2021-12-13
Monday Readings is a series of convivial situations to research our technological and infrastructural inter-dependencies. They bring our everyday technical encounters in conversation with theoretical and political thinking, by close-reading technologies as if they were texts, and viceversa.
In cultural institutions digital tools are used for communication, archiving, administration and production. These computational infrastructures depend more often than not on the services of tech giants and are put to use without too much space for reflection on how they actually work. If we want to bring technology within reach of interrogation and critique, how to break the spell of those paralysing regimes?
Monday Readings mix reading texts and readings tools: articles written in a wide range of disciplines (media theory, feminist techno-science, political philosophy…) are brought next to practical exercises and experiments coming from different fields (digital arts, hacking, techno-activism…) The aim is to shift our relationship to technology from efficiency to curiosity; from scarcity to multiplicity; from solution to possibility.
Monday Readings were organised by: Martino Morandi, Femke Snelting, Seda Gürses, Sina Seifee, Kym Ward, Jara Rocha, Anita Burato, Rachel Himmelfarb, Dennis Pohl, Alex Zakkas.
Monday Readings has been supported with a project subsidy by the Department of Culture, Youth and Media of the Government of Flanders.