Online Projects
Compiler
Compiler is a collective for digital art, curation, and critical technical practice, implemented in institutional and alternative spaces. It is led by Tanya Boyarkina and Oscar Cass-Darweish.
The group’s artistic and curatorial practice investigates socio-political challenges in digital culture, where the possibilities of digital art, curation, learning, and research are explored as processes of discovery through interactive technical experiences. They create accessible works and events for audiences with different skills, knowledge and abilities to better understand emerging digital technologies.
What is important to us?
- We see our works as part of a decolonial practice to equip ourselves and others against surveillance and other forms of control that our digital devices contribute to
- Deconstructing hardware and software at points where our freedoms and autonomy are at stake
- Being social-justice-driven while being playful, collaborative, engaging
- Learning together in playful, collaborative environments
- Showing that it is not necessary to be an expert to critically engage with technology
- DIY / DIWO (do it with others) practices
- Aesthetics of sustainable, environmentally-friendly practices with low computational costs
- Getting people interested in complex topics at a basic level
Tanya Boyarkina is a London-based artist, curator and cultural producer aiming to demystify complex technological processes through playful, collaborative, participative formats.
Oscar Cass-Darweish is a digital practitioner working between Birmingham and London – using artistic enquiry to explore human-technical relationships in the space of hardware/software/code.
Eleanor Chownsmith is a London-based artist who works in school education outreach. Her practice explores community arts in the context of digital culture.
Compiler visual identity originally developed in collaboration with Saskia Freeke.
contact [at] compiler.zone