How does the body keep time? What rhythms, repetitions, and sensations emerge when bodies meet technological systems?

Cyberfeminist practices have long approached the relationship between bodies and machines through both desire and fear, bringing bodily experience into the very understanding of technology. Rhythm and vibration, from this perspective, belong simultaneously to technological systems and bodily experience – to the rhythms of industrial production as well as to pleasure, desire, and erotic imagination.

The third session of the School of Algorithmic Solidarity explores the temporalities and techniques of the body through a set of materials that bring together computation and bodily stimulation: former servers and vibrators. Visitors are invited to test different rhythms, movements, and sensory responses, paying attention to the ways bodies are trained, synchronised, accelerated, interrupted, or made to wait.

The session continues eeefff’s research into the transmediale archive, tracing questions around human-machine relations, labour and bodily experience that have appeared throughout the festival’s history. Archival materials function as operational prompts rather than historical documents. Questions formulated in relation to earlier technological conditions are practiced through movement and sensation, allowing participants to approach technology not only as an external system, but as something that enters and reorganises bodily experience.

The session becomes a space for experimenting with bodily techniques that are still in formation – ways of sensing, responding, and relating that might help us imagine how to inhabit technological environments differently.