Manetta Berends

Manetta Berends works with forms of networked publishing, situated software and collective infrastructures. She is a former member of Varia, an educator at the master Experimental Publishing at the Piet Zwart Institute, and a peer at Creative Crowds (CC). (2022, upd.)

She was educated at ArtEZ, Arnhem (BA, 2008-2012) and Media Design and Communication at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam (MA, 2014-2016). She is based in Rotterdam.

Publications[edit]

Mining the Cloud (with Sofia Boschat Thorez), 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]

Data Workers, ed. Algolit, Brussels: Constant, 2019, 52 pp, PDF. (English)/(French)

Iterations (co-editor), Brussels: Constant, May 2020, [172] pp. Website.
- x-dexing (with Jara Rocha), November 2020, [5] pp.

Digital Solidarity Networks (co-author), Rotterdam: Varia, July 2021, 50 pp, PDF. Pad.

SWAAT#00, eds. Manetta Berends and Michael Murtaugh, Rotterdam: XPUB, July 2021, 28 pp.

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.