#technological disobedience

[heyjbwhatareyoureading]

Old, but interesting

[makingmatte]

(via Cuba's DIY Inventions from 30 Years of Isolation - YouTube)

[oyepunto]

Cuba. Máquinas Frankenstein creadas para uso diario Reportaje sobre Ernesto Oroza. Artista y diseñador Cubano quien ha recolectado varios de estos “objetos desobedientes” durante el periodo de aislamiento de la Isla. Lee el artículo completo aquí

[fungalraincloud-blog]

A tremendously interesting piece on the sort of hacker/maker culture present in Cuba - a country so isolated, but so close to all of our western modernity.

[timelyabsence]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-XS4aueDUg)

From Motherboard:

In 1991, Cuba's economy began to implode. "The Special Period in the Time of Peace" was the government's euphemism for what was a culmination of 30 years worth of isolation. It began in the 60s, with engineers leaving Cuba for America. Ernesto Oroza, a designer and artist, studied the innovations created during this period. He found that the general population had created homespun, Frankenstein-like machines for their survival, made from everyday objects. Oroza began to collect these machines, and would later contextualize it as "art" in a movement he dubbed "Technological Disobedience."

[imcubo]

[notathoughtexperiment]

Cuba's DIY Inventions from 30 Years of Isolation

[tinalzeng]