Abstract

This talk will present my Carlsberg Monograph project with the working title ‘Minor Tech’. It is a book that contributes to humanities’ studies of technology by exploring how digital art and underground culture envision ‘the minor’ as a technological alternative. It highlights a key, but often overlooked aspect of the digital transition: how sustainability, diversity, and pluralism can be integrated into technologies as a response to the environmental, cultural, and societal effects of Big Tech. The monograph’s concept of Minor Tech does not denote specific technologies, but an approach to technology that takes a minority perspective: How one can practice the minor within the major and live a good life with technology.

Short Bio

Christian Ulrik Andersen is Associate Professor at the Dept. of Digital Design & Information Studies, Aarhus University. His research addresses artistic and cultural practices of software. Through analysis and design experiments (often with grassroots communities), he investigates how class, gender, race, and other cultural values are embedded in technological infrastructures; how they are exposed and negotiated in digital art and activism; and how a wider field of design may learn from this to create more responsible and sustainable technologies.

What is an AIAS Seminar?

The AIAS Seminar Series is a session of seminars held by the AIAS fellows, AIAS Visiting or Tandem Fellows or by other speakers proposed by the fellows. In each seminar, a fellow will present and discuss her/his current research and work-in-progress to an interdisciplinary audience for 30 minutes, closing off with 30 minutes for questions, comments and discussion.

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