1-5 December#

The main goal for Monday and Tuesday is collaborative work on projects for the Friday presentation. On the first day, in addition to that work, there will be a tour of the mur.at facilities. On Tuesday, work will continue and there will be a workshop with Harriet Winifred about “off-grid” internet, which is intended to help generate new ideas for final presentation. There are also plans to build a power station for the server, as suggested by Carmen Pomet.

From Wednesday to Friday, the mornings will be dedicated to preparation, while the afternoons and evenings will be reserved for public events. This includes eeefff’s workshop on Thursday and the workshops from Andrea Strata, kamo, and Silvia Binda on Wednesday.

On Friday, there will be the aforementioned presentation of the projects developed throughout the week. This may include a collective performance, other presentations, and potentially a show-and-tell about the internet that was built. The final details for Friday are still being decided and will be published here in time.

Day 03: Wednesday#

Silvia Binda / Creative Hardware with ESP32, 14:00 - 16:00

In this workshop, we will learn to how to build functional sound-making devices with the use of ESP-32. We will assemble, wire and code, using 3D prints, ESP-32 microcontrollers, mini-speakers and amplifiers. Finallly, we will create a collective symphony with our digitally controlled sound devices. The workshop is beginner level and no previous knowledge is required.

Andrea Strata / Re-Thinking Data, 16:00 - 18:00

Andrea Strata’s work focuses on how the body can become a musical instrument through movement and gesture. In this workshop, we will talk about taking back the tools of AI and ML, working with our own tiny datasets and models for creative use. Instead of thinking about data as something to collect or exploit, we treat it as something personal and expressive. Through this we explore ways in which technology can listen to and translate physical expression without taking control, using sensors, small models, and custom tools to turn motion into sound.

Participants should bring a laptop with them. No prior coding experience is necessary, but a basic understanding of programming concepts will be helpful.

kamo / Scatter/Chatter, 18:00 - 21:00

Scatter/Chatter is a system to imagine smartphones as a networked instrument. Here, devices are connected together through a website to create a polyphonic ensemble. The range of the speaker, the colors of the screen, the speed of connection… all become distinctive traits that contribute to the instrument. The workshop introduces Scatter/Chatter from two different perspectives. First as a standalone tool, exploring its capabilities and features as multi-channel, multi-player and multi-tasking instrument. Then as an infrastructure to build other tools upon. During the activity we will talk about some serious hot topic such as self-hosting, situated software, relation between server and clients, why the code you want to use is never documented, etc. etc. etc.

Registration

Please register for the workshops using the form or by emailing cia@mur.at.

Day 04: Thursday#

eeefff / Algosomatic session, 15:00 - 18:00

“algosomatics” (algorithms + embodied experience) is something we name to experiment with effects and affects that are settled on the bodies which are part of platform economies, or more broadly, part of the technologies of their age.

In this workshop we experiment with non-verbal ways of dealing with computations: how imagination could be developed with the help of motor learning, how bodies, being trapped in the platform capitalism, can try to turn it into the strength.

In a previous algosomatic session, the workshop explored topics connected to “punishment” of users who try to use e-scooters for free (https://as.eeefff.org/debug_score).

For the session during the mur.at worklab eeefff will take a next step and experiment with different algorithms. We will make a protocol how we can speculate and then we will try to play out a new algorithm with our bodies. So, after we choose an algorithm, we then allocate roles that are active, and decide what are their activities.

Registration

Please register for the workshops using the form or by emailing cia@mur.at.

Finale: Friday#

Everybody / Final Presentation, 18:00 - 22:00

After an intense week of workshops, collective readings, coding sessions and discussions, the 2025 mur.at worklab comes to an end.

In these five days, we explored the idea, sight, sound, feel and even taste of collective intelligence. Perhaps even discovering that it is not “Intelligence” at all, but something else entirely. We hope to share this and other transformative insights with you on Friday evening at esc medien kunst labor, during an event filled with presentations, performances and collaborative activities.

Program

18:00 Doors

18:30 Discussion Round

19:00 Show-and-tell by the worklab participants

20:00 Lecture Performance

20:30 DJ Set(s)

Ongoing

Collective Intelligence Radio (initiated by eeefff and contributions from everyone (and maybe even you))

E-Power Station Collaborative Mindset (with Carmen Pomet)