The Algorithmic Sabotage Research Group (ASRG) is an ongoing, conspiratorial, aesthetico-political, practice-led research framework focused on the intersection of digital culture and information technology. #
It examines the multifaceted manifestations of artistic activism and its role in exposing, critiquing, disrupting and countering the encroachments of algorithmic systems of power, control, and exploitation, with the objective of strengthening, promoting, and defending human rights values and fundamental freedoms by offering interdisciplinary pathways to empower the public.
Graphic: © Algorithmic Sabotage Research Group | The typeface used is Trickster from Velvetyne Foundry: https://velvetyne.fr/fonts/trickster/Research Questions #
The framework within which the Algorithmic Sabotage Research Group (ASRG) operates is related to the analysis of the critical concept of “Algorithmic Sabotage” as a means of consciously working on artistic-activist and prefigurative techno-political strategies and aesthetics against the necropolitical technologies that reinforce structural injustices, algorithmic authoritarianism and the harmfulness of unrestrained technosolutionism.
The research is guided by the following questions:
How can “Algorithmic Sabotage”, art and activism be combined to challenge and resist the paradigm of an all-controlling and regulating technology?
How does technological disobedience through “Algorithmic Sabotage” contribute to new forms of action, digital tools and content?
Acknowledging that refusal has a technopolitics: what are the wider implications of “Algorithmic Sabotage” as an act of dissent and refusal for politics, society and the arts?
How can “Algorithmic Sabotage” through artistic activism, strengthen self-organised and technologically-based tactics of producing justice and promoting accountability?
Contact #
Email #
Should you have any requests, questions, suggestions or critiques, you are invited to contact the following email address: x7kekmg7@proton.me. We will endeavour to respond to your message as soon as is reasonably possible. Should no reply be received within a week, we kindly request that you resend your message. * It should be noted that emails containing tracking links or tracking pixels may be automatically deleted.
Should you wish to facilitate a prompt response to your request, you are encouraged to encrypt your emails via GPG. Our public key can be obtained here or from a public key server using the following command:
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Social Media #
Please be advised that our presence on Mastodon can be located at the following handle: @asrg@tldr.nettime.org.
* tldr.nettime is an instance for artists, researchers, and activists interested in exploring the intersections of technology, culture, and politics.
Messaging #
We utilise Signal for the purpose of private messaging. Should you wish to send us a message, you are invited to do so via the following email address: x7kekmg7@proton.me. Please include your Signal number or username in the message, and we shall proceed accordingly.
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