ooooo.be, Antwerp, BE with Amal Alpha and Lambda, Geneva, CH, Techno-feminists
Dreaming in the Ruins of Big Tech
A karaoke video produced during KARAOkés POlitiques, a workshop led by Amal Alpha, supported by her comrade Lambda during the project "Singing in the debris of big tech" at Constant art space in Brussels, Belgium.
The window of Constant became a public interface and was first used to present the slogan of the International Trans*Feminist Digital Depletion Strike (2023). On the 8th of March, we called for a Counter Cloud Action Day. On this day, together with many others, we tried to withhold from using, feeding, or caring for The Big Tech Cloud. The strike called for a hyper-scaledown of extractive digital services and uttered our ongoing struggle(s) to counter the depletion of community resources brought by Big Tech. It joined the long historical tail of inter.national feminist strikes, because we understand this fight to be about labour, care, anti-racism, queer life and trans★feminist techno-politics.
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ooooo improvised and animated the slogan by continuing the collective brainstorm by a workshop KaraoPo. It is a strategy for diverting our favorite, sometimes problematic songs. It makes us think of songs we can afford to sing at the top of our lungs, at parties, with friends, in the street, at demonstrations. In the workshop, we chose Lithium, from Nirvana, and twisted its lyrics into a techno-feminist détournement written together with Shelbatra Jashari, Alice, Yi Zhang, Imane B.K., Martino Morandi & xm.
https://tube.systerserver.net/w/whKz1u4LZEDJLhrUFFLH7c
The video is hosted on Systerserver, a feminist server project in which we install, maintain and care for our own digital infrastructure. Together, we host a video streaming platform: peertube. It is free, open-source software (FLOSS) which you can host on your own server and federate your content, timelines with other affiliated servers.
During the project we made a video channel called "debris which shows besides from the karaoke video also the video essay of Yufei Gao "Black box cookie monster" and "algo-rhythm" , a hip hop musical against automated propaganda, directed by Manu Luksch Starring: Gunman Xuman, Lady Zee, OMG.
