Imagine the worst: big corporations win, dictators are everywhere, all news are fake, rain forests are gone, internet infrastructure is burnt. What would you save from the collapse? This is a speculative session where participants will be asked to bring their best internet memories to create a collaborative fictional artwork, a legacy of the good old times when the web was open, accessible and fun. The more diverse the best. Please take some minutes to think in advance and bring to the session your favorite links, videos, memes, i.e. your digital heritage. I'm willing to put together resources from different backgrounds to create an exciting visual essay.
My art practice articulates technopolitics with behind the scenes narratives. As a Brazilian, I'm especially interested in Southern perspectives and how internet culture manifests outside of the center. This proposal will be part of my current research about the dark social and environmental consequences of the current networked model, under which I've created the publication 'Devastação' (https://pretti-et.al/devastacao).
The outcome is having participants share and talk about their memories and web heritage, then running a collaborative methodology to start creating a collaborative visual essay. My personal objective is to collect enough material (and maybe collaborators) to further create and design a digital publication.
We're hoping that many efforts and discussions will continue after Mozfest. Share any ideas you already have for how to continue the work from your session.:As I told above, my goal is creating a small community to further develop the session and turn the collaborative effort into a digital publication.
How will you deal with varying numbers of participants in your session?:I think the session works both with just a few participants as with dozens. If there are too many, I would ask them to add their material to some shared folder and randomly select some of them to talk about them during the call.
The collaborative creation can easily be handled by many people at once. If it's needed, we can break them into different rooms to do parts of the work, then share back in the main room in the end.
Brazilian artist, activist and researcher. Holds degrees in Visual Arts and Communications. His art practice and academic writing reflect on the concepts of counter-information, technocapitalism, postcolonialism and power.