Demystify Technology

On a hot day in the summer of 2024, my friend Cem Eskinazi brought a stack of books to our shared office. These publications had been designed at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where Cem had studied.

What was really special about them was that none of these books had been designed using proprietary layout software like Adobe. Instead, they had been developed entirely using code: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and a Javascript library called bindery.js. This was an epiphany moment for me. I could not believe it: the quality of the publications was almost identical to that...

Hi and welcome back to Demystify Technology!

I am totally thrilled to introduce Nicolas Landrieux to you today. We met a few years ago at one of my workshops and have been in touch ever since. Nico is a vivid creative – with a background in graffiti he worked as a motion designer in Los Angeles, as a creative director for fashion brands in Germany and Belgium, he was a DJ, he is a music producer and most recently a director for dance theater.

In May, the piece Vol[age] premiered at the Kunstkraftwerk in Leipzig and took the audience on...

Hi and welcome to the very first episode of Demystify Technology!

In the two years I lived in Barcelona, one person in particular fascinated and inspired me. His name is Kris de Decker and he is head of lowtechmagazine.com. For almost 20 years, Kris has been publishing articles about a better life with less technology. He turns himself into a laboratory and a medium, venturing into worlds that remain closed to most of us.

In our interview, we talk in particular about the question of how a utopian, lean and, above all, Big Tech-independent social Internet could look like.

Enjoy!