DIS/CONTINUITIES articulates questions about the political and economic constraints on the implementation and access to digital learning environments.
Clara Balaguer (Makati City, Pisces Metal Monkey) is a cultural worker and grey literature circulator. From 2010 to 2018, she articulated cultural programming with rural, peri-urban, and diasporic communities from the Philippines through the OCD, a residency space and social practice platform. In 2013, she co-founded Hardworking Goodlooking, a cottage industry publishing hauz interested in the material vernacular, collectivizing authorship, and the value of the error. Currently, she builds and publishes curriculums at BAK basis voor aktuele kunst as head of Civic Praxis (Community Portal); at Willem de Kooning Academy as a research lecturer in Social Practices; and at Piet Zwart Institute as a midwife for Experimental Publishing. Frequently, she operates under collective or individual aliases that disclose her stewardship in collaborative projects, the latest of which is To Be Determined: a transitional, migratory structure of sleeper cells (Trojan horse networks) that activate–deactivate for leaking access to cultural capital.
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Baruch chose “wouuuo” (it/they) as LARP character (other self).
Dr. Phil. Wouuuo, trained as a filmmaker at Concordia University Montreal, has a doctorate in digital aesthetics from the University of Arts Berlin. From 2005-2008 it was a professor of Media Art at Yonsei University Graduate School for Communication and Arts in Seoul, Korea. They are active member of the Telekommunisten, Arts & Economic Group and laboratoire de déberlinisation artist collectives. Author of “Gratitude for Technology” (ATROPOS 2009), “A Political Economy of the Smallest Things” (ATROPOS 2016), and Digital Materialism (Emerald 2018) currently lecturing in Philosophy of Digital Art at the University of Arts Berlin.
They are curators of the touring exhibition series “Flusser & the Arts” based on the philosophical writings of Vilém Flusser, which has been presented at ZKM, Karlsruhe, AdK Berlin, West den Haag and GAMU Prague and “FEEDBACK: Marshall McLuhan and the Arts” which has been presented at West den Haag and 34th Chaos Communication Congress, Leipzig, and is traveling to Berlin, Paris, and Toronto. They write extensively on digital media, digital archiving, generative and interactive processes, digital media for public space and on social and political aspects of networked media. Currently a lecturer in digital aesthetics at UdK Berlin and Technical University Cottbus and artistic researcher in residence at West Den Haag.
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“Join our Beta team – Explore new digital landscapes – On neural paths never throttled – Kill all bugs- And create new ones………..”
DIS/CONTINUITIES first came together in the year 2035, uncoincidentally the same year that Universal Basic Income (UBI) was implemented, initially without set conditions or rules for the people.
DIS/CONTINUITIES are interested in raising questions around the political and economic constraints in the implementation of and access to digital learning environments. From an economic standpoint, one of DIS/CONTINUITIES key aims was documenting how UBI contributed to artists, makers and creators becoming more “free” in what they do. Results included observing how overall productivity increased as some of the financial pressure was lifted from artists, makers and creators. In turn, creating new focus points for imagination creation, life-long learning, and preparing students and teachers to identify and respond to problems and issues within their communities. Today, in 2045, Dis/Contunities champions these developments as part of a lobbying/pressure group, to ensure accountability is placed on art schools and artistic infrastructure.
From a digital and technological viewpoint, DIS/CONTINUITIES continue to investigate how physical space is becoming increasingly digitised in 2045, with leading questions: how do return from the digital space to the physical space? How do we combine the individual and the collective in the digital space? How do we connect communities and how do we have a common basis for communication? How can we accommodate diverse needs and diverse learners?
DIS/CONTINUITIES often take an unconventional approach with their pressure tactics, co-opting methods and modes of popular culture. Famous examples include pop songwriting and karaoke to disseminate their messages and demands. One of their most well-known examples is that of “LALLA”.
Some of the key focuses of DIS/CONTINUITIES include Organic Present, Critical Dataset, Non-monolithic learning, Non-institutional knowledge, Super-ordinate growth, Access For All, Branching Evolution, Accessibility principles, Dog Robots, Diverging Data and Recreating education for the Individual, just to name a few.
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“We [the Footnotes DIS/CONTINUITIES working group] have added our own material to the original content of the music used in the above audio clip. We give full credit to the original copyright owner of this music and state that we do not own the rights to the music. No infringement is intended in the use of the music.”
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