Through a series of three consecutive workshops, each centred around an accompanying notion—Production, Friction, Fiction—we will think through what it might mean to invite uncertainty as a way of resisting ideas that impose a singular meaning or direction. Rather than something to be overcome, uncertainty might become a means of encompassing multiplicity, and subsequently, prediction ceases to be instrumentalized as a tool to prescribe the future but instead is undertaken as a gesture towards a plurality of possible futures.

Schemas of Uncertainty

Schemas of Uncertainty is a collective research project on the notion of prediction, both as a long-standing interest of human beings through their histories, but also as inscribed into the techno-capitalist present. The project is organised and facilitated by Danae Io and Callum Copley and has previously taken the form of a research group at the Sandberg Instituut, a symposium and a publication under the same name.

Danae Io

Danae Io is an artist and researcher based in Amsterdam and Athens. She holds a Master in Fine Arts from the Sandberg Instituut and has previously studied at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research and art practice rotate around the subjects of voice, language, legibility, the technological, and the incalculable.

Callum Copley

Callum Copley is a writer and researcher based in Amsterdam and the UK. Through his works of both speculative fiction and academic essays, he examines how emerging technologies constitute new forms of political and cultural domination. He holds an MA in Critical Studies from the Sandberg Instituut and was co-founder of Registration School in London.