NØ SCHOOL NEVERS
2021

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NØ SCHOOL 2021

During 2 weeks NØ SCHOOL NEVERS will offer to its participants, the opportunity to follow a unique and intensive curriculum, mixing theory and practice, research and making, led by an international panel of artists, designers, critical makers and theorists.

NØ COVID

A physical session of NØ SCHOOL NEVERS will take place in 2021. In order to make that happen we will be providing the necessary documents to allow our international guests and students to travel for a work motive.

Nevers is a small town with a population of 32 000 habitants and even the center of the town is quite empty, so it’s safe to be in.

Participants will be able to engage in workshops and conferences, led by artists, academics, critical makers, hackers, designers from all over the world. Workshops will include:

Hack Obsolete Hardware, Design and Solder Circuits for AV Performance, Circuit Bending, Use Raspberry Pi and Unix Scripting, Cooperatively Design Methods, Live coding, Technology Self Defense, and more... Theoretical lectures and discussions will be held around Decolonial Ecology, Retail Poisoning, Media Archaeology, Surveillance Capitalism, Post-Growth Strategies, Feminist Datasets, Glitch Art, Algorithmic Bias, Technologies Of Care, the Life Cycle Assessment of Technology, Algorithm and Oppression, Hacktivism, and more... 

NØ TEACHERS

NØ SCHOOL is led by artists, academics, critical makers, hackers, designers from all over the world

LOUISE ASHCROFT (UK)

Louise Ashcroft works with performance, video, writing and sculpture to chronicle her playfully disruptive fieldwork in public spaces like shopping centres, trade fairs and the street. By directly challenging the socio-economic status quo through absurd interventions and subversive observations she questions the bizarre norms of late capitalism, often by directly confronting corporate and state power structures. Louise has shown at Arebyte Gallery, BQ Berlin, Latitude Festival, Supernormal Festival, Turf Projects’ Fungus Press, Wellcome Collection, The Boring Conference, Salisbury Arts Centre, Museum of London and on BBC radio; residencies include Tate Learning, Camden Arts Centre, and Z.U.T Lisbon. She was a speaker at the 2019 Chaos Computer Club hacker congress in Leipzig.

louiseashcroft.org. 

TED DAVIS (US)

Ted Davis is an American media artist / designer / educator based in Basel, Switzerland, where he teaches interaction design and coordinates the UIC/HGK International Master of Design program within the Visual Communication Institute, The Basel School of Design HGK FHNW. His work and teachings explore the volatility of digital media through glitch and reactivating older ‘new media’ through newer programming means. His open source projects (basil.js, XYscope, P5LIVE) enable designers to program within Adobe InDesign, render vector graphics on vector displays, and collaboratively create live coded visuals. With international exhibits, lectures and workshops, he empowers students to take hold of the computer’s ability to design possibilities beyond that of the hand or mouse.

teddavis.org

TERESA DILLON (IE)

Teresa Dillon is an artist and researcher whose work symbolically and critically examines the techno-civic systems that affect and shape everyday urban life. Over the last 15 years, her research has contributed to policy thinking on open data, and she has written on the role of open source within art and education, repair, surveillance histories, and urban wildlife; sound, noise, and the electromagnetic spectrum, infrastructural literacy, and the urban commons.
Since 2013 she has been hosting urbanknights.org, a program of talks and workshops that provoke and promote practical approaches to urban governance, city living, and civic wellbeing. She is currently Professor of City Futures at the School of Art and Design, UWE Bristol.

polarproduce.org

JEFF DONALDSON (US)

Jeff Donaldson b.1976 is a musician, video and textile artist whose work with adapted video hardware has helped inform generative art practices as applied to graphic design, textile design, video art and fashion. Donaldson studied music composition at Towson University from 1999 - 2001 and has been active in music since the early 1990s. Jeff currently resides in Annapolis, Maryland.

Since 2001 he has situated his work with adapted video game systems (adaptedNES, adaptedSEGA) within Pop, Ready Made, Cut Up, Décollage and Generative/Digital/System Art. Reframing, reimagining and repurposing technology imbued with nostalgia by extrapolating on platform specific imperfections engages with video art through the development of a personal design vocabulary.

glitchaus.com

MALCOM FERDINAND (FR)

Malcom Ferdinand is an environmental engineer from University College London and doctor in political philosophy from Université Paris Diderot. He is now a researcher at the CNRS (IRISSO/University Paris Dauphine). At the crossroad of political philosophy, postcolonial theory and political ecology, his research focuses on the Black Atlantic and particularly the Caribbean. He explores the relations between current ecological crises and the colonial history of modernity. He recently published a book based on his PhD dissertation entitled A Decolonial Ecology: Thinking of Ecology from the Caribbean World.

Une écologie décoloniale

BENJAMIN GAULON (FR)

Since 2003, Benjamin Gaulon, has been an artist, researcher and educator. His research focuses on the limits and failures of information and communication technologies; planned obsolescence, consumerism and disposable society; ownership and privacy; through the exploration of détournement, hacking and recycling.
He is currently Director of NØ, a non profit organisation whose mission is to support and promote emerging art and design research and practices that address the social and environmental impacts of information and communication technologies, in France and beyond. He is the CEO of IoDT, the Internet of Dead Things Institute.
He has been Associate Professor at The New School Parsons Paris.

recyclism.com

ELISA GIARDINA PAPA (IT) 

Elisa Giardina Papa is an Italian artist whose work investigates gender, sexuality, and labor in relation to neoliberal capitalism and the Global South. Her work has been exhibited and screened at MoMA (New York), Whitney Museum [Sunrise/Sunset Commission], Unofficial Internet Pavilion of 54th Venice Biennial, XVI Quadriennale di Roma, rhizome.org [Download Commission], Haus für elektronische Künste (Basel), 319 Scholes (New York), among others. She taught at Brown University, and at the Rhode Island School of Design, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Media and Film studies at University of California Berkeley. Giardina Papa received an MFA from RISD, and a BA from Politecnico of Milan. She lives and works in Berkeley and Sicily.

elisagiardinapapa.org

GIJS GIESKES (NL)

I am a industrial-designer/artist from the Netherlands specializing in the design of electronic devices, for audiovisual use.
When i started to make electronic things i knew almost nothing about how they work, but with simple solutions i managed to make usable instruments anyway. For instance i used a speaker as a relay, where a transistor should have been used. Because of knowing little i used my creativity in a none efficient way, i invented things that already existed. But i feel proud of these inventions, for instance the Relay, the Vactrol and the Phase Locked Loop. Nowadays i know much more about electronics, but i still want to work the same way as when i started.

gieskes.nl

DASHA ILINA (RU)

Dasha Ilina is a Russian digital artist based in Paris, France. Her work explores the relationship we develop with the digital devices we use on a daily basis, specifically in regards to the human body. Ilina’s work centers around the notions of care and technology, DIY practices and low-tech solutions to examine various issues such as phone addiction, tech-related health problems and privacy in the digital age. She is the founder of the Center for Technological Pain, a center that proposes DIY solutions to health problems caused by digital technologies.

dashailina.com

GARNET HERTZ (CA)

Dr. Garnet Hertz is Canada Research Chair in Design and Media Arts and is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Design and Dynamic Media at Emily Carr University. His art and research investigates DIY culture, electronic art and critical design practices. He has shown his work at several notable international venues in fifteen countries including SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica, and DEAF and was awarded the 2008 Oscar Signorini Award in robotic art. He has worked at Art Center College of Design and University of California Irvine. His research is widely cited in academic publications, and popular press on his work has disseminated through 25 countries including The New York Times, Wired, The Washington Post, NPR...

conceptlab.com

AMANDA LEWIS (US)

Amanda Lewis is an artist and designer from Saint Louis, Missouri and currently based in Paris, France. Presently, she works as a freelance web designer and developer. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons Paris, where she developed her thesis project on the investigation of air pollution in natural spaces using open-source sensing technology and sonification techniques. She is also a founding member of the eco-feminist collective Telenatura Lab. In her work, she examines the intersection of environments and digital technologies through research and artistic practices. Her goal is to discover a tangible and accessible way to comment on, augment, or improve our relationship with nature through technology.

amandalewis.fr

NICOLAS MAIGRET (FR)

NICOLAS MAIGRET exposes the internal workings of media, through an exploration of their dysfunctions, limitations or failure thresholds which he develops into immersive, ambiguous and critical artworks. He initiated disnovation.org, a working group which aims to disrupt, pervert, and complexify the accounts on technological innovation. The group develops situations of disturbance, speculation, and debate, challenging the ideology of innovation and stimulating the dissemination of alternative narratives. He teaches at Parsons Paris and develops a research on “Black Boxes” with V2_ Rotterdam and UCL Louvain. With Maria Roszkowska he co-edited The Pirate Book, an anthology on media piracy. His work has been presented in numerous exhibitions and festivals around the world including Transmediale (Berlin), Museum of Art and Design (New York), Chaos Communication Congress (Hamburg)...

disnovation.org

JOANA MOLL (ES)

She is a Barcelona / Berlin based artist and researcher. Her work critically explores the way postcapitalist narratives affect the alphabetization of machines, humans and ecosystems. Her main research topics include Internet materiality, surveillance, social profiling and interfaces. She has lectured, performed and exhibited her work in different museums, art centers, universities, festivals and publications around the world. Furthermore she is the co-founder of the Critical Interface Politics Research Group at HANGAR [Barcelona] and co-founder of The Institute for the Advancement of Popular Automatisms. She is currently a visiting lecturer at Universität Potsdam (DE), Escola Elisava (ES) and Escola Superior d'Art de Vic (ES).

janavirgin.com

NICOLAS NOVA (CH)

Nicolas Nova is an ethnographer, futures researcher, writer and curator. He is both the co-founder of the Near Future Laboratory, a futures research agency based in Europe and California, and an Associate Professor at the Geneva School of Arts and Design (HEAD – Genève). His work lies at the intersection of anthropology, interaction design and digital technologies, with a particular interest in observing and documenting digital practices, as well as creating design fictions. Nicolas has given talks and exhibited his work in venues such SXSW, EPIC, the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference, O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, NEXT, the design week in Milano, and the Institute for the Future.

nicolasnova.net

SERGIO NÚÑEZ MENESES (CL)

Sergio Núñez Meneses (born in 1989) studies music composition at the University of Chile. He attends internships at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) and at the Institute for Creativity, Arts and Technology (ICAT) in the United States with a grant from the UNESCO, and at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris with Luis Naón , with a scholarship from the Graduate School of the University of Chile.

He then studies with Tom Mays and Daniel D'Adamo at the Académie supérieure de musique de Strasbourg/HEAR, where he obtained a Master in electroacoustic composition and performance (2016-2018). He follows the IRCAM Cursus (2018-2019) as part of his first year of Master in mixed composition at the Haute école de musique de Genève.

soundcloud.com

Geert Lovink

GEERT LOVINK (NL)

Geert Lovink is a Dutch media theorist, internet critic and author of Uncanny Networks (2002), Dark Fiber (2002), My First Recession (2003), Zero
Comments (2007), Networks Without a Cause (2012), Social Media Abyss
(2016), Organisation after Social Media (with Ned Rossiter, 2018) and Sad by
Design (2019). In 2004 he founded the Institute of Network Cultures at the
Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. His centre organizes
conferences, publications and research networks such as Video Vortex
(online video), Unlike Us (alternatives in social media), Critical Point of View (Wikipedia), Society of the Query (the culture of search), MoneyLab
(internet-based revenue models in the arts). Recent projects deal with digital
publishing and the future of art criticism.

Institute of Network Cultures

MARIA ROSZKOWSKA (PL)

MARIA ROSZKOWSKA [PL/FR] is an artist, designer and initiator of the DISNOVATION.ORG working group with Nicolas Maigret. Her work investigates relations between humans and modern technology through highlighting alternative forms and practices emerging at the peripheral zones of the mainstream discourses on technological innovation.

From 2010 she conducted research with EnsadLab Paris, where she designed and coordinated Don't Brand My Public Space!, a critical investigation on the issue of cities applying branding strategies. In 2015 she edited The Pirate Book, an anthology on media piracy. She is a recipient of a 2018 Design Trust Grant (Hong Kong) for a research about China's shanzhai culture. In 2019 she contributed to and designed REALTIME: Making Digital China a publication on under-reported stories in Chinese digital transformation. 

disnovation.org

MAMADY DIARRA (FR)

Born in Mauritania, based in Paris, AFALFL aka Mamady Diarra former DJ, musician and live coder.

After studying Social and Human Sciences he decided to focus on his passions Music and Digital Art.

In Paris, he teaches Computer Aided Music and he is a member of Technopol a space dedicated to contemporary electronic music. He is currently working on releasing his second album.

facebook.com/afalfl/
afalfla.bandcamp.com

CAROLINE SINDERS (US)

Caroline Sinders is a machine-learning-design researcher and artist. For the past few years, she has been examining the intersections of natural language processing, artificial intelligence, abuse, online harassment, and politics in digital, conversational spaces. Sinders is the founder of Convocation Design + Research, an agency focusing on the intersections of machine learning, user research, designing for public good, and solving difficult communication problems. As a designer and researcher, she has worked with Amnesty International, Intel, IBM Watson, the Wikimedia Foundation, and others. Currently, she is a fellow with the Harvard Kennedy School exploring trust patterns designed to trick users in social networks, and a senior fellow with the Mozilla Foundation exploring AI, ethics, and society.

carolinesinders.com

TOKTEK (NL)

Tom Verbruggen aka TokTek is a Dutch artist who designs and deconstructs his own electronic instruments, giving his music a unique character and allowing him to improvise live on stage with the help of a joystick - the central piece in his live equipment.
Behind TokTek stands musician and visual artist Tom Verbruggen, who aside from building his own instruments is an improviser: synths, toys and computer become instruments. His eclectic electronic style has been described as illogical hardware bending, where the outcome creates dramatic live compositions, which break down into delicate and tender sound moments.

toktek.org

IOANA VREME MOSER (RO)

Ioana Vreme Moser is a transmedia narrator and sound artist engaged with research activities, electronic poetics, and ludic notations.

She develops her practice around the inconspicuous gestures of everyday existence, altering and transforming mundane objects that she finds in her intimate environments in an attempt to explore the links with their collected memories. She places electronic components and control voltages in different situations of interaction with organic materials, lost and found items and environmental stimuli.

Active mainly in Eastern Europe, she has been closely engaged with the Electroacoustic Music Studio Krakow, Kinema Ikon experimental group and Simultan, Media Art Association, Timisoara. Currently, she is based in the T10 artist collective, Berlin.

ioanavrememoser.com

JON CATES (US)

jonCates teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and the Donau-Universität Krems (Austria). Since 2004, Cates is the first Full-time tenured New Media Faculty hire at SAIC, developing the New Media curriculum at the School. Creating and curating Glitch Art since the late 1990s, Cates founded festivals, open archives, and educational programs for these artistic approaches to Noise and Dirty New Media. Cates’ Glitch Art Games include many collaborations with Jake Elliott (of Cardboard Computer, makers of Kentucky Route Zero) and most recently with Evan Meaney. His current project 鬼鎮 (Ghosttown) is a Glitch Western feature film as well as an experimental game environment. Cates is the curator of the acclaimed Chicago New Media exhibition and catalog that was a featured program of Art Design Chicago and recently traveled to be officially included in the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria.

systemsapproach.net

COOKIE COLLECTIVE (FR)

Gathers digital artists involved in real-time creation. This covers video games, art installations, video mapping, demoscene, live coding, etc. Organizes #cookiedemoparty #livecodingparty #cookiefanzine. Interested in #demoscene #livecoding #shader

cookie.paris

VALÉRIE PERRIN

Since 2007 Valérie Perrin, a philosophy graduate, has been director of the Espace multimédia gantner (Bourogne, FR) and has also helped plan and mount numerous exhibitions and programmes of music and experimental film, including the Festival Impétus (Belfort, FR), C’est dans la Vallée (Sainte- Marie-aux-Mines, FR), Shift (Basel, CH), and WRO art center (Breslau, PL). At the Espace multimédia gantner, she has published several works in partnership with Les presses du réel, including »Le Langage des nouveaux médias« by Lev Manovich (2010), »Peter Vogel. Partitions de réactions« (2009), and »Paul Sharits« (2008) as well as the collection’s catalogue. She has been responsible for many exhibitions, articles and podcasts on digital art practice.

Espace Gantner

NØ SCHEDULE WEEK 1

Please note that the schedule is subject to change

MONDAY 06.28

NØ LAB
10.00 > 12.00

INTRODUCTION 
TECH WON’T SAVE US
BENJAMIN GAULON & DASHA ILINA
+ NØ TEACHERS

NØ LUNCH
12.00 > 14.00

NØ LAB 
A STUDY OF SCARRED LANDSCAPES 
14.00 > 18.00
AMANDA LEWIS

NØ TALK 
19.00 > 21.00

DISNOVATION.S
CAROLINE SINDERS
JOANA MOLL
MARIA ROSZKOWSKA + NICOLAS MAIGRET

NØ DINNER
21.00 

TUESDAY 06.29

NØ CRITICAL MAKING STUDIO
9.00 > 18.00

BENJAMIN GAULON
DASHA ILINA
CAROLINE SINDERS
NICOLAS MAIGRET
MARIA ROSZKOWSKA
TED DAVIS
MINA KIM
TERESA DILLON

NØ LUNCH
13.00 > 14.30

NØ TALK
19.00 > 21.00

NØ LIVE CODING
TED DAVIS

NØ DINNER
21.00 

WEDNESDAY 06.30

NØ LAB 
9.00 > 18.00

NØ LAB
LIVE CODING  WORKSHOP
P5LIVE
TED DAVIS 

NØ LUNCH
13.00 > 14.30

NØ CHILL & DEMO
19.00 > 21.00

NØ LIVE CODING DEMO
PARTICIPANTS 
TED DAVIS
SERGIO NÚÑEZ MENESES 

NØ DINNER
21.00 

THURSDAY 07.01

NØ CRITICAL MAKING STUDIO
9.00 > 18.00

BENJAMIN GAULON
DASHA ILINA
CAROLINE SINDERS
NICOLAS MAIGRET
MARIA ROSZKOWSKA
TED DAVIS
MINA KIM
TERESA DILLON

NØ LUNCH
13.00 > 14.30

NØ TALK
19.00 > 21.00

CENTER FOR TECH PAIN + RECYCLISM
DASHA ILINA
BENJAMIN GAULON

NØ DINNER
21.00 

FRIDAY 07.02

NØ LAB 
9.00 > 18.00

COOPERATIVE DESIGN WORKSHOP
CAROLINE SINDERS

NØ LUNCH
13.00 > 14.30

NØ CHILL & DEMO
19.00 > 21.00

PLAYFUL OBSOLESCENCE / E-WASTE KIT DEMO
MINA KIM 

NØ DINNER
21.00 

NØ SCHEDULE WEEK 2

Please note that the schedule is subject to change

MONDAY 07.05

NØ CRITICAL MAKING STUDIO
9.00 > 18.00

BENJAMIN GAULON
DASHA ILINA
CAROLINE SINDERS
JOANA MOLL
NICOLAS MAIGRET
MARIA ROSZKOWSKA
TED DAVIS
MINA KIM
TERESA DILLON

NØ LUNCH
13.00 > 14.30

NØ TALK
19.00 > 21.00

NØ HARDWARE HACKING
IOANA VREME MOSER

NØ DINNER
21.00 

TUESDAY 07.06

NØ LAB
9.00 > 18.00

SURVEILLANCE-CAPITALISM + POST GROWTH
JOANA MOLL
NICOLAS MAIGRET
MARIA ROSZKOWSKA

NØ LUNCH
13.00 > 14.30

NØ CHILL & DEMO
19.00 > 21.00

OPEN FORUM
TBC

NØ DINNER
21.00 

WEDNESDAY 07.07

NØ LAB 9
9.00 > 18.00

ELECTRONIC COQUETTA 
IOANA VREME MOSER

NØ LUNCH
13.00 > 14.30

NØ CHILL & DEMO
19.00 > 21.00

SCREENING + DISCUSSION
鬼鎮 GHOSTTOWN
JON CATES

NØ DINNER
21.00 

THURSDAY 07.08

NØ CRITICAL MAKING STUDIO
NØ RETURN 
9.00 > 18.00

BENJAMIN GAULON
DASHA ILINA
CAROLINE SINDERS
JOANA MOLL
NICOLAS MAIGRET
MARIA ROSZKOWSKA
TED DAVIS
MINA KIM
TERESA DILLON
JON CATES
IOANA VREME MOSER

NØ LUNCH
13.00 > 14.30

NØ CHILL & WORK
19.00 > 21.00

NØ DINNER
21.00 

FRIDAY 07.09 
NØ RETURN

NØ TALK + NØ ART
14.00 > 20.00

CRITICAL MAKING
RECYCLISM
CENTER FOR TECHNOLOGICAL PAIN
TOM VERBRUGGEN
GIJS GIESKES
TED DAVIS
COOKIE COLLECTIVE
LOUISE ASHCROFT

NØ LIVE
21.00 > 01:00
MORE INFO SOON...

SATURDAY 07.10 
NØ RETURN

NØ TALK
14.00 > 21.00

TECH WON'T SAVE US
JOANA MOLL
CAROLINE SINDERS
MALCOM FERDINAND
ELISA GIARDINA PAPA
TERESA DILLON
GEERT LOVINK
DISNOVATION

NØ COOKIE PARTY
22.00 > 04:00
MORE INFO SOON...

NØ HOUSING

HOUSING REGISTRATION

NØ HOUSING

Located in student housing complex, the city center of Nevers. Next to a supermarket and 15min walk to NØ SCHOOL.

INDIVIDUAL

Individual rooms with bathroom and mini kitchen. NØ SCHOOL will include a set of bed sheets and kitchenware. 

WIFI INCLUDED

Housing availble from June 15th of July 15h for those of you who wish to stay a bit longer in Burgundy (for the same fee).

NØ NETWORK

NØ ASSOCIATION

NØ is a non profit organisation whose mission is to support and promote emerging art and design research and practices that address the social and environmental impacts of information and communication technologies, in France and beyond. NØ supports experimental research and creative practices; explores and proposes new ways of learning rooted in media, art, design, activism and more; and organises public events, from concerts and festivals, to exhibitions and symposia, that are critical to its mission.

nowebsite.org

NØ SCHOOL

Initiated and led by artists and educators Benjamin Gaulon and Dasha Ilina, NØ SCHOOL is an artist run school founded in 2018 in Paris and Nevers.

Designed as a hybrid between learning, residency and research, NØ SCHOOL is aimed at students, artists, designers, makers, hackers and educators who wish to further their skills and engage in critical research and discussions around the social and environmental impacts of information and communication technologies.

noschoolnevers.com

NØ ESPACE GANTNER

Since our first NØ SCHOOL NEVERS in 2019, l'Espace Gantner Multimédia is our partner.

The Espace multimedia Gantner was founded in 1998 by the Municipality of Bourogne. Since 2001, it has come under the aegis of the Territoire de Belfort as the contemporary art and new technology branch of the Departmental Media Lending Library. It has been registered with the French Ministry for Culture as a Contemporary Art Centre since 2012.

Espace Gantner

NØ SPACE

NØ SCHOOL NEVERS is hosted by the former historical Manufacture de Faïence Montagnon, 2 minutes walk from the train station, it will spread over 3 floors (about 600 meter square) mixing social, learning and working spaces.

NØ SCHOOL

NØ SCHOOL NEVERS 2021 is hosted in the city center of Nevers, mixing learning, working and social times.

NØ LIVE

NØ LIVE are sets of audio and visual live performances part of NØ RETURN the closing weekend of NØ SCHOOL 2021. More info soon...

NØ RETURN

During the closing weekend NØ RETURN will feature projects and presentations by participants and nø teachers. More info soon...

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