Difference between revisions of "Manetta Berends"

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Manetta Berends works with forms of networked publishing, situated software and collective infrastructures. She is a former member of Varia, an educator at the master Experimental Publishing at the Piet Zwart Institute, and a peer at Creative Crowds (CC). (2022, upd.)

She was educated at ArtEZ, Arnhem (BA, 2008-2012) and Media Design and Communication at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam (MA, 2014-2016). She is based in Rotterdam.

Mining the Cloud (with Sofia Boschat Thorez), 2018. A practice based research on the coining and evolution of the Cloud metaphor in computing over 24 years in Wired magazine. Interview (2023). [1]

Data Workers, ed. Algolit, Brussels: Constant, 2019, 52 pp, PDF. (English)/(French)

Iterations (co-editor), Brussels: Constant, May 2020, [172] pp. Website.
- x-dexing (with Jara Rocha), November 2020, [5] pp.

Digital Solidarity Networks (co-author), Rotterdam: Varia, July 2021, 50 pp, PDF. Pad.

SWAAT#00, eds. Manetta Berends and Michael Murtaugh, Rotterdam: XPUB, July 2021, 28 pp.

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. Publisher. Book launch, Materials. Wiki.

"Tools shape practice shapes tools..." (with Femke Snelting), Teknokultura. Journal of Digital Culture and Social Movements, Madrid: UCM, November 2024, PDF. A history of two decades of doing graphic design with free, libre and open-source tools.

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 * [https://varia.zone/en/more-than-computational-reflections.html "More-than-computational reflections (in the form of a report)"] (with [[Cristina Cochior]]), ''varia'', December 2022.
+* [https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/TEKN/article/view/95105 "Tools shape practice shapes tools..."] (with [[Femke Snelting]]), ''Teknokultura. Journal of Digital Culture and Social Movements'', Madrid: UCM, November 2024, [[Media:Berends Manetta Snelting Femke 2024 Tools shape practice shapes tools.pdf|PDF]]. A history of two decades of doing graphic design with free, libre and open-source tools.
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