Two days of return to ground, research of electronic legacies, recognition of mineral ancestors, dissolution of black boxes.

The complexity of electronic devices keeps increasing, their size keeps shrinking. Through miniaturization and embedding, they saturate cities and houses, public and private spaces. All electronic things are becoming computer things, increasingly connected to networks. To allow the electrons to flow, a whole bunch of minerals and natural elements is necessary, but that extraction happens away from sight, at mining sites that impact the livelihoods of local forms of life.

This encounter is dedicated to reconstructing a relation both to what is inside the devices and to their earthly origins, joining hands-on experiments to break open sealed electronic components with critiques of colonial extractivism. Finding the minerals that link together these economies, they will be experimented with using sound and noise as methods to probe their properties.

The workshop is full but you are welcome to attend the evening program:

-> Wednesday 5 March from 20:30 to 22:30
“Critical” minerals, critique des mines, a conversion with Audrey Samson, Alexandre Mulongo Finkelstein, Fiona Panziera

-> Thursday 6 March from 20:30 to 22:30
Collective listening session + Organised Atoms performance by Dave Griffith (Then Try This)

If you would like to know more about this event, please send an email to martino@constantvzw.org