>>> 17 June, 2023, 2-6 pm
Symposium: Infrastructures and Solidarities beyond the post-Soviet Condition.

PROGRAMME
2-4 pm Nuclear Temporalities. Conversation between Svitlana Matviyenko and Eglė Rindzevičiūtė.
During their live conversation, scholars Svitlana Matviyenko and Eglė Rindzevičiūtė will delve into the political dimensions of nuclear temporalities, examining the ways in which extractivist and logistical infrastructures shape and intersect with social, cultural, and environmental landscapes. They will explore the broader implications of these infrastructures, considering their impacts on communities, power dynamics, and the formation of solidarity networks. Drawing on the artworks presented in the exhibition, such as Oleksiy Radinsky's film 'Studies for Chernobyl'22' or Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas' installation 'Druzhba', the conversation will focus on the post-Soviet space and the regions that have experienced Soviet nuclear policy in the past, and Russian imperialist war, 'nuclear terror', and the political uprisings that are taking place there today.
The conversation will start with the short statements by Svitlana Matviyenko and Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, and will be followed by the conversation moderated by the curators Aleksei Borisionok and Antonina Stebur.

4:15-6 pm School of Algorithmic Solidarity: How to Steal the Diamond of Knowledge?. Workshop by eeefff. Registration needed: https://shorturl.at/pI167

The school of algorithmic solidarity is a series of collective experiments and situated experiences that seek to answer the questions: when the politics of the street intersects with the politics of digital materiality? What are the effects of algorithmization? Who and where could it feel? What are new forms of commons that can emerge? at what public place the interfaces for social interaction could be discussed? …[add your question]
Eeefff invites to join the next questionnaire - "how to steal the diamond of knowledge?" on the politics of the public space, possibilities to rehearse revolutionary running-images-letters-imaginaries, scenarios of take over media infrastructures.

>>> 18 June, 1 pm
Guided tour in English with curators Aleksei Borisionok and Antonina Stebur. With entrance tickets (1 EUR). Registration needed: https://shorturl.at/pI167

Participants:
Svitlana Matviyenko is Assistant Professor of Critical Media Analysis in the School of Communication of Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. Her research and teaching are focused on information and cyberwar; media and environment; infrastructure studies. She writes about the networking drive, user complicity, and practices of resistance. She is a co-author of Cyberwar and Revolution: Digital Subterfuge in Global Capitalism (Minnesota UP, 2019). Her publications include The Imaginary App (co-edited with Paul D. Miller, MIT Press, 2014) as well as articles in (Re)Turn: A Journal of Lacanian Studies, Harvard Journal of Ukrainian Studies, Fibreculture Journal, Digital Creativity, and other publications.

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė Associate Professor in Criminology and Sociology, the Department of Criminology and Sociology, Kingston University London, UK. Before coming to Kingston, she held academic positions at Sciences Po in Paris, France, and Gothenburg and Linköping universities in Sweden. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge (2019). Dr Rindzevičiūtė is the author of The Power of Systems: How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War World (Cornell University Press, 2016). Her next book in progress is entitled The Will to Predict: Orchestrating the Future. Dr Rindzevičiūtė is the Principal Investigator of two projects funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, "Nuclear Cultural Heritage: From Knowledge to Practice" (2018-2021) and "Nuclear Spaces: Communities, Locations and Materialities of Nuclear Cultural Heritage (NuSPACES)" (2021-2024), funded by a grant from the European Union Joint Programming Initiative for Cultural Heritage.

eeefff is the collective name of Nicolay Spesivtsev and Dzina Zhuk (also known by the alter-ego Bitchcoin), who are based in Minsk and Berlin and have been active since 2013. They are often seen in art exhibitions or lecturing at art colleges, but they do not strictly define themselves as artists. In fact, reading their statement, they might be best understood as a cybernetic political brigade, with the soul of a poet. They create digital works, modify code, erode interfaces and hack other people's websites; but they also affect the "real world" by calling for public actions, performative seminars and even open air picnics.

The event will be held in English and is free of charge.

The project is financed by Lithuanian Culture Council
Partner European Humanities University (EHU)
Sponsors: Goethe-Institut*, EU programme 'Creative Europe', Exterus, Fundermax, Hostinger
*The project is incorporated into a comprehensive package of measures for which the Federal Foreign Office provides funding from the 2022 Supplementary Budget to mitigate the effects of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine.