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         <p class="about-main-text">Fashions’ digital dimension, beholds a wide variety of multidisciplinary practitioners and collectives, that are scattered all around the internet, and use different vernaculars. In its wake lie a manifold of underexposed, independent, critical and networked ways of approaching, working with and through digitized forms of fashion. The Literacy Index aims to highlight, and give insight to, a wide variety of digital (design) practices, provide tools that help promote digital literacy, and facilitate a growing network of individuals & collectives from different disciplines, in order to actively question and assess fashion’s online realm through the following levels;</p>
         <p class="about-main-text"> 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.  </p>
        <p class="about-main-text text-indent">➊ sources; literary/artistic references.   Giving insight in the past, present and future of ongoing practices & projects that orbit around the crossover between digital culture and/or fashion.
<p class="about-more-text>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.
        <p class="about-main-text text-indent">➋ methods; tools or workshops. Gathering tools that specifically attribute to the development of digital literacy. Encouraging to self-educate, and critically navigate the digital space.</p>
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        <p class="about-main-text text-indent">➌ spaces; communities & public programmes. Looking beyond the individual practices, by highlighting the existing connective tissue that questions are raised, external input is collected and critical discourse is expedited</p>
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         <p class="about-more-text>This online database that provides a look into the manifold of compartmentalised practices that investigate fashions’ digital realm. These range from educational programs focusing on digitised forms of material development and fashions’ translation within virtual reality, to critical and independent practices that investigate and look beyond the material product fashion provides, such as value production, the impact of distorted images on our online identity, and the ability to self-publish online as form of hacking traditional fashion media.</p>
   
        <p class="about-more-text>This index intends to highlight a growing collection of initiatives and shed light on the dynamic fabric that fashions online environment upholds. By centring, connecting, these modes of doing, making and experiencing fashion and opening these up for debate, we’re able to explore a new type of criticism. One that veers away from an elitist form of critique that is generated top down, and towards a mode that is inquisitive, is born through a trickle up approach, and upholds a participatory and emancipatory format.</p>
         <p class="about-more-text>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.
        <p class="about-more-text>The different levels within the index make it possible for different audiences to engage, learn and connect with its content. Some of the subcategories will be highly specific, and some of the content will be approachable for a larger, non-academic audience. Even though the index is tailored towards a specific margin of interest, the fact that almost everybody encounters fashion digitally on a day to day basis, makes it important to take a broad non-professional-but-still-interested audience into account.</p>
</p> <p class="about-more-text> 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?
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<p class="about-more-text> 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 in <u>autumn 2024</u> .</p>
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         <p class="about-details-contact">This project was born from pure personal necessity and frustration. It is a result of archiving notes, creating spreadsheets, collecting books, indexing urls and filling the clouds’ capacity with screenshots in order to keep track of developments that live in-between the margins of fashion and digital culture.</p>
         <p class="about-details-contact">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.
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         <p class="about-details-contact">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. 
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    <p class="about-details-label>CURATOR</p>
        <p class="about-details-text">Chinouk Filique de Miranda</p>
        <p class="about-details-label">ART DIRECTOR</p>
         <p class="about-details-text">Kimberley ter Heerdt</p>
         <p class="about-details-text">Kimberley ter Heerdt</p>
         <p class="about-details-label>WEB DEVELOPMENT</p>
         <p class="about-details-label>WEB DEVELOPER</p>
         <p class="about-details-text">Artemis Gryllaki</p>
         <p class="about-details-text">Artemis Gryllaki</p>
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        <p class="about-details-label>ADVICE</p>
         <p class="about-details-text">Hanka van der Voet </br>& Beata Wilczek</p>
         <p class="about-details-text">Hanka van der Voet </br>& Beata Wilczek</p>
        <p class="about-details-label> Unless otherwise stated, all the contents on the Softwear Directory are licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. </p>
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⤢ a directory that gathers, stacks and links practices that work with, through and beyond (digital) fashion […]
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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.

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 in autumn 2024 .

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

ADVISORS

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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As the online realm often feels infinite, this directory highlights non-commercial, critical, and experimental online content related (but not limited) to fashion and creative practices. It features projects, essays, visuals, and events, offering tools to navigate this dynamic landscape.

In gathering a wide variety of practitioners and collectives, we are always expanding, and looking to add to this growing bibliography of ‘being online’.

If you've encountered or created something that fits within this scope, feel free to share and submit!

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