Digital infrastructures and algorithmic systems increasingly structure our bodily rhythms, from gig economy labor to data processing workflows. Yet these same systems that impose their rhythms also create opportunities for alternative forms of movement, consciousness, and solidarity.

In a wide-ranging conversation, David Issac Hecht, Alexis Convento, eeefff, and Shintaro Miyazaki explore how proximity to digital infrastructure reveals both its material impact on bodies and possibilities for resistance. Rather than turning away from digitality, they propose studying its transformative effects while developing "counter-algorhythms" - embodied practices that generate felt, collective experiences outside dominant digital paradigms. By examining the relationship between physical presence, digital systems, and social consciousness, they point toward commons-based approaches that could create new spaces for bodies to move, relate, and generate knowledge together.

Their discussion will suggest that while digital rhythms are imposed upon us, collective practices can help us access and create forms of closeness that transcend troubling aspects of digitality, opening pathways to more equitable and embodied futures.

This conversation draws upon two workshops from the Prologue, Acting and Knowing Together in the World: A Territorial Exploration of the Unknown as a Path Towards Closeness , hosted by David Isaach Hecht and Alexis Convento, and the Algosomatic Sessions: To sleep with algorithms , hosted by eeefff.