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30/01/2023
On Digital Discomfort

Execution

Critical Software Thing

Originating with the twelfth-century French term l’exécuteur du testament (the executor of the will), the term “execution” today finds itself entangled in myriad systems, such as linguistic systems, judiciary systems, computational systems, and systems of memory—all of which are touched upon in this text (originally published as an entry in The Posthuman Glossary [2028]) by Critical Software Thing (CST)). Be it by guillotine or CPU, as a realization of a decreed sentence, CST suggest that “execution” always relates to the now, “to an actualization, a presence which is always already over.” Highlighting the micro-instructions, micro-operations, and micro-temporality of systems executions, CST point toward the liveness inherent in them. Without succumbing to the seeming seamlessness of computation—harkening to the Cell for Digital Discomfort’s suggestion to embrace a seamful approach to technology—and with an awareness for the executive power of code, CST propose that code itself to be regarded as but “a partial instruction within a wider, dynamic ecology of many executing systems.”

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05/12/2022
On Digital Discomfort

A Pluriverse of Local Worlds: A Review of Computing within Limits—Related Terminology and Practices

Marloes de Valk

In haar studie "A Pluriverse of Local Worlds: A Review of Computing within Limits - Related Terminology and Practices" (2021) brengt softwarekunstenaar en schrijver Marloes de Valk een diversiteit aan kleinschalige praktijken in kaart, die zich richten op duurzaamheid en sociale rechtvaardigheid in relatie tot computergebruik. De Valk brengt een breed spectrum van terminologieën samen die voortkomen uit computerpraktijken—van het beheren en onderhouden van een infrastructuur in collectief eigendom— waarbij de monocultuur en growth mindset van BigTech, en de daarbij horende negatieve impact op het milieu, worden uitgedaagd.

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Year 2021

Toward the Not-Yet: Art as Public Practice

Door Jeanne van Heeswijk, Maria Hlavajova, Rachael Rakes, +42

Year 2020

Deserting from the Culture Wars

Door Maria Hlavajova, Sven Lütticken, Bini Adamczak, +11

Year 2019

Propositions for Non-Fascist Living: Tentative and Urgent

Door Maria Hlavajova, Wietske Maas, Rosi Braidotti, +13

Year 2017

Marion von Osten: Once We Were Artists (A BAK Critical Reader in Artists’ Practice)

Door Maria Hlavajova, Tom Holert, Hidde van Greuningen, +13

Year 2009

The Return of Religion and Other Myths (handboek)

Door Maria Hlavajova, Sven Lütticken, Marlies van Hak, +1

Year 2004

Who if not we should at least try to imagine the future of all this? 7 episodes on (ex)changing Europe

Door Maria Hlavajova, Jill Winder, Catherine David, +1

Year 2004

Cordially Invited (projectgids)

Door Maria Hlavajova, Gerardo Mosquera, Solvej Helweg Ovesen, +1

Year 2004

Now What? Artists Write!

Door Mark Kremer, Maria Hlavajova, Annie Fletcher

Year 2003

Now What? Dreaming a better world in six parts (projectgids)

Door Maria Hlavajova, Annie Fletcher, Liutauras Psibilskis

Year 2002

The Kit (Emmanuelle’s Annual Manual)

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Germaine Kruip, A Play To Stop to Add A Moment

Door Maria Hlavajova, Germaine Kruip

Year 2002

Becoming Oneself

Door Maria Hlavajova, Annie Fletcher, Nicolas Bourriaud, +7

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Common Ground

Door Maria Hlavajova, Krijn de Koning, André van Bergen, +5

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