An afternoon of creative workshops that examine and reinvent the ways that we relate to digital media, each other and ourselves

NYU Tandon School of Engineering at the Brooklyn Navy Yard

Mc Donough Avenue Building 22, Room 303 (3rd floor) Brooklyn, NY 11205

This afternoon of participatory and creative workshops will engage participants in acts of creative remediation, in which digital platforms are unraveled and reimagined through analog gestures and processes. These two workshops explore the ambiguities of the social media user – in particular, the ways that users’ identities are shaped and exploited through a massive industry of algorithmic manipulation, recommendation and personalization. The goal of these two sessions is to activate and reinvent ways of relating to technology and to each other through experimental and embodied engagements with digital sociality.

Description of workshop activities:

Tracing Affect is a workshop presented by Ganaele Langlois and Craig Fahner that invites participants to trace their affective responses to social media images in a way that radically contradicts the normative affordances of digital platforms. These explorations will involve a series of guided haptic drawing exercises on mylar and paper that will allow participants to create their own non-representational yet embodied affective landscapes. Through this, participants will explore ways of sensing and recording affects and emotions that are not extractivist, but can still be contemplated and shared with others.

Building off the artifacts produced in Tracing Affect, Alexandra Juhasz and Ioana Jucan will guide participants with multiple prompts (poetry, their own images, their own truths) to create short performative exercises that explore the mediated construction of authenticity in digital environments. Through this workshop, participants are empowered to play with social media dynamics that are usually imposed on them, and, through poetics and performance, develop alternative ways of being digitally.

This event will be held in Room #303 in building 22 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The event is free of charge, but RSVP is required by October 13th so that participants can be issued day passes to the Navy Yard to access the event space. Free food will be provided. No prior expertise is required to participate – all who are interested in reimagining social media and digital identity are welcome! Spots are very limited, so please reserve yours ASAP.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/digital-reset-workshop-tickets-728503151537

An afternoon of creative workshops that examine and reinvent the ways that we relate to digital media, each other and ourselves

NYU Tandon School of Engineering at the Brooklyn Navy Yard

Mc Donough Avenue Building 22, Room 303 (3rd floor) Brooklyn, NY 11205

This afternoon of participatory and creative workshops will engage participants in acts of creative remediation, in which digital platforms are unraveled and reimagined through analog gestures and processes. These two workshops explore the ambiguities of the social media user – in particular, the ways that users’ identities are shaped and exploited through a massive industry of algorithmic manipulation, recommendation and personalization. The goal of these two sessions is to activate and reinvent ways of relating to technology and to each other through experimental and embodied engagements with digital sociality.

Description of workshop activities:

Tracing Affect is a workshop presented by Ganaele Langlois and Craig Fahner that invites participants to trace their affective responses to social media images in a way that radically contradicts the normative affordances of digital platforms. These explorations will involve a series of guided haptic drawing exercises on mylar and paper that will allow participants to create their own non-representational yet embodied affective landscapes. Through this, participants will explore ways of sensing and recording affects and emotions that are not extractivist, but can still be contemplated and shared with others.

Building off the artifacts produced in Tracing Affect, Alexandra Juhasz and Ioana Jucan will guide participants with multiple prompts (poetry, their own images, their own truths) to create short performative exercises that explore the mediated construction of authenticity in digital environments. Through this workshop, participants are empowered to play with social media dynamics that are usually imposed on them, and, through poetics and performance, develop alternative ways of being digitally.

This event will be held in Room #303 in building 22 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The event is free of charge, but RSVP is required by October 13th so that participants can be issued day passes to the Navy Yard to access the event space. Free food will be provided. No prior expertise is required to participate – all who are interested in reimagining social media and digital identity are welcome! Spots are very limited, so please reserve yours ASAP.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/digital-reset-workshop-tickets-728503151537