AYMERIC MANSOUX: "I am the WdKA lector design research in sustainable materials and technology.
I lead and supervise research projects that deal with sustainability, politics and computational culture—more specifically: ecology, network infrastructures, digital sovereignty, e-waste, circular economy, permacomputing, low-tech, shadow IT, repair culture, the digital commons and degrowth. I am interested in how these topics are embraced or challenged in the field of art, design, and cultural production, how they manifest and materialise in this field, and how this can in turn help conceptualise, beyond the cultural sector, much needed plausible pathways for living and working otherwise.
I was a founding member of server based collective GOTO10 (a.o. FLOSS+Art anthology, Puredyne GNU/Linux distro, make art festival). Some works and collaborations include: Naked on Pluto, a Facebook critique in the form of a Facebook game; The SKOR Codex, an archive about the impossibility of archiving; What Remains, an 8-bit Nintendo game about whistleblowing and the manipulation of public opinion in relation to the climate crisis; LURK, a server infrastructure to host discussions around net/computational art, algorithmic music, culture, and politics; and the permacomputing wiki and network where a growing number of contributors document and discuss alternatives to extractive mainstream computation.
I received my PhD from the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths University of London for my analysis, critique and history of art, design and culture produced under the techno-legal frameworks of free and open source licensing. In 2017 I founded and led until 2021 XPUB, the Experimental Publishing master at WdKA’s Piet Zwart Institute.
For a more extensive list of works, projects, and writings, please visit my Monoskop page: https://monoskop.org/"
Email: a.l.mansoux@hr.nl
