Juan Pablo García Sossa / jpgs

As part of his Testing Grounds residency, Juan Pablo García Sossa / jpgs explores the rendering of a multiplicity of realities through Magical Hackerism and Spelling Masala Protocols. Interested in pluriversing technologies towards a techno diversity and pluriversal understandings of the planet, jpgs looks at Magical Hackerism and various forms of tropical hacking (Brazilian Jeitinho and Gambiarra, Indian Jugaad, and Latin American Rebusque and Hechiza, among many others) as a way of hacking reality. In order to re·wire the rootcode of what we think makes us human and reduce the verticalities embedded in the modern binaries we live, jpgs focuses on generative protocols that respond to endemic situated knowledges from the tropics. Masala is commonly understood as a combination of spices that can be eaten or drunk. There’s no single way of doing masala but rather millions of ways, yet we can still refer to it. During Testing Ground jpgs formed a research netting performed within Futura Trōpica Netroots exploring notions of technologies and nets from a Tropikós perspective and crafting generative masala protocols that enable the rendering of a multiplicity of worlds and their translations into digital experiments.

Futura Trōpica Netroots is an InterTropical Network of Grass-Root LANscapes for the lateral exchange of other forms of endemic knowledges, resources and technologies, from a Tropikós perspective. This P2P- semipublic network uses the IPFS protocol to connect practitioners and networks of affection that understand life as an artistic practice in Bogotá Colombia, Kinshasa DR Congo, and Bengaluru India. Within the network we perform a series of experiments that shape and reshape our organizational and governance patterns and ways of netting.

EVENTS:

AHC : Art & Research : Testing Ground :  Spelling Masala Protocols : A Protocol Design Workshop : 10.05.23 – 11.05.23

AHC : Art & Research : Testing Ground : Talk : Magical Hackerism : On Creolizing Protocols, Tekologies and Permacomputing : 11.05.23