Office for Digital Oblivion
On Material and Operational Complexities of Contemporary Data Infrastructures
T.C. Reinhardt (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
Negar Sanaan Bensi – Mentor (TU Delft - Theory, Territories & Transitions)
P.H.M. Jennen – Mentor (TU Delft - Architectural Technology)
O.R.G. Rommens – Mentor (TU Delft - Theory, Territories & Transitions)
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Abstract
The Office for Digital Oblivion is a project that aims to re-ground discourse on information technologies and the realm of the digital through engagement with its immediate material conditions and operations. It has grown to become a full-fledged hybrid, blurring boundaries of what we consider natural or cultural, ecological or anthropocentric. It aims to to challenge perceived banalities around information infrastructures, tracing systems through scales, aiming to spatialise and thus problematise operational complexities which due to their scale remain largely illegible. With that, it puts forward new approaches to conceive of infrastructural systems, transgressing purely technocratic dogmas and new ways of thinking, worlding and becoming-together in the Anthropocene.