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Re: <nettime> Sign the BAN X in EUROPE petition and join the campaign 

I appreciate the idea that the banning X campaign is form of 
tactical media. Maybe it will shine a light on the issue.

But I push back on the idea that we are in a period of stagnation.


I work with the folks at https://yorba.co. Everything we do relies 
on passed legislation. We have built tools based on: the CAN SPAM 
Act (2003) (eMail unsubscribe), Electronic Comm. Privacy Act 
(ECPA) (1986) (privacy grades), the CCPA (2018) (data right 
protocol https://datarightsprotocol.org/), and we're awaiting 
Dodd-Frank Section 1033 in the US while enjoying the benefits of 
the European Union's Payment Services Directive 2 (2015) for 
enhanced financial interoperability.

Legislation, dare I say, has achieved a lot. We can actually build 
things based on it.

To say that [...]  we have to emphasize alternatives instead has 
nothing achieved anything over the past decade.

But things have changed. The DSA was passed in 2022. In the two 
years since the DSA has passed, x.com has been on a downward 
trend: 1/3 of the UK active userbase lost. An 80% decline in 
market capitalization. DSA fines would have a tremendous impact in 
these conditions.

I just read x.com's April 2024 DSA report: 
https://transparency.x.com/dsa-transparency-report.html. That's 
where I see a real problem. People on this list are saying that 
x.com is creating obvious and undeniable harms. But the DSA report 
doesn't look so bad.

So either the harms are not actually so obvious or we have a 
situation where governance and reality are diverging. If that's 
the case, I'm afraid of suggesting that those same governors 
should have the power to eliminate an entire media network. Even 
as a tactical act. I live in Italy. Meloni's actions have 
indicated she would love to have this power.

Fediverse-Mastedon etc. might work ok but still fails to attract 
many. In particular journalists and PR crowds continue to be 
hooked onto X

I'll suggest one radical act: it's time to let go of the idea that 
something will "replace Twitter." We're not going back to those 
days. And that's a good thing.

And yes, it's time to increase public funding for interoperable 
publishing platforms for an actual "town square", not just look 
for another mall where we can all hang out.

/David

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Today's Topics:

   1. X masked or musked (Sherry)

   2. Re: Sign the BAN X in EUROPE petition and join the 
   campaign

      (Geert Lovink)

   3. Re: Sign the BAN X in EUROPE petition and join the 
   campaign

      (czegledy@interlog.com)

   4. Program of Platform Blues - November 21, 2024 - University 
   of

      Canberra (Geert Lovink)


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Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 09:44:30 -0500
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Avivians,
Ethiopians, Kibbutzinks, religious Jews from the West Bank, 
Americans, and
city kids from Jerusalem. We were all together in this fight to 
defend all
the citizens of Israel - Jewish, Arab, Christian, Muslim, of 
every walk of

life, color of skin and country of origin.? ****



?Every Ukrainian photographer dreams of capturing an image that 
will bring
an end to the war. This aspiration has long been deeply personal 
for each
of us. And yes, there is nowhere for us to flee. This is our 
land.? by Maks

Levin *****



invisible rules for living in foreign country, foreign universe 
via

someone?s simple verse


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I DON'T KNOW HOW TO REACH OUT, HOW TO GET YOU, HOW TO... I 
REALLY DON'T.
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DARK STARRING AT THE COMPUTER SCREEN WAITING FOR A LETTER, AWORD 
FROM YOU.
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DESIGNED TO BE
TOGETHER. WE HAVE TO GET BACK TOGETHER, AND HERE IS THE NEWS: I 
AM COMING
TO LAAS FULBRIGHT STUDENT SOON - I GOT IT BECAUSE? DOES IT 
REALLY MATTER? I

JUST WANT ME AND YOU to BE TOGETHER. AGAIN. FOREVER.

YOU CAN COME TO LA IF YOU WANT TO. I WANT YOU TO COME TO LA.?



?WHAT? YOU NEVER TOLD ME YOU HAVe A russian-jewish WIFE. WHY? IS 
SHE
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BUT WHERE

IS THE PROBLEM IF WE ARE SO ClOSE? INTELLECTUALLY, CULTURALLY,
MORALLY,  EDUCATIONALLY,

SOCIALLY? IS SHE ThERE, NEXT TO YOU WHILE YOU ARE READING MY 
LETTERS?? DO
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?I have never been materially active in politics before, but 
this time I

think civilization as we know it is on the line.


If we want to preserve freedom and a meritocracy in America, 
then Trump

must win.? Elon M.



Guess who? At the opening of 1934 Berlin Auto Show: ?National 
Socialist
Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convictions. And 
it wants
peace also owing to the realization of the simple primitive fact 
that no
war would be likely essentially to alter the distress in 
Europe... The
principal effect of every war is to destroy the flower of the 
nation...

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from 1933

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*** process of Nazification by which Hitler successively 
established a
system of totalitarian control and coordination over all aspects 
of German
society "from the economy and trade associations to the media, 
culture and

education /Strupp, Christoph/
<http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/marking-eighty-years-since-hitler-took-power-in-germany-a-880565.html>



**** is a letter written by a 24-year-old who grew up in 
suburban Maryland,
to his family. He served in Israel serving in the Israeli 
Defense Forces as
a sergeant in the Givati Brigade. He is one of hundreds of 
American
volunteer soldiers in the IDF known as ?lone soldiers.  /From 
The Israel

Forever Foundation/



***** On March 13, 2022, Maks Levin embarked on a car journey to 
the
village of Huta-Mezhyhirska, located approximately 40 km from 
Kyiv,
together with soldier and former photographer Oleksiy 
Chernyshov. Their
purpose was to capture drone photos of the occupied area. They 
proceeded
towards the village of Moshchun in search of their lost drone, 
following
which all communication with them ceased. On April 1st, Maks 
Levin?s
lifeless body was discovered by the police. He had been fatally 
shot by the

occupiers. /From the Ukrainer/



****** quotations from circulating letters of M.K. to their 
former

professor or mentor



******* from the website of Gordon State College  Home | Gordon 
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College <https://www.gordonstate.edu/>


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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 20:12:57 +0200
From: Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl>
To: nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>

Subject: Re: <nettime> Sign the BAN X in EUROPE petition and 
join the

	campaign
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Dear all,


all your responses so far to the campaign to ban X in the EU, 
which only launched last Friday, have been exetremely 
interesting and encouraging. Finally there is a debate about 
what?s to be done with X.

I am not behind this initiative, the person who initiated it 
wants to remain anonymous (for the time being). This person has 
not got to do anything with ?Brussels? (neither are sponsered by 
the EU or any institution, for that matter). I see this campaign 
design first and foremost as a conceptual artwork in the 
poltical category. This very much comes from the nettime scene, 
let that be clear. And many of you will know why. It is a 
tactical media aka post-situationist/communication guerrilla 
action (with a very serious intention).

Unfortunately, a call to ban X in the EU will not come from the 
so-caled progressive-liberal ?civil society? organizations such 
as Bits of Freedom, Netzpolitik and all others of the European 
Digital Rights network (https://edri.org/about-us/our-network/) 
and campaign should be, first and foremost, read as a radical 
call to exactly these organizations to take a stand and follow 
the Brazilian example.

There is something bold and desperate in this call, and I 
believe there is a need to acknowledge that before we move 
on. The stagnation needs to end. Over a decade ago the social 
media monopolies were already causing havoc, both on the 
political and the mental health levels. At our Institute of 
Network Cultures we brought these initiatives together in 
2011-2013 under the network name of 'Unlike Us' 
(https://networkcultures.org/unlikeus/), which, at the time, 
already felt a bit late (this was just after the failed Arab 
spring). This was launched together with Korinna Patelis, who 
was teaching in Cyprus at the time. A Facebook Farewell Party 
and similar initiatives followed but nothing happened. It all 
ended up in platform capitalism and then, even worse, 
techno-feudalism. Calls to fix the broken internet were made, 
some alternatives were developed, but none of this found much 
resonance amongst the userbase at large.

Europe has so failed to develop an alternative to the US ?free 
speech? contruct and thus all discussions, also inside the EU, 
are ultimately measured around that constitutional-legal term 
(or ideology, for that matter). All regulation effforts will 
remain to be framed  as censorship and thus all alternatives 
remain futile. At best Brussels can send fines to Silicon 
Valley? 5-10 years after the fact. No public money is invested 
in alternatives.

To say that calling for a ban is lame and will not work and that 
we have to emphasize alternatives instead has nothing achieved 
anything over the past decade. It is important to admit this. To 
merely say this again simply ignores the failure of the 
?alternatives? approach. Fediverse-Mastedon etc. might work ok 
but still fails to attract many. In particular journalists and 
PR crowds continue to be hooked onto X, as are most of the 
political class. The dialectics between news media and the 
political class remains toxic (to use a very polite word). Cade 
Diehm has already said it so much better than I do here. Neither 
regulation nor alternatives have achieved much. It is urgent to 
come together and have an open dialogue what strategic next 
steps might make a real difference.

Yours, Geert





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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 18:02:07 -0400
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Dear Geert, This is a HUGE Personal thank you.
More on it later
all the very best
nina cz



Quoting Geert Lovink via nettime-l 
<nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>:

Dear all,


all your responses so far to the campaign to ban X in the EU, 
which

only launched last Friday, have been exetremely interesting and

encouraging. Finally there is a debate about what?s to be done 
with X.

I am not behind this initiative, the person who initiated it 
wants
to remain anonymous (for the time being). This person has not 
got to
do anything with ?Brussels? (neither are sponsered by the EU or 
any
institution, for that matter). I see this campaign design first 
and
foremost as a conceptual artwork in the poltical category. This 
very
much comes from the nettime scene, let that be clear. And many 
of

you will know why. It is a tactical media aka
post-situationist/communication guerrilla action (with a very
serious intention).

Unfortunately, a call to ban X in the EU will not come from the

so-caled progressive-liberal ?civil society? organizations such 
as
Bits of Freedom, Netzpolitik and all others of the European 
Digital
Rights network (https://edri.org/about-us/our-network/) and 
campaign
should be, first and foremost, read as a radical call to 
exactly
these organizations to take a stand and follow the Brazilian 
example.

There is something bold and desperate in this call, and I 
believe

there is a need to acknowledge that before we move on. The
stagnation needs to end. Over a decade ago the social media

monopolies were already causing havoc, both on the political 
and the

mental health levels. At our Institute of Network Cultures we

brought these initiatives together in 2011-2013 under the 
network
name of 'Unlike Us' (https://networkcultures.org/unlikeus/), 
which,
at the time, already felt a bit late (this was just after the 
failed
Arab spring). This was launched together with Korinna Patelis, 
who
was teaching in Cyprus at the time. A Facebook Farewell Party 
and
similar initiatives followed but nothing happened. It all ended 
up
in platform capitalism and then, even worse, 
techno-feudalism. Calls

to fix the broken internet were made, some alternatives were
developed, but none of this found much resonance amongst the
userbase at large.

Europe has so failed to develop an alternative to the US ?free

speech? contruct and thus all discussions, also inside the EU, 
are

ultimately measured around that constitutional-legal term (or

ideology, for that matter). All regulation effforts will remain 
to
be framed  as censorship and thus all alternatives remain 
futile. At
best Brussels can send fines to Silicon Valley? 5-10 years 
after the

fact. No public money is invested in alternatives.


To say that calling for a ban is lame and will not work and 
that we
have to emphasize alternatives instead has nothing achieved 
anything
over the past decade. It is important to admit this. To merely 
say

this again simply ignores the failure of the ?alternatives?

approach. Fediverse-Mastedon etc. might work ok but still fails 
to
attract many. In particular journalists and PR crowds continue 
to be
hooked onto X, as are most of the political class. The 
dialectics
between news media and the political class remains toxic (to 
use a
very polite word). Cade Diehm has already said it so much 
better
than I do here. Neither regulation nor alternatives have 
achieved
much. It is urgent to come together and have an open dialogue 
what

strategic next steps might make a real difference.

Yours, Geert



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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 19:44:59 +0200
From: Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl>
To: nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>

Subject: <nettime> Program of Platform Blues - November 21, 2024 
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	University of Canberra
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Location: Building 1, Level A, Room 21 (Theatre), Bruce (ACT), 
Australia

More information: 
https://networkcultures.org/events/platform-blues-one-day-conference-at-university-of-canberra/

Free entrance but please register here: 
https://events.humanitix.com/platform-blues

Opening: 10:00 ? 10:15am
Welcome ? Geert Lovink and Denise Thwaites

Session 1: 10: 15 ? 11:15am
Hiding in and from the internet: Avoidance and Dissociation
Moderator: Nicole Curato


Ella Barclay ? Visualising Messy Connectivity in Contemporary 
Art

This talk provides an overview of her current research, 
including her recent institutional solo exhibition Unkempt 
Cognition at Canberra Contemporary Art Space and her research as 
a 2024 fellow at ZK/U: The Centre of Art and Urbanistics, 
Berlin. Ella?s work engages with thematics of agency and fatigue 
in a 21st Century connected landscape.

Caroline Fisher ? Young People, Internet and News Avoidance


More than two-thirds of Australians actively avoid the 
mainstream news, higher than in many other countries. News 
avoidance is particularly high among Gen Z and Y, who have the 
lowest interest in mainstream news and feel the most ?worn out? 
by it. This sense of fatigue is strongly linked to the use of 
social media and feeling unable to avoid unwanted news in their 
feeds.  Drawing on ten years of news consumption data and 
qualitative research, this presentation examines these news 
avoidance trends among young Australians in the context of an 
everchanging hybrid media landscape.

Morning break (15mins)

Session 2: 11:30 ? 1:30pm
Volatile Spaces: Toxicity and Transformation
Moderator: Ashley van den Heuvel


Erin K. Stapleton ? Catastrophic Loss in Computational Systems: 
Mass Accumulation

My personal archive is on Instagram.
I rely on cloud computing for my externalised visual memory.
And at any moment, it could all be lost.
And that is completely beyond my control.


The term ?catastrophic loss? describes total, irretrievable 
destruction. While it is a term generally used to describe 
environmental disasters, the mechanics of digital storage 
beckons for archival loss on a parallel scale. Here, I explore 
catastrophic loss as the tension between permanence and 
instability in digital systems and the constant threat of 
accumulative overwhelm, irretrievable glitches, absolute 
obsolesce they offer, while operating in response to the 
processes of material destructions that loom across our material 
and social worlds. Computational systems are designed for 
automation, smoothing difference and complexity into binary, 
hierarchical and comparative data categories. The storage of 
digital data operates through reduction of complexity and 
automated efficiencies, risking the complexities of the 
information it stores. Simultaneously, digital storage 
efficiencies encourage the mass production, dissemination and 
accumulation of data across social media platforms. An
  abundance of images, videos, sound, artefacts, the 
  possibilities of access to these overwhelm, mirroring and 
  distracting from the material destructions that produced them.

David Nolan ? A Fast-Moving Slow-Motion Car Crash: The 2023 
Voice Referendum in Today?s Media Ecology

14 October 2023 was one of the bluest days in recent memory, 
taking its place among  a roll call of dates of extreme 
settler-colonial violence in Australian history.  This paper 
reflects on the dynamics of a media ecology that constituted 
both a structure and vehicle of that violence, positioning it as 
a moment of realism and disillusionment. We have lived through 
two decades in which resistant practices deploying the 
affordances of social media have offered crumbs of hope that 
platforms might offer an ?innovative? alternative space to 
contest and disrupt oppressive mediated politics.  This paper 
reflects on findings relating to the communicative dynamics at 
play during  the 2023 Referendum on an Indigenous Voice to 
Parliament to argue that this position is fundamentally flawed. 
Despite, and in some respects because of, the desire, 
celebration and performance of fresh online voices and 
interventions, the contemporary media ecology contributes to and 
constitutes a politics that remai
 ns and is increasingly - perhaps overwhelmingly -  dank in 
 nature.

Temple Uwalaka ? Social Media Activism in Nigeria


Socio-political activism and its relationship with digital media 
diffusion are an ongoing subject of considerable debate among 
observers and scholars of social movement. This work discusses 
the research trajectory on the impact of networked 
activism. Using the Nigerian economic and socio-political arena 
as a case study, the paper investigates the contributions of 
social media in the implementation of contentious politics in 
Nigeria. It argues that social media platforms play significant 
roles in the success of socio-political protest movements in the 
country. The paper discusses how social media platforms give 
voice and visibility to Nigerians and how this prominence is 
eroding the power of the political class, as well as creating 
alternative deliberative arenas. The paper demonstrates how this 
innovative use of technology has shaken the political nerve 
centre of Nigeria. Finally, reactions from the political elites 
about these changes are outline.

Phoebe Quinn ? Live Polis Experience: Tackling Academic Flying 
and Climate Change

This interactive session invites participants to experience 
Polis, a digital democracy platform that has been touted as a 
'pro-social' alternative to conventional social media. Drawing 
from recent research, we?ll have a mini-conversation on a hot 
topic within universities: what to do about staff air travel 
emissions. Through this hands-on demo, we'll experience the 
platform?s design features and critically examine Polis' 
capacity to foster productive democratic discussions.

Lunch (1hr)

Session 3 : 2:30 ? 4:30pm
Bittersweet Stories: Making Sense of Uncertainty and Chaos
Moderator: Geert Lovink


Sophie Dumaresqu ? Inter-Species Connection to Find Joy and Love 
Among Platform Blues

What is in a postcard? Baby, I Just Want to Make You Smile is an 
ongoing series of recorded and live cinematic endurance 
performances. The performances consist of the artist (Sophie 
Dumaresq) attempting to share a sunset with her handmade 100 
kilo, 5 metres long mechanical shark(Baby) by pulling the shark 
up a hill. Frankie, the artists' dog is equipped with their own 
camera recording and sharing in the performance with 
Dumaresq. In this talk, the artist will discuss their experience 
in collaborating with both humans and non-humans in creating the 
different iterations in which the work exists. The artist 
explores how the goofy and vulnerable nature of hybrid material 
and digital collaborative performance work can liberate the 
romantic from the Romantic with a capital R.

Catherine Page Jefferey ? Collective Anxiety and Media Panics in 
an Age of Social and Digital Media

Collective concern about young people?s access to digital media 
technologies has increased significantly in recent years, 
culminating in widespread calls to ban social media completely 
for young people under a certain age both in Australia as well 
as overseas. These concerns are based on a range of purported 
harms including the impacts of social media on young people?s 
mental health, online bullying, exposure to pornography and 
violent content, algorithmic profiling, and online extremism. 
These calls have emerged against the backdrop of a long history 
of media panics about young people and digital media.

Tyne Sumner ? TLDR: The Failure of the Internet Novel


What would happen if we read the internet like a novel? Or, what 
happens when novelists write about the internet? The rise of the 
so-called ?internet novel? genre suggests that there is 
something worth pausing at in the relation between the novel and 
contemporary online culture?its immediacy, its banality, its 
humour, its loneliness, and its fragmentation. But why would 
someone want to read about the dystopian hellscape that many of 
us now actively try to get away from? Is it possible to find 
leisure in the very thing that produces so much anxiety? Perhaps 
the proliferation of the internet novel can be explained by the 
innately masochistic drive in human nature. As Sylvia Plath, for 
instance, wrote: ?I desire the things which will destroy me in 
the end.? This paper begins by asking why several recent 
internet novels are so terrible. It ends with an attempt to be 
reasonable, and possibly even optimistic.

Mathieu O?Neil ? Countering Platform Blues: Strategies against 
Disinformation, Toxicity and Polarisation

When people can no longer tell truth from fiction, we are in an 
epistemic crisis. For Haidder and Sundin this primarily stems 
from algorithmic curation by online platforms: information is 
increasingly volatile (the origins or status of fast-changing 
newsfeed content is uncertain), fragmented (complex knowledge is 
re-arranged in continuously shifting shapes), and personalised 
(access is individualised). Aggravating factors are hostile 
influence campaigns seeking to worsen social divisions. The 
crisis increases distrust towards the institutions of liberal 
democracy such as the news media, science, and representative 
politics. Alternative sources are on the rise. Health 
influencers have huge audiences; toxic masculinists are idolised 
by boys and young men. How can democratic education systems 
counter platform blues? In this talk will I outline three 
strategic avenues: against disinformation: instilling effective 
information processing and curating skills; against toxicity: 
reclaiming ma
 rtial arts; against polarisation: fostering collaborative 
 values.

Afternoon break (15 mins)

I got the Right to Sing the Blues
Session 4: 4:45 ? 6:30pm
Moderator: Denise Thwaites

Melinda Rackam ? The Tawdry Nostalgia for Past Forms


I didn?t care about the legacy of -empyre- global media arts 
list founded in 2002 as part of my PhD in Virtual Worlds. Then, 
after 22 years of robust dialogues between many hundreds of 
guests and thousands of members, books, in-person meet ups and 
exhibitions including Documenta 12, it went silent. A 
cybersecurity sweep of the servers at UNSW Art & Design had 
disappeared it and they weren?t talking (to me). My simultaneous 
umbrage and tawdry nostalgia for the lost -empyre- has generated 
an internal debate on list death as an urgent loss to research 
culture necessitating reconstruction, or a prompt to forget it 
and move on?

Litia Roko ? Performance


Questioning examples of institutional trolling as 
community-building praxis or fleeting antidote in the face of a 
culture of 24/7 networked dejection, this lecture-performance 
will pick at the ways that museums relate to platforms. In an 
all-consuming landscape of doom-scrolling, fragmentation, and 
the general misery of the bind in which we find ourselves, why 
do institutions continue to approach platforms and the internet 
as a tool rather than a culture, and how can we intervene?

Geert Lovink ? From Sad by Design to Platform Brutalism


Brutalism is the title of Achille Mbembe?s 2020 book. Known as 
the 1950s rough-concrete architecture style, Mbembe presents the 
concept as a ?thought image? that can be seen as a not-so 
elegant synonym for the economic laws associated with the term 
capitalism in which the emphasis shifts from profit to 
violence. Mbembe explains: ?Brutalism is the name given to this 
gigantic process of eviction and evacuation as well as to the 
draining of vessels and emptying of organic substances.? This 
results in naturalizing social war, a development many see 
unfolding since Covid and the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. In this 
lecture I will map my own trajectory, from Zoom fatique and the 
use of memes as copium to the weaponization of social media 
today. Once we?re stuck on the platform long enough, will the 
mood inevitably turn violent?

?

Speaker biographies:


Ella Barclay is a Senior Lecturer at ANU?s School of Art and 
Design on unceded Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country, Australia. Her 
written, curatorial, and contemporary art practices engage with 
network aesthetics and the politics of technological 
development. Recent exhibitions include Unkempt Cognition, 
Canberra Contemporary Art Space (2024); Openhaus, ZK/U, Berlin 
(2024); No Easy Answers, MAMA, Albury (2023); The Ramsay Art 
Prize, Art Gallery of South Australia (2021); Stacks and 
Sleeves: a PostHuman Landscape, Gallery Lane Cove, Sydney 
(2019); Experimenta Make Sense: International Triennial of Media 
Art (2017-2020); Curious and Curiouser, Bathurst Regional Art 
Gallery (2018-19); Soft Centre, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, 
Western Sydney (2018); Light Geist, Fremantle Art Centre 
(2016-17); Bodies Go Wrong, Orgy Park, NY (2016); That Which 
Cannot Not Be, Vox Populi, Philadelphia (2016); Almost, Instant 
42, Taipei (2016); I Had to Do It, UTS Art, Sydney (2016); and 
Elemental Phenomena, Gr
 iffith University Art Museum, Brisbane (2015). Her work resides 
 in multiple government, institutional, corporate, and private 
 collections and she has received several commissions, 
 residencies, scholarships, and awards.

Nicole Curato is a Fillpina sociologist best known for her 
academic work on deliberative democracy, and her media work 
providing academic commentary on politics in the 
Philippines. She took her bachelor's degree of Sociology at the 
university of the Philippines Diliman and her Master's and 
Doctoral Degrees in Sociology in the UK. Curato is the recipient 
of Discovery Early Career Research Award Fellowship at the 
Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the 
University of Canberra. The award is funded by the Australian 
Research Council.

Sophie Dumaresq is an interdisciplinary artist who brings 
perspectives of absurdity, queerness and humour to creative, 
critical robotics, automata and mechanics. Working across 
photography, video installation, sculpture and performance, her 
work explores what it is to try and communicate in a universe 
filled with beings whose brains, existence and or bodies are 
built inherently differently to that of your own. Her artistic 
practice explores what it means to share joy, love and laughter 
in our relationships with both other humans and non-humans.

Caroline Fisher is an Associate Professor of Communication, and 
core member of the News and Media Research Centre at in the 
Faculty of Arts and Design. Caroline is a co-author of the 
annual Digital News Report: Australia and CI on two ARC 
Discovery Projects: ?The rise of mistrust: Digital platforms and 
trust in news media?; ?Valuing News: Aligning Individual, 
Institutional and Social Perspectives?. Prior to academia 
Caroline worked in journalism and politics.

Ashley van den Heuvel teaches in the Heritage and Indigenous 
Studies program at the University of Canberra. She is completing 
a PhD at UC called 'Flight across Country' under an ARC Linkage 
project called Heritage of the Air. Her research interests link 
visual culture, technology, connections to Country and 
storying. Her research interests link visual culture, 
technology, connections to Country and storying. These interests 
are linked to her cross-cultural experiences as a Walbanja woman 
from the South Coast of NSW.

Geert Lovink is a Dutch media theorist, internet critic and 
activist. His recent books: Organization after Social Media 
(with Ned Rossiter, 2018), Sad by Design (2019), Stuck on the 
Platform (2022) and Extinction Internet (2022). He studied 
political science at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and 
received his PhD from the University of Melbourne. In 2003 he 
was postdoc at the University of Queensland. In 2004 he founded 
the Institute of Network Cultures  at the Amsterdam University 
of Applied Sciences (HvA). In 2022 he was appointed Professor of 
Art and Network Cultures at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), 
art history department.

David Nolan is Associate Professor in the News and Media 
Research Centre at the University of Canberra.  His work focuses 
on journalism studies and contemporary mediated politics, 
particularly in relation to the politics of race, ethnicity and 
belonging. He has led major research projects and produced a 
wide range of international research outputs related to these 
themes, and in 2021-2022 was President of the Australia and 
Aotearoa New Zealand Communication Association (AANZCA).

Mathieu O?Neil is Professor of Communication in the University 
of Canberra?s Faculty of Arts and Design and Honorary Associate 
Professor of Sociology at the Australian National 
University. His research interests lie at the intersection of 
political communication and sociology. Mathieu co-founded the 
Australian National University?s Virtual Observatory for the 
Study of Online networks.

Catherine Page Jefferey is a lecturer and researcher in the 
Discipline of Media and Communication at the University of 
Sydney. Catherine?s current research addresses digital media and 
families, with a particular focus on parenting in the digital 
age. She is currently a Chief Investigator on an ARC funded 
Discovery Project exploring digital sexual literacy amongst 
Australian adults.

Phoebe Quinn is a Research Fellow and PhD candidate at the 
University of Melbourne, and associate of the Centre for 
Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University 
of Canberra. Her work focuses on community wellbeing in the 
context of climate change and disasters. Through her doctoral 
research, she is exploring the role of innovations in digital 
democracy in addressing these challenges, conducting action 
research using the platform Polis.

Melinda Rackham is adjunct research professor at  UniSA Creative 
in Adelaide. She woves tales of intimacy and identity in 
networked and virtual worlds when the net was young. Founder of 
-empyre-, an online platform for other voices in media arts, 
their practice expanded to curate, direct, mentor and 
produce. Melinda?s latest book CoUNTess: Spoiling Illusions 
since 2008, co-authored with Elvis Richardson, probes the 
persistence of gender asymmetry in Australia?s artworld.

Litia Roko is an artist interested in the politics of art, the 
politics of technology, and the politics of art + 
technology. She lives and works on unceded Ngunnawal land.

Erin K Stapleton is a Lecturer in Communication and Media at the 
University of Canberra. They research in the intersections 
between gender, colonialism and queer theory, digital and media 
cultures, critical theory, and continental philosophy. Their 
book The Intoxication of Destruction in Theory, Culture and 
Media: A Philosophy of Expenditure After Georges Bataille was 
published by Amsterdam University Press in 2022.

Tyne Sumner is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow in 
English & Digital Humanities at the Australian National 
University. Her primary research areas are C20th and C21st 
literature, surveillance studies, and digital humanities. She 
also has expertise in poetry and poetics, critical 
infrastructure studies, and digital culture. Her current project 
is SurveiLit <https://www.surveilit.com/>, which examines the 
representation of new and emerging forms of surveillance in 
contemporary global literature. She has published widely on 
topics ranging from facial recognition technology and 
surveillance software to Australian poetry and cultural 
databases. She is President of the Australasian Association for 
Digital Humanities (aaDH) and is on the international steering 
committee of the Art, AI & Digital Ethics 
<https://www.unimelb.edu.au/caide/research/caide-art,-ai-and-digital-ethics> 
research collective.

Denise Thwaites is a curator, writer and researcher specialising 
in contemporary cultural economies, who is currently Senior 
Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Arts at the University of 
Canberra. Denise was awarded her PhD in Aesthetics through The 
University of New South Wales (Australia) and l?Universit? Paris 
8, Vincennes ? Saint-Denis (France), before joining UNSW iCinema 
Research Centre as a Postdoctoral Fellow. She has worked in the 
contemporary arts sector at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Australia 
Council for the Arts and the Museum of Contemporary Art 
Australia, and has curated independent projects for cultural 
organisations across Australia and internationally. Her research 
harnesses poetic, experimental and collaborative modes of 
working to destabilise political, cultural and economic 
imaginaries.

Temple Uwalaka is a Research Fellow at the Centre for 
Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance and a Research 
Associate at the News and Media Research Center. He also 
lectures at the School of Arts and Communication, Faculty of 
Arts and Design, University of Canberra, Australia. His research 
interests include digital activism, digital journalism, brand 
activism, social marketing campaigns and the use of online and 
mobile media to influence political change.




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