Intro to the Kinternet: A 7-Week Cohort for Counter-Algorithmic Relation Exercises (CARE)#DivestingfromInstagram this summer: a container of guided practices for social, cultural and relational rehabilitation amidst heightening artificial algorithmic debris.
In Fall 2024, I began what I called my Guerrilla MFA: a self-directed grassroots study practice in Social Practice, Curiosity Stewardship, and Presentism. In the nearly two years since, my practice has evolved into a focus on Technologies of Relation at large. This summer, I am facilitating Intro to the Kinternet: Counter-Algorithmic Relation Exercises (CARE), a 7-week social practice cohort informed by that MFA journey & rooted in Data Healing. The goal of the Kinternet CARE Protocols is to experiment with developing sustainable interventions + infrastructure for relational rehabilitation at large. Free subscribers to The Kinternet will have access to rolling cohort enrollment updates - to share your introductory interest in the cohort and receive more program updates over the coming week(s), please sign up for The Kinternet Substack.
I (soft)-launched elements of The Kinternet two weeks ago as part of my collaborative contributions to Rhizome’s 2026 edition of 7x7, at the New Museum in NYC. As a co-curator of this year’s program, I shared my first public micro-thesis “On Relational Architecture and Technologies of Relation,” excerpted below:
Alongside my co-curatorship, I participated as a contributing artist and worked alongside Mercy Mutemi, the lawyer spearheading the landmark suits against Meta Inc. - amongst a host of other community interventions, Mercy is leading a landmark case suing the behemoth corporation behind Facebook for 1.6 billion dollars to create a victims’ fund for those impacted by the social media platform’s role in algorithmically-amplifying ethnic cleansing in Ethiopia. The full video recording of the launch event / Mercy and I’s Kinternet Demo at 7x7 will be available online soon.
Over 7 weeks beginning in late-June, we will move through a cycle of Counter-Algorithmic Relational Exercises, or CARE Protocols: guided practices for studying and shifting our relationships to attention, memory, visibility, and overall sociocultural health amidst a heightening landscape of artificial relational debris (ranging from algorithmic nudging to the inundation of bot ‘content’). Through these Counter-Algorithmic Relation Exercises, we will collectively audit what social media platforms have been holding for us - alongside what they have been holding us back from, and embark on developing alternate infrastructures for guiding our relational webs towards a place of better-health. The cohort will gather online, but the CARE Protocols are designed to be implemented IRL - toolkits to support you in developing a Kinternet within your real-world community. I remain forever grateful for the people who have moved at the speed of trust with me over these past years’ experiments in Data Healing, and I invite those of you who have attended my programming in the past (especially those of you who participated in the 2024 Indigenous Technologies incubator!) to sign up for early-bird slots in the cohort via paid subscriptions to The Kinternet Substack. Cohort ArchitectureLength: 7 weeks This ‘Intro to the Kinternet’ cohort is for you if:
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The general cohort will be capped at 30 participants, and on-boarding/enrollment for the cohort will be centralized on The Kinternet Substack. Free subscribers to the Kinternet will have access to rolling cohort enrollment updates - to share your introductory interest in the cohort and receive more program updates over the coming week(s), please sign up for The Kinternet Newsletter. Considering the wrath of AI-scraping and platformed plagiarism, I will be keeping the full syllabus and CARE Protocols details to a minimum on unpaywalled dispatches. Monthly subscribers ($33) to the Kinternet Substack will get a copy of the 2024 Data Healing Workbook & excerpts of the Kinternet syllabi/exercises; and annual Kinternet members ($250) who subscribe by June 6th will be guaranteed full access to this cohort (at a discount) covered by their subscription. I remain forever grateful for the people who have moved at the speed of trust with me over these past years experimenting around Data Healing, and invite those of you who have attended my programming in the past (especially those of you who participated in the 2024 Indigenous Technologies incubator!) to take advantage of the discounted early-bird slots in the cohort via paid Kinternet subscriptions. I look forward to (@)tending to this Kinstellation with you! Forever Yours in Radical Love, You're currently a free subscriber to Neema’s Substack. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription.
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