officer

The session results in a collectively produced collection of late night stories. These Bedside tales of Bureaucracksies are destined to invade our dreams. They can be trans-feminist scripts, or anti-capitalist spells, They might be pamphlets or children's stories. They could be radical administrative recitals, decolonial algorithms, ambient spreadsheets, fairy-tale fabrics, hummed scores, unruly writings.

You might sleep tight, or you might wake up screaming.

Work-sessions

Constant 'work-sessions' are intensive trans-disciplinary situations to which participants from all over the world contribute. Every six months Constant opens such a temporary research lab; a collective working environment where different types of expertise come into contact with each other. During work sessions we develop ideas and prototypes that in the long-term lead to publications, projects and new proposals. Work-sessions favour the use of F/LOSS software. To facilitate collective work, these Guidelines for collaboration apply.

Participate ?

Places are limited. If you are interested in joining, send an application to: peter@constantvzw.org before 15 September.
Please explain why this topic is important for you and join one office/bureaucratic document that you consider to be relevant.
We will confirm participation in the first week of October.
Participation is free of costs. Constant offers: lodging, travels and lunch.
Anti Covid 19 measures will be respected. Their bureaucratic formatting, implementation and execution are a potential case to study during this worksession.

This call will be updated regularly.

Bureaucracksy

Peter Westenberg — 2020-07-16T09:16:04Z

The worksession Bureaucracksy brought together artivist practices around the imaginative re-appropriations of rules and regulations. We were looking for critical attitudes, artistic positions, creative bureaucrats, that re-purpose and re-orientate operators of bureaucratic power.

- Bureaucracksy / Archived, Project description