[im] Augmented Authenticity: A Speculative Design Workshop

[Allan Siegel]

Hello everyone,
*Augmented Authenticity: A Speculative Design Workshop* conducted by 
Jasna Dimitrovska and myself,
in Pula, Croatia, August 2-7, 2021, within the framework of the 23rd 
edition of the Media Mediterranea festival. Selected participants get 
travel and accommodation covered, applications deadline is July 11. 
Application is attached.
If you have any questions please contact me.
best
allan


*"Augmented Authenticity": A Speculative Design Workshop*
The pandemic reality is radically new. Or have we seen it all before? 
Staged authenticity seems to
be turning into actual identity. The social media has become purely 
staged and deeply influential,
from computer-generated Instagram influencers to corporately managed 
profiles of real people.
But then, whose lives are their followers trying to live, or to stage? 
How does Instagram culture
build upon (or against) traditional cultures of (self-)representation, 
and is there a way to hack it
all for the better?

Machines are learning instead of us, teaching us how to stay authentic. 
To see the future, one
needs to deeply understand the past. And one’s own position between the 
two. But this position is
never a solitary one… We are planning to live on and extract from 
another planet, while still
stuck midway between authentic travel and staged tourism, often as 
propaganda with a strategic
economic aim.

The above challenges will be explored through_a speculative approach 
which will combine a__
__practical workshop process based on both digital and analogue media, 
with exercises and__
__excesses in both design and art thinking_. The participants will, in 
tandems or small groups,
develop speculations ‒ joint creative works to be exhibited publicly at 
the last day of the
programme in the gallery DAI-SAI, within the Media Mediterranea festival 
programme. Along
the intensive week the participants will be mentored by a tandem of 
complementary doers &
thinkers: *Jasna Dimitrovska* (design prototyping, experimental 
interaction, creative technology,
art and science) and *pETER Purg* (performance, participatory art, media 
ecology, art thinking,
ArtSciTech, media hacking, speculative futurology).

_The workshop addresses_ a broad range of c(onc)reative profiles and 
open-minded people, from
art to design students and practitioners, hands-on tinkering youth, all 
the way to social media
aficionados & activists, wokes & veterans.
_
__The participants will learn_ how to cross-think (both art and design) 
as well as cross-tinker (both
digital and analog). The workshop is primarily dedicated to experiencing 
different (combinations
of) practices and thinking styles, staging it all in a radically 
speculative way. Still, the skill and
knowledge sharing in a productive situation will be consistently based 
on speculative
methodologies, from both art and design. The participants will combine 
technologies available on
site (basic and some expert digital and analogue creative media) as well 
as include participants’
own creative tools and stuff they bring along.
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