[NetBehaviour] Reverse Contradictionary Workshop: Language, AI and Creative Resistance (King's College London Monday 29 June 4-6pm)
Helen Varley Jamieson
helen at creative-catalyst.com
Fri Jun 12 15:51:51 CEST 2026
not just a long time, never ending! 😂
On 10.06.26 11:58, marc.garrett wrote:
> Hi Helen,
>
> Thanks for sharing that link.
>
> I'm still going through the ardous process of updating Furtherfield
> web pages, which takes a long time.
>
> Wishing you well.
>
> Marc
>
> ==================================
>
> Feral Class, by Marc Garrett.
> Available at Minor Compositions.
> https://www.minorcompositions.info/
>
> Currently editing '30 years of Furtherfield: Art. Technology and
> Eco-Social Change.
> Eds, Marc Garrett, Regine DeBatty and Martin Zeilinger. 2026.
>
> Frankenstein Reanimated: Creation & Technology in the 21st Century.
> Marc Garrett & Yiannis Colakides, 2022.
> https://torquetorque.net/publications/frankenstein-reanimated/
>
> Dr Marc Garrett.
> Furtherfield - https://www.furtherfield.org/
> Furtherfield Legacy - https://diwologue.co.uk/
> Feral Class - https://marcgarrett.org/
>
> Sent with Proton Mail <https://proton.me/mail/home> secure email.
>
> On Wednesday, 10 June 2026 at 10:32, 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!
>>>
>>> **************++
>>>
>>>
>>> (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
>>> Ryan griffis Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
>>> <https://mail.onelink.me/107872968?pid=nativeplacement&c=Global_Acquisition_YMktg_315_Internal_EmailSignature&af_sub1=Acquisition&af_sub2=Global_YMktg&af_sub3=&af_sub4=100000604&af_sub5=EmailSignature__Static_&af_ios_store_cpp=9d3a686e-218d-4849-8298-b480188dc8ac&af_android_url=https%3A%2F%2Fplay.google.com%2Fstore%2Fapps%2Fdetails%3Fid%3Dcom.yahoo.mobile.client.android.mail%26listing%3Demail_signature>
>>>
>>> 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
>>> 29^th 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
>>> <https://reverse-contradictionary.net/>/ 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
>>> <https://www.krisispublishing.com/prodotto/reverse-contradictionary/>
>>> 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 <https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/cdc> 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 29^th June, 4-6pm*
>>> Address*: King's College London, Bush House Northeast Wing, room
>>> BH (NE)1.03
>>>
>>> *Contact email*: contact at iocose.org
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>>
>>> --
>>> Paolo - IOCOSE <https://iocose.org/works/>
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>>
>> helen varley jamieson
>>
>> helen at creative-catalyst.com
>> http://www.creative-catalyst.com
>> http://www.upstage.org.nz
>> https://mobilise-demobilise.eu
>>
>
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