Inventory-ing

Spencer Chang is an artist, engineer, and toy maker based in San Francisco.

Spanning internet spaces, interactive sculptures, and creative infrastructure, their practice involves works that amplify the play, creation, and care that emerges from our relationships with and through computers.

These works act as interventions that leverage whimsical intimacy to interrogate our systems, invite active imagination for reinventing them, and finally, equip people with the means to do so.
More on their website spencer.place

Kristoffer is an independent curator and strategist living in Athens, Greece. He is dedicated to keeping the web alive through Naive Weekly, his well-received Sunday email, and Naive Yearly, an annual gathering for internet practitioners.

Other of his initiatives include Tiny Awards, the internet’s own award, The Internet Phone Book, a directory for exploring the poetic web, and Diagram.Website, an internet link portal.

Naive Weekly

Naive Yearly

Photo by Ana Santl

Meg Miller is a writer and editor living in Richmond, Virginia. She is editorial director at Are.na and a contributing editor at Source Type. Occasionally she teaches, gives lectures, runs writing workshops, and collaborates on various little publishing projects, mostly with friends, and many times with people who don't consider themselves writers, but are.

Links:

Meg's Website megmiller.world

Are.na Annual

ORDE.KOSMOS by Aliki van der Kruijs

Sean Thielen-Esparza is an independent creative technologist & object maker based in New York City.

Currently, he is partnering with founders on product & brand strategy at Menagerie and writing about creation at Language.

Previously, he led Genesis as a co-founder & CEO and created a crypto wallet with an iconic brand. Before that, he was a PM at Hyperscience on a zero-to-one AI product that scaled to millions in revenue. In his free time, he runs a professional design studio in Brooklyn where he make objects (mostly furniture) and incubate emerging designers.

Benjamin Earl is a Designer and Artistic Technologist with an interest in the digitisation of everyday life, the rendering and simulation of physical environments, and digital communication and knowledge sharing practices. In his work he uses moving image and computer programming to create films, websites, installations and performances that reveal entangled narratives and complex power structures. 

His work involves looking closely at the material and tangible ruptures of digital culture whilst simultaneously trying to imagine new ways of computing that can be contextual, situated and relational. His work has been exhibited at Het Nieuwe Insituut (Rotterdam), Impakt Festival (Utrecht), Bureau Europa (Maastricht), Fibre Festival (Amsterdam) and CIVA Festival (Vienna) amongst others. He has a BA in Graphic Design from Falmouth University, UK and an MA in Non Linear Narrative from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague.

You can find more about Ben on his website https://bnjmnearl.eu

You can find all the links mentioned in this episode on the Inventory-ing website