The New Social – Reflections – 1
The New Social – Reflections – 1
The project is centered on developing hybrid strategies for cultural spaces that prioritize sustainability, accessibility, and technological independence in the management and storage of published materials. Through collaboration with various partner institutes, the project has identified key incentives, including the creation of an ecosystem that unites the online and offline public during events, developing accessible tools in open source, addressing language barriers, adopting a decolonial perspective on copyright issues, and developing products that outlive website decay.
We also discussed the challenges we may face in finding a middle ground and refraining from reinventing the wheel. We identified the three main themes of collaborative process they wanted to focus on, Theory/Research, Hybrid Publications, and Live Casting. While some expressed interest in the theoretical and research aspects of the project, others were interested in both theory and practice.
The infrastructure of the project was deemed crucial, including both the digital and physical architecture of hybrid archiving parallel with Live Casting. We decided to use Signal, Cloud-based servers, and Email as our communal space to track the project, as other apps like Slack, Asana, and Discord tended to take up too much space on their respective hard drives.
We also organized a number of public events related to the theoretical and research phase of the project in the first quarter. These events included:
ON A Lighter Internet
ON A Lighter Internet is an experimental hybrid event, conceived by The Hmm and Framer Framed. The Hmm invited digital anthropologist Payal Arora, artist Radek Przedpełski and cultural curator Faye Kabali-Kagwa to explore how the current internet experience is influenced by bandwidth access. How do we ensure that online film festivals and live-streamed programs become more accessible? And what does that accessibility really look like?
Discomfort
During the Launch of the Errant Journal #3 we the ambiguous feeling of discomfort as a productive space to think from. What if instead of avoiding discomfort, we lean into it, dwell on it, stay with it so as to be able to learn from it? Central to the issue is the presence of discomfort as it accompanies the work of decoloniality, both in positions of marginalisation and of those who perhaps feel their comfort shaken for the first time. The contributions explore discomfort through personal histories, as well as curatorial, architectural & psychoanalytic perspectives.
Symposium: The State of Patronage
(Info available in Dutch only)
De ‘culture of giving’ is in de afgelopen jaren steeds belangrijker geworden voor het financieren van culturele programma’s. Maar wie geeft er eigenlijk aan wie en waarom? En hoe staan private giften in verhouding tot publieke financiering?
De staat van mecenaat is een symposium van Platform BK en Framer Framed over de veranderende rol van mecenaat in het Nederlandse beeldende kunstlandschap in de afgelopen tien jaar. In een lezing en drie panels onderzoeken we welke giftrelaties voorkomen, hoe en voor wie deze wel en niet werken en welke toekomstmogelijkheden ze bieden.
Conclusion
Moving forward, the team is excited to be part of the creative and intellectual process and has discussed the next steps each party will undertake in the next quarter. The project aims to create sustainable design through collaboration and innovation, with a focus on accessibility, technological independence, and decolonization.