Xeno Futurism presents: In/Human Infrastructures
22nd, 23rd & 24th May 2026

In/Human Infrastructures was a three-day critical technologies symposium, exhibition, and screening programme hosted at Alt_R.

Building from Xeno Futurism’s second issue, Technologies of Domination, the symposium critically examined the technical architecture of contemporary life: from deconstructing the extractive logistics of platform capitalism and surveillance systems to forging counter-platforms, demystifying machine learning, and unbiasing artificial intelligence development. Our aim was to ask what it means to inhabit systems we didn’t choose and can’t fully perceive – the networked, computational, and algorithmic infrastructures that have come to dominate every facet of human life – and whether those same tools can be turned toward ends other than extraction and control. Acting as a contact zone for artists, academics and technologists working across cryptography, network culture, machine learning and more-than-human perception, the programme was deliberately hybrid in focus and format, allowing connections to propagate between different bodies of work and modes of thought.

Symposium

Systems of Control [Friday 22nd of May]:
The first evening's programme addressed the political, military, and economic systems shaping contemporary technological life: surveillance architectures, platform capitalism, datafication, AI governance, and militarised technoscience. Presenters and performers framed how power circulates through distributed infrastructures and how these systems script everyday life.

Contributors: Harry Halpin, Uzu Lim, Lucia Rebolino and Sam Griffin.

Entangled Agencies [Saturday 23rd of May]:
Teasing out epistemic threads from cybernetics, posthumanism, and neo-mechanism, this evening explored how humans, machines and wider systems co-produce each other. Moving beyond techno-fetishism or outright Luddism, we explored critical and non-dogmatic approaches to agentic entanglement.

Contributors: Sonia Bernac, Melissa Schwarz & Nella Piatek, Betti Marenko, Zein Majali.

Counter Protocols [Sunday 24th of May]:
The final evening explored counter protocols: tactical methods of rerouting and repurposing soft and hard infrastructures. Drawing from DIY anarcho or alt-tech ethics, we explored how the liberatory myths of the early '90s gave way to our current techno-authoritarian moment, experimenting with broadcasting technologies (frequencies, static, noise), focusing on community-driven connectivity, interspecies egress and digital autonomy.

Contributors: Parham Ghalamdar, Wassim Al Sindi, Maggie Roberts, and Kat MacDonald.

Exhibition & Screening Programme

Exhibiting Artists: Ruba Al-Sweel, Lina Deng, Parham Ghalamdar, Geoffrey Lillemon, Zein Majali, Yuri Pattison, Nella Piatek & Melissa Schwarz, Maggie Roberts, Dylan Serventi, Suzanne Treister, 0rphan Drift, Zach Blas, David Dees, Craig Boagey, Sarah Friend

Curated by Elliott Higgs with Xeno Futurism

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