Cristina Cochior
Cristina Cochior is a researcher and designer. She is a member of the everyday technology collective Varia, as well as part of the tutor team in the Hacking department of the Willem de Kooning Academie and in the Experimental Publishing department of the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. Her work revolves around situated software, and poetics and politics of computational logic, with a focus on digital knowledge organisation and transmission. Together with other members of Varia, she works on collective, non-extractive digital infrastructures. With Jara Rocha and Karl Moubarak, she is currently part of a research group around digital discomfort. Recent projects she’s been part of include VLTK – Vernacular Language Toolkit, Digital Solidarity Networks, and Bots as Digital Infrapunctures. (2022)
She graduated in Visual Communication from the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (BA, 2010-2013) and Media Design and Communication from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam (MA, 2014-2016). She is based in Rotterdam.
Publications[edit]
- Data Workers, ed. Algolit, Brussels: Constant, March 2019, 52 pp, PDF. (English)/(French)
- Networks of Ones Own 2: "Three Takes on Taking Care" (co-editor), Rotterdam: Varia, October 2019, PDF.
- Plotting Data: Acts of Collection and Omission, eds. Cristina Cochior and Ruben van de Ven, March 2020. Publication launch.
- Vernaculars Come to Matter: (Re)Orienting Language and Technology, eds. Cristina Cochior, Julie Boschat-Thorez and Manetta Berends, Rotterdam: Everyday Technology Press, 2021, 112 pp. "What is the role of the vernacular in language and technology? Vernaculars come to matter brings together a range of stories and practices that address this question." With contributions by Clara Balaguer, Cengiz Mengüç, Ren Loren Britton, Rosemary Grennan, Michael Murtaugh. Publisher. Book launch, Materials. Wiki.
- Digital Solidarity Networks (co-author), Rotterdam: Varia, July 2021, 50 pp, PDF. Pad.
- Prospections: "Digital Discomfort", ed. Cell for Digital Discomfort, Utrecht: BAK, 2022ff.
- "More-than-computational reflections (in the form of a report)" (with Manetta Berends), varia, December 2022.
