👀 The Future of Memory Festival is starting in less than a day, don't forget to register through the link in our bio.
There has been confusion with time zones, so here is a corrected and more detailed timetable according to three different time zones. 🕑
The talks will be given by our residents about the project they developed during the residency.
"The Touristic Video Diary of Surveillance"
Image Act @firatyucels@aylinkuryel
"How About Talking to Neighbors"
Viole He @viololahe
"Evasion Score 3: CallHome"
Roslyn Orlando @roslyn__orlando
"ಇರುವು Iruvu (Presence)"
Vishal Kumaraswamy @vishalkswamy
Details of the projects can be found on the festival website https://fomfestival.online/
Additionally, a short video demonstration of a recent project from @aaajiao will be screened on loop.
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This festival is a showcase for the residency co-created with @futureofmemory
There will be ASL Interpretation for the talks.
Excited to announce our collaboration with @china_residencies team, THE FUTURE OF MEMORY RESIDENCY :: 未来记忆 驻留项目! As a collaboration between the @futureofmemory + @china_residencies teams, we are seeking applications from media artists working around the theme of resisting and interrogating algorithmic surveillance & control.
我们兴奋地宣布今年的第一次公开征集活动——"未来记忆"！我们将与@china_residencies 团队合作,征集来自媒体艺术家的申请。此次征集的主题是针对算法监视和控制的反抗以及质疑。
From mid June - mid September, this is a remote residency that will culminate in a public facing online digital arts festival where residents will showcase their work and lead public workshops.
此次驻地项目的时间是六月中旬到九月中旬。这是一次线上的驻地项目，最终会举办一个面向公众的在线数字艺术节。驻留者将在艺术节展示作品，并主持公共研讨会。
We will select 4 residents who will receive:
✨USD $2,000 stipend
✨Optional artist talk, workshop & virtual
open studio
✨Project support from the China Residencies and Future of Memory team
✨Opportunity to showcase work at an online festival
我们最终将挑选出4位驻留者。每位驻留者将获得：
✨2000美金的津贴
✨选择性的艺术家讲座、研讨会和在线开放工作室
✨来自中国艺术交流和未来自由实验室的项目支持
✨在在线数字艺术节上展示作品的机会
The deadline is by midnight in your time zone, on April 20th, 2022.
申请截止日期是2022年4月20日，在你时区的午夜，无论你在那儿。
Apply and tell your friends! 欢迎申請并转告朋友！
Application & FAQ in bio~ 申请表和常见问题都能在我们的bio里找到📲
Send any questions you have to shahong{@}chinaresidencies.com and we'll add it to our FAQ!
如果有问题，请直接发电子邮件给shahong{@}chinaresidencies.com，我们会更新我们的常见问题!
This initiative is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts @neaarts . Thank you! 谢谢
Tonight, The Future of Memory is showing an online installation in the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts @ybca virtual space. The piece is a result of our year-long research about the future of memory in the face of power, algorithmic censorship, and online erasure. The installation showcases a series of invented characters of sensitive words to bypass automated censorship.
The program:
回 : a verb as proxy for place
YBCA virtual space @proxyforplace
Opening Reception: Aug 29, 5 PM – 8 PM
Please RSVP to /
“Together, we’ve built a space that both collapses distance and defies containment. Here, artists map the contexts of existence by examining identity, place(less)ness, diaspora, an eternal return towards a home always on a horizon.”
Exhibition Production by Macro Waves @_macrowaves
https://macrowaves.xyz/
Exhibition Design by Victoire Poumadère @vyktwarh
Organized & Curated By Tiffany Yau @tffnnyy
This work was developed with support from YBCA Fellows Program.
/ybca-fellows
#censorship #erasure #automatedcensorship
Today is the 31st anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests. The protests were forcibly suppressed on June 4th when the government declared martial law and sent the military to occupy central parts of Beijing. This incident remains one of the most sensitive and most widely censored topics in China.
Here is a collection of historical photos of Tiananmen Square protest.
1. A young woman is caught between civilians and Chinese soldiers, who were trying to remove her from an assembly near the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, June 3, 1989. Credit: Jeff Widener/AP Photo
2. Chinese military items, including rifles, helmets, and a hat, are displayed during the pro-democracy demonstration on Tiananmen Square. Jeff Widener/AP Photo
3. This handout photograph shows portraits of people who were killed in the June 4, 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Beijing, at a secret meeting in an undisclosed location in China in 2019. Credit: Tiananmen Mothers/Human Rights in China/AFP/Getty Images
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#tiananmensquare #june4th #8964 #protest #天安门 #六四 #勿忘六四
Today is the 31st anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests. The protests were forcibly suppressed on June 4th when the government declared martial law and sent the military to occupy central parts of Beijing. This incident remains one of the most sensitive and most widely censored topics in China.
Here is a collection of historical photos of Tiananmen Square protest.
1. Students and soldiers in Tiananmen Square in Beijing as protests began on April 22, 1989. Credit: Catherine Henriette
2-3. Chinese protesters rally in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in late May 1989. Credit: Catherine Henriette
4. A group of journalists supports the pro-democracy protest in Tiananmen Square, Beijing May 17, 1989. Credit: Carl Ho/Reuters
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#tiananmensquare #8964 #protest #勿忘六四 #六四
Today is the 31st anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests. The protests were forcibly suppressed on June 4th when the government declared martial law and sent the military to occupy central parts of Beijing. This incident remains one of the most sensitive and most widely censored topics in China.
Here is an old video clip of a young protester riding a bicycle to Tiananmen Square while being interviewed by a BBC reporter:
- "Going to march in Tiananmen Square"
- "Why?"
- "Why? I think this is my duty!"
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In the past, netizens and activists have made their own Chinese charachters to bypass automated censorship.
The phrase “情绪稳定”(emotionally stable) is used by state media to describe people affected by disaster, suggesting that the government has quelled the victims. “Emotional stability” resonates with the government’s emphasis on social stability. When an official report suggests that people affected by the calamity are “emotionally stable,” the government is saying that social stability has prevailed, when in fact it may be quite tenuous. Resentful netizens speak of being emotionally stabilized (被情绪稳定 bèi qíngxù wěndìng). .
Source: “Decoding the Chinese Internet: A Glossary of Political Slang” by China Digital Times
#censorship #netizen #情绪稳定 #hanzi #activism
In the past, netizens and activists have made their own Chinese characters to bypass automated censorship.
The phrase “不明真相”(don’t understand the actual situation) is often used by the government and official media to describe “mass incidents” (群体事件) such as riots and protests. It suggests that those who participate in such incidents do so not because of any real grievances, but because they have been duped by a few schemers with “ulterior motives.” .
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Source: “Decoding the Chinese Internet: A Glossary of Political Slang” by China Digital Times
#censorship #netizen #不明真相 #hanzi
Artist Micol Hebron created this male nipple template to protest Facebook / Instagram’s censorship of female nipples as unacceptable. Through this template, Hebron exposes how Facebook/Instagram not only has centralized control over expression but as platforms reinforce the patriarchal system of gender binaries and essentialist notions of sex and biology.
Source: Artist Micol Hebron @unicornkiller1 .
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#censorship #smashthepatriarchy #feminism #stickers
‘Thunderclap’ is a steganographic zine, that piggybacks on fashion accessories to publicly distribute the erased writings of Chinese anarcho-feminist, He-Yin Zhen (1886-1920). The work the artist made was designed to camouflage into the streets of Beijing by co-opting shanzhai fashion, the Chinese phenomenon that features nonsense English together with a QR code, as a covert system to publish sensitive knowledge that is designed for a Chinese context.
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Artist Amy Suo Wu @sudo_wu .
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#censorship #steganography #feminism #chinese #chinesefeminism
New strategy to bypass algorithmic censorship: translating the message to other language, like Hebrew. Shown in the image is the banned article about Wuhan doctor Ai Fen, who alerted colleagues before the #COVID19 outbreak, in Hebrew.
Source: online.
#censorship #whistleblower #coronavirus #covid2019 #hebrew
New strategy to bypass algorithmic censorship: embedding the text into videos, like Star Wars. Shown in the video is the banned article about Wuhan doctor Ai Fen, who alerted colleagues before the #COVID19 outbreak.
Source: online.
#censorship #whistleblower #coronavirus #covid2019 ##starwars
