WORKSHOP / Archiving the Algorithm
We have designed and delivered a series of workshops to students at the University of Cambridge and to festival goers at Good Vibrations Society. These workshops used critical, creative, and participatory action methodologies to encourage participants to reflect on their algorithmic experiences. In our workshop ‘Archiving the Algorithm’ we encourage participants to personify and problematize their personalised social media algorithms, whilst our workshop 'Algorithmic Armour’ encouraged audiences to consider their own agency and creativity when engaging with algorithms in their everyday lives.
We are always keen to run more workshops with groups of social media algorithmic users, in any context. The content and design of the sessions is an equal collaboration between an academic and an artist. We have co-conceived of and co-designed the project from its inception and have found real value in the combination of academic knowledge and question posing, when combined with creative design, playful interpretation, and expressive presentation processes. Participants have described positive effects of engaging with the workshops and expressed a desire to be involved in the project as it moves forward.
