"...[technology] becomes curative when you have what I call the second moment of epochality of technics... [the process of appropriation of a new technical system by society and the development of new modes of psychic and collective individuation based on this technical system]"

-Bernard Stiegler

magines::

MACHINES // MAGIC // IMAGES

MAGINES embraces the intrinsic world-making abilities of the Digital Interface [DI] to imagine the creation of 'OTHER' ONLINE WORLDS- GENERATIVE/HEALING ENVIRONMENTS

Aware of the often harmful effects of online environments, we explore WHAT ELSE IS POSSIBLE?

[other interfaces]

MAGINES are imaginative approaches to the creation of digital interfaces so as to unleash DI true expressive possibilities

Away from the normative metaphor of the 'page' we approach the digital space as open spaces for creative experimentation, communication, learning and healing

Our experiments will draw from the traditions of visual art, poetry and ancestral philosophies to deduct a set of creative principles and technologies that may result in a technologically advanced poetic language

Our goal is to imagine practices that would empower individuals and communities to forge their own voice and manifest their online existence in their own terms, beyond the constrains of templates and the increasingly oppressive conditions

magines are a re-imagination of the digital interface
as a post-linear, complex language

magines embraces the digital interface as the epicenter of contemporary culture

our experiments will draw from the traditions of visual art, poetry and ancestral philosophies to deduct a set of creative principles and technologies that may result in a technologically advanced poetic language

magines search for generative experiences departs from the examination of DI as language

magines embrace the spatial nature of DI as language

we re-imagine it's two key metaphors (pages and hyperlinked architectures)

magines will comprise "portals" and "hyperlinked formations"

these are the bases for our imaginary generative interfaces::
[m a g i n e s]

magic:

machines:

MAGINES embraces the highly technological nature of the Digital Interface
We explore the array of psycho-technogies often deployed in DI design. Aware of the often harmful effects of online environments, we explore WHAT ELSE IS POSSIBLE?

MAGINES seek to enable digital interface's full potentials as a new universal language: MAGINES adopts a variety of TECHNOLOGIES FOR ENHANCING COMMUNICATION AND THOUGHT PROCESSES

images:

A complex language for a complex reality