Join us for the PROTO Masterclasses, as part of the PROTO creative development programme for artists in the North. Taking place in February and March 2025, the PROTO Masterclasses are a series of expert-led online sessions designed to provide UK artists based in the North with a unique opportunity to engage with and learn from a diverse range of international artists, cultural leaders, and creative professionals.

PROTO Masterclass: Hacking New Art City

Sammie Veeler is a Los Angeles-based artist and organiser examining the political nature of technological infrastructure and the embodied connections between people which are foundations of collective action. Through installation, poetry, performance, hardware, and software, Veeler exposes technologically mediated processes of individual and collective becoming. Veeler is also a co-steward of New Art City virtual art space, an online art gallery founded in 2020, which hosts a collection of thousands of artist-created virtual spaces.

Join Sammie for Temporary Archive: an online participatory workshop style session exploring alternative digital archiving strategies for media artists, from technical and theoretical perspectives. How can we steward our data outside of precarious platforms, and give care not just to the files themselves, but to the embodied memories inscribed on them?

Bring a few files from your personal computer based on these prompts: favorite meme of all time, first file in your computer, fondest file, something you will delete after contributing, a gift, your art. Sammie will facilitate a collaborative exercise where every contribution becomes part of a sneakernet archive distributed to every participant after the session.

Event details

Date: Wednesday 12th March 2025

Time: 6:00 - 7:30pm

Cost: FREE

Duration: 1.5 hours

PROTO Masterclass: Temporary Archive