Currently Off Sight is an art-based project that investigates the politics and poetics of visibility on sex webcam platforms. Understanding visibility as a form of governance, this project questions the purpose of making things (hyper)visible at the expense of others, while exploring the many ways in which visibility manifests on the platform. Foregrounding webcammers’ voices, the project is formally presented as an audiovisual desktop narrative in which the user must decide the aspects they prefer to unveil—and what they do not want to see.

By Lotte de Jong + Antonia Hernández

Plot Twisters is an online organization passionate about how technology facilitates self-reflection. We are creating a digital game world of activities for emotional literacy, values exploration, and healing. As we grow and create, we have emerged a playful community framework where members co-create rules based around shared values and expectations. For members that come from different backgrounds, this emerges from dialogue about lived experiences. The Plot Twisters Storytelling Cards are a dialogue tool that facilitate reflection and conversation about life, with the aim of bridging shared values to create contracts and accountability processes in personal, one-on-one, and group settings.

By Plot Twisters

Digitalmetropolis is a digital cityscape created to be experienced, optimally, through virtual reality. The digits here have a dual meaning; it refers to the internet realm, the data that composes it, as well as the biological digits upon our very hands that are the actual creating force of our modern societal structures.This Human-Centered Design approach deeply considered the formation of human capital in the context of internet governance, namely, how our economic working potential determines the 'real' value of us as human individuals and how this is quantified through online data.

By Ioanna Thymianidis

Public Audio is an interactive diagram and hypothetical simulation model of the Brazilian public sphere. Inspired by the CyberSyn project developed by the British cybernetician Stafford Beer in 1970, the project hypotheses about the use of variance attenuation and categorical recursivity in collective governance mechanisms. By looking at a simulation of the whole public sphere, media activists and policy makers can devise more accurate strategies to fight misinformation, ownership concentration, and confusion.

By Mateus Guzzo

The project Read the Feminist Manual is a re-appropriation of RTFM (Read the Fucking Manual) and addresses gender discrimination in the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) communities and the lack of support in accommodating marginalized voices. It takes the format of a firefox addon that replaces she and he pronouns with the neutral pronoun they. It is intended for reading tech manuals online. Moreover a zine is compiled with information about the research and images taken during the development of the addon.

By Mara Karagianni

The Situationist International was a movement inspired by surrealism, Dada, and libertarian Marxism. Noticing “revolutionary” discourse attached to the decentralization of financial institutions in the cryptocurrency space, while lacking any truly revolutionary frameworks, we propose a decentralized peer-to-peer Situationist blockchain. Abandoning the spectacle of economic productivity, our “Proof of Non-Work Consensus Protocol” turns devices into an otherwise useless object, or “brick.” Users, liberated from the spectacle of electronic interfaces, pursue other dreams. The CPU power of these devices cannot be turned off until they burn out. They are inaccessible, mining and destroying wealth in an endless parody of economics.

By Sherry Wong + Eryk Sallvaggio

SKY WORLD/CLOUD WORLD, the layer of sky which protects our world, maintains our atmosphere, and which has given us the ability to communicate through invisible signals through satellites, tubes and more importantly through dreams and imagination.

By Amelia Winger-Bearskin

The Rights Market (TRM), www.therightsmarket.com, is a speculative fiction project set in 2035, the era of the Digicene where the digital and physical worlds have become intrinsically enmeshed. In this world, where Late Late Capitalism thrives, TRM offers users a simplified, consumer-driven rights protection experience through their online retail platform where one can buy their digital and other rights. The project aims to offer a provocation designed to critically engage with the (non)universality of human rights in an increasingly digital and capitalist world, wherein it is easier to imagine the end of human rights, than the end of capitalism.

By Barabar

Could Libretaxi ever entirely replace Uber? Should it? Thinking through building big tech alternatives, I’m interested in seeing where our alternatives could fail at scale. By alternatives, I’m looking at data unions, open source software, cooperatives, art projects, collectives, and public infrastructure tech. By building these alternatives to function as something ‘better’, can equity (within these alternatives) scale? What do ethical, data structures, and tech cooperatives need; how would they need to be built;how would they function; and how or where would their ‘ethics’ break as alternatives ‘scale up’ to replace big tech?

By Caroline Sinders

From 2014-2021 (and beyond) a global network of movement leaders in intersectional feminism have set out to define a set of principles for everything from access to governance of the internet, with the aim of influencing its design, development, application, use and imaginations. Fast-forward to now, where globally engaged groups from around the world are building the changes they want to see. This includes experts engaging the engineering and technical community to visualise core internet protocols differently, from routing to security, through illustrations, drawings, charts, images, metaphors and texts, namely at the Internet Research Task Force through the development of a guidelines document for developing internet standards with intersectional feminist considerations

By Mallory Knodel