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Julie Boschat Thorez' (FR)
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is a researcher, artist and proficient creator of
 
far fetched analogies. Her work engages with the materiality of
 
digital environments through its capacity to affect or get affected by the
 
physical realm. She regards them as agents, structuring the agency between
 
humans acting across the localities covered, at a pace induced by their
 
physical properties and geographical condition. Aside from that she tries to
 
engage with the materiality (and sustainability) of digital works through
 
varied approaches and formats for specific contexts.
 
She graduated in [[Media_Design_and_Communication_Piet_Zwart_Institute_Rotterdam|Media Design and Communication from the Piet Zwart Institute]] in Rotterdam (MA, 2014-16). She is based in [[Rotterdam]].
 
  
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'''Sofia Boschat-Thorez''' is a researcher, artist and educator whose work focuses on knowledge organization systems and the stories which can be extracted from them. She primarily investigates mundane objects such as archives, collections, datasets or museums, to recover traces of their creators ideas and circumstances (for better or worse). She also has an overlapping practice of archiving with an interest for variability, circulation, community and access. She is a member of [[Varia]], a [[Rotterdam]] based initiative which aims at developing critical understandings of the technologies that surround us. She teaches at the Willem de Kooning Academy. [https://archives.tangible-cloud.be/209_mining-the-cloud/ (2022)]
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Sofia Boschat-Thorez studied Fine Arts at the ERG in Brussels and [[Media_Design_and_Communication_Piet_Zwart_Institute_Rotterdam|Media Design at the Piet Zwart Institute]] in [[Rotterdam]].
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; Publications
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* ''[[Media:Boschat-Thorez Sofia Berends Manetta Mining the Cloud 2018.pdf|Mining the Cloud]]'' (with [[Manetta Berends]]), 2018. A practice based research on the coining and evolution of the Cloud metaphor in computing over 24 years in ''Wired'' magazine. [https://archives.tangible-cloud.be/files/interviews/06_boschat_thorez.pdf Interview] (2023). [https://archives.tangible-cloud.be/209_mining-the-cloud/]
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* ''[http://web.archive.org/web/20231015171345/https://vltk.vvvvvvaria.org/w/Vernaculars_come_to_matter,_(re)orienting_language_and_technology Vernaculars Come to Matter: (Re)Orienting Language and Technology]'', eds. [[Cristina Cochior]], Julie Boschat-Thorez and [[Manetta Berends]], Rotterdam: Everyday Technology Press, 2021, 112 pp. "What is the role of the vernacular in language and technology? Vernaculars come to matter brings together a range of stories and practices that address this question." With contributions by Clara Balaguer, Cengiz Mengüç, Ren Loren Britton, Rosemary Grennan, Michael Murtaugh. [https://varia.zone/etp/#Vernaculars_come_to_matter Publisher]. [https://varia.zone/en/double-launch-si16-and-vernaculars-come-to-matter.html Book launch], [https://vvvvvvaria.org/archive/2021-12-17-Vernaculars-come-to-matter-launch/ Materials]. [http://web.archive.org/web/20231015180649/https://vltk.vvvvvvaria.org/w/VLTK Wiki].
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* [[Varia]]
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* [[Base:Mastodon|Mastodon:]] [[Mastodon::https://post.lurk.org/@sofia]]
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* [https://www.instagram.com/so.bschtthrz/ Instagram]
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* [https://daap.network/ DAAP (Digital Archive of Artists’ Publishing)]
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* [https://twitter.com/ju_bschtthrz Twitter]
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Latest revision as of 07:45, 23 September 2024

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Sofia Boschat-Thorez is a researcher, artist and educator whose work focuses on knowledge organization systems and the stories which can be extracted from them. She primarily investigates mundane objects such as archives, collections, datasets or museums, to recover traces of their creators ideas and circumstances (for better or worse). She also has an overlapping practice of archiving with an interest for variability, circulation, community and access. She is a member of Varia, a Rotterdam based initiative which aims at developing critical understandings of the technologies that surround us. She teaches at the Willem de Kooning Academy. (2022)

Sofia Boschat-Thorez studied Fine Arts at the ERG in Brussels and Media Design at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam.

Publications
See also
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