“Technology is not neutral. We’re inside of what we make, and it’s inside of us. We’re living in a world of connections — and it matters which ones get made and unmade.”
Donna Haraway
In starting this blog my hope is to create a resource for others who are interested in exploring the relationships between constructions (read loosely) and their impact. Whether these projects be physically realized, theoretical concerns or fleeting art practices is not so much the matter as is the reception of such ideas and projects.
My academic background has been a steady mixture of studio art, critical theory, design and urban studies. material_semiotic lacks any strict discipline in the sense of only concerning architecture, art practices, infrastructure, etc. Rather it is an attempt to approach these related practices as both an outsider and practitioner- the products of such an attempt retaining the formal goal with varying content.
