[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
Tue Jun 23 16:47:57 CEST 2026
it looks great 🙂 i'm sure there are some words in rosalind that would
be worth recycling into it ... if you hate used words, what about
pre-loved ones? 😛
On 22.06.26 18:01, Paolo Ruffino wrote:
>
> Dear all,
> Thank you for sharing the Rosalind project! It looks remarkably
> similar to what we have been trying to achieve with the Reverse
> Contradictionary, though in this particular historical moment we feel
> a very different kind of pressure stemming from the rise of AI and
> LLMs. If anyone is interested, we still have a few spots available for
> our workshop on Monday 29th June:
> https://www.tickettailor.com/events/kingscollegelondoncentrefordigitalculture/2230477
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Paolo - IOCOSE
>
>
> On Sat, 13 Jun 2026 at 14:41, marc.garrett via NetBehaviour
> <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
>
> You're not wrong there. 🤣
>
>
> Wishing you well.
>
> Marc
>
> ==================================
>
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>
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> Eco-Social Change.
> Eds, Marc Garrett, Regine DeBatty and Martin Zeilinger. 2026.
>
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>
> Dr Marc Garrett.
> Furtherfield - https://www.furtherfield.org/
> Furtherfield Legacy - https://diwologue.co.uk/
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> -------- Original Message --------
> On Friday, 06/12/26 at 14:52 Helen Varley Jamieson
> <helen at creative-catalyst.com> wrote:
>
> 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>
>> <mailto: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
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>>>>
>>>> On Thursday, May 28, 2026, 1:16 pm, Paolo Ruffino via
>>>> NetBehaviour <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org>
>>>> <mailto: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,
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>
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