"Titled 'Collective Imagination in the Era of Optimization,' this year's edition asked: How can artists, communities and technologies rewire shared futures when the dominant narratives emphasize acceleration and optimization? And what forms of togetherness and resistance surface through media within the context of artistic practices today? The core program‑keynote lectures by Ruth Catlow, Harold Hejazi and Dzina Zhuk (of the artist collective eeefff)‑highlighted emerging forms of rebellious, joyful, multispecies collectivity and solidarity in a time of rising fascism and technocracy."
"Beginning with the do-it-with-others or DIWO approach (introduced by co-founder Marc Garrett in 2007 as a progression from the DIY punk spirit), digital commons and open source principles, she reflected on projects ranging from early web experiments in the 1990s to recent works responding to today's "Earth-sized" ecological crises, asking how young people might gain "tales and tools of mutualist thriving to make adventurous lives that respond to the contemporary context.""
The Minna Tarkka Lectures convened over four days at Kiasma and Aalto University in Helsinki to explore how art, media and technology can reshape democratic life. The 2025 program, titled 'Collective Imagination in the Era of Optimization,' probed how artists, communities and technologies might rewire shared futures amid narratives of acceleration and optimization. Keynote lectures by Ruth Catlow, Harold Hejazi and Dzina Zhuk highlighted rebellious, joyful, multispecies collectivity and solidarity facing rising fascism and technocracy. Ruth Catlow traced Furtherfield's trajectory from DIWO and open-source digital commons to recent projects addressing "Earth-sized" ecological crises and urged co-creation and ownership of shared narratives to reclaim technosocial spaces.
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