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On Post-Digitality
POST-DIGITAL
AESTHETICS
SUBVERSION
AGENCY
SUSTAINABILITY
Disillusionment with technology in the post-digital era has undoubtedly affected our understandings and expectations for subversive practices in art or, more broadly, artistic resistance. If […] there is no longer something “to subvert, to divert or invert,” and efforts at subversion are subsumed by media corporations and state security agencies, what strategies could possibly be used to change this condition?
Daphne Dragona, What Is Left to Subvert? Artistic Methodologies for a Post-digital World, 2016
In the light of a society saturated by digital technologies – often invisible, but deeply rooted in everyday life – the Lo-fi As Resistance manifesto proposes a critical reflection on the ecological impact of the ubiquity of computing infrastructures that permeate our daily lives. The project consists of a website built on the principles of digital sustainability, which adopts a minimalist logic and promotes a reduction in energy consumption by eliminating superfluous elements, as well as enhancing performance, readability and accessibility. In terms of content, it is an essay based on Florian Cramer's text What is post-digital? which explores the critical attitudes of creative practices in relation to the connotations of the term digital.
More than a critique or solution, this online manifesto proposes a reflection on the possibility of responsible digital construction, both on a technical, conceptual and aesthetic level, based on restraint and ecological responsibility. Lo-fi As Resistance thus invites us to imagine more sustainable online spaces that can reorient a shared and desirable future.
Disillusionment with technology in the post-digital era has undoubtedly affected our understandings and expectations for subversive practices in art or, more broadly, artistic resistance. If […] there is no longer something “to subvert, to divert or invert,” and efforts at subversion are subsumed by media corporations and state security agencies, what strategies could possibly be used to change this condition?
Daphne Dragona, What Is Left to Subvert? Artistic Methodologies for a Post-digital World, 2016
POST-DIGITAL
AESTHETICS
SUBVERSION
AGENCY
SUSTAINABILITY
In the light of a society saturated by digital technologies – often invisible, but deeply rooted in everyday life – the Lo-fi As Resistance manifesto proposes a critical reflection on the ecological impact of the ubiquity of computing infrastructures that permeate our daily lives. The project consists of a website built on the principles of digital sustainability, which adopts a minimalist logic and promotes a reduction in energy consumption by eliminating superfluous elements, as well as enhancing performance, readability and accessibility. In terms of content, it is an essay based on Florian Cramer's text What is post-digital? which explores the critical attitudes of creative practices in relation to the connotations of the term digital.
More than a critique or solution, this online manifesto proposes a reflection on the possibility of responsible digital construction, both on a technical, conceptual and aesthetic level, based on restraint and ecological responsibility. Lo-fi As Resistance thus invites us to imagine more sustainable online spaces that can reorient a shared and desirable future.
Vitor Cavalheiro