Constant member Laurence Rassel presents her ideas on fiction as a tool in ’Bellas Necesidades’.
The Encounters Back to the Future invite 5 thinkers/creators: Laurence Rassel, José Luis de Vicente, Wu Ming, Lisa Parks and Geert Lovink. They look into the possible functions of utopic thinking in an Era of Advanced Capitalism, or the effects of technological changes on cultural processes, or envision the power of publically shared knowledge. A harmonic discourse is set to create new critical powers of liberation and emancipation; also to acknowledge the neutralizating threats of the same liberating powers.
Laurence Rassel
Bellas necesidades (Beautiful necessity)
Using fiction, the articulation of a narration, let you consider a situation that defies you not to let machines speak instead of yourself, but to talk to them from our own point of view. Fragmenting words, situations, objects and recomposing them with the aim of experimenting about different questions related to our connection with technology and testing some ways of communication. Sharing the knowledge of using media to go beyond stereotypes, social control, purity of discourse.
Thinking about machines, systems and codes, software and free licenses, gender questions and discourse and communication formats, the formats of our derived representations about sci-fi, about “What about if...”; about the desire of telling a different story, anonymous, collective, cryptic, out of market, out of media, a non-ending story.
