Ola Bonati & Lukas Engelhardt (Talk)
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Friday 12 May Audivisual Art Assembly, Oedipus Brewing
Permacomputing is a radical approach to computer and network technology inspired by permaculture that aims to be slightly more sustainable. It is both a concept and a community of practice centered around issues of resilience and regeneration in digital technology. Ola Bonati and Lukas Engelhardt, members of the community, will introduce its principles, background, and urgency at a time when even most non-digital practices are intertwined with extractivist computational infrastructures. Prior to the presentation there will be a guided visualization in which participants will explore their relationships to digital working environments and surfaces
Ola Bonati
Ola is a researcher and storyteller working on topics exploring the implications of various technologies in our culture. In her work, she investigates the consequences of web 3.0 hype, digital monopolies, platform labor, personal digital habits and she also has (research) fun with various meme vernaculars. She has experience in creating critical new media pieces, Digital Transformation, and Interactive Performance Art, a combination of which she uses in her practice. Her latest focus is on digital hoarding, asking: how to crawl our way out of tech dystopia and into more kind practices both; for ourselves and the planet?
Lucas Engelhardt
Lukas Engelhardt (Hamburg, 1991) is a graphic designer and artist in Amsterdam. He creates and explores (supposedly) autonomous spaces, both online and offline, and tries to understand the tactics, terms and conditions necessary to negotiate and maintain them. He builds, breaks and fixes servers for himself and for others and is active in the housing struggle. Together with Justus Gelberg he runs the graphic design studio Correspondence. He holds an MFA from the Design Department at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam.
