Audible Edge Night School: Opt-out
Event description
BOOKED OUT - write to info@tonelist.com.au to be on the waitlist.
Opt-out is a workshop focused on 'opting out' of the attention economies of capitalist platforms and developing alternatives that foster listening online. Facilitated by Ben Byrne, it will feature a presentation of some of his work with Avantwhatever, a forum for digital sound, art, and design. This will include the decentralised social media server Avantwhatever.org, which workshop participants will be able to experiment with and will be provided as an online gathering space during the Audible Edge Festival. Participants will be invited to share their own struggles: with the infinite scroll of commercial social media, listening to and paying for music deliberately and ethically, connecting with other musicians and listeners online, or otherwise. Ben will then lead the group in discussing the possibilities of decentralised technologies and tactics for inhabiting the open web in creative ways.
Ben will deliver this workshop online via Jitsi, from Helsinki.
About the Night School
The Night School is series of workshops and critical conversations in the lead-up to this year's Audible Edge Festival. The Night School is about the capacity of our scene: to write our own stories, build our own platforms, grow safer cultures, and to play and listen better.
We want to get stuck into ideas and skills that are overlooked or under-explored in our community. We want anyone to feel able to contribute at these workshops, growing new thoughts together. We all participate as teachers, students and provocateurs alike.
The night school is not always at night. In fact, it usually isn’t. This is largely the result of us becoming attached to the name before various circumstances changed. But it also nods to the “post-event hang” as an important site of learning. A nocturnal space where learning is reflected on, critiqued and hashed out over eats and drinks.
Accessibility
Ben will deliver this workshop online via Jitsi, from Helsinki. In-person attendance is not available for this event. The livestream will be moderated by Audible Edge staff.
Requests can be made for additional accessibility needs at ae.tonelist.com.au/accessibility. Tone List have a small budget to facilitate services such as interpreting.
Acknowledgments
Audible Edge is proudly supported by the Western Australian government through the Department of Local Government, Sports and Cultural Industries and the Australian Cultural Fund. Night School events are presented in partnership with the State Library of Western Australia, Sound Exploration Fremantle and AvantWhatever.
Audible Edge and Tone List operate in Boorloo and Walyalup, on Whadjuk Noongar boodja. We pay our respects to boodja and to its custodians and birdiya/Elders from all times.