For the development of the final project, we focused on the idea of Circuit Bending.
Circuit bending is pure creative experimentation, a form of alchemy.
Alchemy is a practice whose main objectives were the transmutation of metals into gold, the creation of a life elixir for immortality, and the spiritual perfection of the practitioner.
We're talking about getting our hands dirty. About shaping. About ingredients and quantities and temperatures, ways of cutting, removing, and waiting, of burning, exploding, and allowing ourselves to be surprised.
Manifesto by Jaleo
<< We are living in-between as being a presence in the present: staying in between is a process of Transform-Action, a dynamic happening of alchemy. It's oscillating across dichotomies to find rebirth, the rebirth of meaning, experiencing, feeling.
The Transform-Action itself is a process of rebirthing.
The presence in the present is a gathering space to feel safe and take care (of), where choosing and imperfections are allowed because it is ever-changing. It’s a humble and hopeful belief that this space can grow exactly here in symbiosis.
Being in-between does not mean to find a margin and choose a point on this line, but moving freely in a grey area not clearly defined. It's not only guided by knowledge and rationality, but also by instinct, feel and sense.
The starting point to reach this grey area is material, tangible, but at the same time ready to be reconsidered through virtuality. >>
On the materiality and action of touch (presence in the present): pure alchemy.
Escaping from the digital, we wanted to focus on the idea of touching, of transforming using the materiality of digital waste.
To adequately understand contemporary media culture, we must focus on the material realities that precede it: the history of the Earth, geological and mineral formations, and energy.
Not only are rare minerals necessary for our digital devices to function, but also obsolete media technologies return to the earth as residues of digital culture.
These technologies must increasingly be understood through chemistry, toxic components, and the residues they generate after their function as media has been, in a manner of speaking, "consumed".
Mediocultural objects and information technology are intimately related to the soil, the air, and nature as concrete and temporal realities.
We believe that media never truly die: they decompose, rot, change, intermingle, and become historicized, reinterpreted, and collected. They are already obsolete and are in an "archaeological phase".
Circuit bending, the hacking of hardware, reuse, and reintroduce dead media into a new lifecycle for these objects.
Connecting with communities
Following the practice and philosophy of circuit bending, we recognized the importance of the process and action.
Sharing our experiences, results, and mistakes is fundamental to discovery and learning.
Therefore, our interventions focused on getting to know and experimenting with communities that also work with the practice and philosophy of circuit bending.
Design Studio III
For the development of the final project, we focused on the idea of Circuit Bending.
Circuit bending is pure creative experimentation, a form of alchemy.
Alchemy is a practice whose main objectives were the transmutation of metals into gold, the creation of a life elixir for immortality, and the spiritual perfection of the practitioner.
We're talking about getting our hands dirty. About shaping.
About ingredients and quantities and temperatures, ways of cutting, removing, and waiting, of burning, exploding, and allowing ourselves to be surprised.
Manifesto by Jaleo
<< We are living in-between as being a presence in the present: staying in between is a process of Transform-Action, a dynamic happening of alchemy.
It's oscillating across dichotomies to find rebirth, the rebirth of meaning, experiencing, feeling.
The Transform-Action itself is a process of rebirthing.
The presence in the present is a gathering space to feel safe and take care (of), where choosing and imperfections are allowed because it is ever-changing. It’s a humble and hopeful belief that this space can grow exactly here in symbiosis.
Being in-between does not mean to find a margin and choose a point on this line, but moving freely in a grey area not clearly defined. It's not only guided by knowledge and rationality, but also by instinct, feel and sense.
The starting point to reach this grey area is material, tangible, but at the same time ready to be reconsidered through virtuality. >>
On the materiality and action of touch (presence in the present): pure alchemy.
Escaping from the digital, we wanted to focus on the idea of touching, of transforming using the materiality of digital waste.
To adequately understand contemporary media culture, we must focus on the material realities that precede it: the history of the Earth, geological and mineral formations, and energy.
Not only are rare minerals necessary for our digital devices to function, but also obsolete media technologies return to the earth as residues of digital culture.
These technologies must increasingly be understood through chemistry, toxic components, and the residues they generate after their function as media has been, in a manner of speaking, "consumed".
Mediocultural objects and information technology are intimately related to the soil, the air, and nature as concrete and temporal realities.
We believe that media never truly die: they decompose, rot, change, intermingle, and become historicized, reinterpreted, and collected.
They are already obsolete and are in an "archaeological phase".
Circuit bending, the hacking of hardware, reuse, and reintroduce dead media into a new lifecycle for these objects.
Connecting with communities
Following the practice and philosophy of circuit bending, we recognized the importance of the process and action.
Sharing our experiences, results, and mistakes is fundamental to discovery and learning.
Therefore, our interventions focused on getting to know and experimenting with communities that also work with the practice and philosophy of circuit bending.
Communities we engaged with :
Take a look to the summary video of our magical and experimental journey