The main goal of the seminar is to transform gaming practice, which is casually believed to be a nonimportant recreational activity, into a training ground for the production of knowledge and social and cultural studies.
This event is part of the public program of the World Gone By computer class.
Garage Digital stopped working on this project.
Performance Hydrogen City is the new site-specific performance by Digital Object Alliance invites visitors to experience the materiality of a speculative world of the future through the possible embodiment of videogame logics. The performance took place at Hyundai Motorstudio Moscow as part of the joint program by Garage Digital and the online platform Rhizome for the international exhibition World on a Wire.
Digital Workers’ Conference is a joint project by Garage Digital first season participants Anna Engelhardt, Sara Culmann, and eeefff group (Dina Zhuk, Nikolay Spesivtsev). The conference builds on and broadens the approach of each of the artists and covers topics beyond digital art, including questions of research into digital labor.
Anna Engelhardt, Sara Culmann, and eeefff describe the conference as follows:
“How is everyday work organized for people whose labor is managed by algorithms and distributed online: bloggers, artists, 3D designers, outsourcers, and couriers? As part of launching our projects for Garage Digital we, as digital artists, want to contextualize the results of our work and approach them as part of the broader phenomenon of digital production. The aim of the conference is to analyze possible ways of organizing digital labour and give a voice to the producers of the content we see on our screens.
We will try to reveal the laws behind glitchy platforms and algorithms. Which system is behind the wrong delivery time, social media posts that don’t show up in your feed, and the identical 3D-people that pack your purchases on the screens of self-service checkouts. Do glitches reflect class divisions and how does that affect the work of the influencers’ and couriers’ unions? Can we build interplatform solidarity networks, where ‘inter’ would remind us of ‘intersectionality’?”
Program
March 19, Friday
18:00–20:00
Bloggers Barashek, Nika Vodvud, Lölja Nordic, and Alilouist exchange opinions on working with viral content, shadow banning (hiding posts based on platform algorithms), and political censorship. Moderator: Anna Engelhardt.
March 20, Saturday
18:00–20:00
Moscow Taxi Drivers Union, antijob.net, and Anya Isidis will discuss common production interests of the outsourcing platforms of Yandex, Delivery Club, etc., as well as the strategies for improving working conditions when your boss is an algorithm. Moderators: eeefff.
March 21, Sunday
18:00–20:00
Motion capture specialist Alena Danilova (ninjaneer at Mocap Expert), software architect danilaplee and artist and Unity/XR teacher Ellina Gennadievna will talk about the nature and production of digital content in the computer-generated image (CGI) industry and web development. Moderator: Sara Culmann.
HOW TO TAKE PART
The conference will be broadcast on YouTube, with commentary by technology researcher Liliya Zemnukhova.
