This is the WebRTC BackRooms, a podcast series deep-scrolling into XR, AI, and the future of hanging out in the spatial internet, hosted by Koozarch. The podcast slips behind the polished interfaces of contemporary tech and AI to uncover the disquieting depths beneath. Wandering through online spaces and digital cultures, WebRTC protocols are turned into peer-to-peer spaces of gathering — an alternative beyond mainstream platforms. The virtual space where encounters take place favors opacity over exposure and rejects the logic of the clearnet, data extraction, and the surveillance systems shaping today’s major corporate platforms. Within these rooms, investigative artists, researchers, writers, and architects are invited to discuss and uncover the uncanny ways in which we inhabit an increasingly tangled world.
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In this first episode, together with Rosa, Me andOther Me interrogate resolutions, image standards and politics of seeing. They ask what defines an image, what defines seeing, and what gets erased when technology resolves the world into sight. The discussion follows Rosa Menkman’s long-term research into compression errors, resolution limits, and the technical choices that shape visibility. Resolution is approached as a compromise rather than a neutral condition, shaped by efficiency, standards, and exclusions.
If you'd prefer to read an excerpt of the conversation, you can find it here.
