Spellbreak training: divesting from the Cloud

Tuesday 29: meet at TITiPI, Jetsesteenweg 388II https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Where

Wednesday 30: meet at TITiPI, Jetsesteenweg 388II
https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Where

INTAKE QUESTIONS

1. What is the current relationship that you have with cloud infrastructures in the context of the gallery? 
2. What have you observed in terms of the relationship of your organisation to these infrastructures? Are there any obstacles or particular conditions or contexts that we should be aware of?
3. In your view, what kind of impact could the knowledge generated through this process have for colleague organisations?
4. What would you like the result of this process where we critically engage with cloud infrastructures to be? How do you formulate your vision?
5. What do you think could be a first step towards this process, in the context of the gallery?
6. Would you be open to connecting with another UK-based organisation in this process, so that we could develop this framework together?

POSSIBLE PARTNERS

https://juliesbicycle.com/
Autonomic

RESOURCES

Examples

Training programs/alternatives/Let's move together

Background/why

Divination

Other
POSSIBLE INTERVENTIONS

- Moving to Mastodon
- Setting up storage (Nextcloud?)
- Other thinking with availability
- A conversation about arguments, paradoxes, contradictions and complicity
- A (creative) statement of some sort
- Connect with a UK partner
- Some documentation
- Setting up an oblique strategies tarot session
- ...

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Since I joined Market as a board member in 2024, the gallery has included the following in it's mission statement: "In light of the ongoing genocide in Palestine and our commitment to the BDS movement, the gallery is considering a more ethical model for a) financial management, withdrawing custom from Bank of Scotland, and b) data storage and digital archiving by moving away from ephemeral archive systems that are housed by corporations such as Google and Dropbox. A more ethical method of data management is in creating a private online server for the gallery"

However this is currently a statement of intent and as a small team of volunteers and low paid workers we are looking at how we might implement some of this in ways that are manageable within our time and capacity, potentially drawing on existing models or working with other collectives to create a step-by-step toolkit for divesting from companies such as Google.