It was specifically a great honor to have a deeper exchange with Fieke Jansen and Niels van Oever (Critical Infrastructure Lab) and Judith Veenkamp (Waag Foundation) who invited me to Amsterdam.
Together with Patricia J. Reis I was invited to give a lecture in Amsterdam at the historical building in which VOC was founded. A sad memorial of centuries of colonialism. But the audience was wonderful, asking many fantastic questions and sharing about their own art and research critical of extractivism and aiming for decolonial tech in the arts. In the audience there were wonderful people like the author of „The Art of Hacking“, Julie Laczko and the artist Zach Furst who created the compost.cc project, the artistic researcher Selena Savic and many others, who also later joined our workshop. The workshop was held at critical infrastructure lab at Amsterdam University.
The second part of the workshop was held at WAAG FOUNDATION. At their future lab in the heart of Amsterdam. It was an amazing experience to meet so many excellent artists, activists, digital rights activists, scholars and theorists.
After these events I had a project meeting with Dorine van Meel (Earthbound Hardware Workshop) Anja Groten (Hackers and Designers, University of Amsterdam) and Heerko van der Kooij (Hackers and Designers). After this real and physical meeting we had an online working session with students and Indonesian artist Ismal Muntaha.