3 & 4 December Largo da Fontinha nº 48, Porto We hereby invite you to the upcoming workshop on December 3 & 4 at SOOPA Studio, Porto: 21st Century Noise. This multidisciplinary event involves discussion, diagramming and conceptual development. Participants of all backgrounds are invited to join, as long as they have an interest in the concept/phenomenon of noise and in collectively discussing how functions across different domains. 21st century noise resounds across globalized neoliberal capture, burgeoning AI power, the rise of platform economies and transnational corporate empires, neocolonialism, drone strikes, cyberwarfare, fake news, sweatshops, robotic dogs, predictive policing, cryptocurrencies, self-driving cars, space tourism, etc. If 20th century noise was a centrally broadcast symphonic maelstrom, 21st century noise is a user-generated cacophony that has amplified existing forms of exclusion and exclusivity. Noise in music and sound art both expresses this situation and enacts resistance to it. Noise in philosophy explores these conditions. Noise in the sciences performs new explanatory landscapes. The event brings together a group of thinkers, artists and musicians looking to examine the complexity and vastness of these phenomena, ranging from cognition to corporeality and culture, through the lens of noise. Please sign up to the workshop by sending a few lines about your interest in participating to noiseresearchunion at protonmail dot com. Given limited capacity we will have to keep the size of the group under 30 people. The main tasks during the workshop will be those of dialogue and diagramming. We will discuss interpretations together, identify some common lines of thought and divide into groups in order to explore these in depth by way of diagrams. We will reconvene and attempt to morph the group diagrams into collective ones. This workshop is an open door into the reinterpretation of noise. Our approach is nondisciplinary and completely open to questions and challenges, we are united by our interest in noise but not by our individual interpretations. Friday December 3rd 2021: 14:00-18:00 - workshop day 1, free entrance Evening: music event TBA (optional, entrance fee may apply) Saturday December 4th 2021: 14:00-18:00 - workshop day 2, free entrance Evening: music event TBA (optional, entrance fee may apply) We look forward to welcoming you at Soopa in a few weeks. Please refer to the event's website (www.n-r-u.xyz) and/or reach out to noiseresearchunion at protonmail dot com if you have any questions or comments. FYI: the workshop process will be filmed, for the most part. Should you want to remain unfilmed/anonymous please indicate this in advance. Best of the best, N-R-U; Cecile Malaspina, Inigo Wilkins, Martina Raponi, Mattin, Miguel Prado, Sonia de Jager
