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Are You a Software Update? interrogates how software systems govern interaction, perception, and decision-making. The programme considers the logics of participation embedded in platforms, applications, and networked environments, asking where the space for collective organisation and intervention still lies.
Welcome to the “Weird AF” trilogy: a three-part series of short films mapping out the emotional, cultural, and existential fallout of life in the post-truth era. Using the voice of a synthetic Adam Curtis, each archival style short traces a stage in humanity’s accommodation to unreality.
The Future Ahead Will Be Weird AF (2023, 10 min) Set in the unreality of an AI-driven post-truth world where reality blurs with deepfakes, resurrected celebrities, and collapsing internet culture, The Future Ahead Will Be Weird AF explores our descent into confusion and adaptation to synthetic identities, warning that in the chaos ahead, nothing will feel real, yet everything will still demand our attention.
The Future Is Going to Be Weird AF (2024, 10 min) While you’re busy making out with nonhuman agents and using ASMR to distract yourself, The Future Is Going to Be Weird AF shows us how emotional advertising is reformulating our deepest feelings, and how this affective, mediated reality is obscuring the higher priority: survival.
The Future Is Now Finally Weird AF (2025, 12 min) Set in a world of AI agents, weaponized LLMs, and hyper-flexible humanoids catering to the whims of tech CEOs as the world burns and ordinary people are trapped in the immediacy of everyday struggle, The Future Is Now Finally Weird AF maps out our descent into thoughtfully engineered distraction. The future isn’t just weird as fuck, it’s already among us.
THE AUTHOR
Silvia Dal Dosso
Silvia Dal Dosso is an artist, writer and researcher in digital technologies and web subcultures. In 2016, she co-founded Clusterduck, an art collective working in the fields of research, design and transmedia. With Clusterduck, she created and curated collective exhibitions and interactive installations, such as #MEMEPROPAGANDA and Meme Manifesto, and publications, such as The Detective Wall Guide (Aksioma, 2021) and Deep Fried Feels (Nero, 2024). She writes about art and technology (and how to survive it) in INC Longform, Domus, Not Nero and sparse magazines.
In this workshop, participants will explore the fluid identity of the Girl Online through the lens of autotheory, using digital tools inspired by girlblogging practices such as journaling, speculative storytelling, fan fiction, browser tab histories, and moodboard archaeology. By reimagining life paths as narratives shaped by mood, energy, and traits—similar to creating a game character in The Sims—you’ll be able to consider how we construct and perform our identities online and irl. Projecting the contradictions embodied by the Girl Online onto personal avatar creation offers the possibility to perform a critique of gender stereotypes in connection to platform capitalism, while acknowledging the Girl Online’s identity as one rooted in late capitalism. Playing with the cultural artifacts of girlblogging allows participants to unearth the entanglements between their digital and meatspace selves and experiment with renarrating their existence through the perspective of the Girl Online.
Takeaways: A deeper understanding of the construction of fluid identities in the context of digital cultures, late stage capitalism, and posthumanism.
Practical tools for storytelling and autotheory to craft new narratives.
Media-specific techniques to engage with and reinterpret online artifacts, like browser tab histories and Tumblr archaeology.
Updated insights into the interweaving between personal identity and digital cultures through the lens of the Girl Online.
Duration: 2h
Materials and knowledge required: No prior knowledge is required—just an open mind and willingness to explore! Participants should bring a laptop or tablet for online exploration and writing. A notebook or journal is recommended for offline sketching of ideas and reflections.
Sophie Publig is a Senior Scientist and internet archaeologist exploring digital ecosystems. Based at the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and affiliated with the Critical Media Lab in Basel, she researches and teaches on memes, critical posthumanism and digital occultism, with a focus on unearthing the symbiotic relationships between technology, culture and the environment. Her 2023 dissertation on the history of internet memes will be published by punctum books in the coming year. In collaboration with Charlotte Reuß, Sophie has been working on the research project @weareallgirlsonline since 2024.
Charlotte Reuß‘s research explores digital cultures, copyright, and the commodification and accessibility of culture. Since 2020, she has been affiliated with the Department of Art History, the Art Education Department, and the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where she is pursuing her doctoral research on access to culture in the context of digitality. Alongside Sophie Publig, she is also a collaborator on the research project @weareallgirlsonline. Charlotte holds degrees in Art History from the University of Vienna and in European Art History and Philosophy from Ruperto Carola University of Heidelberg.
The biblical story of “the Fall” mirrors the lore of Pandora’s Box. In Greek mythology, Pandora, the first woman, was entrusted with a box she was forbidden to open. However, her curiosity compelled her to do so, unleashing all the world’s evils—sorrow, disease, and death—into existence. Only Hope remained inside, offering some comfort to humanity amid the suffering.
A common experience among femme and queer subjects in our society is a cycle of brutal disenchantment of reality and the journey—often involving multiple identity crises—to the reenchantment of life. For these subjects, to acquire knowledge means deconstructing centuries of oppressive systems, only to end up with a dark void. This void, often portrayed as a dark trance, is captured in many memes like those at #girlcore, where knowledge and the act of knowing is usually akin to an act of violence, a loss of innocence.
In their multimedia exhibition EVA (Evil Vibrant Astute) 2.0, Joanna Bacas and Socrates Stamatatos invite you to a playdate. The large-scale installation is both a city–similar to the playsets of our childhood–and something that resembles the inner structure of a machine–like a motherboard. Within this peculiar city, visitors can interact with a network built specifically for the project. Using it, they can exchange theory and media on topics like girlhood, feminism, re-enchantment and technology, to name just a few.
The artists invite visitors to crouch down and play as they did when they were children. Recalling memories of endless games and countless imaginary worlds, they can understand how fantasy and magic played an integral part in their early enchantment with life and the world.
EVA 2.0 is the closing exhibition of tactics&practice #16. Aligning with its themes, it aims at expanding on the idea of action in order to counteract oppressive systems. How can re-enchantment foster environments for collective action? How can fantasy and escapism act as tools for synergy and for visualizing more equitable and bright futures?
THE AUTHORS
Domen Pal / Aksioma
Joanna Bacasis a transdisciplinary artist based in Berlin. She holds a diploma in Fine Arts/Sculpture from Weissensee Academy of Art Berlin. Her practice spans ceramics, jewelry, poetry, and illustration, exploring identity, agency, sensuality, and resistance through a queer feminist lens. Beyond critiquing oppressive systems, her work envisions utopian alternatives and reclaims the body as a site of healing and empowerment. She has exhibited internationally, including at HGW STD, Milan Jewelry Week, Budapest Jewelry Week, and Schwules Museum Berlin, and recently contributed to a symposium at Die Angewandte on digital constructions of girlhood. Her makeup design work has appeared in Vogue, Playboy, Cosmopolitan, and productions at the National Theater of Greece and Berlin Fashion Week.
Socrates Stamatatos is an independent curator and transdisciplinary artist based in Athens. Their curatorial, artistic and theoretical pursuits engage deeply with the queer experience and the philosophy of caring, focusing on the empowerment of marginalized communities through the use of digital technologies for connectivity and community building. They hold a BA in Theory and History of Arts. They have shown their work and contributions of various disciplines independently and in collaboration with a variety of art and cultural institutions, including Institute of Network Cultures, panke.gallery, HGW Std., Onassis ONX/AiR, die Angewandte, and State of Concept. They are also a Culture Moves Europe fellow.
CREDITS
Authors: Joanna Bacas, Socrated Stamatatos Assistant: Eva Orts
Marta Ceccarelli Internet’s Dark Forests: Subcultural Memories and Vernaculars of a Layered Imaginary
Online is not a place we go: it is a place we cannot leave. In an increasingly hegemonic internet ecosystem, where do we find temporary spaces for refuge? The answer to this growing need to escape the Clearnet might be Dark Forests. These sheltered digital spaces structurally and discursively foster community formation, allow for experimentations in self-presentation, and propose alternative imaginaries to the mainstream internet of platforms. Casting long shadows over a handful of fertile corners of the web, Dark Forests make themselves visible only to some. The Dark Forest system seems silent or incomprehensible from afar. But once you’re in, there is nothing but noise.
Marta Ceccarelli is a writer, blogger and independent researcher. blogreform is the Substack where her interests manifest through cultural analysis, experimental autofiction and more.
EN | 10.5 x 16.7 cm | 88 pp | COLOUR | soft cover | 2025 ISBN 978-961-7173-60-4 (Printed)
Published in the frame of the project .expub funded by the European Union.
Views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
Additionally supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the Ministry of Public Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana.
Originally published by the Institute of Network Cultures in April 2024.
