Elephant's Trumpet

Elephant's Trumpet is collaboratively produced community newspaper that aims to organise, promote and share resources, ideas and concerns about Elephant & Castle shopping centre. It brings together the voices of traders, local organisations, residents and users of the shopping centre in mutual support and solidarity, and campaigns for the communities that belong there. The newspaper arose out of an ongoing collaboration between local organisations, traders, residents and the artist. I initiated it as part of my artistic residency at Photofusion. It is produced with the support of Arts Council England, Photofusion and Elephant Amenity Network/35% Campaign. So far two issues have been produced. A selection of materials from the newspapers and documentation of the process of production (meetings, making, disseminating) were made available through an exhibition at Photofusion entitled Taking Part (22 Feb - 17 March 2018). The hope was to reach out, connect and share with other communities facing similar challenges. ISSN 2515-218

The role of the artist in a world of imminent breakdown

We live in a world of throwaway culture, where we don’t anymore know the provenance of things. This makes it easier to not care for them. But if we don’t care for the objects we cannot care for the people who made them and for the environment they were made in. The talk considered how can artists through making, exploration of sustainable materials and exchange of skills encourage a cultural shift towards environmental stewardship, care for each other and the interconnectedness with the nature. The talk was part of the OurHouse festival, which brought together a series of international speakers for talks, workshops, exhibitions and performances at Camberwell College of Arts and Central Saint Martins (CSM), University of the Arts London (UAL) from 22 – 25 October 2019. The festival represents the culmination of a year-long pedagogic project at both colleges

Home(lessness): Southwark Citizens' for Spatial Justice

Home(lessness): Southwark Citizens' for Spatial Justice consists of 5 workshops that took place at the South London Gallery Fire Station, as part of the first stage of a three part project addressing the urgent state of homelessness in Southwark and as an investigation into methodologies for creating change and culminates in a public exhibition also at the South London Gallery's Fire Station. This first stage uses sortition - a process of random selection employed by the Ancient Greeks to select political decision makers - by sending out 1,000 letters to local people by randomising post codes. A representative group from the responses were then invited to attend 5 briefing workshops at the South London Gallery Fire Station by experts in the field on key issues such as access to healthcare, affordable housing, immigration status and accessing support. Briefings were delivered by Amy Clements from the Southwark Law Centre, Guddy Helevuo-Barnet founding member of the Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance, Anthony Luvera and Gerald McLaverty of Frequently Asked Questions, Dr. Caroline Shulman and Nurse Practitioner Kendra Schneller from the Guys and St. Thomas Health Inclusion Team, Jerry Flynn from the 35% Campaign, and an anonymous worker from a London Council. The Citizens' Action Group (not without continuing debate over the focus of our activities) decided to take the issue of housing to a Parliament meeting with Neil Coyle MP from the All Party Parliamentary Group for Ending Homelessness. There we presented our work and some of our lived experience of homelessness. Some of our connections from the SLG briefings joined the Action Group along with new participants who presented alternative ideas for housing as well as Joe Barson reporting about the current situation for Homeless charities in Manchester. Other participants were Rebecca Vagi from DAHA's Whole Housing project, Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at LSE Kath Scanlon and Directors of Ethical Lettings Georgina Summerfield and Mike Rangecroft. There was a strong sense in the Citizens' Action Group that we want to investigate visual campaign tools. The CAG will reconvene and potentially reconfigure in order to think which issue they would like to continue to take forward for further research and then a future campaign in 2020. The project is being carried out in collaboration with curator Amy McDonnell. With thanks to Prof. Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos and support from the Westminster Law and Theory Lab and the Sortition Foundation. Design by Europa

The Roles We Play: Recognising the Contribution of People in Poverty

'The Roles We Play' is a collection of photographic portraits and explores the roles played by those living in poverty within their families, communities an society at large. The aim is to highlight their efforts, validate their achievements and challenge the negative attitudes often held towards vulnerable and excluded families in the UK. To accompany the portraits, project participants have written short texts to explain their lives, hopes and place in society as seen through their own eyes

Picturing Climate

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded international research project that explores the use of participatory photography and narrative storytelling for climate change education. The project was conceived by Eva Sajovic and Dr Agnes Czajka (Open University) and was delivered in collaboration with partners in Cuba, Jordan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the UK: Corinne Silva (visual artist, UK); Jasmin Hasic (International Burch University); Dzeneta Karabegovic (University of Salzburg); Dijana Rakovic (Counterpoints Arts); Riera Studio (Cuba); Most Mira (Bosnia and Herzegovina); and Auranitis Lifeline (Jordan). Network participants have come together to organise participatory programmes in Cuba, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Jordan and the UK using a variety of methods and approaches. Our work began in Havana, Cuba in April 2019, continued in Bosnia in August 2019, and Jordan in September 2019. The project culminated in a public programme at Tate Modern in London, between November 28th and December 1st, 2019

Operational calculus on program spaces

In this work we develop an algebraic language that represents a formal calculus for deep learning and is, at the same time a model which enables implementations and investigations of programs. To this purpose, we develop an abstract computational model of automatically differentiable programs. In the model, programs are elements of op. cit. programming spaces. Programs are viewed as maps from a finite-dimensional vector space to itself op. cit. virtual memory space. Virtual memory space is an algebra of programs, an algebraic data structure (one can calculate with). The elements of the virtual memory space give the expansion of a program into an infinite tensor series. We define a differential operator on programming spaces and, using its powers, implement the general shift operator and the operator of program composition. The algebraic language constructed in this way is a complete model of deep learning. It enables us to express programs in such a way, that their properties may be derived from their source codes

All Rise For The Planet: 2030 Show Trial

The year is 2030. Scientists’ warnings from 2019 went unheeded and the consequences of climate destruction are now apparent. You are summoned for jury duty at the people’s court to decide responsibility for the ultimate crime against humanity and life on earth. Evidence is presented on the role of Governments, industry, the media, academia, art institutions and the citizenry, and in all cases the jury will consider the same question: "In light of what they knew in 2019, did they do enough, and if not, what should they have done?" Part-theatre, part-art installation, part-people’s court, this event on climate justice and accountability presented testimonies, along with visuals and video installations, brought this trial to life as an immersive experience. Overseen by a judge, it was up to the audience, the jury, to decide whether each party is guilty or not. Curation by Amy McDonnell and Eva Sajovic. With climate litigation charity Plan B, Extinction Rebellion, visual arts organisation 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, People’s Bureau, Name Theatre and massive thanks to Stinsensqueeze

DreamMakers

DreamMakers is a UK wide project with young people between 13 and 19, designed and led by artist Eva Sajovic, based around the themes of identity, community, dreams and aspirations. Groups of young people from Roma, English Gypsy, Irish Traveller and Non Roma backgrounds in 4 different locations UK-wide (Glasgow, Bolton, Peterborough and Walthamstow) were equipped with journalistic skills and the tools (photography, sound, video) to go out into their communities to research, record and discuss issues of relevance in their communities, which impact on the aspirations of young people through a process of social documentation

Operational Calculus on Programming Spaces

In this work we develop an algebraic language that represents a formal calculus for deep learning and is, at the same time a model which enables implementations and investigations of programs. To this purpose, we develop an abstract computational model of automat- ically di�erentiable programs. In the model, programs are elements of op. cit. programming spaces. Programs are viewed as maps from a �nite-dimensional vector space to itself op. cit. virtual memory space. Virtual memory space is an algebra of programs, an algebraic data structure (one can calculate with). The elements of the virtual memory space give the expansion of a program into an in�nite tensor series. We de�ne a di�erential operator on programming spaces and, using its powers, implement the general shift operator and the operator of program composition. The algebraic language constructed in this way is a complete model of deep learning. It enables us to express programs in suc