The exhibition Afro-Tech and the Future of Re-Invention puts Afrofuturism in dialogue with alternative technological solutions and imaginations.
34th Chaos Communication Congress
Afro Tech: Afrofuturism, Telling Tales of Speculative Futures
presented by Inke Arns
Humans as Software Extensions
presented by Sebastian Schmieg
What is this condition? I would summarize it as people extending computational systems by offering their bodies, their senses, and their cognition. And specifically, bodies and minds that can be easily plugged in and later easily be discarded. So bodies and minds algorithmically managed and under the permanent pressure of constant availability, efficiency, and perpetual self-optimization.