Archive - Digital Fabrications

A review of Andrew Witt’s Formulations: Architecture, Mathematics, Culture

Mar 23, 2022 •

March 2021

You are Non-Fungible

To be perfectly honest, I feel bad about the barrage of NFT-related tweets and posts I’ve sent my friends and followers over the past three weeks or so…

Mar 30, 2021 •

February 2021

Mint Me (on the Blockchain)

I am not an art critic. But I have been following a lot of digital artists since about 2013. Four years ago I wrote a short blog post about artists like…

Feb 22, 2021 •

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Feb 9, 2021 •

June 2020

Racing Architecture and Software (from 2019)

“Could race be not simply an object of representation and portrayal, of knowledge or truth, but also a technique that one uses, even as one is used by…

Jun 19, 2020 •

November 2019

The Image of Computation

“They [space pods] were usually christened with feminine names, perhaps in recognition of the fact that their personalities were sometimes slightly…

Nov 25, 2019 •

May 2018

Everything is Software, Part 2

“Minesweeper is more addictive than Solitaire. Players are pitted against themselves, trying to beat their own best times. People have been known to…

May 16, 2018 •

February 2018

Words by Michael Moynihan Photos by Phil Arnold This spring Galo Canizares, the 2016-17 Howard E. LeFevre Fellow at Ohio State University, stood proudly…

Feb 15, 2018 •

November 2017

Everything is Software, Part 1

“[Digital technologies] are no longer the tools for making: they are primarily tools for thinking.” Mario Carpo, The Alternative Science of Computation…

Nov 29, 2017 •

July 2017

Artifacts After the Fact: A Review

Mask, 2013‒2017. Ithaca, NY. Concept Drawing © WOJR For a typical young architecture office, the sequence of events leading to professional maturity…

Jul 24, 2017 •

A History (excerpt)

(From Thresholds 45: Myth, edited by Zachary Angles) First Contact To speak of how humans first came to inhabit our planet, it is pertinent to address…

Jul 16, 2017 •

Lost in Translations (from Drawing to Building)

“[Digital technologies] are no longer the tools for making: they are primarily tools for thinking.” Mario Carpo, The Alternative Science of Computation1…

Jul 6, 2017 •

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