#3: GIRLCOT
August 3, 2024
3:30pm
That’s Hot is a discourse series curated by Dr. Nóra Ó Murchú and Jade Barget. Through three discussions, with two guests each, the series will be examining collective intelligence through the archetype of GIRL. That’s Hot explores how anti-fascism, mathematics and resistance manifest in the GIRL online.
#3: GIRLCOT
On nonhuman refusal and resistance to the gore infrastructures, or gruesome, we navigate.
sound workshop
with Nicole L’Huillier
Through an assemblage of sensors and devices, Nicole L'Huillier will facilitate a listening session at the pool and under the trees. Through sounds, vibrations and resonances, her humming, breathing and listening session will explore more-than)human vibrations and resonant rituals. All ages welcome.
Blessing of the Devices: a ritual and a talk
with Jasmine Erkan
The devices we use every day are a portal to knowledge and spiritual mysteries, they contain tiny angels, devils and magical encounters. Neopagan belief systems have incorporated machines into their witchcraft, responding to the post-modern age by integrating technology into their perception of the sacred. Meanwhile, Protestant churches are offering services for blessing the devices that have gifted them with new tools and resources to practice their faith. We invite you and your devices to the ceremony: 𝕭𝖑𝖊𝖘𝖘𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕯𝖊𝖛𝖎𝖈𝖊𝖘. Bring your electronic temples (phones, laptops, other), and together we will consecrate our devices to serve us in this wired world.
∧,,,∧
( ̳• · • ̳)
/ づ♡
The internet is easy. Take a selfie, upload a meme, gain followers, repost, own everything. But being a goddess in the rising tides of networked polarisation, data monetization, and libertarian platform CEOs can be boring. Algorithmic patterns on repeat continuously reinforce a caustic hegemonic social order. Platforms relentlessly extract emerging behaviours matching half-formed desires with new markets, extending influence through rapid expansion and dispersion. That’s all so low vibration.
But a girl can plot. With the metrics and logics of the digital long established, she must act under close watch, and her tactical subterfuge needs the many and not the few. That’s Hot celebrates the possibility of a counter-swarm of political sedition and intellectual hostility.
So, where’s the counter-swarm, and how can we join? In three discursive events over the summer months, That’s Hot, turns to the figure of the girl, mapping out her potential for simultaneous distraction and counter-operations, seeding deceit under thin, glossy layers of veiled naivety. As a symbolic, consumer, and inhuman category [1], how can the girl operate as a networked, decentralised, and oppositional swarm, manoeuvring through, rather than against, the current digital landscape?
That’s Hot is curated by Jade Barget & Nóra O' Murchú and features Alex Quicho, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Caroline Sinders, Cristina Lu with more to be announced.
[1] Everyone is a Girl Online by Alex Quicho: www.wired.com/story/girls-online-culture
About the Curators
Nóra Ó Murchú (she|her) lives and works in Ireland and Berlin (GER). As a curator and researcher, she explores online culture and the impact of technological developments. Her multidisciplinary practice encompasses narratives and fictions that result in objects, exhibitions and interventions. She is currently a lecturer in Computer Science and Information Systems at the University of Limerick in Ireland and Artistic Director of transmediale in Berlin.
Jade Barget (she|her) is a curator based in Paris (FR) and Berlin (GER). She explores atmospheres after nature, a theme at the heart of her recent multi-chapter and ongoing programme The well tempered, with performances at Espace Niemeyer in Paris and soft power in Berlin, as well as exhibitions at Frac Île-de-France and Fondation Fiminco, both in Romainville (FR). Jade was part of the curatorial team of transmediale, Berlin (GER), for the 2021-22, 2023 and 2024 editions and is currently part of the curatorial team of the 15th Gwangju Biennale (KOR).
Elise Misao Hunchuck (she|her) lives and works. BetweenBerlin (DE) and Milan (IT). She is a spatial researcher, editor, curator, writer, and educator. Her transdisciplinary practice brings together architecture, landscape architecture, ecology, and media studies to research sites in Canada, US, Japan, China, and Ukraine. Currently she is a visiting adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (New York, US) in the M.S. Advanced Architectural Design (AAD) programme. She is an editorial board member for the journal Scapegoat Journal: Architecture / Landscape / Political Economy and since 2021 has been the editor and discourse curator for transmediale in Berlin (DE).
About the participants
Jasmine Erkan (she|her) is a researcher, writer and magical practitioner. Her writing and research focuses on the political, social and cultural impact of technology, particularly in relation to new media. Her texts have appeared in publications such as Numéro Berlin, MacGuffin Magazine, Stillpoint Magazine and The Critical Meme Reader of the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam (NL). When she is not performing magic, she heads the Mystical Tech Research Unit at Trust (DE) and coordinates the project https://exposingtheinvisible.org/, in which journalists, digital and open source intelligence (OSINT) investigators and media actors build networks to jointly develop resources and conduct investigations aimed at uncovering hidden information or corruption.
Nicole L'Huillier (she|her) is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher from Santiago (CHL). Her practice focuses on the exploration of sounds and vibrations as building materials to address issues of agency, identity, collectivity. This takes the form of installations, sound/vibration sculptures, customised (listening and/or sound) apparatuses, performances, experimental compositions, membranous poems and writings. She holds a PhD in Media Arts & Sciences from MIT. Her works have been shown at the 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia (IT), Kunsthalle Bern (CH), Ming Contemporary Art Museum (CHN), among others.
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at Sommerbad Humboldthain
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TROPEZ
at Sommerbad Humboldthain
Wiesenstraße 1, 13357 Berlin
Google Maps
Monday – Sunday
10.00 am – 6.00 pm