Category: Idiom
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Retrospeculative Design
This afternoon on the INPUT POKE SAVE Discord server that the UNIL-EPFL Gamelab put together, I attended a presentation by my colleague Douglas about is projects. Based on a series of examples, he used the term “retrospeculative Design” that he coined with Antonin Fourneau. A term that refers to the sort of design approach he…
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Permacomputing and recycled electronics
In the latest instalment of his newsletter, Robin Sloane mentions the notion of “permacomputing”: There’s an idea simmering out there, still fringe, coaxed forward by a network of artists and hobbyists: it’s called “permacomputing” and it asks the question, what would computers look like if they were really engineered to last, on serious time scales?…
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Homebrew game characteristics
Listening to a talk by Melanie Swalwell about her recent book called “Homebrew Gaming and the Beginnings of Vernacular Digitality”. Her definition of homebrew game characteristics are quite relevant to us in the project, as they clarify what it corresponds to:
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“épaves” (shipwreck)
The French term “épaves” (shipwreck) is often used out of the marine context, like here, in this box I found at at photographers’ shop in Geneva. A box in which you can find camera junk.
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Collapse informatics/Computing with limits
Why blogging this? Bill Tomlinson describes here two stimulating concepts about novel forms of computing that might allow us as a civilization to more effectively engage with more durable ways of living: For example, Collapse Informatics was focusing on building systems in the abundant present for use in the future of scarcity. And Computing Within…
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Détournement
“Détournement: s’emploie par abréviation de la formule : détournement d’éléments esthétiques préfabriqués. Intégration de productions actuelles ou passées des arts dans une construction supérieure du milieu. Dans ce sens il ne peut y avoir de peinture ou de musique situationniste, mais un usage situationniste de ces moyens. Dans un sens plus primitif, le détournement à…
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On “critical jugaad”
An interesting interview of Deepa Butoliya by James Auger at Speculative dot edu. Based on a recent CHI workshop paper she wrote about non-western maker and DIY cultures, Butoliya describes the notion of “critical jugaad”: Critical Jugaad is jugaad done as an act of everyday resistance and survival. Critical Jugaad is a term I have…
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Zombie Media
“Zombie media addresses the living deads of media culture. As such, it is clearly related to the earlier calls to investigate “dead media” by Bruce Sterling and others: to map the forgotten, out-of-use, obsolete and declared dysfunctional technologies in order to understand better the nature of media cultural development. And yet, we want to point…