[NetBehaviour] INVITATION: TinyTech Futures Workshop / Sunlight Liberation Network x Arts Catalyst/ 10-12pm 31 January

[Ruth Catlow]

Dear NBists
I will be going to this event about greener digital arts practices. It will
take place 10-12pm 31 January, and is convened by Dani Admiss of the
Sunlight Liberation Network.

Some of you might like to come along too.
<3
Ruth

 INVITATION: TinyTech Futures Workshop / Sunlight Liberation Network x Arts
Catalyst/ 10-12pm 31 January



I’m writing to invite you to an upcoming online workshop event. The event
is a continuation of our last Sunlight workshop, shares synergies with your
current work around community-needs-led digital practice, and we would very
much like to invite you to be a workshop participant.



‘TinyTech Futures’ will gather artists, educators, engineers and agitators
to explore the shared meanings of tiny tech and how its infrastructures can
playfully nurture participatory and greener digital creative
practices. ‘Tiny tech’ infrastructures are low-tech and self-hosted
technologies that challenge the scale, centralisation and extractivism of
contemporary digital technologies. They can take the shape of a
solar-powered server for a hobby run from your bedroom, participatory data
projects that enable communities to engage with local ecological issues or
speculative explorations of what tiny tech futures could look like. We
think there is much art and cultural workers can learn about setting up
their own micro-scale community-needs-led tech, particularly at this time.
If this is something you are thinking about as well, we would love to hear
from you!



The event will be hosted by independent researcher, data engineer and
artist, Angela YT Chan <https://angelaytchan.net/> (she/her) and critical
AI researcher, educator and community organiser Bóxī Wú
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/boxiwu?originalSubdomain=uk> (they/them).



Participants will come together on Zoom for a single two-hour-long
discussion (with breaks!) on *31 January 2024*. During the two-hour
session, participants will discuss and share tiny tech projects, and define
‘tiny tech’ in a shared glossary.


This group session will be informal and relaxed. It is intended to be like
an online community hall, as opposed to an ‘educative’ space. Rather than
developing collective aims and principles around tiny tech, Chan and Wu
hope to cultivate the beginnings of a tiny tech community and think
speculatively about what a tiny tech practice could look like.



I have attached a brief providing more information about the times,
logistics and activities of the workshop.



We have allocated some funds to reimburse people for their time. If you are
a freelancer or on a low-wage, please just get in touch.



The project is part of Sunlight Liberation Network’s (SLN) second
edition* Tending
Waste, Cultivating Life*, a collaboration with Arts Catalyst. SLN is an art
and climate justice network made up of artists, art workers and their
communities. We support and share peer learning and imaginative action, so
more of us can redirect our energies away from the extractive everyday
toward building better tomorrows. You can find out more about this edition
here
<https://artscatalyst.org/whats-on/sunlight-liberation-network-tending-waste-cultivating-life/>
.



We would be *absolutely* delighted if you could join us. If you would like
to attend, or have a chat with us to know more, please can you send us an
email confirmation before *Friday 20th December*. Thanks in advance!



Warmly and in solidarity,

Dani Admiss, Angela YT Chan, Anna Santamauro, Bóxī Wú
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