Roel Roscam Abbing

Roel Roscam Abbing (1990, NL) is currently pursuing a PhD in Interaction Design at Malmö University’s School of Arts and Communication (K3). There he researches alternative social media, on-line federation and community-owned digital infrastructure. Furthermore, he works as an artist and media designer with a highly collaborative practice that engages with network infrastructures, the politics, and materiality of technology, do-it-yourself approaches and self-organization.

He holds an MA Networked Media from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam and a Fine Arts BA (Hon) from the Willem De Kooning Academy. He has previously worked as a lecturer in Digital Media at the department of Graphic Design at Artez, Arnhem, as a lecturer in the Hacking and Digital Craft programmes of Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam and taught freestanding workshops and courses at Design Academy, Eindhoven.

He is one of the founding members of Varia in Rotterdam. (2022)

Publications

• co-editor, Networks Of Ones Own 1: "Etherbox", Brussels: Constant, Sep 2018.

• with Kris De Decker and Marie Otsuka, "How to Build a Low-tech Website?", Low-Tech Magazine, Sep 2018. [1] (English)/(French)/(German)/(Dutch)/(Spanish)/(Portuguese)/(Polish)

• with Kris De Decker and Marie Otsuka, "How Sustainable is a Solar Powered Website?", Low-Tech Magazine, Jan 2020. [2] (English)/(French)/(German)/(Spanish)/(Polish)

• with Aymeric Mansoux, "Seven Theses on the Fediverse and the Becoming of FLOSS", in The Eternal Network: The Ends and Becomings of Network Culture, eds. Kristoffer Gansing and Inga Luchs, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, and Berlin: transmediale e.V., Feb 2020, pp 124-140.

See also

• Varia

Links

• Website, [3]
• Mastodon: https://post.lurk.org/@rra
• Twitter
• Profile on Malmö U
• Profile on PZI wiki
• Profile on V2_