Every Dalit student getting an education in India is reclaiming their right to humanity, questioning those in power, and working towards dismantling these power structures. In this process, it is important to archive our experiences, express our views, and engage in an ongoing conversation on education systems as a tool for liberty.
READReimagining Education: A Vision of Justice and Equity
In the shadow of towering institutions, how do Dalit students navigate a maze of discrimination, carving out a space for themselves amid the pervasive societal gaze?
We want to talk about the world: about ecological rehabilitation, friendship, rage, fear, countercultures, rest, alternatives to the nuclear family, free love, the abolition of gender, the abolition of borders, music, food, the ocean, self-determination,… dreams. Do our dreams hold their anarchic potential after they leave the private and enter our work life? What if dreaming has begun to feel impossible for our generation?
READThe Age of Flying: Youth’s Work and Dreams for the (Art) World They Need
Micol Curatolo reflects on the collaborative work of PUBLICS Youth Advisory Board and their call for a healthier, accessible, and diverse creative industry. Can change begin with us?
How will Flow Festival respond to criticisms about its relationships with its free workforce, security contractors, Helsinki Police and its Zionist holding company? Will it align with or distance itself from the actions and affiliations of its financial backers?
READFlow Festival: A Retrospective
Billion-euro changes in Flow Festival’s ownership signal a strong intent to continue commercializing. The Flow Festival, the locals once cherished, has been hollowed out by business interests and now emits the stench of globalist capital.
Finally, someone was addressing the complicated questions around contemporary ‘Eastern Europeanness’ and what often felt like a misrepresentation, misunderstanding or complete omission of the region and its identity in the ‘Western’ discourse. Through Kajet – a Journal of Eastern European encounters – Laura and Petrică offer a space for speculative reformulation of Eastern European identities, narratives and imaginaries, as an attempt towards what they call ‘a representation without purity’.
READThe Futures That Never Came Into Being: An Interview with Kajet Journal Editors
Martina Šerešová in conversation with Kajet journal editors Petrică Mogoș and Laura Naum on re-contextualising the region of Eastern Europe and the generative potential of time, complexity and utopian thinking.
When experienced as an uninterrupted single-channel projection, they collectively transformed into a poetry book bound within a single cover. This collection of poetic videos invites the viewer to explore the delicate interplay between emotion and intellect, where the vastness of the sea becomes a metaphor for unspoken, uncontrollable desires—touching on themes of solitude, longing, and the deep connection between women and the sea. Observing these elements, I became eager to learn about the background and thought processes behind this work to better understand the emotional and conceptual depth of Nastja’s creative process.
READOn Personal and Imaginative Narratives Set at Sea: An Interview with Nastja Säde Rönkkö
Eveliina Tuulonen interviews Nastja Säde Rönkkö, an artist working with video, performance, installation, and text, on the sea’s mythic resonance, and about the processes and fascinations behind a project.
Technological systems are never purely automatic or devoid of humanity. Computer vision, like all types of AI, is a combination of human and machine agency that results in tools and worldviews that do not simply appear as if by magic. Despite efforts by big tech companies, including Amazon, the creator of AMT, to promote the false notion that AI is fully autonomous, these and many other crowdworkers demonstrate that the reality is far more complex.
READFrom Human Hands to Machine Eyes: Retraining Computer Vision to “See”
Artistic researcher Bruno Moreschi has studied and collaborated with MTurkers in search of ways to rethink how we train computers to “see”. Despite their essential role in AI computer vision, these crowdworkers remain largely invisible and underpaid. His research aims to highlight their contributions and advocate for a more human-centered approach to machine training.
