24/5 Counter-Politics of Computation @ Xenofuturism conference London

Xeno Futurism and Gossamer Fog invite you to In/Human Infrastructures: a three-day critical technologies symposium, exhibition, and screening programme hosted at Alt_R in Deptford, London. Unfolding across the bank holiday weekend (22-24 May), the symposium will feature a free exhibition and film screenings during the day, followed by a programme of lectures, performances, and workshops each evening.

​Moving beyond academic posturing and hype-cycle sloptimism, the symposium aims to establish a communal contact zone where artists, theorists, and technologists can transfer the tactical skills and operational knowledge needed to navigate an era of accelerating technological capture and uncertain autonomy.

​Building from Xeno Futurism’s second issue, Technologies of Domination, the symposium will critically examine the technical architecture of contemporary life: from deconstructing the extractive logistics of platform capitalism and surveillance systems to forging counter-platform systems, demystifying machine learning, and unbiasing artificial intelligence development, whether via climate modelling or by embedding somatic interspecies tendencies into budding superintelligence. Our goal is to develop critical technological literacy through both speculative approaches and practical heuristics, fostering a space for politically actionable knowledge grounded in our shared material–virtual reality.

​Curated by Elliott Higgs