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# about
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compudanzas is a research project exploring alternative modes of computation.
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en español: {acerca}
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we reimagine computing and its implications.
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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!
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we identify with the ideas of {permacomputing} and computing within limits.
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=> ./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.
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# mission
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we enlarge to a human-scale and slow down to a human-speed the processes that give rise to what is understood as computing.
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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?
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to what extent can we reappropriate these logics to inspire other ways of being in the world?
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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}?
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are they alternative and empowering didactic materials? {performances}? puzzles? passtimes? magic tricks? marvelous pursuits?
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we see the project existing in these three dimensions:
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* pedagogic: can we guide others to learn in a critical and embodied way about the fundamentals of computers and digital technologies?
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* performative: can we play with and inspire through explorations of emerging complexity?
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* speculative: can we use this practice to imagine alternative present-futures?
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=> ./img/foto_laconsagracion_04.jpg photo of pieces of wood in the floor, with some hands manipulating them
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# research
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{las danzas} is our main line of exploration. for the moment the texts are in spanish only; that should change soon.
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we also design and develop {coloring computers}.
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whenever we write software, we try to do it at a {low-level}.
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we love to share with others:
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=> ./talks_and_workshops.gmi {talks and workshops}
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=> ./tutorials.gmi {tutorials}
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and we tend to write some {poetry} related to these interests.
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see the {log} for updates in the project.
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see the {roadmap} for updates that want to happen.
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=> ./references.gmi {references}
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# support
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{support} us and help us achieve the goal of having this dream project as our main activity
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=> https://www.patreon.com/compudanzas support compudanzas on patreon
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=> https://ko-fi-com/compudanzas support compudanzas on ko-fi
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# meta
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this {wiki} is currently under construction.
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it exists in the web and in the {gemini} protocol:
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=> https://compudanzas.net/ compudanzas (web)
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=> gemini://compudanzas.net/ compudanzas (gemini)
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visit the index of all {pages} in the site.
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# contact
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=> ./contact.gmi {contact}
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