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 […]
Aesthetic Programming: A Queer praxis in p5.js [1]
I have been teaching and researching Aesthetic Programming since 2014. It is both an undergraduate course and a subject matter to make sense of having programming skills within arts and humanities. I found that there are a few challenges or questions that I might need […]
Otherwise Practices with/in computing
We are excited to present to you our series of contributions from researchers, artists, enthusiasts, activists, and visionaries on Otherwise Practices with/in computing. In the next months, we will share with you articles collated from over fourteen contributors who share their opinions, research, critique, and work on […]
Join us in reading Jackson’s “Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World”
In what ways has animality, humanity and race been co-constitutive of each other? How do our understandings of being and materiality normalize humanity as white, and where does that leave the humanity of people of color? How can alternative conceptualizations of being human be found […]
Posthumanism, Vulnerability and Technology
Guest post by Myriam Hernández Domínguez In January 2020 I was a fellow at the fantastic GeDIS group (Gender/Diversity in Informatics Systems). In this post I would like to share a brief summary of my research and how I got to be interested in the […]
Call for Contributions: Otherwise Practices with/in Computing
“she wouldn’t tell us anything until we stopped knowing. stopped thinking that we knew, which came at the long edge of a lot of time spent acting like we knew.” — Memory Drive, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, M Archive: After the End of the World , […]
Epistemic justice # under (co)construction #
This is the final part of a blogpost series reflecting on a workshop, held at FAccT conference 2020 in Barcelona, about machine learning and epistemic justice. If you are interested in the workshop concept and the theory behind it as well as what is a […]
Call for Contributions: New Materialist Informatics 2021
In recent decades, new materialist thought has emerged as a transversal field of inquiry that successfully brings together and constructs hybrid spaces between the social sciences & the humanities and the natural & technical sciences & engineering. Within those spaces, engagement with the concerns around […]