simon

@ephemeral great news and congratulations!

To celebrate the launch of Varia's new website here's a text that @alcstrt@post.lurk.org @d1@autonomous.zone @cmos4040@post.lurk.org and I wrote during a Research Fellowship at Het Nieuwe Instituut, in which we looked into what our website was, and thought about what it could be: https://varia.zone/en/2024/stock-taking-sense/

Two of my favourite open-source technologies: cooking and language

@futurebird@sauropods.win @benbo@social.servus.at @ephemeral@mograph.social @cmos4040@post.lurk.org @decentral1se@gts.varia.zone Thank you! Also, thanks for sharing the "Norwich keyboard", I didn't know about this one. Love the urban myths around it, that it could be "a keyboard that fell into the fresh cement of the pavement" Since taking that photo I have since slightly polished the keys which spell my password. I suppose these will eventually corrode, but love the idea that radical openness will exist until then :)

@LillyHerself@mastodon.social Thank you! After the dust has settled I will do more documenting on https://archive.simonbrowne.page (watch this space)

Coming up on Friday June 20th is the opening of my exhibition "a workshop for everyday technology", the outcome of my residency at the Leitrim Sculpture Center in Manorhamilton/Cluainín, County Leitrim, Ireland.

It's been a very full two months of conversations around technology, borrowing tools, learning new materials and making art. I'm very grateful to the staff at the LSC for their assistance and support, the ^ collective (@benbo@social.servus.at) for lending their space for meetups, @ephemeral@mograph.social for support, stimulating conversations and bringing me into the fold, and the local community for sharing their thoughts and teaching me about non-digital technologies. Thanks also to @cmos4040@post.lurk.org for helping me in my research and organising conversations at ^, and @decentral1se@gts.varia.zone for working together with cmos on the archiving software distribusi-verse, and most importantly, the craic!

Here are the exhibition details for those interested in visiting:

Simon Browne, "a workshop for everyday technology"
Leitrim Sculpture Center, New Line, Manorhamilton

Exhibition Launch: Friday 20th June 2025 5pm – 8pm
Exhibition runs until: 19th July 2025
Gallery opening times: 11am - 1pm & 1.30pm - 4pm Wednesday to Saturday

More on the LSC website: https://www.leitrimsculpturecentre.ie/whats-on/exhibitions/exhibition-residency

and even more on my archive, running on distribusi-verse: https://archive.simonbrowne.page

Join us for a moment for a conversation about materials of technology this Friday 13:00 to 15:00 at ^ in Manorhamilton.

(graciously hosted by the fine folk at @benbo@social.servus.at)

Join us (@cmos4040@post.lurk.org, @decentral1se@gts.varia.zone and myself) to discuss products of technology, and for a demonstration of Varia's web archiving software distribusi-verse this Friday 13:00 to 15:00 at ^ in Manorhamilton.

(graciously hosted by the fine folk at @benbo@social.servus.at)

Join us (@cmos4040@post.lurk.org, @decentral1se@gts.varia.zone and myself) for a moment to map out our thoughts on trust and technology this Friday 13:00 to 15:00 at ^ in Manorhamilton.

(graciously hosted by the fine folk at @benbo@social.servus.at)

@cmos4040@post.lurk.org and I are having a rant about "technology" tomorrow (may 2nd), 1pm-3pm at ^, main street manorhamilton, county leitrim, ireland, the world!

(graciously hosted by the fine folk at @benbo@social.servus.at)

Come along!

@l03s@post.lurk.org congratulations! 👏👏👏