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  EVENTS

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Residency

The Potato Internet Workshop

CultureHub LA
1933 S Broadway
Suite 1128
Los Angeles, CA 90007

March 16, 2024
2–4pm PT
In-Person
Free / Donate

RSVP

The Potato Internet Workshop with Resident Artist Caroline Sinders is designed to explore key issues of creating small-scale networks and intersectional and feminist ways of governance. Our goal is to explore how small scale social networks can be people run and community focused, but also safe. We seek your collaboration and input in generating this grounding framework.

Group discussion will draw on insights from Caroline's collaborative project the Feminist Data Set, a public facing, social justice art practice which uses intersectional feminism as an investigative framework to interrogate machine learning and technology. Caroline’s work as a human rights researcher on online harassment in social networks will provide further grounding.

This workshop will explore:
-what is safety (and safety for who)
-how can networks be community led and managed
-how can governance structures be flexible and shaped by feminist and intersectional thought
-how hacking technology can be used to subvert larger power structures 

This workshop will occur at the CultureHub LA studio, in presence with Caroline’s Potato Internet mesh network installation.

Learn more about the project by visiting it’s low energy, low code website: https://potatoes.network/

CultureHub LA is honored to be the first US-based installation site for The Potato Internet, which has been previously installed at Impkat Festival’s 2023 Festival and Exhibition “Don’t Be Evil” in the Netherlands, the inaugural Beta Festival in 2023 in Ireland, and in the SYSTEMS Exhibition in the Vantaa Art Museum Artsi in Finland in 2023.

This project is supported within the CultureHub Residency program and hosted by M-cult in context of the European Media Art Platform EMAP in 2022.

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Caroline Sinders is a machine-learning-design researcher and artist. For the past few years, she has been examining the intersections of  technology’s impact in society, interface design, artificial intelligence, abuse, 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.

Photo courtesy of the artist