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Art of Digital Resistance
ZOOM MEETUP • 26 AUG • 6 PM CEST / 12 PM ET
How do artists disrupt digital systems?
Join artists Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne for a CIFRA online conversation. Discover how artists challenge the invisible systems behind the digital tools we use every day. Together, let’s imagine different ways of living with technology
You don’t need to be an artist to explore the art of digital resistance. Just bring your curiosity about the technologies we use every day
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How humor and absurdity become methods of political critique
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How artists reveal the hidden logic behind everyday technologies
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Why artists intentionally build technologies that refuse to function
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Some of the most provocative artistic practices of digital resistance
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tega brain
speaker
Artist and environmental engineer. She calls her practice “eccentric engineering”—engineering in pursuit of questions rather than efficiency. Her biography notes the atmospheric CO₂ concentration at the time she was born: below 350 ppm
sam lavigne
speaker
Artist and programmer creating “online interventions” that expose the political and economic systems behind digital technologies. Co-founder of the wonderfully named Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon, where deliberately useless technologies become artistic critique
MARTIN HONZIK
moderator
Artist, media art curator, cultural manager, dogholder, catlover, gardener, swimmer. Former Chief Curator of Ars Electronica Festival, Export, and Prix Ars Electronica. Today he is Curator for Artistic Projects at the Department of Culture of Upper Austria and a member of CIFRA’s Artistic Vision Council
Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne build technologies that refuse to cooperate. Through humor, glitches, and artistic interventions they expose the hidden systems of digital power
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Meet the participants
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Believe technology should be questioned — not just optimized
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Are curious how artists use code, software, and the internet as artistic materials
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Feel exhausted by platforms, notifications, AI tools, and the pressure to always be available
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Make, study, or simply think a lot about technology
This meetup is for you if you
After the meetup you’ll receive browser extensions and digital tools discussed during the meetup, a curated selection of artworks and artistic practices on CIFRA exploring digital resistance
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CIFRA is a global platform connecting people with contemporary media art practices. Join our online meetup and rethink your relationship with the technologies
Art of Digital Resistance
ZOOM MEETUP • 26 AUG • 6 PM CEST / 12 PM ET
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