EXTRAFESTIVAL | Corpi digitali, relazioni post umane
Workshop
DIGITAL BODIES, POST-HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS
with the research group Ippolita — duration 180'
Digital platforms are not neutral tools: they are environments designed to shape our choices, our desires, even our affective needs. We delegate to them our memory, our attention, our relationships — often without even noticing. In this landscape, how do we inhabit our digital bodies? How are techno-affective and sexual relationships structured? What does it truly mean to care for one's digital self within an ecosystem built for dependency? The seminar-workshop with the independent and interdisciplinary research group Ippolita offers a journey into digital self-defence understood not as a rejection of technology, but as a hacker pedagogy: learning to recognise the mechanisms that condition us, in order to finally imagine post-human relationships founded on reciprocity rather than exploitation.
The event is organised by GAMeC — Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Bergamo in collaboration with Festival ORLANDO.
INFO
The seminar-workshop is conceived as a space for listening rather than judgement, open to all subjectivities and life experiences, with particular attention to perspectives and identities often marginalised in public discourse. Participation is free of charge. Places are limited; booking is required at biglietteria@gamec.it from 13th April.
IPPOLITA
Ippolita is an independent and interdisciplinary research group working on digital technologies and the philosophy of technology. Founded in 2004 at a hacklab in Milan, the group emerged from the intersection of hacking, counterculture and feminism. Always in search of new incendiary authors to bring to publication, they select books for publishers and write their own texts, disseminating them across communities — from hacker spaces to university lecture halls. Understanding culture as a form of direct action and a tool for resistance, they offer workshops, training sessions, critical discussions on the web, self-hacking and digital self-defence for anti-violence centres, academies, journalists, psychological support services, affinity groups and curious individuals.