Configure-Able Infrastructures

A minimal icon illustrates an institution wiggling and all of its supports at angles to their normalized straight orientation
These inquiries share how critical access making and resulting knowledges offer up Wiggle Room for misfitting of the prescribed plans of configurations. These inquiries focus specifically on how frictions access knowledges make sense of the limits and capacities of institutes, infrastructures and relations. In this movement disobediently forming counter imaginaries and improvise infrastructures through direct actions of independent access making.

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Configure-Able Infrastructures Workshop

This entry reflects on the running of the Configure-Able Infrastructures workshops at NEoN Digital which shared practices around crip and feminist networks. Organizing this accessible workshop through Free Libra Open Source Software (FLOSS) offered up room for collaborators to critique the normalized configurations, "default settings" and ableist assumptions of FLOSS through access making and knowing. In practice, it also shares how these frictions collaborations improvise crip FLOSS infrastructures for automated captions then and there.

Disobedient Access Requests

This entry shares how access requesting to institutions, such as the Tate, can make Wiggle Room within configurations and their sedimented infrastructures and politics. Through practices of disobedient access requests, this inquiry shares how access making feels out and builds up the relational capacity to reconfigure institutional infrastructures and deviate them from their normalized violent dependencies.

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