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Articles by Quincy Childs
"This Has Nothing to Do With Clouds": A Decolonial Approach to Data Centers in the Node Pole
The environmental impacts of Big Tech fall disproportionately on economically poor people and countries, meanwhile material wealth concentrates to the few at the top. This essay examines how cloud computing uses the logic of coloniality and extractivism to conclude that ‘post-extractive modernity’ is a conceptual fallacy.
5 Things with Quincy Childs, climate justice researcher at the University of Oxford
In planning these Five Things, I considered the ways in which my time with the Knowledge Futures Group pervades my current research around climate justice. The themes central to the Commonplace — communities, commons, and justice — are always circulating around my mind as they inform my drive for systemic change and climate repair. These five vignettestherefore touch upon various manifestations of the above.
Sustainability Certification for the Public Good
Foreword As a non-profit organization that promotes the preservation and enhancement of public knowledge, the Knowledge Futures Group is devoted to building technology and digital infrastructure in service of the public good. For this mission, we frequently use the term 'sustainable' when discussing knowledge infrastructure that is aligned with public interest.
Public Resources
The purpose of this article on COVID-19 is to aggregate existing research, refer to relevant data and allow readers to make sense of the published early research and data on the coronavirus outbreak. To identify changes in the reproduction number, rate of spread, and doubling time during the course of the COVID-19 outbreak whilst accounting for potential biases due to delays in case reporting.
DEMICS · Commonplace
In 1949, the computer pioneer John von Neumann published Theory and Organization of Complicated Automata in which he identified the virality of a computer program as its ability to self-replicate.
Knowledge Hygiene
With the COVID-19 pandemic now among us, much has been circulating about ways to stay healthy. From sharing 20-second songs to sing while washing your hands, to defining and understanding social distancing, society is rightfully making broad changes in the name of staying healthy and slowing the spread of coronavirus. Publishers of research that could be leveraged toward developing a vaccine for the virus are also making changes. Some are ungating articles related to the disease.
Commonplace Press Release
The Knowledge Futures Group (KFG) is committed to building and sustaining open infrastructure for public knowledge that puts researchers in control of the tools they use everyday to solve society’s biggest challenges. Our newest product, Commonplace, is a publication that invokes the title’s Latin roots of locus communis to create a space where people discuss the digital infrastructure and policies needed to distribute, constellate, and amplify knowledge for the public good.
VENICE - HEIDI BUCHER AT ALMA ZEVI THROUGH DECEMBER 18TH, 2019
Heidi Bucher, Untitled (c. 1954) With the Venice Biennale recently closing, only a few exhibitions remain on view in the city, with crowds dissipating under the rains and mists of the late fall. Fortunately, for those who choose to visit this month, there is an exhibition at ALMA ZEVI featuring works by Heidi Bucher.
From Ulay To Jaša: Passing the Torch in Performance Art
A site-specific installation and performance series by Slovenian artist Jaša and German artist Ulay Cutting Through the Clouds of Myth/Watermark is shrouded in mystery. Curated by Mitra Khorasheh and presented by WE.ARE Institute at Kustera Projects Red Hook, the “founding father of performance art” engages in a one-time only performance with Jaša, paving the way for this promising talent to make his mark. Ulay and Jaša are on radically different playing fields in the realm of performance art.
SVA to Screen The F Word, A New Wave of Feminism
Robert Adanto’s documentary The F Word, a film about the fourth wave of feminism in contemporary art and its main players, will be screened by SVA’s Visual and Critical Studies department. This wave differentiates itself from its predecessors by encouraging the hyper-feminine and self-objectification in order to challenge patriarchal oppression or sexist ideals. The documentary presents and analyzes a group of artists and collectives that use their bodies as subject matter.
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