Tuesday, 12 November 2024, 7.30 pm, diffrakt | centre for theoretical periphery
Presentation, embodiment exercises, and intuitive board game with
OMSK Social Club
Without metaphors, we wouldn’t be able to talk about and with computers. They translate algorithmic processes into understandable icons on the screen, reveal how we interact with technologies, and mirror our desires and fears. The project From Net, City, World to Cloud, Market, Sea: Metaphors of the Internet investigates how we imagine the internet and speak of our daily experiences online.
The series will kick off with the Marketplace of Beliefs, a board game designed by OMSK Social Club:
Sometimes it feels like the internet is all about money. But just like any other metaphor, the market-centered side of the online sphere had to establish itself first: what initially started as individual shops (indeed, Amazon used to be an online bookstore) turned into sales platforms that are now deeply entwined with the structure of the internet. In OMSK Social Club’s board game, one can trace the euphoria and frustration of the crypto craze. The game conceives the online stock and crypto market in terms of mysticism and, conversely, it creates a connection between money and transcendent practices – from religion to superstition to magic. Together, we’ll play Market Place of Beliefs, an intuitive board game which might lead to a cautionary tale being told or a holy grail of data.
From Net, City, World to Cloud, Market, Sea is a project by Zentrum für Netzkunst e.V. and funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
