INTRODUCTION Taking as its starting point a family archive of 16mm colour material recorded in 1950’s Congo, We called her cyborg aunt is an ongoing artistic research project into the rhetorics and epistemic frameworks surrounding the “use” of technology, underlining the continuity of hierarchies and […]
Category: Otherwise Practices with/in Computing
Reflections on Responsibility: Teaching prospective Interaction Designers to design post-digital futures
Our lived realities are inextricably tied to technologies and digital infrastructures. This means that when we educate designers and computer scientists of the future, we have to do more than simply give them the technical skills needed for their future jobs. It is also our […]
Staying with the tech trouble
A rehearsal in staying with painful technologies and a response-in-progress Key terms of tech trouble Cutting-edge surveillance, unverifiable tech, high-risk laboratory, ad-hoc-tech that leads to risky securityAbstractHow to do a close reading and unlearning at the same time? When engaging with trouble that moves with […]
Speculating Otherwise Networks
The website submarinecablemap.com displays all known submarine cables as colorful lines on a world map. An abundance of distinct lines run in parallel between Europe, North America and Asia, while other lines form into knots in places where cables are distributed and split into various […]
From Vixen Tor: Notes on Photographies of the Land
“The sense of place and embeddedness within local, mythical, and ritual landscapes is important. These senses of place serve as pegs on which people hang memories, construct meanings from events, and establish ritual and religious arenas of action.” Stewart and Straethern in Landscape, Memory and […]
‘You will have to choose one of two options’ — Being Nonbinary in a Binary World
In western contexts, a fixed binary notion of gender is deeply ingrained — something I experience personally on a nigh-daily basis. With recent changes in, e.g., Austrian, Dutch and German legislature, nonbinary genders are, at least in some areas within Europe, finally accepted as part […]
Dreamful Computing – A very short provocation
Dreamful computing is inquiring ways to store, transmit and process data for working on seemingly unsolvable societal problems, such as the distribution of wealth, the occurrence of injustice, income and wealth inequality, or even climate change in terms of a manageable transition process from neoliberalism/capitalism […]
Hyperbody: Vampyroteuthis Infernalis
Introduction Based on Flusser’s Vampyroteuthis Infernalis, the fictional notions and relationships of space, sexuality, skin, modification are introduced. By setting up a unique character pair (ship) of vampire squid and “I”, the ideas of modding and shipping are clarified within fan studies and game studies […]
Unravelling Internet Decay
This article stems from my Master’s thesis and subsequent doctoral proposal on ‘Internet decay’, a concept I propose to define the specific characteristics of content loss on the Web, its aesthetic potential, and critical significance. It started by noticing a lack of linearity that is […]
Educating Tech Students About Gender – A Case Study from Hungary
After a year of lockdowns, online family gatherings, digital education, and distance work, there is no doubt that the world has become immensely digitalized, creating a huge demand for tech professionals. Why is it then that women are still practically invisible in the field? As […]