BioArt meetup: permacomputing

This BioArt session we hope to make it little but more tangible what permacomputing is about. Without strictly defining it.

We will invited three people to address the topic from three different angles:

Aymeric Mansoux is professor at the Willem De Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. His research involves amongst others art, design, ecology and post-growth economics. Aymeric will give an introduction into ”permacomputing in the arts”. In this presentation he will first discuss the complicated relationship between art and technology, then move on to the limits of thinking in terms of alternatives, and finally introduce permacomputing, a nascent community of practice that is trying to collectively problematise all this mess.

Arnaud Loonstra is a researcher and developer at HKU. Last year he started to teach on permacomputing for the School of Media. He will talk on “permacomputing in pratice”. This to raise some questions and awareness on the impact of how we use technology now and on what it would mean to implement the permacomputing philosophy. He will focus on our HKU practice.

Loes Bogers is a design researcher and educator. Her work covers a wide range of topics from textiles to food and from instrument making to worldbuilding. All of her work addresses critical making, hacking and DIY ethics. She will lead a workshop on "permacomputing in the academy". The workshop will focus on radically rethinking and practicing an alternative computational culture that is less harmful and extractive, from an ecological but also social point of view.

Join the Permacomputing meetup!