Temporary Techno-social Gatherings? A (hacked) discussion about open practices

This paper is rooted in an experimental inquiry of issue-oriented temporary techno-social gatherings or TTGs, which are typically referred to as hackathons, workshops or pop-ups and employ rapid design and development practices to tackle technical challenges while engaging with social issues. Based on a collaboration between three digital practitioners (a producer, a researcher and a designer), qualitative and creative data was gathered across five different kinds of TTG events in London and in Tartu which were held in partnership with large institutions, including Art:Work at Tate Exchange within Tate Modern, the Mozilla Festival at Ravensbourne College and the 2017 Association of Internet Researchers conference hosted in Tartu. By analysing data using an open and discursive approach manifested in both text and visual formats, we reflect on the dynamic and generative characteristics of TTG gatherings while also arriving at our own conclusions as situated researchers and practitioners who are ourselves engaged in increasingly messy webs where new worlds of theory and practice are built.

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Luca M. Damiani

Kat Braybrooke

John Philip Sage

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Publication date: July 2018

Publication date (Print): July 2018

Pages: 263-271

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[0001]Tate & London College of Communication

Tate & University of the Arts London, UK

[0002]University of Sussex Humanities Lab

Brighton, UK

[0003]John Philip Sage Design

London, UK

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.52

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

Conference acronym: EVA

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 9 - 13 July 2018

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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[1] Artists Open Studios, Mozilla Festival 2017 http://issuu.com/mozfest/docs/artistsopenstudios (retrieved 26 March 2018

[2] Art:Work http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/tate-exchange/workshop/artwork (retrieved 26 March 2018

[3] K. Braybrooke 2016 A Doctoral Day by Other Means: Power-geometries of space, community and (R)evolution in El Poblenou EASST Review 35 4:51 54

[4] G. BriscoeC. Mulligan 2014 Digital Innovation: The hackathon phenomenon Creative Works London

[5] P. CardulloR. KitchinC. Di Feliciantonio 2017 Living Labs and Vacancy in the Neoliberal City Cities, 73:44 50

[6] Compiler Collective http://compiler.zone (retrieved 26 March 2018

[7] L. DamianiI. Papadimitriou 2016 MozEx: Web? Arts? Tech? Experience? Electronic Visualisation and the Arts British Computer Society

[8] F. DeVajuanyN. Mitev 2013 Materiality and Space –Organisations, Artefact and Practices Palgrave MacMillan

[9] W. DeVries 2003 Protecting Privacy in the Digital Age Bereley Technology Law Journal 18

[10] S. DickelJ. FerdinandU. Petschow 2015 Shared Machine Shops as Real-Life Laboratories Journal of Peer Production

[11] R. EmersonR. FretzL. Shaw 2011 Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes institutionUniversity of Chicago Press

[12] M. FriedewaldR. Pohoryles 2014 Privacy and Security in the Digital Age Routledge

[13] Gary Stewart Artist Portfolio http://www.garystewart.org (retrieved 26 March 2018

[14] J. Habermas 1991 The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An inquiry into a category of bourgeois society MIT Press Cambridge

[15] D. Haraway 1988 Situated Knowledges: The science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective Feminist Studies 14 3:575 599

[16] R. HassanR. Purser 2007 24/7: Time and Temporality in the Network Society Stanford Business Books

[17] M. Heidegger 1971 The Thing, trans. A. Hofstadter Poetry, Language, Thought Harper and Row New York

[18] L. Irani 2015 Hackathons and the Making of Entrepreneurial Citizenship Science, Technology, & Human Values 40 5:799 824

[19] J. Law 2016 STS as method The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies MIT Press Cambridge 31 55

[20] T. J. LodatoC. DiSalvo 2016 Issue-oriented Hackathons as Material Participation New Media & Society 18 4:539 557

[21] G. Marcus 1995 Ethnography in/of the World System: The emergence of multi-sited ethnography Annual Review of Anthropology, 24 95 117

[22] M. Martinez 2012 Communication, Technology, Temporality in Futures of Communication Vol 1 http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/vol1/iss1/5 (retrieved 26 March 2018

[23] MozFest http://mozillafestival.org (retrieved 26 March 2018

[24] P. C. Phillips 1989 Temporality and Public Art in Critical Issues in Public Art 48 College Art Association

[25] M. Ratto 2011 Critical making: Conceptual and material studies in technology and social life Information Society, 27 4:252 260

[26] Sam Meech http://smeech.co.uk (retrieved 26 March 2018

[27] R. Sanjek 1990 Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology Cornell University Press

[28] N. Selwyn 2012 Making Sense of Young People, Education and Digital Technology: The role of sociological theory Oxford Review of Education, 38

[29] A. SmithM. FressoliD. AbrolE. ArondA. Ely 2016 Grassroots Innovation Movements Routledge New York

[30] Tactical Tech Collective http://tacticaltech.org (retrieved 26 March 2018

[31] A. ToombsS. BardzellJ. Bardzell 2014 Becoming Makers: Hackerspace member habits, values and identities Journal of Peer Production 5

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