Parasites on the Web. Computational objects operating digital collectives.
We parasite each other and live amidst parasites, Serres argues. We interrupt, endanger and corrupt; but also invent, order and consolidate. We switch hosts and guests, gifts and debts, objects and subjects. We make noise, but the noise makes us; this is the new logic, the logic of the collective. This talk shares a personal and optimist view on programmatic talks to collectives on the web. It celebrates parasitism in the digital age.
ABOUT:
Jorge Orozco is an architect and researcher based in the CAAD group at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology’s Department of Architecture in Zurich. His research interest is in the overlapping between information and communications technology and architecture. He is fascinated with the new abilities that traditional objects gain by becoming computational objects on-line; he looks at this phenomenon with an architectonic vision.
Jorge currently carries a PhD research project supervised by Prof. Dr. Ludger Hovestadt at the Chair for CAAD. He holds a Master of Advanced Studies degree in Computer Aided Architectural Design from ETH Zurich, and a Master in Advanced Architecture degree with specialization in Digital Tectonics from IAAC, Barcelona. He graduated from Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo’s Faculty of Architecture, Mexico.