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'''Cristina Cochior''' is a researcher and designer. She is a member of the everyday technology collective [[Varia]], as well as part of the tutor team in the Hacking department of the Willem de Kooning Academie and in the [https://xpub.nl/ Experimental Publishing department] of the [[Piet Zwart Institute]], [[Rotterdam]]. Her work revolves around situated software, and poetics and politics of computational logic, with a focus on digital knowledge organisation and transmission. Together with other members of Varia, she works on collective, non-extractive digital infrastructures. With [[Jara Rocha]] and Karl Moubarak, she is currently part of a research group around digital discomfort. Recent projects she’s been part of include VLTK – Vernacular Language Toolkit, [https://varia.zone/en/category/digital-solidarity-networks.html Digital Solidarity Networks], and [https://bots-as-digital-infrapunctures.dataschool.nl/ Bots as Digital Infrapunctures]. [https://www.pzwart.nl/experimental-publishing/staff-and-tutors/ (2022)]
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She graduated in Visual Communication from the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (BA, 2010-13) and [[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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'''Cristina Cochior''' is a researcher and designer, whose work focuses on knowledge organisation systems, situated software, experimental publishing, community-run digital spaces, trans*feminist approaches to technology, and digital infrastructure in relation to alternative modes of organisation. Cochior is a member of the [[Rotterdam]]-based everyday technology collective [[Varia]]. Recent collaborations include [https://hub.vvvvvvaria.org/rosa/ATNOFS A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers], [https://varia.zone/en/category/digital-solidarity-networks.html Digital Solidarity Networks], and [https://varia.zone/double-launch-si16-and-vernaculars-come-to-matter.html Vernaculars Come to Matter]. Cochior is currently a PhD candidate at the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW and is part of the project [https://titipi.org/projects/infrastructural-rehearsals Infrastructural Rehearsals]. [https://www.rewirefestival.nl/timetable?artist=conversation--listening-session-resonances-of-chan&day=05-04-2025 (2025)]
  
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She graduated in Visual Communication from the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (BA, 2010-2013) and [[Media_Design_and_Communication_Piet_Zwart_Institute_Rotterdam|Media Design and Communication from the Piet Zwart Institute]] in Rotterdam (MA, 2014-2016).
* [http://randomiser.info/ Personal website]
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* [https://post.lurk.org/@ccl Mastodon]
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==Publications==
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* ''[https://www.algolit.net/index.php/Data_Workers_Publication Data Workers]'', ed. Algolit, Brussels: Constant, March 2019, 52 pp, [https://www.algolit.net/images/4/47/Data-workers.en.publication.pdf PDF]. {{en}}/{{fr}}
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* [https://networksofonesown.varia.zone/ ''Networks of Ones Own'' 2: "Three Takes on Taking Care"] (co-editor), Rotterdam: [[Varia]], October 2019, [[Media:Networks of Ones Own 2 Three Takes on Taking Care 2019.pdf|PDF]].
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* ''[http://plottingd.at/ Plotting Data: Acts of Collection and Omission]'', eds. Cristina Cochior and [[Ruben van de Ven]], March 2020. [https://framerframed.nl/en/projecten/plotting-data-acts-of-collection-and-omission-publication-launch/ Publication launch].
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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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* ''[https://vvvvvvaria.org/~ccl/files/Digital%20Solidarity%20Networks.pdf Digital Solidarity Networks]'' (co-author), Rotterdam: Varia, July 2021, 50 pp, [[Media:Digital_Solidarity_Networks 2021.pdf|PDF]]. [https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/digital-solidarity-networks Pad].
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* [https://www.bakonline.org/focus/digital-discomfort/ ''Prospections'': "Digital Discomfort"], ed. Cell for Digital Discomfort, Utrecht: [[BAK]], 2022ff.
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* [https://varia.zone/en/more-than-computational-reflections.html "More-than-computational reflections (in the form of a report)"] (with [[Manetta Berends]]), ''varia'', December 2022.
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* ''[https://varia.zone/archive/2024-Social-In-The-Media/ Social in the Media]'' (with Benjamin Earl and Niek Hilkmann), Rotterdam: Varia, 2024, 15 pp, [[Media:Social in the Media 2024.pdf|PDF]]. Zine about [[Varia]]'s communication infrastructure and practices.
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* [http://randomiser.info/ Website]
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* [[Base:Mastodon|Mastodon:]] [[Mastodon::https://post.lurk.org/@ccl]]
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* [https://www.instagram.com/xristinaxoxhior/ Instagram]
 
* [https://twitter.com/clcochior Twitter]
 
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* [http://v2.nl/archive/people/cristina-cochior Profile on V2_]
 
* [http://v2.nl/archive/people/cristina-cochior Profile on V2_]
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[[Series:Feminist servers|Cristina Cochior]] [[Series:Servers|Cristina Cochior]]
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Latest revision as of 11:41, 3 April 2025

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Cristina Cochior is a researcher and designer, whose work focuses on knowledge organisation systems, situated software, experimental publishing, community-run digital spaces, trans*feminist approaches to technology, and digital infrastructure in relation to alternative modes of organisation. Cochior is a member of the Rotterdam-based everyday technology collective Varia. Recent collaborations include A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers, Digital Solidarity Networks, and Vernaculars Come to Matter. Cochior is currently a PhD candidate at the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW and is part of the project Infrastructural Rehearsals. (2025)

She graduated in Visual Communication from the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (BA, 2010-2013) and Media Design and Communication from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam (MA, 2014-2016).

Publications[edit]

  • Data Workers, ed. Algolit, Brussels: Constant, March 2019, 52 pp, PDF. (English)/(French)
  • Social in the Media (with Benjamin Earl and Niek Hilkmann), Rotterdam: Varia, 2024, 15 pp, PDF. Zine about Varia's communication infrastructure and practices.

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