# about

compudanzas is a research project exploring alternative modes of computation. 

we reimagine computing and its implications.

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! 

=> ./img/foto_laconsagracion_playa.jpg photo of the rite of computing: there is a wiggly row of shapes in the floor, each of them composed of small blocks of wood. a person is crouching, building one of these shapes. other two people are watching, sitting in the floor. there are some cardboard shapes with symbols, also in the floor. 

# mission

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?

=> ./img/foto_laconsagracion_04.jpg photo of pieces of wood in the floor, with some hands manipulating them

# research

{las danzas} is our main line of exploration. for the moment the texts are in spanish only; that should change soon.

we also design and develop {coloring computers}.

whenever we write software, we try to do it at a {low-level}.

and we tend to write some {poetry} related to these interests.

see the {log} for updates in the project.

see the {roadmap} for updates that want to happen.

=> ./references.gmi {references}

# support

{support} us and help us achieve the goal of having this dream project as our main activity

=> https://www.patreon.com/compudanzas support compudanzas on patreon

# meta

this {wiki} is currently under construction. 

it exists in the web and in the {gemini} protocol:

=> https://compudanzas.net/ compudanzas (web)
=> gemini://compudanzas.net/ compudanzas (gemini)

visit the index of all {pages} in the site.

# contact

=> ./contact.gmi {contact}