The Techno-Galactic Software Observatory was a worksession that explored methods and practices around software that allow for forms of critique without distance. It took place from 7 until 12 June 2017 in the World Trade Center Tour in Brussels.

The Techno-Galactic Software worksession has been called ’Observatory’ because we are interested in potential ways to look at software, and in the implications of how it is currently probed and scrutinized as part of its production. Techno-galactic because we wanted to extend the observation to include different scales of computation, of software communities and their political economies.

With: Seda Guerses, Martino Morandi, Femke Snelting, Anita, Mia Melvaer, Hans Lammerant, Peggy Pierrot, Kym Ward, Carlin Bounce, Loup Cellard, Zeljko Blace, Natacha Roussel, Joak, Silvio Lorusso, Michael Murtaugh, Andrea di Serego Alighieri, Christoph Haag, Pieter Heremans, Lonneke van der Velden, Joana Chicau, An Mertens, Freyja van den Boom, Jogi Hofmuller, Manetta Berends, Anne Laforet, Michaela Lakova, Peter Westenberg, Becky Kazansky, Christina Cochior, Ricardo Lafuente, Anna Carvalho, Larisa Blasic, Lidia Pereira, Luis Rodil-Fernandez, Wendy Van Wynsberghe