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Techno-Cul-de-Sac @ Radio-Panik

dickreckard — 2023-02-25T18:34:46Z

What do electromagnetic waves, urban infrastructures and legal zones sound like?

The Techno-Cul-de-Sac worksession took place in the end of November 2022 and investigated the city as a woven fabric of territories of inclusion and exclusion, of availabilities and scarcities, of obligations and potentials. It started from observing the relations between forms of zoning and the technology they involve in the context of the city of Brussels.

After a week-long collective research full of experiments, encounters and artistic interferences, the participants realised and improvised a radio emission to be transmitted on p-node...

In case you missed it, the recording will be on air again on Radio Panik!
Listen to it at 105.4Mhz FM on the 20th of March, or later on as a podcast here.

With: Marie, Serena, Ronja, Louis, Flupke, Ninon, Anne, Giulietta, Juli, Weronika, Maru, Femke, Caroline, Laure, Stelios, Alice, Sumugan, Anton, Dennis, Martino, Peter, Elodie, Donatella, Mia, Wendy, Rafaella.
And many thanks to: Susie, Arthur, ooooo

View online : https://www.radiopanik.org/emission...

War Machines against the War Machine

dickreckard — 2022-11-17T20:44:00Z

Projection of the movie “Machines in Flames” (50min) and debate with: Andrew Culp, Dana Papachristou and Brett Zehner

The movie recounts the history of the CLODO group, that mysteriously brought on a series of attacks to the computing industry in Toulouse in the 80s.
In an open-form panel, Andrew Culp, Dana Papachristou and Brett Zehner will depart from it to discuss possible interventions in art and society today, dealing with techno-capitalist empire, the rise of far right and the neutralizing force of regulation. Is it possible to imagine and develop tools and weapons to subvert systems of power and control? What tactics are being formed in art, and how those can be used?

View online : https://technoculdesac.constantvzw.org/

Program Techno-Cul-de-Sac

Peter Westenberg — 2022-10-21T13:05:07Z

Public moments in a week-long collective research full of experiments, encounters and artistic interferences with the city's technological zones of inclusion and exclusion.

23 Nov, 17:00 - The Good, the Stib and the Poppy
Debate with Open Coil + Thyl Van Gyzegem (IEB) [English]
What to do with: scooters, trottinettes, droit(s) à la ville, policy<>politics, burgerlijke ongehoorzaamheid, vélos électriques, good moves, bad nudges, LA LOI, Félix, Bird, Pony, Uber, urban clogs, innovirisation, disnovatie, mobilité et réseaux.

24 Nov, 14:00 > 18:00 - Autodéfense numérique
Workshop with Tactic + Technopolice [Français/English]
Free your phone by installing an open system.
Please register: tcds@constantvzw.org

24 Nov, 20:00 - Livrer bataille
Film (37min) with ZIN TV [FR/ENsubs]
Brussels Deliveroo couriers defend their rights against platform capitalism.
https://zintv.org/video/livrer-bataille/

25 Nov, 18:00 - Alleycasting
Radio listening session: with Radio Panik
What do electromagnetic waves, urban infrastructures and legal zones sound like? Join us at Studio TechnoCul, or listen online: >> https://p-node.org/

Where:
Studio Techno-Cul, [Jetsesteenweg 388 Chaussée de Jette, 1081 Koekelberg](https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/168961827)

except for the debate on 23/11 and the screening on 24/11 which will take place at: CBO, Chaussée de Jette, 407 1090 Jette (just in front of Studio Techno-Cul)

Organisation:
Constant with the help of Radio Panik, IEB, ZIN TV, Tactic, Technopolice, CBO, Urban Species

More info:
https://technoculdesac.constantvzw.org/

View online : https://technoculdesac.constantvzw.org/

Open Call Techno Cul de Sac

Peter Westenberg — 2022-07-14T15:13:34Z

The below open call invited for applications to the worksession Techno-Cul-de-Sac The worksession took place from 20th to the 25th November 2022 in Constant Studio in Brussels.

We invite artists, city dwellers, activists, electronic scavengers, conflicted urbanists and reluctant designers to spend a week together sharing practices related to the city's zones of attention, contact, conflict.

The worksession will investigate the city as a woven fabric of territories of inclusion and exclusion, of availabilities and scarcities, of obligations and potentials. It starts from observing the relations between three different forms of zoning and the technology they involve in the Brussels context.

First, the institutional zones: pedestrian zones, special economic zones, 30km/h zones, low-emission zones, zones of prevention and surveillance... Each of these coming with their economic, legal, and political structures.
Then, the areas materialized by communication infrastructure, sketched in the city by network coverage, whether by cables or by the aether: phone lines, optical fibers, 4G, 5G, FM... Old and new networks that enable connections to elsewhere. Thirdly, the patchwork of user-zones sketched by a bunch of recently arrived agents in the city: the platforms that are entangling many inhabitants with their new networks for working, eating, moving in the city thanks to geo-localized "services".

What are possible strategies to express disagreement, temporarily or structurally in the urban space? Does a passer-by consent to rules and regulations during a stroll in the city? As private property and public space melt into each other, what modes of dissent help us re-think public space and public action? Did we really opt-in for all-round corporate surveillance, and how do you collectively opt-out?

Techno-Cul-de-Sac will stubbornly explore the possibilities to do and think the city differently, both existing and imaginary ones.

Programme
TCdS will take place in the shared space that Constant and allies recently started rebuilding and inhabiting. TCdS offers opportunity for collective exchange mixed with city trips, presentations, film screenings. Participants will have time throughout the week to develop artistic investigative concepts and proposals, individually or with others.
Departing from curiosity, participants are invited to think of possibilities that occur through different modes of 'broadcasting'.
Accomplices will include Urban Species, Radio Panik, IEB, ZinTV.

What we offer
Participation is free of charge. Constant will cover costs of transportation, breakfast+lunch, and lodging for all participants.

Application
If you are interested in joining, please send us an email with a few lines describing your interest in these questions and possibly links to work you find relevant.

martinoATconstantvzw.org

Techno Cul-de-Sac

Peter Westenberg — 2022-06-28T18:59:58Z

This worksession investigated the city as a woven fabric of territories of inclusion and exclusion, of availabilities and scarcities, of obligations and potentials. It started from observing the relations between forms of zoning and the technology they involve in the context of the city of Brussels.

- Techno-Cul-de-Sac / Archived, Project description