Date: Sunday, 16h November 2025
Time: 15:00-18:00 CET
Location: Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam)

This event aims to learn from modes of technological solidarity as a way to root counter-colonial approaches in our methods and attitudes. This event looks into how technology is and has been used across different struggles, for example tech workers organising, or artists subverting algorithmic violence.

School of Algorithmic Solidarity

In this session, the eeefff collective presents the conceptual foundations and recent fieldwork of The School of Algorithmic Solidarity, an itinerant research project established in 2022 to explore emotions and affects shaped by technologies, the possibilities of solidarities in dispersed situations, to critically investigate digital colonialism and value extraction, to elaborate new circumstances through social experimental site, co-acting and collective ways to imagine - to aim towards “infrastructures of imagination”. By form, the school can be a collective experience / radical pedagogy practice / walk to the specific location / playful protocol / digital togetherness / open-ended situation / affective temporary training zone. Please join the next session which will be a playful guide into the materials, connected to different types of protest infrastructures.

eeefff (Minsk/Berlin) is artistic cooperation / made-up institution / cybernetic political brigade / poetic computations / hacking unit / queer time. It is neither one of these, nor all together. Active from 2013. The group works with emotions and affects shaped by technologies and makes software-based projects, publications, networks, and platforms that critically explore digital labour, value extraction, and community formation. Methods include: public actions, online interventions, performative seminars, software, and hardware hacking, framing environments, and choreographing social situations. Organizers of the School of Algorithmic solidarity (2022-ongoing) that was initiated to explore the relations between infrastructural time, algorithmic abstractions, and bodies. Co-organizers of Work Hard! Play Hard! (2016-2020), Decentric Circles Assembly (2024) and Forest Assembly of Educational fictions (2025). More info: https://eeefff.org/

This event falls within Varia’s Counter-Coloniality Seed research thread, and is supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL.