Source Culture: On Vernacular Computing
Vernacular computing refers to the study and design of computation as it exists in locally situated, culturally transmitted practices such as rituals, crafts, recipes, and oral traditions, and the use of those practices to inform new computational systems.
Source Culture is a workshop on how everyday cultural practices might shape alternative approaches to computing. Through playful, collaborative exercises, participants draw on their own cultural experiences to identify the logic, repetition, pattern, and knowledge transmission in familiar practices. We then translate these practices into computational rules, systems, and speculative interactions.
The workshop asks how cultural knowledge can reshape the way we understand and design technology. Along the way, participants reconsider what counts as computation, whose knowledge informs it, and what it means to compute otherwise.
Registration Notes:
The workshop encourages a pre-requisite of basic understanding of coding, coding languages, and computational logic, but all are welcome.
Participants are encouraged to bring along their laptops, tablets or mobile devices.
About the Artist
Aditi Neti is a South Asian creative technologist and graphic designer exploring the interconnectedness and synergy between machine, man, and nature. She finds herself most excited by speculative narratives, interactions, and artefacts informed by cultural perspectives. In her practice, she aims to highlight how the complexities of human relationships with the natural world can manifest in alternative and absurd ways through technology.
This workshop is presented as part of Codependent Curricular Activities, an artist takeover programme presented and produced by ToNewEntities, and curated by Rafi Abdullah. The programme is supported by the National Arts Council's Arts x Tech Lab initiative. The Lab nurtures Singapore's arts x tech community, driving new artistic endeavours and bridging arts and technology conversations to develop Singapore's vibrant arts scene.
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