Join us for yet another session of a confusing coding situations! This time we are joined by Steven Jouwersma* who will guide us through a meditation to a hyperscaler.

Hyperscalers are large and very adaptable data centres that scale their capacity to the ever changing flow of data. In the Hyperion cantos (1989) of science fiction writer Simmons, an AI called Ummon* appears. It is shaped like a blob, a non-form. This "blob" of shifting appearance is how we can understand a hyperobject like AI. It has no centre, although it seems to come together at places. The hyperscaler is such a place.

To grasp a hyperobject like AI, we will travel to one of its cores, and follow electrons through firewalls and fiber backbones.

You are invited to bring your telephone, as we will work with its capacities. Like matter and its counterpart antimatter, there must be data and antidata. When data and anti-data come into contact, they annihilate each other, which releases energy. If you can imagine an exact opposite of you at the other end of the universe, what does this anti-you do when you sing?

*Bios

In his projects, Steven Jouwersma does not attempt to create fiction, but rather to place an unusual or alternative reality within reality. His method often focuses on the transformation of locally available material that gains meaning by giving it a new function. He seeks interaction with site-specific circumstances that set a process in motion.
(https://www.stevenjouwersma.com/)

When


Sunday 13 - 07 - 2025 from 18:00 and ending with a bbq
Where

Address: Jetsesteenweg 388 Chaussée de Jette, 1081 Koekelberg, Brussels
Accessibility


The Studio is fully accessible for wheelchairs. More info about accessibility here
Language

The workshop will be held mainly in English.
Registration

If you would like to participate, please send an email to imane@constantvzw.org

If you can, bring a yoga mat or something to sit comfortably! <3

For the bbq, it would be great if you can bring something to share.
Coffee and tea will be provided.

*Ummon derives his name from the ancient Chinese Zen master Yunmen Wenyan, whose name is translated as ’Ummon’ in Japanese. Like his namesake, Ummon has a fondness for speaking in koans, using them to illustrate concepts when communicating with lesser intelligences, aka humans.