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interference — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 12:09:38 +0000

Finally, the detailed program of the event is online.

Together with it we present a reader collecting the texts submitted by the participants of the event.

Apart from the sessions mentioned - and for everyone who missed the deadline, but still wants to contribute something - there are also the self-organised sessions. During the event a physical board with the timetable of all sessions (programmed or self-organized) will be set up in the garden, refer to that as the up-to-date schedule for the day.

For practical information like how to get to Interference and so on, please check the wiki.

Interference benefit at Joe's Garage

interference — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 10:20:19 +0000

As we are preparing the infrastructure for Interference, we need a fair bit of moneyz up-front. Next to asking you for donations, we thought it would be nice to share dinner with you and are therefore organising a benefit voku/meal at Joe's garage on the 4th of August.

So come by on the 4th at 19:00 and onwards to enjoy some of our nice food, give us some cash, drink some refreshing beers, and have a chat.

To summarise:
Benefit at Joe's Garage
Date: 4th of August 2014
Time: 19:00
URL: http://joesgarage.nl/
Address: Pretoriusstraat 43, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Cost: > €4

See you at Joe's!

Preliminary program

interference — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 14:19:19 +0000

Interference is happy to announce that the preliminary program is online and can be found here. This is program release v0.1alpha, expect several updates in the upcoming weeks.

Apart from the sessions mentioned in the program - and for everyone who missed the deadline, but still wants to contribute something - there are also the self-organised sessions.

You are cordially invited to come interfere with us. If you plan to do so, please register and don't forget to donate.. thanks!

The anti-program

interference — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 12:30:30 +0000

We know, we promised to present an exciting and eclectic program by the end of the month. We lied. The proposals we received are both exciting and eclectic, but the program is still a work in progress, so you will have to bear with us. In the meantime we don't want to withhold from you a handful of sessions we can confirm at this moment:

Tincuta Heinzel and Lasse Scherffig will set up their radio-based sound installation "Signal to Noise", dealing with the concreteness of ideological discourses and imaginary of the "Other". A volatile acoustic space is created in which two concurring voices and ideologies compete by broadcasting on the same frequency.
Johan Söderberg will present us with a reflection on the limitations of instituted, sovereign power by means of a comparison between hackers and psychonauts. Both assert their autonomy vis-à-vis the State through the no-mans-land of the ever-evasive near future. Yet this legal greyzone is concurrently being turned into an incubator for corporate innovation.
Strike Now Collective will show and discuss their tool Universal Automation, an hacktivist intervention against the destruction of the social safety net in the UK referred to as the austerity programme, and the use of digital technologies by the government to enact it. The project challenges the prevailing work ethics and discusses how digital automation is used to immiserate people.
Visy and Viznut from the demogroup Pers' Wastaiset Produktiot will screen some of their work and share their insights - gained through coding on archaic systems - in the chaotic, uncontrollable, and profoundly non-modular areas of the possibility space within computing.
The people from Critisticuffs will host a workshop in which the notion of free software as a critique of capitalism is challenged. The argument that information wants to be free as these "goods" can be copied almost infinitely often begs the question: what is it about material wealth that makes it right, without alternative even, to treat it as private property?

Apart from those, you can expect a wide range of talks, workshops, performances and discussions. It would be impossible to summarize them adequately, but topics will include human-machine interfacing, liquid surveillance, cryptocoins, and many others.

If that has triggered your curiosity and you are planning to attend, please register and keep an eye on this site for further updates.

On the relativity of time and deadlines

interference — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 11:56:46 +0000

It's June 16th, so the deadline for the call for papers is officially over. We would like to thank everyone who sent in their proposal and we are looking forward to present an exciting and eclectic program by the end of the month.
For those who are late, but still wish to interfere with the event, we have good news. Apart from welcoming spontaneous action during the event itself and providing plentiful space for self-organised sessions - updates on that will follow soon - we will anachronistically be accepting proposals until the program is ready. This leaves us with the following propositions:

d: The deadline has passed
p: Proposals are accepted
y: You should mail your proposal to interference [at] puscii.nl

Given ¬p ↔ d, p we may conclude ¬d
Given ¬d, d we may conclude y

Hence, you should mail your proposal to interference [at] puscii.nl. QED.