Extremely Standardised Fun! - Workshop with Mat Hill

'Does Cloud Compute (ever) Precipitate' explores the hidden infrastructures that shape our lives, bringing materiality to the ethereal. It explores our relationship with the monoliths that are waking up, the environmental strain, the invisible human labour, and the worries of pooled resources in an unreturning atmosphere. Working across installations, sound works, generative systems and computational artwork, the exhibition examines the quiet romance in technological convenience.The Cloud, an unseen network of servers, energy and labour - is made tangible, visible and audible. The works confront the vast systems that silently maintain our lives, datacenters that feed on our energy and attention and the dependent relationship we have, the systems behind each upload, generation and stream.Running alongside the two-week show is a series of talks, workshops, discussions, film screenings and performances where visitors are invited to look deeper into the unsung systems shaping our lives, and reflect on the strange romance and hidden dependencies that define our connection to the cloud.

Phreaking Collective

Let's learn what file formats really are, where they came from, and why they make us suffer.

ANNEX By The Koppel Project

Does Cloud Compute (ever) Precipitate Events

A series of talks, workshops, discussions, film screenings and performances for our collective show 'Does Cloud Compute (ever) precipitate'.

Why are file formats? Are they real? what???Let's learn what file formats really are, where they came from, and why they make us suffer.We will start with an intro to Permacomputing, and how speculative art projects could saveengineering!Then, we will learn just enough computer science to be dangerous.With these new skills, we can explore the surprisingly philosophical worlds of bytebeats,generative image-making, and Unicode-art.By the end, you will wonder why you ever relied on software to do things for you, and uninstall chatGPT forever!!!This workshop requires no prior coding experience or awareness of one's latent creativeabilities.Bring a laptop, and we will install python together. Anything runs python, you'll be fine &lt;3 Mat is a creative coder who loves learning things. The less useful the better.

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