softwear.directory - User contributions [en]

001

2025-09-26T08:19:55Z

Chinouk:

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|People=Sabine Seymour
|Entity=Individual
|Title=Fashionable Technology
|Pdf=https://attachments.are.na/24647300/9de96de84b78c9f37f55d9d0f8946f66.pdf?1699635124
|Type=Book
|Discipline=autonomous
|Subject=Fashion, Technology
|Description=This book provides an accessible yet thorough overview of electronic textiles and wearable technology, exploring the intersection of fashion, design, and science. Exploring both theory and practice, it demonstrates how technology is integrated into fabrics and garments with detailed explanations and rich visual examples. With contributions ranging from the MIT Media Lab to designer Hussein Chalayan, Seymour showcases a variety of pioneering designers, artists, companies, and research institutes, and highlights their groundbreaking projects alongside surveys of their wider work.
|Image=Sabine Seymour Fashionable Technology.png
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2025-09-26T08:19:44Z

Chinouk:

001

2025-09-26T08:18:55Z

Chinouk:

001

2025-09-26T08:18:35Z

Chinouk:

About

2025-09-04T16:39:20Z

Chinouk:

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DESCRIPTION
 The Softwear Directory acts as a resource library positioned at the intersection of fashion, digital culture and artistic research. It aims to highlight and provide insight into a wide variety of digital (design) practices through the sharing of sources, tools and (meeting) spaces. 
As our digital dimension presents a wide variety of multidisciplinary practitioners and collectives scattered across the internet, we can find many underexposed, independent, critical and networked ways of approaching, working with and through digitised forms of culture, fashion and identity tucked away in its crevices. This directory offers a glimpse into the diversity of siloed practices that use different vernaculars, but can be indirectly linked as a collective creative body as they explore (parts of) our digital realm in personal and novel ways.

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By collecting, stacking and linking these modes of (online) doing, making and experiencing fashion in its aesthetic, social and political forms, the Directory looks beyond the material product that fashion offers. While some of the subcategories are highly specific, ranging from educational programmes and experiments in digital materiality, to critical and independent practices that investigate the production of value, the impact of distorted images on our online identity, and the ability to self-publish online as a form of hacking traditional (fashion) media.
 What is the added value of these shared sources and cross-disciplinary perspectives? And what impact might they have on our relationship with fashion? How can we incorporate, simulate or decontextualise their ways of doing?


 The directory was initially compiled using a spreadsheet and has now, with a lot of help, been developed into a platform library, allowing more experimentation with filters, navigation, terminology and hierarchy. This online environment focuses on short, concise connections and, throughout the gathering process we have found overarching and timely issues that deserve more in-depth analysis and exploration. To fill this void, we are hard at work on our first periodical publication, featuring in-depth readings, conversations and interviews to accompany the growing content of this database. Think of it as a hard copy supplement to this soft copy environment. We hope to launch our first issue somewhere end of summer 2025 .
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This project was born out of personal necessity and frustration. It is the result of archiving notes, creating spreadsheets, collecting books, indexing urls and filling the clouds with screenshots in order to keep track of developments that live on the fringes of fashion and digital culture.

The Softwear Directory was made possible with the help of the Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie and would not have been possible without the help of many amazing creatives, coders and critics who have shared their insights and expertise along the way.

CURATOR
Chinouk Filique de Miranda
ART DIRECTOR
Kimberley ter Heerdt
WEB DEVELOPER
Artemis Gryllaki
GENEROUS INPUT FROM
Hanka van der Voet & Beata Wilczek
 Unless otherwise stated, all the contents on the Softwear Directory are licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. 
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091

2025-07-17T10:53:19Z

Chinouk:

{{Entry
|Entry number=091
|People=Studio Halia, Günseli Yalcinkaya, Gil Anselmi
|Entity=Collaboration
|Title=Beauty, Authorship, and AI: A Conversation with Gil Anselmi
|Link=https://studiohalia.com/blogs/editorial/beauty-authorship-and-ai-a-conversation-with-photographer-gil-anselmi
|Type=Interview
|Discipline=critical
|Subject=Ai, Aesthetics, Ethics
|Description=A conversation between photographer Gil Anselmi and Studio Halia’s Melisa Yalcinkaya tracing the creative, ethical, and aesthetic stakes of working with AI. Anselmi reflects on using AI not as shortcut but as medium—training models on his own work to retain authorship and blur the lines between tool and technique.

The interview moves between critique and curiosity: raising questions around beauty standards, authorship, and the homogenising pull of AI-generated aesthetics. Anselmi approaches AI as both collaborator and constraint—highlighting the labour behind prompts, the ecological impact of image generation, and the ongoing tension between intuition and automation.
|Quote=I see working with AI as being in conversation with the software.
|External reference=[https://www.instagram.com/gunseliiiiii/?hl=en Günseli Yalcinkaya], [https://gilanselmi.com Gil Anselmi], [https://studiohalia.com Studio Halia]
|Setting=Digital
}}

Gil Anselmi

2025-07-17T10:52:48Z

Chinouk: Created page with "{{Person |Name=Gil Anselmi }}"

Günseli Yalcinkaya

2025-07-17T10:52:17Z

Chinouk: Created page with "{{Person |Name=Günseli Yalcinkaya }}"

091

2025-07-16T10:10:56Z

Chinouk:

{{Entry
|Entry number=091
|People=Studio Halia, Günseli Yalcinkaya
|Entity=Collaboration
|Title=Beauty, Authorship, and AI: A Conversation with Gil Anselmi
|Link=https://studiohalia.com/blogs/editorial/beauty-authorship-and-ai-a-conversation-with-photographer-gil-anselmi
|Type=Interview
|Discipline=critical
|Subject=Ai, Aesthetics, Ethics
|Description=A conversation between photographer Gil Anselmi and Studio Halia’s Melisa Yalcinkaya tracing the creative, ethical, and aesthetic stakes of working with AI. Anselmi reflects on using AI not as shortcut but as medium—training models on his own work to retain authorship and blur the lines between tool and technique.

The interview moves between critique and curiosity: raising questions around beauty standards, authorship, and the homogenising pull of AI-generated aesthetics. Anselmi approaches AI as both collaborator and constraint—highlighting the labour behind prompts, the ecological impact of image generation, and the ongoing tension between intuition and automation.
|Quote=I see working with AI as being in conversation with the software.
|External reference=[https://www.instagram.com/gunseliiiiii/?hl=en Günseli Yalcinkaya], [https://gilanselmi.com Gil Anselmi], [https://studiohalia.com Studio Halia]
|Setting=Digital
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091

2025-07-16T10:07:34Z

Chinouk:

{{Entry
|Entry number=091
|People=Studio Halia, Günseli Yalcinkaya
|Entity=Collaboration
|Title=BEAUTY, AUTHORSHIP, AND AI: A CONVERSATION WITH PHOTOGRAPHER GIL ANSELMI
|Link=https://studiohalia.com/blogs/editorial/beauty-authorship-and-ai-a-conversation-with-photographer-gil-anselmi
|Type=Interview
|Discipline=critical
|Subject=Ai, Aesthetics, Ethics
|Description=A conversation between photographer Gil Anselmi and Studio Halia’s Melisa Yalcinkaya tracing the creative, ethical, and aesthetic stakes of working with AI. Anselmi reflects on using AI not as shortcut but as medium—training models on his own work to retain authorship and blur the lines between tool and technique.

The interview moves between critique and curiosity: raising questions around beauty standards, authorship, and the homogenising pull of AI-generated aesthetics. Anselmi approaches AI as both collaborator and constraint—highlighting the labour behind prompts, the ecological impact of image generation, and the ongoing tension between intuition and automation.
|Quote=I see working with AI as being in conversation with the software.
|External reference=[https://www.instagram.com/gunseliiiiii/?hl=en Günseli Yalcinkaya], [https://gilanselmi.com Gil Anselmi], [https://studiohalia.com Studio Halia]
|Setting=Digital
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091

2025-07-16T09:43:47Z

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082

2025-07-09T08:41:42Z

Chinouk:

{{Entry
|Entry number=082
|People=Nancy Mauro-Flude, Yoko Akama
|Title=A feminist server stack: co-designing feminist web servers to reimagine Internet futures
|Pdf=https://monoskop.org/images/7/73/Mauro-Flude_Nancy_Akama_Yoko_2022_A_Feminist_Server_Stack_Co-designing_Feminist_Web_Servers_to_Reimagine_Internet_Futures.pdf
|Type=Article
|Discipline=critical
|Subject=Feminism, Infrastructure, Technology
|Description=This paper explores the idea of a "feminist server stack," which challenges traditional, centralized internet infrastructure by proposing alternative, community-driven digital spaces. It draws from feminist principles to rethink how digital tools and networks are designed, governed, and used—prioritizing care, consent, and collective control over data. The paper critiques dominant, profit-driven tech ecosystems and imagines new ways of structuring servers, storage, and communication that align with ethical and inclusive values. Ultimately, it advocates for a reimagined digital landscape where technology empowers marginalized voices and fosters more equitable, decentralized, and self-sustaining digital communities.
|Reflection=In reimagining servers as sites of care, A Feminist Server Stack enacts affirmative ethics by centering consent, maintenance, and relationality within digital infrastructure. Through co-design, it resists extractive norms and proposes a situated, collective stack that foregrounds the politics of hosting—where serving becomes an act of feminist world-building.
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090

2025-07-09T08:28:42Z

Chinouk: Created page with "{{Entry |Entry number=090 |People=Hyunseo Cho |Entity=Individual |Title=Vanish Pointer |Link=https://vanishpointer.com |Type=Tool |Discipline=experimental |Subject=Critique, Interface, Infrastructure |Description=Vanish Pointer is a web-based project by Hyunseo Cho that reimagines the digital interface as a three-dimensional, perspective-based space. Designed as both a web extension and a standalone platform, this tool establishes an analogy between our perception of web..."

{{Entry
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|People=Hyunseo Cho
|Entity=Individual
|Title=Vanish Pointer
|Link=https://vanishpointer.com
|Type=Tool
|Discipline=experimental
|Subject=Critique, Interface, Infrastructure
|Description=Vanish Pointer is a web-based project by Hyunseo Cho that reimagines the digital interface as a three-dimensional, perspective-based space. Designed as both a web extension and a standalone platform, this tool establishes an analogy between our perception of web interfaces and the visual system of perspective. Users can shift the vanishing point to explore websites from new angles, transforming flat webpages into dynamic spatial environments where citational elements — such as sources, authors, dates and internal references — become central structuring forces. Users can invert hierarchies, reveal hidden relationships, and explore multidimensional connections by changing their viewpoint — including curvilinear, panoramic, and spherical perspectives. Vanish Pointer thus encourages critical and sensory engagement with the knowledge architectures that shape online content.
|Reflection=In an age where information circulates endlessly, is remixed and is decontextualised, developing visual citation methods is not just a matter of giving credit; it is an urgent way of taking relational accountability. The hypertextual nature of our digital environments is full of hidden lineages: sources, references and contextual cues that are often obscured by flat, linear design conventions. Experimental approaches such as Vanish Pointer reclaim these overlooked dimensions, rendering citation as a spatial, visual and navigable architecture, not just metadata. By reimagining interfaces as relational terrains, such tools encourage users to think critically about how knowledge is structured, traced and performed, transforming acts of reading, browsing and linking into moments of situated awareness.
In doing so, they foreground citational relationality — an understanding of citation as an active, situated practice that reveals the networks of dependency, influence and care underpinning digital knowledge, rather than as a static reference.
|External reference=[https://chohyunseo.online Hyunseo's Website]
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|CaptionImage=Vanish Pointer by Hyunseo Cho (as used on the Softwear Directory)
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2025-07-09T08:26:33Z

Chinouk:

Hyunseo Cho

2025-07-09T07:52:54Z

Chinouk: Created page with "{{Person |Name=Hyunseo Cho }}"

089

2025-07-09T07:34:53Z

Chinouk: Created page with "{{Entry |Entry number=089 |People=Morgane Billuart |Entity=Individual |Title=Becoming the Product: The Critical Internet Researcher as a Virtual Intellectual |Link=https://www.setmargins.press/books/becoming-the-product/ |Type=Book |Discipline=critical |Subject=Techno-social, Publishing |Description=In Becoming the Product Morgane Billuart traces the evolution of critical internet research, examining the work of figures such as Geert Lovink, Joshua Citarella, Alex Quicho..."

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|People=Morgane Billuart
|Entity=Individual
|Title=Becoming the Product: The Critical Internet Researcher as a Virtual Intellectual
|Link=https://www.setmargins.press/books/becoming-the-product/
|Type=Book
|Discipline=critical
|Subject=Techno-social, Publishing
|Description=In Becoming the Product Morgane Billuart traces the evolution of critical internet research, examining the work of figures such as Geert Lovink, Joshua Citarella, Alex Quicho and Sophie Public. Exploring how researchers navigate the demands of the attention economy, the book reflects on the tension between critique and commodification as it traces the shifting strategies of critical research under pressure to perform, produce and build a brand. What happens to critique when intellectual labour becomes part of the content economy? What does it mean to think critically and sustainably online?
|Reflection=Through her own practice, Morgane’s inquiry blurs the line between critique and performance. By hosting two podcasts and maintaining a presence across multiple platforms, including Substack, Instagram and YouTube, she doesn’t just study the dynamics of online visibility — she embodies them.

Her tone shifts from theoretical to personal, revealing a methodological agility attuned to platform aesthetics. By tapping into the systems she critiques, Morgane challenges the divide between observer and participant, and between content and critique. Rather than resolving this tension, her work inhabits it, showcasing the messy, strategic entanglement of intellectual labour and platform capitalism. This is a form of research that is experienced and performed as much as it is written: a vulnerable and incisive mode of enquiry that is shaped from within the infrastructures it studies.
|External reference=[https://becomingtheproduct.substack.com/ Becoming the Product on Substack], [https://open.spotify.com/show/62f8KQhuagUDWIaIWYnUNC Becoming the Product podcast], [https://morganebilluart.com/ Morgane's website], [https://www.instagram.com/billuartmc/ Morgane's Instagram]
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Morgane Billuart

2025-07-09T06:59:54Z

Chinouk: Created page with "{{Person |Name=Morgane Billuart }}"

088

2025-07-09T06:57:46Z

Chinouk:

{{Entry
|Entry number=088
|People=Noam Youngrak Son
|Entity=Individual
|Title=The Archive Of Patchy Studies
|Link=https://www.d-act.org/newsletter/
|Type=Platform
|Discipline=critical
|Subject=Data visualization, Interface, Publishing
|Description=Archive of Patchy Studies is a living, diagrammatic platform by Noam Youngrak Son that maps knowledge through a rhizomatic, non-extractive interface. Designed as a motherboard of interconnected nodes-ranging from essays and images to links and notes-it visualizes conceptual, aesthetic, and affective relations without relying on rigid taxonomy. The archive grows organically, shaped by conversation, intuition, and resistance to capitalist tempo.

Rather than simply storing information, it proposes an alternative infrastructure: one where artistic labor circulates relationally and ethically, inviting slower, situated forms of engagement and meaning-making over time. Some content remains open; other nodes are accessible via subscription.
|Reflection=Diagrams, especially interactive, rhizomatic ones like Son's 'rhizomatic motherboard', challenge traditional data visualisation norms by turning static charts into dynamic, interconnected maps. Unlike dashboards or classification-driven graphs, these diagrams emphasise emergence, fuzziness and mutual causality. Treating the connecting nodes as active elements rather than fixed data points emphasises the importance of non-hierarchical, networked representations, and illustrates how diagrams can become lively and inclusive infrastructures.
|Quote=Over time, I hope this platform becomes not just an accumulation of information, but a transformative infrastructure: a space where artistic labor is not extracted, but comes to obtain other forms of value mutually.
|External reference=[https://noamyr.substack.com/ Noam's Substack]
|Image=Archive Of Patchy Studies Diagrammatic Interface.png
|CaptionImage=Archive Of Patchy Studies (screenshot) by Noam Youngrak Son
}}

088

2025-07-09T06:56:57Z

Chinouk:

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2025-07-09T06:56:53Z

Chinouk:

088

2025-07-09T06:55:59Z

Chinouk: Created page with "{{Entry |Entry number=088 |People=Noam Youngrak Son |Entity=Individual |Title=The Archive Of Patchy Studies |Link=https://www.d-act.org/newsletter/ |Type=Platform |Discipline=critical |Subject=Data visualization, Interface, Publishing |Description=Archive of Patchy Studies is a living, diagrammatic platform by Noam Youngrak Son that maps knowledge through a rhizomatic, non-extractive interface. Designed as a motherboard of interconnected nodes-ranging from essays and ima..."

Noam Youngrak Son

2025-07-09T06:37:02Z

Chinouk: Created page with "{{Person |Name=Noam Youngrak Son }}"

087

2025-07-08T09:39:11Z

Chinouk: Created page with "{{Entry |Entry number=087 |People=Floriane Fo Misslin |Entity=Individual |Title=Creating Feminist Paths with Mood Boards |Type=Essay |Discipline=pedagogy |Subject=Aesthetics, Feminism, Critique |Description=In Creating Feminist Paths with Mood Boards, Floriane Fo Misslin opens up a path toward an intersectional feminist citational practice for visual references. The essay rethinks mood boards—often dismissed as simple inspiration tools—as sites for thoughtful and p..."

{{Entry
|Entry number=087
|People=Floriane Fo Misslin
|Entity=Individual
|Title=Creating Feminist Paths with Mood Boards
|Type=Essay
|Discipline=pedagogy
|Subject=Aesthetics, Feminism, Critique
|Description=In Creating Feminist Paths with Mood Boards, Floriane Fo Misslin opens up a path toward an intersectional feminist citational practice for visual references. The essay rethinks mood boards—often dismissed as simple inspiration tools—as sites for thoughtful and politically engaged feminist work. Misslin shows how they can map connections, surface overlooked voices, and challenge dominant narratives in design and education. Through intentional curation, mood boards become spaces for reflection, citation, and imagination—offering ways to practice solidarity, build collective knowledge, and foster more inclusive and critical modes of working, especially in creative and pedagogical contexts.
|Reflection=Misslin’s feminist expansion of the mood board as a citational tool is a much-needed intervention in fashion, where visual referencing often goes unacknowledged or uncredited. The work draws urgent attention to how inspiration circulates—and how it might be redirected toward more ethical, inclusive, and reflexive practices. In a field that frequently celebrates aesthetics without interrogating power, this approach offers a critical perspective on citation as both visual and political. It urges fashion practitioners to trace their influences with care and to reimagine how knowledge is shared.
|Quote=Where does authorship begin? Is a bibliography—or a set of visual references—intellectual property?
|External reference=[https://florianemisslin.com/ Floriane Fo Misslin]
}}

086

2025-07-08T09:30:38Z

Chinouk:

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|People=School for Poetic Computation, Melanie Hoff
|Entity=Collaboration
|Title=Consensual Hacking
|Link=https://sfpc.study/sessions/summer-25/consensual-hacking
|Type=Workshop
|Discipline=experimental
|Subject=Agency, Techno-social, Privacy
|Setting=Physical
|Date=2025/07/26
}}

086

2025-07-08T09:25:13Z

Chinouk: Created page with "{{Entry |Entry number=086 |People=Floriane Fo Misslin |Entity=Individual |Title=Creating Feminist Paths with Mood Boards |Link=https://futuress.org/stories/feminist-paths-with-mood-boards/ |Type=Essay |Discipline=pedagogy |Subject=Aesthetics, Feminism, Critique |Description=In this essay, Floriane Fo Misslin puts forward the idea of using 'mood boards' as activist tools — visual collages that bring together images, references and research in an intersectional feminist..."

{{Entry
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|People=Floriane Fo Misslin
|Entity=Individual
|Title=Creating Feminist Paths with Mood Boards
|Link=https://futuress.org/stories/feminist-paths-with-mood-boards/
|Type=Essay
|Discipline=pedagogy
|Subject=Aesthetics, Feminism, Critique
|Description=In this essay, Floriane Fo Misslin puts forward the idea of using 'mood boards' as activist tools — visual collages that bring together images, references and research in an intersectional feminist approach. By emphasising the importance of citation ethics, they encourage educators, designers, and researchers to explore power, solidarity, and lineage through carefully curated visuals. By centring underrepresented creators and epistemologies, mood boards become sites of resistance, challenging entrenched hierarchies, colonial narratives and disciplinary norms. The text advocates reflexivity in pedagogy, transforming mood boards into archives and generative spaces where feminist histories are honoured and new collective futures are imagined.
|Reflection=Misslin's feminist expansion of the mood board as a citational tool is a much-needed intervention in fashion, where visual referencing is often unacknowledged or uncredited. The work draws urgent attention to how inspiration circulates and how it might be redirected towards more ethical, inclusive and reflexive practices. In a field that often celebrates aesthetics without questioning power, this approach provides a critical perspective on citation as both visual and political. It encourages fashion practitioners to trace their influences with care and to reimagine how knowledge is shared.
|Quote=Where does authorship begin? Is a bibliography—or a set of visual references—intellectual property?
|External reference=[https://florianemisslin.com/ Floriane Fo Misslin]
}}

Floriane Fo Misslin

2025-07-08T09:08:02Z

Chinouk: Created page with "{{Person |Name=Floriane Fo Misslin }}"

Panke.gallery

2025-04-20T18:38:55Z

Chinouk: Created page with "{{Person |Name=panke.gallery }}"

085

2025-04-20T18:37:06Z

Chinouk: Created page with "{{Entry |Entry number=085 |People=panke.gallery |Title=live Gallery Surfing session at panke.gallery with Maya Man and Aram Bartholl |Link=https://www.panke.gallery/event/gallery-surfing-man-bartholl/ |Type=Event |Setting=Digital |Date=2025/04/29 }}"

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|Type=Event
|Setting=Digital
|Date=2025/04/29
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Studio Halia

2025-04-16T09:57:00Z

Chinouk: Created page with "{{Person |Name=Studio Halia }}"

084

2025-04-14T08:29:10Z

Chinouk:

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|Title=INFINITE PLAY: A Symposium on the Evolution of Storytelling and Creative Process in NYC
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084

2025-04-14T08:28:44Z

Chinouk: Created page with "{{Entry |Entry number=084 |People=Studio Halia |Entity=Company |Title=A Symposium on the Evolution of Storytelling and Creative Process in NYC |Link=https://form.typeform.com/to/hUDFb7AD?typeform-source=www.google.com&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAac7FTmGADBLMiRZQq0alKb5ZJyzH7_xNFpM7cSq6CAmTjlwKMRa7zfxYoogzA_aem_Q51pqfHlDkgY5sCrJlsjcQ |Type=Event |Setting=Physical |Date=2025/04/23 }}"

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Zazie Stevens

2025-04-04T15:37:00Z

Chinouk: Created page with "{{Person |Name=Zazie Stevens }}"

083

2025-04-04T15:36:32Z

Chinouk: Created page with "{{Entry |Entry number=083 |People=Zazie Stevens |Entity=Individual |Title=DAISYWORLD CAL |Link=https://daisyworldcal.substack.com/p/daisyworld-cal?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web |Type=Website |Discipline=experimental |Subject=Publishing |Description=DaisyWold MAG has reinvented itself as DAISYWORLD CAL, an ongoing anthology that follows the ancient Japanese calendar of 72 micro-seasons, a system that intricately maps time by recording subtle changes in nature. In this..."

{{Entry
|Entry number=083
|People=Zazie Stevens
|Entity=Individual
|Title=DAISYWORLD CAL
|Link=https://daisyworldcal.substack.com/p/daisyworld-cal?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
|Type=Website
|Discipline=experimental
|Subject=Publishing
|Description=DaisyWold MAG has reinvented itself as DAISYWORLD CAL, an ongoing anthology that follows the ancient Japanese calendar of 72 micro-seasons, a system that intricately maps time by recording subtle changes in nature. In this rhythm of fleeting moments, the micro-seasonal online calendar becomes a poetic bridge between the digital and the organic, celebrating the ephemeral permanence of life. It is a tribute to the capricious beauty of nature, an ode to all that blooms, withers and returns to the earth - an eternal cycle of impermanence and renewal.
|Reflection=By adopting a publishing format that follows seasonal shifts and metamorphoses every 5 days, this micro-seasonal online calendar poetically fuses the digital with the natural and the ephemeral with the ephemeral.

Although 'hidden' behind a paywall, Daisyworld Cal is a refreshing break from conventional media cycles, acting as a shared notebook of sorts, housing quotes, audio, recipes and other snippets worth 'standing still' for. In a world driven by speed and instant gratification, this rhythm encourages bite-sized engagement, attentive to incremental change. While maintaining a mailbox-first approach, Subtack's publication does not fall into the trap of explicitly centering the authors' lived experience as a prompt for reflection on wider contexts. The publication format, while online, decentres the digital-only affliction of promoting a false sense of urgency and shifts the focus to (digital) storytelling in form and content as an ode to the cyclical, evolving process in which storytelling and observation naturally unfold.
|Quote=Eulogizing the capriciousness of nature and all that blooms and is destined to die.
|External reference=[https://www.instagram.com/zazie_stevens/ Zazie Stevens], [https://www.instagram.com/daisyworldcal/ DAISYWORLD on Instagram]
|Image=DAISYWORLD CAL .jpg
|CaptionImage=An anatomical diagram of the flower of Magnolia biondii, by Zazie Stevens
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2025-04-04T15:36:17Z

Chinouk:

Yoko Akama

2025-03-27T16:59:13Z

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Nancy Mauro-Flude

2025-03-27T16:58:55Z

Chinouk: Created page with "{{Person |Name=Nancy Mauro-Flude }}"

082

2025-03-27T11:41:17Z

Chinouk: Created page with "{{Entry |Entry number=082 |People=Nancy Mauro-Flude, Yoko Akama |Title=A feminist server stack: co-designing feminist web servers to reimagine Internet futures |Pdf=https://monoskop.org/images/7/73/Mauro-Flude_Nancy_Akama_Yoko_2022_A_Feminist_Server_Stack_Co-designing_Feminist_Web_Servers_to_Reimagine_Internet_Futures.pdf |Type=Article |Discipline=critical |Subject=Feminism, Infrastructure, Technology |Description=This paper explores the idea of a "feminist server stack,..."

About

2025-03-20T06:26:29Z

Chinouk:

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DESCRIPTION
 The Softwear Directory acts as a resource library positioned at the intersection of fashion, digital culture and artistic research. It aims to highlight and provide insight into a wide variety of digital (design) practices through the sharing of sources, tools and (meeting) spaces. 
As our digital dimension presents a wide variety of multidisciplinary practitioners and collectives scattered across the internet, we can find many underexposed, independent, critical and networked ways of approaching, working with and through digitised forms of culture, fashion and identity tucked away in its crevices. This directory offers a glimpse into the diversity of siloed practices that use different vernaculars, but can be indirectly linked as a collective creative body as they explore (parts of) our digital realm in personal and novel ways.

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By collecting, stacking and linking these modes of (online) doing, making and experiencing fashion in its aesthetic, social and political forms, the Directory looks beyond the material product that fashion offers. While some of the subcategories are highly specific, ranging from educational programmes and experiments in digital materiality, to critical and independent practices that investigate the production of value, the impact of distorted images on our online identity, and the ability to self-publish online as a form of hacking traditional (fashion) media.
 What is the added value of these shared sources and cross-disciplinary perspectives? And what impact might they have on our relationship with fashion? How can we incorporate, simulate or decontextualise their ways of doing?

 The directory was initially compiled using a spreadsheet and has now, with a lot of help, been developed into a platform library, allowing more experimentation with filters, navigation, terminology and hierarchy. This online environment focuses on short, concise connections and, throughout the gathering process we have found overarching and timely issues that deserve more in-depth analysis and exploration. To fill this void, we are hard at work on our first periodical publication, featuring in-depth readings, conversations and interviews to accompany the growing content of this database. Think of it as a hard copy supplement to this soft copy environment. We hope to launch our first issue somewhere end of summer 2025 .
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DESCRIPTION
This project was born out of personal necessity and frustration. It is the result of archiving notes, creating spreadsheets, collecting books, indexing urls and filling the clouds with screenshots in order to keep track of developments that live on the fringes of fashion and digital culture.

The Softwear Directory was made possible with the help of the Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie and would not have been possible without the help of many amazing creatives, coders and critics who have shared their insights and expertise along the way.

CURATOR
Chinouk Filique de Miranda
ART DIRECTOR
Kimberley ter Heerdt
WEB DEVELOPER
Artemis Gryllaki
GENEROUS INPUT FROM
Hanka van der Voet & Beata Wilczek
 Unless otherwise stated, all the contents on the Softwear Directory are licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. 
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About

2025-03-20T06:25:52Z

Chinouk:

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DESCRIPTION
 The Softwear Directory acts as a resource library positioned at the intersection of fashion, digital culture and artistic research. It aims to highlight and provide insight into a wide variety of digital (design) practices through the sharing of sources, tools and (meeting) spaces. 
As our digital dimension presents a wide variety of multidisciplinary practitioners and collectives scattered across the internet, we can find many underexposed, independent, critical and networked ways of approaching, working with and through digitised forms of culture, fashion and identity tucked away in its crevices. This directory offers a glimpse into the diversity of siloed practices that use different vernaculars, but can be indirectly linked as a collective creative body as they explore (parts of) our digital realm in personal and novel ways.

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<div class="about-col">
DESCRIPTION

By collecting, stacking and linking these modes of (online) doing, making and experiencing fashion in its aesthetic, social and political forms, the Directory looks beyond the material product that fashion offers. While some of the subcategories are highly specific, ranging from educational programmes and experiments in digital materiality, to critical and independent practices that investigate the production of value, the impact of distorted images on our online identity, and the ability to self-publish online as a form of hacking traditional (fashion) media.
 What is the added value of these shared sources and cross-disciplinary perspectives? And what impact might they have on our relationship with fashion? How can we incorporate, simulate or decontextualise their ways of doing?

 The directory was initially compiled using a spreadsheet and has now, with a lot of help, been developed into a platform library, allowing more experimentation with filters, navigation, terminology and hierarchy. This online environment focuses on short, concise connections and, throughout the gathering process we have found overarching and timely issues that deserve more in-depth analysis and exploration. To fill this void, we are hard at work on our first periodical publication, featuring in-depth readings, conversations and interviews to accompany the growing content of this database. Think of it as a hard copy supplement to this soft copy environment. We hope to launch our first issue somewhere mid 2025 .
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<div class="about-details-col">
DESCRIPTION
This project was born out of personal necessity and frustration. It is the result of archiving notes, creating spreadsheets, collecting books, indexing urls and filling the clouds with screenshots in order to keep track of developments that live on the fringes of fashion and digital culture.

The Softwear Directory was made possible with the help of the Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie and would not have been possible without the help of many amazing creatives, coders and critics who have shared their insights and expertise along the way.

CURATOR
Chinouk Filique de Miranda
ART DIRECTOR
Kimberley ter Heerdt
WEB DEVELOPER
Artemis Gryllaki
GENEROUS INPUT FROM
Hanka van der Voet & Beata Wilczek
 Unless otherwise stated, all the contents on the Softwear Directory are licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. 
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078

2025-03-19T12:39:47Z

Chinouk:

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|Subject=Algorithm, Body, Agency
|Description=In "Swiping Dichotomies," Akseli Manner critically examines the swiping gesture in digital interactions, particularly in dating apps. It explores the origins of swiping, its tactile and psychological effects, and its role in shaping user autonomy. The thesis questions how algorithmic design influences decision-making, reducing complex human interactions to binary choices. By analyzing swiping's cultural and technological significance, Manner highlights the tension between agency and automation in digital interfaces. The work ultimately seeks to reclaim more intentional, nuanced interactions in a world increasingly driven by frictionless, habitual gestures dictated by platform logic and commercial interests.
|Reflection=By examining the origins, cultural significance and tactile nature of swiping, this thesis establishes swiping as both a technological object and a cultural phenomenon. In exploring whether such gestures enhance or diminish autonomy in digital spaces, its analysis aligns with the ideas set out in Coded Gestures[076], as both texts critically examine how embodied technologies can either empower users or subtly dictate behaviour, urging a more intentional approach to gesture-driven design.
|External reference=[https://www.instagram.com/manner________laatta/ Akseli's Instagram], [https://thesis.digitale-grafik.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email Klasse Digitale Grafik — HFBK]
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2025-03-19T12:39:18Z

Chinouk:

081

2025-03-18T19:07:15Z

Chinouk:

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|Title=Fashion Printed Matter(s), Fashion and Art Book Fair
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081

2025-03-18T19:06:52Z

Chinouk: Created page with "{{Entry |Entry number=081 |People=The Fashion Research Library |Title=Fashion Printed Matter(s) |Link=https://fashionresearchlibrary.com/program/fashion-printed-matter-s-fashion-and-art-book-fair |Type=Event |Date=2025/03/22 }}"

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080

2025-03-18T19:04:47Z

Chinouk: Created page with "{{Entry |Entry number=080 |People=Marek Poliks, Roberto Alonso Trillo |Entity=Collaboration |Title=Disintegrator |Link=https://open.spotify.com/show/4AcGAXHIdRu1toaZYnK3kB |Type=Podcast |Discipline=critical |Subject=Artificial Intelligence, Techno-social |Description=What does it mean to be human in an age where experience and behaviour are mediated and regulated by algorithms? The Disintegrator podcast is a limited series that explores how artificial intelligence affect..."

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|Description=What does it mean to be human in an age where experience and behaviour are mediated and regulated by algorithms? The Disintegrator podcast is a limited series that explores how artificial intelligence affects who we are and how we express ourselves. Roberto Alonso Trillo and Marek Poliks talk to artists, philosophers, scientists and social theorists at the forefront of the human-AI relationship about the intersections of technology and politics, and the modes of performance and reconsumption through which humans traverse and embed themselves in digital space.
|External reference=[https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/disintegrator/id1716416573 Apple Podcasts], [https://robertoalonsotrillo.com/ Roberto Alonso Trillo], [https://www.marekpoliks.com/ Marek Poliks]
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079

2025-03-18T18:56:52Z

Chinouk: Created page with "{{Entry |Entry number=079 |People=Javier Arce |Entity=Individual |Title=PoetiCal |Link=https://poetical.day/ |Type=Project |Discipline=experimental |Subject=Techno-social, Publishing |Description=PoetiCal is an experimental, collaborative publication only accessible through a calendar app.The only way to access this publication is through a calendar app. |Reflection=The emergence of platforms such as Poetical.day marks a transformative shift in how individuals engage wit..."

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|Description=PoetiCal is an experimental, collaborative publication only accessible through a calendar app.The only way to access this publication is through a calendar app.
|Reflection=The emergence of platforms such as Poetical.day marks a transformative shift in how individuals engage with and share their creative voices through digital media. Enabling collective publishing through this platform (albeit subject to curatorial selection first) is not just about facilitating content creation, but more about fostering community, as the shared human experience of everyday life is highlighted in form and context. The power of such a 'collective publishing platform' lies in the ability to contribute, collaborate and engage with others in small ways.
|External reference=[https://javier.computer/ Javier Arce]
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The Fashion Research Library

2025-03-18T18:51:29Z

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The Dark Forest Collective

2025-03-18T18:51:01Z

Chinouk: Created page with "{{Person |Name=the Dark Forest Collective }}"

Philip Maughan

2025-03-18T18:50:28Z

Chinouk: Created page with "{{Person |Name=Philip Maughan }}"

078

2025-03-18T17:56:12Z

Chinouk:

078

2025-03-18T17:55:49Z

Chinouk: Created page with "{{Entry |Entry number=078 |People=Akseli Manner |Title=Swiping Dichotomies: Losing Self-determination to a Digital Gesture — and How to Gain It Back |Pdf=https://thesis.digitale-grafik.com/media/pages/theses/swiping-dichotomies/a81f963909-1742237083/swiping_dichotomies.pdf |Link=https://swiping-dichotomies.digitale-grafik.com |Type=Thesis |Discipline=critical |Subject=Algorithm, Body, Agency |Description=In "Swiping Dichotomies," Akseli Manner critically examines the s..."

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|Description=In "Swiping Dichotomies," Akseli Manner critically examines the swiping gesture in digital interactions, particularly in dating apps. It explores the origins of swiping, its tactile and psychological effects, and its role in shaping user autonomy. The thesis questions how algorithmic design influences decision-making, reducing complex human interactions to binary choices. By analyzing swiping's cultural and technological significance, Manner highlights the tension between agency and automation in digital interfaces. The work ultimately seeks to reclaim more intentional, nuanced interactions in a world increasingly driven by frictionless, habitual gestures dictated by platform logic and commercial interests.
|Reflection=By examining the origins, cultural significance and tactile nature of swiping, this thesis establishes swiping as both a technological object and a cultural phenomenon. In exploring whether such gestures enhance or diminish autonomy in digital spaces, its analysis aligns with the ideas set out in Coded Gestures[076], as both texts critically examine how embodied technologies can either empower users or subtly dictate behaviour, urging a more intentional approach to gesture-driven design.
|External reference=[https://www.instagram.com/manner________laatta/ Akseli's Instagram], [https://thesis.digitale-grafik.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email Klasse Digitale Grafik — HFBK]
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