Our practice uncovers and investigates how dominant communications infrastructures, and the reductive computational logics that underpin them, (re)produce hidden forms of spatial and epistemic power in the contemporary public sphere. 

Infrastructural systems define our ways of seeing and responding to the world around us. Our lives and visual cultures have become dominated by digital content production systems rooted in planetary and human extractivism. As a counterweight to the inherent violence and overpowering ephemerality of these systems, we reinvigorate analogue, place-based forms of knowledge production and sharing to spread infrastructural awareness in the public sphere.

Our research spans multiple sites and temporalities, ranging from more-than-human encounters with rural areas designated as future sites for data centres to place-based urban experiments with post-digital knowledge production and circulation. What unites our different strands of artistic research and production is an embrace of printed matter as a carrier of counter narratives and prefigurative imaginaries.

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Our practice uncovers and investigates how dominant communications infrastructures, and the reductive computational logics that underpin them, (re)produce hidden forms of spatial and epistemic power in the contemporary public sphere. 

Infrastructural systems define our ways of seeing and responding to the world around us. Our lives and visual cultures have become dominated by digital content production systems rooted in planetary and human extractivism. As a counterweight to the inherent violence and overpowering ephemerality of these systems, we reinvigorate analogue, place-based forms of knowledge production and sharing to spread infrastructural awareness in the public sphere.

Our research spans multiple sites and temporalities, ranging from more-than-human encounters with rural areas designated as future sites for data centres to place-based urban experiments with post-digital knowledge production and circulation. What unites our different strands of artistic research and production is an embrace of printed matter as a carrier of counter narratives and prefigurative imaginaries.

We are open to exploring collaboration opportunities and commissions aligned with our publishing approach and research focus, including workshops, exhibitions, research and joint publications. 

Past funders and collaborators include Creative Industries Fund NL, Data & Society, and Oxfam Novib.

Get in touch via post[at]papertrail.world.

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