about
en español:
compudanzas is a research project exploring alternative modes of learning and creating computation.
we attempt to transition from a logic of productivity and efficiency, and circuits that destroy life, to dances, rituals, and other types of seemingly useless computers!
we move calmly, patiently, and with curiosity. we are ecofeminists.
we identify with the values and practices of permacomputing and computing within limits.
everything here is dedicated to the public domain.
research
the dances are our main line of exploration, but we also design and develop coloring computers, and we investigate beans computing.
we love to share with others in the form of tutorials or talks and workshops.
whenever we write software, we try to do it at a low-level.
we tend to write some poetry related to these interests and we also have a couple of publications. furthermore, we have shared some videos.
the txiemonks describe a possible vision for the project.
inquiry
we enlarge to a human-scale and slow down to a human-speed the processes that give rise to what is understood as computing.
through our experiments we ask: what happens when computers are dances, rituals, games, instead of closed electronic boxes with a high environmental and social cost?
to what extent can we reappropriate these logics to inspire other ways of being in the world?
what can be the role of non-electronic, very slow, human-scale, and seemingly useless computers, in a world that seems to be in collapse?
are they alternative and empowering didactic materials? performances? puzzles? passtimes? magic tricks? marvelous pursuits?
we see the project existing in these three dimensions:
- pedagogic: can we guide others to learn in a critical and embodied way about the fundamentals of computers and digital technologies?
- performative: can we play with and inspire through explorations of emerging complexity?
- speculative: can we use this practice to imagine alternative present-futures?
meta
we are a project based on bilingüismo; for the moment some texts are in spanish and some others in english only.
you can visit the log for updates in the project, the index of all pages in the site, the roadmap of what wants to happen first or the backlog of possible tasks we have accumulated.
we are collecting a list of many of our references.
the instigator of compudanzas is sejo.
for more information about this site, see the colophon.
contact
find here different means of contact.
support
if you like the project we present here several ways you can support it.