Objects of interest and necessity
Notes from meeting 10/02/2025
Objects of interest / e.g. objects that could be represented at an exhibition.
Object of necessity / Ernesto Oroza (https://www.ernestooroza.com/category/objects-of-necessity-projects/) - also transaction models, refers to conditions of production and values
... see also: https://temporaryservices.org/served/projects-by-name/prisoners-inventions/ (Brett Bloom), https://artistsbookreviews.com/2024/04/22/prisoners-inventions/, https://halfletterpress.com/prisoners-inventions-new-edition-pdf/
For reference, the questions are:
- What cultural and technical strategies can foster democratic, socially and environmentally sustainable knowledge infrastructures?
- How do these strategies facilitate collective examination of tensions inherent in the technologies themselves?
- How can social collectives, connecting academia and grassroots movements, foster the creation of autonomous services and infrastructures that enhance knowledge, participation, and political immediacy?
1. Taking each object of interest, we have to demonstrate how cultural and technical strategies are embedded in it and how they relate to infrastructure of participation. This can be done by mapping/diagramming the network of attachments of the object
2. In a second stage, examine the controversies and tensions surrounding these objects. Here focus on licenses, intellectual property is a rich starting point (see Open Infrastructures article)
3. Emphasize the dimension of knowledge production and sharing in these environments + connect to the practices of workshops during the whole project
Questions to be answered
What is the network that sustains this object?
- How does it move from person to person, person to software, to platform, what things are attached to it (visual culture)
- Networks of attachments
- How does it relate / sustain a collective? (human + non-human)
How does it evolve through time?
Evolution of the interface for these objects. Early chatgpt offered two parameters through the API: prompt and temperature. Today extremely complex object with all kinds of components and parameters. Visually what is the difference? Richness of the interface in decentralization (the more options, the better...)
