Traditionally archives perform abstractions, suggest connections and compatibilities, and offer a perspective. Although our asked for a critical re-interpretation of archives as historically infected collections with “politically dubious biases, patriarchal, colonial agendas, and represent ideological modes of control,” and discuss their new challenges n the age of AI, no submission touched these themes. The call though posed more questions, some of which were addressed.

During the residency at Institutio Media, Melissa Harrison drew on situated research to create a handbook — risograph printed in a limited run — that outlines key concepts related to (urban) common(s) and commoning.

This training school at MADLab, Cyprus University of Technology, aimed to investigate the transformative intersections between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and art. Specifically, we explored how AI is reshaping artistic creation and raising critical questions about ethics, collaboration, and sustainability in the art world. As we delve into these artworks, we reflect on their broader implications, inviting you to engage with the evolving dialogue between technology and artistic expression.

On 13 April 2024 MADlab organised the dissemination workshop The AI colonialism board game. The aim of the activity was the dissemination of ongoing research on the topic of datasets used in AI from a decolonial and feminist perspective, to local Cyprus-based communities consisting of non-expert audiences. The workshop was public and open to everyone. Adopting Mary Flanagan’s Critical Play methodology (2009), the workshop participants collaboratively explored how ongoing artistic research can be utilised to hijack often Western-centric technological advances, as a form of care for empowerment, agency and representation.

From April 8th to 10th, 2024, the workshop titled “The Invented Institution – Hommage to Franco Rotelli” took place, hosted by Drugo More. Inspired by the innovative legacy of Franco Rotelli, this event explored the intersections of art, culture, and social care, delving into the radical cultural practices that emerged in Trieste during the deinstitutionalization movement. Held in English and open to the public, the workshop offered a opportunity for collective engagement and dialogue around issues of care, wellbeing and creative practices within institutional settings.

During the NonMachines conference, Neural magazine proposed to disseminate the poster with the program to all its subscribers, which are around 500. Among them there are around 200 institutional libraries from all over the world. Moreover most subscribers are professionally involved in critical media arts.

A “critical network of care” acts as a model of how to successfully share knowledge and expertise across different geographical regions and social groups. The group presents the current state in research towards the formulation of a TOOLKIT OF CARE. Employing a game of cards, the group intends to engage with the audience in an open-ended discussion pivoting on critical affairs of care in electronic arts in all social, financial, creative, ethical, ecological, feminist and other contexts.

Dafna Naphtali’s Toolkit-of-care research residency at Platforme Intermedia space organized by APO-33 in Nantes (France) this past June/July. Naphtali, an electronic musician, sound artist and vocalist, researched and created Audio Chandelier: Passeri, a site-specific, generative, continuously changing multichannel sound/video installation built on programs Naphtali develops using Max/MSP/Jitter. Her goal was to research how songbirds are endangered by climate change, and create a meditation on the environmental impact on these bird songs, on how and where they may be heard in the future.

On 21–22 July 2023, the conference Non-Machines: Playground of Perspectives took place within the Faculty of Art and Design at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. The conference aimed to prompt a change of perspectives and to re-explore the relationships between machines and “non-machines.”

The conference invited us to rethink the relations between machines and non-machines, using a change of perspective: from one which sees the relationship between machines and non-machines as competing powers, to a more equitable and non-competing relationship among all entities.

During the month of his research residency in MADlab Stratos Bichakis completed the development and had the premier of his audiovisual performance Scheintür. The performance took place in MADlab space along a diverse line-up of local and international artists, under the theme “Ηλεκτρισμός“ (tr. electricity).

In May 2023, the International Symposium for Electronic Arts (ISEA) played host to an engaging roundtable discussion that brought together researchers, academics, and creative practitioners from across Europe and the world. The event served as a platform for experts in the field to exchange knowledge and foster cross-border collaboration on the intriguing theme of “critical community care and creative technologies.” This roundtable, titled “Analysis, Theory & Politics of Care in Electronic Arts,” offered valuable insights into the convergence of care and electronic arts.

In April 2023, Dimitris Savva embarked on a Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) as part of his Toolkit of Care residency at APO33 in Nantes. During this residency, he set out to accomplish various creative goals, share knowledge and experience with local community of artists and academics, as well as and members of the public.

One of Dimitris’s primary objectives was to craft a live-electronics performance that intertwined the soothing sounds of water with underwater sea recordings. His initial plan was to transform this performance into an electroacoustic music composition. However, as the creative process unfolded, Dimitris decided to take a different direction. He chose to centre the performance entirely around the live-produced water sounds, ultimately shaping it into a captivating sound art exhibition.

The Analysis, Theory & Politics Of Care working group is a collective of researchers, artists, educators, and activists who collaborate to explore the transformation of care practices. We examine the intersection of vital material and social infrastructures of care, solidarity and social reproduction, applying rigorous analysis and creative experimentation to enact shifts in the ways we think, feel and act. Our collective focuses on asking the questions: how can we re-imagine the politics of care in our current contexts? How is care experienced, practiced and enacted in conditions of oppression, when does it take on the registers of resistance and refusal? How can we move towards an ethical landscape of care and connection across human and non-human life? How do we build and sustain practices of communal care? Our work includes conversations, workshops, public talks, and other forms of creative self-organisation. We hope to contribute to ongoing efforts to build more equitable, just and sustainable ways of living together.

The existing crisis of the welfare system has resulted in many people being deliberately excluded making it a serious social and political problem. An alternative movement has seen people turn to more common ways of organising care themselves such as the solidarity movement of community clinics and pharmacies in Greece. Unfortunately these commoning practises are to a large extent, marginalised or criminalised by governments.

With speakers from theory, philosophy, new media arts, theatre, and music the Sharing Care Training School investigated projects and processes, using meta-disciplinary methodologies, implemented by cultural workers. Together, we anticipate that these exchanges and resultant discussions will lead to more innovative, accessible and non-monetised alternative tools for real and sustainable implementation into local art and wider communities.

The existing crisis of the welfare system has resulted in many people being deliberately excluded making it a serious social and political problem. An alternative movement has seen people turn to more common ways of organising care themselves such as the solidarity movement of community clinics and pharmacies in Greece.

Unfortunately these commoning practises are to a large extent, marginalised or criminalised by governments.