Radio Implicancies

Radio Implicancies is about practicing with dependencies. About how to stay with the complex entanglements between the personal, the economical, the political and the computational. About thinking, using and making technology with mutual relations in mind.

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  Donna Haraway Reads “The National Geographic” on Primates, Paper Tiger TV

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  4 waters: deep implicancy (filmstill), Denise Ferreira Da Silva + Arjuna Neuman (2019)

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  Edouard Glissant, One world in relation

But if everything is mixed up with everything else, where do you start? Does it ever end? What does it mean to mean to say “stop” or “cut”? And how could anything change? Radio Implicancies invites you to experiment with practical and theoretical propositions by feminist, non-binary, queer, anti-colonial and other disobedient researchers/practitioners who each in their own way tug at the threads of techno-ecologies.^[1] Their irreverent praxes pay attention to feelings, discomfort and despair. From and with them we learn about things like refusal, diffractions and figurations and what openings these might make for thinking differently with technology, and for imagining technology otherwise.

I borrowed the term “implicancies” from Denise Ferreira Da Silva and Arjuna Neumann. Their film 4 Waters: Deep Implicancy is a poethical exploration of rivers, histories, volcanoes and schools of thought that flow together.^[2] The “Deep implicancies” in the title signals the entangled responsibilities for maintaining colonial hierarchies between what and who is considered to be of value and not. The film argues that to change this, we first all will need to displace the logics that make extraction, disposession, and segregation work. In an e-mail conversation with Neumann, Da Silva explains that she prefers the term “deep implicancies” over “entanglement” because to her, entanglement is still informed by the possibility of separation, of de-tanglement or a return to a moment before the knot was made.^[3] This is the challenge we face: how to deal with deep implications and being implicated without falling into the trap of undoing and restoring; of falling for the promise of fair algorithms, good data and zero carbon technologies.

Radio Implicancies is an occasion to figure out routines for starting with small things, while keeping bigger structures in mind.^[4] We’ll test ways to hold complexity together by releasing often and early.^[5] We’ll experiment with (and think with) ... other computing, alternative orders, queer analytics, affective infrastructures, multiple voices, iterative listening, performative recordings, collaborative annotation, rehearsing improvisation. Let's take a deep breath and ... start from the middle!

How does this work

Radio Implicancies starts on Tuesday April 12 and from that moment on, we will publish a soundfile every week. This edition of Radio Implicancies is actually not a live broadcast but a series of weekly audio-zines. In a way, Issue #18 is launched every week.

To make a collective environment for sound-production and listening together, we will start building a studio in the first week of the project. For hosting and contextualize the audio-zines, we will also need to develop a web-platform that can be extended over time. The soundfiles themselves can be created by any means necessary, i.e. you are invited to experiment with different protocols and editorial approaches: readings, DJ-ing, artificial voices, podcasts, field recordings … they can be live-on-tape (recorded from live sessions on Tuesday or earlier) or produced otherwise.

Every Tuesday morning, we will take time to listen to the soundfile-in-the-making in the studio. Testing out processes for working together is crucial, so we will rotate care-taking roles (coordinating the recording, contributing to the webplatform, preparing materials for publication etc.).

In addition to input by Femke and guests, Manetta, Michael, Joseph and Steve also provide input, feedback and support for your ongoing technical and conceptual work. In the second half of the project, guests will join to propose an exercise, a question, something to read or a discussion. Throughout regular tutorials and group sessions we will build a shared repository of playlists, routines, keywords, references, formats and resources.

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  Ajayeb’s edges, pop up book, Sina Seifee

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  Dancing in the ruins of Big Tack Signal sticker pack, TITiPI

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  Counter Cloud Action Plan, TITiPI for NEoN

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  Queering Damage

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  A pluriverse of local worlds, Marloes de Valk

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  Radio-active Monstrosities, Angeliki Diakrousi

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  The Hidden Life of an Amazon User, Joanna Moll

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  multivocal: "explores representation, identity and aesthetics of synthesized voices"

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  Bug Report: Tuning to trans*feminist Xystem.Crash, Meltionary

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  Who Speaks? Artificial Intelligence, Language, and Democracy

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  We Hope This E-mail Finds You Well, Cristina Cochior, Artemis Gryllaki, Christina Karagianni, Amy Pickles

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  A new browser ceremony, Martino Morandi and Zoumana Meite

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  Project Spectra: vocal-gender training software for trans & gender non-conforming people

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  Bye Bye Binary

Issue #18 Pad Index

Schedule

Implicants, broadcasters and caretakers

Caretakers Page

Guests + contributors

Manetta Berends, Michael Murtaugh, Steve Rushton, Femke Snelting, ...

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References