Moving between different scales of computational infrastructure, this contribution tries to sense the repercussions of digital practice today, feeling out possibilities for resonating otherwise with hardware, software and networks. From DIY algorithms to fiber optic coils appearing in the streets of Brussels, from day-to-day operations of open source communities to deep sea mining, and from local battery experiments to complicity in genocide, what digital constellations are we part of and how do we take care of their implications here and elsewhere?
Femke Snelting develops methods, situations and disobedient action-research on computational infrastructure and its implications. With Miriyam Aouragh, Seda Gürses, Helen Pritchard and Jara Rocha she runs The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest (TITiPI). TITiPI is an activist research formation for articulating, contesting and reimagining how computational infrastructure impacts collective life. Femke supports artistic research at MERIAN and contributes to Nubo, providing locally hosted, Open Source digital services.
