Kalyani Tupkary
@kalyanitupkary
I design objects and interfaces - sometimes real, sometimes fictional.
Kalyani Tupkary
kalyanitupkary.com
Are these algorithms so good at analysing our behaviour that they end up reflecting them back to us in a digested 20 seconds video that allows us to identify things in ourselves that we weren’t aware of? Or are we consuming this content at such a large and quick rate that we end up becoming what they predict us to be? In other words, are we fulfill... See more
Mariana Fernandez Mora • Machine Anxiety or Why I Should Close TikTok–But Don’t
The Computer Pays Its Debt tells the missing stories of women’s creative contributions to early computing while scrutinizing how corporations leveraged metaphors of craftwork and domesticity for commercial gain.
Center For Craft • The Computer Pays Its Debt: Women, Textiles, and Technology, 1965-1985 | Center for Craft
Put another way, who stands outside for hours, gazing at a starflower instead of a Samsung Galaxy? When you’re stalking a hawkweed at daybreak, time is an afterthought.
Five Minutes to Moonflower (Published 2015)
The timeline seems among the most inescapable metaphors we have. And yet, in its modern form, with a single axis and a regular, measured distribution of dates, it is a relatively recent invention. Understood in this strict sense, the timeline is not even 250 years old. How this could be possible, what alternatives existed before, and what competin
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the art of writing
sublime.app
A first step is to entertain possible selves:29 identify some people you admire within or outside your field, and observe what they actually do at work day by day. A second step is to develop hypotheses about how these paths might align with your own interests, skills, and values. A third step is to test out the different identities by running expe
... See moreAdam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
In Between Humans and Computers
inbetweenhumansandcomputers.net
LaserWriter II is a coming-of-age tale set in the legendary 90s indie NYC Mac repair shop TekServe—a voyage back in time to when the internet was new, when New York City was gritty, and when Apple made off-beat computers for weirdos. Our guide is Claire, a 19-year-old who barely speaks to her bohemian co-workers, but knows when it’s time to
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