NEW YORK, NY: General Assembly On Immaterial Digital Labor and Universal Basic Income, April 3, 2015

The first General Assembly On Immaterial Digital Labor and Universal Basic Income will meet on Friday, April 3rd, 2015 o Grand Street in New York. According to the organizers, the General Assembly will be the inaugural meeting of people interesting in exploring action-based responses to the global “time-famine” created by the digital economy, the collapse of work and play in social media and “hope labor” economies, the rise of unpaid internships, and the burgeoning freelance market. The inaugural meeting will begin to define responses to these issues and the goals of this assembly.

The Assembly springs from the conversations in the Facebook Group, Immaterial Digital Labor, which includes some 970 members. The group has presented the topics of digital labor, automation, machine learning, and emergent definitions of labor and is moving forth towards more material action-based organizing. The organizers propose this as a gathering of people committed to making decisions based upon a collective agreement or consensus model. Anyone is free to propose an idea or express an opinion as part of the General Assembly. The Assembly will be led by facilitators only just as much as needed, no more.

The Universal Basic Income will be proposed as one of many possible platforms of solidarity. An exercise defining the terms: immaterial labor, digital labor, knowledge-economy, and a short presentation will open the Assembly, followed by an open discussion moved by the proposed and collective interest of attendees.

Friday, April 3rd, 2015 7:00-10:00 PM

PARMER at Abrons Art Center

Experimental Theater, 466 Grand St, New York, NY 10002

Statement: https://www.parmer.info/_events/2015-04-03-IDL-UBI-statement.html

Event website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1067136066635771/

Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/immaterial.labor/?ref=br_tf

Site: https://www.immaterialdigitallabor.net/

Email: <idl.ok.nyc@gmail.com> with questions, comments, proposals, press inquiries.