[Battlemesh] Our Networks 2024: Does not (cloud) compute, July 27, Vancouver BC

[Dawn Walker]

Hi! Apologies for cross-posting but wanted to share detail about an 
upcoming event in Vancouver, Canada this summer --

*Our Networks 2024: Does not (cloud) compute*
July 27, 2024
312 Main, Vancouver, BC
Register: https://ournetworks.ca/#register


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What does collaboration and presence look like when a network is 
optional? What connections are possible when we leave our data at the 
door and spend a day on local networks? What new metaphors will help us 
create spaces for meaningful and different relations partially online?

Last year provided an opening up a decade after platforms foreclosed on 
a sense of possibility of an earlier web. Turmoil on social media was 
the backdrop for creative experimentation with protocols and in 
networked spaces. Yet despite these new avenues , the myriad problems of 
being online haven’t been adequately addressed. The internet is dead, 
long live the internet. Before the previous web took shape and before an 
“always-on” and powered present, there were multiple ways to connect 
across boundaries and scales. Data moved by foot or mail across 
sneakernets, computing was time-shared so multiple users could access 
scarce resources, and ad hoc networks emerged from transitory LAN parties.

Drawing on practices of local-first , solar-powered servers , folk 
software , and permacomputing , Our Networks 2024 explores transitional 
technologies and forms of computing that break from always-on 
connectivity. Over the course of the event, we will investigate 
histories, tools, and approaches like these that allow us to reframe 
what computing could mean when the internet, and the cloud, are optional.


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*Format*

We are excited to announce the first presenters who will guide us
through the PAST, PRESENT, and FUTURE during the event:
- Lori Emerson will speak about other networks
(https://othernetworks.net/) that exist outside of what is now called
"the internet"
- Joni Schinkel at Small File Media Festival (https://smallfile.ca),
will workshop approaches to small footprint web art
- Indie Research Brooklyn Zelenka will talk to us about the present 
state of local-first computing
- Michelle Kaczmarek from the Share Reuse Repair Initiative will lead a 
conversation into computing repair culture
- and more to be announced!

In addition, attendees will be able to sign up to give lightening talks, 
lead conversations, or host impromptu jams in available open spaces. 
Read more on our site: https://ournetworks.ca

If Our Networks wasn't enough reason to visit, our friends at DWeb
Vancouver announced LOCALHOST (https://writing.dwebyvr.org/localhost/) a
week of tech, media, & other explorations of how to create things we can
own together that will take place July 20-28 across the city leading up
to Our Networks: https://lu.ma/LOCALHOST_vancouver


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*Register*

Registration is now open for Our Networks 2024: 
https://ournetworks.ca/#register (suggested $60, sliding scale from $30-120)

The event will take place at 312 Main in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Venue info: https://312main.ca/#contact-us
Map: https://osm.org/go/WJQrPYERu?m=&way=295876023


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/If you have any additional questions let us know at orga at ournetworks.ca/