A strategy account on open source, digital sovereignty, civic capacity, and how Cyprus can do more than simply host decisions about our collective digital future. Link to the actual press release. Let me start from the top, or rather, the so-called top. There is an official tech policy conversation taking shape, these days, as part… Continue reading This Is Not a Press Release: Cyprus Open Digital Futures Week OR How to Move from Hosting to Co-Creating Tech Policy
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Working with Erkan Ali
Who would have known that it's possible to change so much --shift so much dead weight-- so fast? Working with Erkan for three months has been a revelation. A phenomenal relief. He has helped me shed light and transformative attention on areas of my productivity that have been holding me back and in pain, and… Continue reading Working with Erkan Ali
Report on the Cyprus Tech Policy Unconference: Reclaiming the Digital Commons – ReFLOSS Edition
by Chrystalleni Loizidou also published on ellak.org.cy, the Cyprus Mail and syndicated here, and here. For policymakers unfamiliar with this space: FLOSS and digital sovereignty are not fringe concerns—they are the building blocks of a more secure, autonomous, and transparent public infrastructure. This report outlines how a small island community is contributing to a much-needed… Continue reading Report on the Cyprus Tech Policy Unconference: Reclaiming the Digital Commons – ReFLOSS Edition
Three publications on childcare
Loizidou, C. (May 2024) “Connective practices in community-integrated arts, nature- and tradition-based learning and care, across the divisions of Cyprus” [visual essay] https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1953710/2481537?c=11 In Artistic Connectivity Unfolding (2024) ed. Hübner, F. https://doi.org/10.22501/rc.1953710 Loizidou, C. and Moura, L. (2020) “Keep the Children in the Room:” On the Biopolitics of Single Mothering in the Time of Covid.… Continue reading Three publications on childcare
Community idealism and the tragedy of the commons: On the politics of energy exchange and mutual assistance (Lefkara, Cyprus 25th March, 2022)
the First Device
What should be the ideal character and purpose of the First Device we give to our young? How would such a tool define humanity's future approach to technology, and to our world? How would it shape and direct the mind? What kind of information should it contain? Would it be primarily audiovisual, or holographic, or… Continue reading the First Device
Forest School writing: What did I think this was going to be, the revolution? On the Free/Libre Arts Unconference and TropicalBurn
(1) Notes on the Free/Libre Arts Unconference and TropicalBurn / The difference between me and a free person July 2019, Ixodos at A Casa Lar, Tijuca Forest, Rio de Janeiro Are YOU able to trust in a fully participatory format? / On the academy as capitalist enclosure (edu-factory). / On the (arts) academy as a… Continue reading Forest School writing: What did I think this was going to be, the revolution? On the Free/Libre Arts Unconference and TropicalBurn
perhaps it’s the nihilism, OR “If I were to start over, I would have been researching public fountains”
The following is written in response / review to the State of the Monument (Nov 20, 2018 organised by the Cultural Studies and Contemporary Arts Lab, European University, Cyprus) via Loizidou, C. (2014) Commemoration, Public art and Memorial Politics in Cyprus, 1901-2013 [thesis] If monuments are about asserting or compensating for insecure regimes, then I… Continue reading perhaps it’s the nihilism, OR “If I were to start over, I would have been researching public fountains”
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Cultural historian fails Police Entrance Exam / On the wonders of civil service / A family of (bad) corruption jokes
I really wanted to be a police officer. The dream was dashed when I realised that I couldn't produce passing transcripts during the Police Exams. I didn't have it in me to suspend critical thought in a way that would allow me to go through with it / answer the exam questions. It had become clear that this was the underlying requirement. What was left was to undergo the exercise as a kind of performance.
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