[NetBehaviour] Reverse Contradictionary Workshop: Language, AI and Creative Resistance (King's College London Monday 29 June 4-6pm)

Wed Jun 10 12:59:38 CEST 2026

brilliant! thanks for the detective work, Helen

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On Wednesday, June 10, 2026, 10:32 am, Helen Varley Jamieson via NetBehaviour <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:

the ghost of rosalind is never far away -https://web.archive.org/web/20140704204519/http://furtherfield.org/get-involved/lexicon/
 On 28.05.26 14:58, Michael Szpakowski via NetBehaviour wrote:

 great! puts me in mind of Furtherfield's participatory 'Rosalind' project from, almost unbelievably, 2004...
 The link seems dead but I'm pasting below an extract of a mail from 2005 which gives a flavour. It's pleasing to see the combination of appreciation &  scepticism ( different of course from the *unrelenting hostility & opposition* which is the proper response to 'AI')  towards all things digital evinced within a ground breaking new media site/organisation even then. How far sighted!  
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  (3) Rosalind. Furtherfield Project.
  - Upstart Media Art lexicon.
  =================================================

  Rosalind.
  http://www.furtherfield.org/rosalind/
  An upstart new media art lexicon. Feed Rosalind with your own words and 
  definitions to express and declare what you are, what you do and the 
  worlds you create, on your own terms. Influence and mutate her, help her 
  to maturity.

  Your words may :

  - describe something very particular to your life/experience/work.
  - be invented in a moment of desperation.
  - arise in conversation with others.
  - already be in circulation.

  Examples:

  mail listlessness - Anxiety and ennui due to overwhelming list mail in 
  inbox as a consequence of phobic sense of missing something which is not 
  there. Added by Patrick Lichty.

  Glass Roots - An unacknowledged discriminatory barrier that prevents 
  those minorities privileged by class or financial resources from 
  accessing the source of distributed power or responsibility, as exists 
  within a local community. Added by ruth catlow.

  telememetics - Study of how memes transmit over networks, what effect 
  the existence and use of networks has on the spread and uptake of 
  memetic infection I invented the word, it is itself a meme. Reference : 
  http://www.telememetics.com  - Added by ivan007.

  netropy - propriety that implies that through time, the Internet is 
  forced to always become more and more chaotic. Added by Clemos.

  catechstrophy - a disastrous technology problem or breakdown, 
  particularly used in the context of live art, performance or 
  installation which involves computers. added by Neil Jenkins.

  parasitic media - "The parasite is the mystical computer glitch. The 
  parasite is the bandwidth thief. The parasite is the invisible usurper. 
  The shift that takes place in the host, if any, is one so gradual the 
  parasite will be able to feed and thrive without detection. The 
  invisibility of the parasite is only through the eyes of its host 
  organism." Reference : http://www.carbondefense.org/writing_7.html - Added by 
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On Thursday, May 28, 2026, 1:16 pm, Paolo Ruffino via NetBehaviour <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:

Dear list members,

Please join us for the Reverse Contradictionary workshop on 29th June, 4-6pm. Together, we will challenge the predatory logic of AI and experiment with word-making as a creative practice of resistance.

The Reverse Contradictionary is a "Dictionary of New Wor(l)ds" created by net.artist Vuk Ćosić, the collective IOCOSE, and academic and artist Vladan Joler. The book presents confrontational neologisms designed to challenge and overturn the predatory, algorithmic logic of statistical language.

We'll start by introducing the project, its approach, and some of its most provocative entries, brought to life through illustrations by Vladan Joler.

In the second half of the session, participants will be divided into small groups and invited to invent new words: neologisms that push back against the computational mediocrity of Large Language Models. Through rapid brainstorming and collective making, your contributions could find their way into a future edition of the book (with full credit given!).

This event brings together academics, artists, postgraduate students, and practitioners from arts and culture institutions for an afternoon of creative exchange, critical debate, and playful resistance. No prior expertise in linguistics, technology, or the arts is required. 

A drinks reception will follow. 

This event is hosted and organised by members of KCL's Centre for Digital Culture Paolo Ruffino (who is also a member of the collective IOCOSE), Joanna Zylinska, and David Young.

Book your (free) ticket here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/kingscollegelondoncentrefordigitalculture/2230477

Date: Monday 29th June, 4-6pm
 Address: King's College London, Bush House Northeast Wing, room BH (NE)1.03

Contact email: contact at iocose.org

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