Complicit Chips
Complicit Chips
5-6 October 2024, Brussels
[to be extended]
Complicit Chips was a 2 day worksession during which an international group of researchers, activists, and artists dived into the nebulous world of software-operated hardware. Starting from the high density chips produced by NVIDIA, we attempted to get our heads around the much needed divestment from a computer industry complicit in organized violence at borders and in occupied territories, while being so pervasive in running our most mundane daily activities
Through our time together, we initiated a proposal for collaboration in a divestment campaign, extension of pre-existing mapping of genocidal infrastructures, hands on work to understand how these chips operate and some analysis of the aesthetisation of military technology. We hope that, beyond the context of this worksession, the circulation of this reader can support fellow comrades sharing the desire to pursue divestment from an industry which provides the material means to both our most mundane activities and human rights violations all at once and fully intertwined.