Sofia Boschat-Thorez
Sofia Boschat-Thorez is a researcher, artist and educator whose work focuses on knowledge organization systems and the stories which can be extracted from them. She primarily investigates mundane objects such as archives, collections, datasets or museums, to recover traces of their creators ideas and circumstances (for better or worse). She also has an overlapping practice of archiving with an interest for variability, circulation, community and access. She is a member of Varia, a Rotterdam based initiative which aims at developing critical understandings of the technologies that surround us. She teaches at the Willem de Kooning Academy. (2022)
Sofia Boschat-Thorez studied Fine Arts at the ERG in Brussels and Media Design at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam.
- Publications
- Mining the Cloud (with Manetta Berends), 2018. A practice based research on the coining and evolution of the Cloud metaphor in computing over 24 years in Wired magazine. Interview (2023). [1]
- 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.
- See also
- Links
- Mastodon: https://post.lurk.org/@sofia
- DAAP (Digital Archive of Artists’ Publishing)
