Hi!
Many things going on in the world, many are happening over here, too, at HER: She Loves Data and Nuovo Abitare.
While the world is falling apart, #COP26 turned out to be a mess and COVID is still bringing havoc in human communities worldwide, we are almost there for #NuovoAbitare: in the next few days we will form the new not-for-profit organization and then the initiatives that we’re planning will start popping up in Italy and abroad.
Check back here and on our websites to keep updated.
But, in the meantime, many things have already happened.
In this issue we’ll talk about:
a new DataMeditation for the environment @ MAXXI Museum in Rome
a keynote speech for Nuovo Abitare at The Future of Living conference at Bozar in Brussels
the first two artworks are being archived in ARNA
some publications about Nuovo Abitare
And, last but not least, some of the things we liked around the web.
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Let’s begin!
DataMeditations @ MAXXI Museum in Rome
DataMeditations is a data-ritual in which communities unite to experience certain themes of their lives through data. The previous DataMeditation we did was about the psychological fragilities brought on by COVID lockdowns.
The new DataMeditation at MAXXI museum in Rome was about Climate Change and people’s relationship with the environment.
Here’s a video of the presentation:
At the beginning of the meditation, couples are formed: each participant is coupled with their Other.
During the DataMeditation, participants generate data autobiographically, as a diary, recording elements about their daily lives. At the time of the daily ritual, these data are transformed into sounds along a timeline of the previous 24h, and experienced in stereo: your data on the left channel, and your Other’s data on the right. This opportunity for naturally emerging comparison brings on the possibility for forms of data-enabled empathy to take place.
At the end of the process the couples may wish to meet (and we did, practically taking up all of the space in the entrance hall at MAXXI museum), and an exhibit is created in the following days.
The Future of Living, in Brussels
EUNIC, the Slovenian Presidency of the European Council, Bozar, Kersnikova and AILab organized the Future of Living, in Brussels, presenting a range of our possible future lives with AI. We gave a keynote talk on the first panel:
this.astro and BodyQuake in ARNA
New artworks are being archived into ARNA, the Archive of the Rituals of Nuovo Abittare.
Earlier this year, it was BodyQuake, at IIC Madrid.
In September it was this.Astro, at Castelnuovo Fotografia. Link.
More archival processes are coming up. As coming up are also the open source platforms that we will release as Nuovo Abitare to create transmedia archives such as ARNA.
Publications
These are some of the publications we’ve been involved with
Things we liked
Minus is a finite social network where you get 100 posts—for life.
Chinese Youth Announce That They’re “Lying Flat” and Resisting the Pressures of Modern Life