The Long Progress Bar 2015, part of Brighton Digital Festival – Laboria Cuboniks

THE LONG PROGRESS BAR 2015 Mixing talks, screenings, workshops and live music performances, this two-day festival unites international creatives, thinkers and radical change-makers shaping our world through contemporary art, music, design, technology, economics and social innovation. KATRINA BURCH (FR) & DIANN BAUER (US) of Laboria Cuboniks / talk (day 1) Katrina Burch and Diann Bauer are members of xenofeminist collective Laboria Cuboniks, a collaborative writing project redefining a feminism adequate for a global 21st century. “Ours is a world in vertigo. It is a world that swarms with technological mediation, interlacing our daily lives with abstraction, virtuality, and complexity. XF constructs a feminism adapted to these realities: a feminism of unprecedented cunning, scale, and vision; a future in which the realization of gender justice and feminist emancipation contribute to a universalist politics assembled from the needs of every human, cutting across race, ability, economic standing, and geographical position.” – an extract from the Laboria Cuboniks xenofeminist manifesto. Katrina Burch Katrina is an independent philosopher, an electronic musician, an archaeologist and a sound artist (performing under the name Yoneda Lemma). She publishes with The Passive Collective, MIT Press, Merve, and Punctum Books and has exhibited at V4ULT, Berlin; La Chène, Paris; and Tate Britain, London. Diann Bauer Diann Bauer is an artist whose work deploys a language of visual force across disciplines including drawing, sculpture, painting, printmaking, installation, architecture and video. Conceptually led and visually driven, her work rearranges the given picture of the present time to make a new sense more fitting to the puzzling complexity of our contemporaneity. As well as Laboria Cuboniks, Bauer is involved in several on-going collaborative projects including Fixing the Future, an online forum taking up strategies in economics, theory, philosophy, and art, to provide useful alternatives for the future, and to do so as an imperative. She was also a member of Real Flow, a research and development project for the systematic reorientation of art and finance towards the collective social good.