Udita Gowdety

I am re-evaluating all the gardens in my life: digital, physical, relational, spiritual.

Each one with its own seasons, its own weeds, its own ritual of tending. And I’m realizing the digital is no less real than the earth beneath my feet. It has its own ecology, its own rhythms, its own demands for compost.

So I ask myself, and maybe you too:

• What

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“The stream has dominated our lives since the mid-2000s,” Caulfield says. But it means people are either posting content or consuming it. And, Caulfield says, the internet as it stands rewards shock value and dumbing things down. “By engaging in digital gardening, you are constantly finding new connections, more depth and nuance,” he says.

My hypothesis is that making the internet, a place we spend an inordinate amount of time in, feel approachable, cozy, and human is important to us at a fundamental level of our psyche. We want the places we inhabit to feel like homes. We want to personalize and shape these spaces as much as they shape us, and with the internet, that power has... See more

Hunkered down in our homes, connected to the world and others through our computers, the technology we perhaps once bemoaned has created a new space for our beings: a hybrid of our physical and digital worlds that is now our new normal.

I’ve been fascinated with how the Internet can be used to form beautiful ephemeral moments of connection with the most unexpected kinds of people. This doc outlines an inquiry into how we create the conditions for those moments, how to cultivate and sustainably grow the intimate tiny internets we explore that protect us from the wide, scary,... See more

We talk about somatics in relation to nature, land, therapy, and the earth’s rhythms. But what about this pixelated ecosystem, the one we inhabit for hours each day? The digital world is not neutral. It’s also an environment. It has weather and currents, weeds and nutrients, toxins and compost. It is, in its own strange way, an ecology.