Ancient light

No School Nevers Symposium, Nevers, France, 2022.

An intensive curriculum, mixing theory and practice, research and making, led by an international panel of artists, designers, critical makers and theorists.

Participants engage in workshops and conferences, led by artists, academics, critical makers, hackers, designers from all over the world. Topics covered:

Gender construction, The body in our digital society, Network infrastructures, Technological activism, Sustainability and the environmental impact of technologies, Digital greenwashing, Platform capitalism, Cyberwitches, Planned obsolescence, Consumerism, Disposable society, Ownership and privacy, Gender, Sexuality, Care, Labor in relation to neoliberal capitalism, Hybrid nostalgia machines, Social imperatives for care, Health problems caused by digital technologies, Uncanny Networks, MoneyLab, Disnovation, Techno-positivist ideologies, Post-growth, Media piracy, Sound art, Low-tech, Live coding, Hand-made instruments, Open source, Repair, Surveillance histories, Urban wildlife, Infrastructural literacy, The urban commons, Botanic, Photography and materiality, Sysadmin, Digital oppression, Right to privacy and more...