Geraldine @geraldine@post.lurk.org

#introduction:

I'm Geraldine. I was invited by Matt @emenel!

I am an artist and I also write and translate critique of technology and I larp as designer for my breadjob.

I work with digital, cold and hot media like glass, ice and screens and I think a lot about the differences between documentation and work.

Lately i think and write a lot about the implications of cultural production in the age of assetization and creepto: https://paletten.net/artiklar/this-is-financial-advice / https://paletten.net/artiklar/the-ghostchain

I make radio with my friends at http://fumeradio.live/ and run a study group about Asset Media called Mediabolics! https://www.skogen.pm/

Here are my linx if you want to follow what I am up to:
https://geraldine.juarez.se/linx/

happy to be here 🙂

Can You Afford to Be an Art Worker?

"If art work is recognized as labour, as I argue in Art Work, it becomes a strategic political tool that can help artists demand and struggle for workers’ rights and fair payment – it doesn’t take away from the excellence of their work. Quite the contrary, artists today are increasingly recognizing that labour discourse is their solution."

https://utorontopress.com/blog/2021/11/01/can-you-afford-to-be-an-art-worker/

Talk about the book Art Work with Katja Praznik and Silvia Federici on Sept 23:

https://buffalo.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvceyhrjssHtGHSw0ykMDqI3cwpnVubFKI

hi all, today at 19pm (NYC time) there is a talk of Silvia Federici with Ray Craib (author of Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age) that might super interesting and relevant.

Not done with the book but so far excellent!

It makes so much sense Federici jumps in this topic given the unprecedented speed and financial aggresivity in which the digital commons are being assetised via the exit communities represented by blockchain culture and "defi".

Commoning, Libertarian Exit, Liberation: a discussion on Adventure Capitalism with Raymond Craib and Silvia Federici.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/16th-annual-nyc-anarchist-bookfair-virtual-workshops-and-talks-tickets-408776650967

Link to stream https://www.youtube.com/c/recnplay

Missing History of Generative Art :)
https://www.qotile.net/genart/

deep emulsion dreaming <3
https://youtu.be/Uf0yOqSRRhc

Intro chapter of 'Resisting AI:An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence' by Dan Mcquillan
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/asset/11273/mc-quillan-introduction.pdf

Paul Slocum, software developer who has been curating, conserving, and selling digital art since 2006 wrote an excellent and extensive survey of the effects and problems in the takeover of networked culture by creepto-capital.

He couldn't find a suitable publication for his critical perspective which speaks volumes about the state of media institutions which made a name and raise funding precisely promoting the opposite values to those of blockchain culture and now are totally integrated and participating in the cultural and economic distortion described by Paul.

Do read and share widely.
https://www.qotile.net/nft/

🏋️‍♂️ ¿Cuánto pesa la nube?💭

Conversación con Joana Moll, Doreen Rios, Eugenio Tisselli y yo mera, acerca del impacto ambiental de las tecnologías de información y los nuevos excesos computacionales requeridos por la cultura blokechain, entre otros temas relevantes a la crisis climática.

🛰️ Stream 24 Mayo, 1pm. Tiempo CDMX

https://culturaunam.mx/elaleph2022/eventos-2022/cuanto-pesa-la-nube/

Contemporary Finance: The Politics of Ownership and Control: This panel will discuss recent trends in the realm of finance, detailing new patterns of ownership and control that have gone relatively unnoticed - but which have important ramifications for the global capitalist economy.

Register and info:
https://cstch.org/new-events/2022/5/9/contemporary-finance-the-politics-of-ownership-and-control

#hotmedia update: got told yesterday the story of a Señora, a mom of someone friend of someone, that mines creeptocoins ......in her kitchen and now her house is super hot (weather crazy hot in méxico rn). Apparently she is not making a lot of coin obvs but got into a lot of debt for the mining hardware.

griftware is really the new tupperware innit

😜

Asia Bazdyrieva on the "resourcification" of Ukraine: "For decades, Western Europeans have cast Eastern Europeans as bodies that perform cheap labor...the category of the inhuman is created at the moment of material transaction."

https://www.e-flux.com/journal/127/465214/no-milk-no-love/

every year this day*... but every year this year is a good too.

Dumb question: delete and re-draft is the only option to edit right? Still don't know how to use mastodon well at all 😌

🍎glad först av maj luditas, camaradas y comadres!🍒

i post this incredible poem every year this year: Odd Puzzle by Wiji Thukul.

#alltforalla #todoparatodes