18.07.2024
ISSUE #24 Digital Materialities
This issue brings together contributions that question the materialities of digital technologies, and the ecological, class, racial and gender concerns that run through them.
Category : technology
15.07.2024
The Future in Unmanned
Why does the future dream of being mapped out, gridded, and automatically piloted by the culture of high technology? How does technology manage to present itself as a marker of civilisation, affirming…
15.07.2024
Learning from waste: repairing, reusing, and diverting to regain control of digital equipment
This contribution looks at digital technology through the prism of waste and waste’s potential. The contribution is based on a case study from an ethnographic survey that Bloch has been conducting with Thibault…
29.08.2022
Talking Heads – Olia Lialina
Experience of experiencing experience
In this Talking Heads conversation with art critic Jill Gasparina and digital anthropologist Nicolas Nova, Lialina bears witness to the paradigm shift that took place in the 2000s with the passage from…
11.05.2022
An innovative report on old technologies
An interview with Low-Tech magazine founder Kris De Decker
New technologies often come with harmful side effects, on both the ecological and psychosocial levels. Rather than putting the emphasis on novelty, Kris De Decker tries to address our human needs with…
11.01.2022
Strong interaction
Scientific observation put to the test by photographic observation
In recent years, the Photography Pool of HEAD – Genève has organised two transversal workshops in collaboration with CERN, the EPFL’s Biophore and the Geneva Astronomical Observatory. In 2017-2018, the “Figures” workshop…
10.02.2020
Head voices V – Nathalie Boulouch
Conference : "La photographie couleur n'est pas vulgaire"
Every month, Ambroise Tièche unearths a notable lecture given at the HEAD – Genève during its history, from past to present. Most of the video recordings he uses have never been made…