A lot has been written about the meaning of the local in the context of a "globalised" world. When I first became interested in what the role was of digital technologies in shaping the way people live and experience what surrounds them I decided to investigate how these technologies were…

It is often said that we live in a ‘knowledge economy’ or ‘knowledge society’. While it is commonly understood that making sense and understanding vast quantities of data is essential to the work of such an economy, the role of representations and visualizations is often understated or ignored. The assumption…

Where do we draw the line between art and science? I’ve posed this question several times now and still have very different answers. If I were to ask this question to Bruno Latour, sociologist and philosopher, maybe he would say: all these distinctions were produced by what we call modernism.…

For quite a while now, many scholars in anthropology have argued for a new way of practicing and looking at anthropology while pointing out the important intersection between their field and contemporary art. Most of them also argue that such an approach is largely being ignored in anthropology. This might…

Cars were invented, toasters and scissors were invented. When they were invented, they seemed useful and specific tasks were made easier or maybe even possible in the first place. Most people would be inclined to say that these were innovations and that their creation was a truly creative act because…

matterien: Amalgam of English 'matters' and German 'materien' (meaning the same) matter / noun something that is being done, talked about, or thought about the situation or subject that is being discussed or dealt with the thing that forms physical objects and occupies space matter / verb  to be important "Matter." …