Research
Computational and Data Cultures
Computational and Data Cultures (CDC) emerges from the need for critical examinations of new and advanced technologies, such as generative AI systems and quantum computing, "lower tech” digital infrastructures, protocols, and their creatives uses.
CDC works towards the creation, development, display and dissemination of “future experimenting” research, knowledge and artistic exercises that encompass cultural practices, behaviours, values, and expressions that have emerged because of the widespread adoption and integration of digital technologies into everyday life. Digital culture is a broad, complex and interdisciplinary field. CDC responds to this panoramic by embracing the dynamism and complexity of digital environments, whilst working through and beyond its creative, social, political, economic, and planetary barriers and ramifications. CDC's structured and systematic approach to problem-solving, research, and decision-making merge thought and practice, and are guided by methodologies that are situated and aspirational, meaning that they are motivated by a strong desire to promote alternative voices in computing whilst testing new methodologies for computing elsewhere and otherwise. The –1 space at Nieuwe Instituut is a hub for addressing such critical issues, together with artists-, researchers- and partners- in residence hosted here.