/artistic research
/graphic and web design
/member of varia.zone
/currently a Make/Sense PhD candidate at the Critical Media Lab Basel
/tutor in the Experimental Publishing Master of the Piet Zwart Institute
/tutor in the Transversal Design Master of the Institute Experimental Design and Media Cultures (IXDM)
__email__
cc @ randomiser . info
__jabber__
ccl @ vvvvvvaria . org
__bio__
Cristina Cochior (RO) is a researcher and designer working in the Netherlands. With an interest in automation, situated software and peer to peer knowledge production, her practice largely consists of investigations into the intimate bureaucracy of knowledge organisation systems and collective and non-extractive digital infrastructures.
__specifics__
infrapunctural bots, digital archives & libraries & databases & datasets (:P), community software, networked publishing, data activism, collaborative design
__studies__
MA Media Design and Communication - Piet Zwart Institute (2014-2016)
BA (Hons) Visual Communication - Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (2010-2013)
__more_social_than_this__
mastodon account
/things that happen(ed)
* part of the
Connecting to Peers exhibition in Cluj, Romania
* had an interview with Nadine Botha, which can be found here
Different Infrastructure, Different Promise
* was a special issue guest editor in XPUB together with Alice Strete for
Quilting Infrastructures. You can find the students' publication Peripheral Centers and Feminist Servers
here
* organised
Sometimes Not Available sessions with Alice Strete
* co-hosting
Calm Coding from time to time
* organised
Covert Technologies #1: Foaming with amy pickles and Julia Bande
* part of the
International Trans★Feminist Digital Depletion Strike
* part of the
Digital Discomfort editorial thread with Jara Rocha and Karl Moubarak
* part of the Digital Discomfort cell in the
Spectral Infrastructures fellowship in BAK Utrecht
* was a guest editor for the
Learning How To Walk While Catwalking publication of Experimental Publishing master students
* part of TITiPI's
Infrables publication
* part of TITiPI's
Infrastructural Interactions publication
* part of the
Vertical Atlas book, with the contribution 'Witnessing with Earth Observation Technologies'
* designed the website for Helen Pritchard and Cassandra Troyan's
The Anti-Menagerie
*
Minimal Viable Learning residency with Luke Murphy, Manetta Berends, Silvio Lorusso and Joana Chicau at the School of Commons
* part of the
Slow Reading Group at v2_
*
More-than-computational reflections with Manetta Berends
* co-hosted
Read & Repair sessions with amy pickles at Varia every last Sunday of the month between 2020-2022
* worked on code together with and for Helen Pritchard and Winnie Soon's
Queer Motto API
* was a tutor in
Hacking at the Willem de Koning Academie (2020-2024)
* co-organised
an evening of presentations around datasets with Ruben van de Ven
* part of
DiVersions v2. publication
* part of
DiVersions v1. publication
* participated in
Relearn Rotterdam and Relearn Paris 2019
* co-organised
Algologs with Manetta Berends
* guest tutor at
Experimental Publishing department of the Piet Zwart Institute (Jan-March 2018) with Manetta Berends
* Mediawiki work & semantic weaving on
The Warp and Weft of Memory with Renée Turner
* co-organised
Relearn 2017 with Colm O'Neill, Manetta Berends, Roel Roscam Abbing, Silvio Lorusso, Giulia de Giovanelli and Max Franklin
/projects
* part of
Infrastructural Rehearsals with Miriyam Aouragh, Jara Rocha, Cassandra Troyan, Femke Snelting, Helen Pritchard
* made
Pocketpower with Nazanin Karimi and The Institute for Technology In The Public Interest for
The Hmm's Data Centre Tour, which is archived
here
* made
Block Networks for the
Turn Signals - Design is not a dashboard exhibition in Timisoara. A short recording about the project can be found
here
*
Rotterdamse Belhuizen with Julia Bande and Sofia Boschat-Thorez. Video recording of a conversation with Salwa on the topic is
here
* organised the Varia chapter of
A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers with amy pickles, Manetta Berends, Alice Strete and Julia Bande
*
From Cloud to Crowd Poster Campaign with Batool Desouky for the Counter Cloud Action Plan
* co-edited
Vernaculars Come To Matter with Sofia Boschat-Thorez and Manetta Berends
* part of the
Next Cloud Atelierhaus residency organised by servus.at
*
Streaming with Infrafem with amy pickles, Danny van der Kleij and Angeliki Diakrousi
*
Digital Solidarity Networks event series with Lídia Pereira, Julia Bande and Manetta Berends
*
Bots as Digital Infrapunctures, an online module for
Utrecht Data School with Manetta Berends
*
Author, a digital library with amy pickles and Sofia Boschat-Thorez
* web design & development for
Fictioning Comfort
*
The Weight of Things, for
DiVersions v2
* website design and development for
DiVersions v2 with Mia Melvær
*
We Hope This Email Finds You Well radio drama with amy pickles, Christina Karagianni, Artemis Gryllaki, Angeliki Diakrousi
* published
Acts of Collection and Omission with Ruben van de Ven
* made work for
DiVersions
* published the digital and print publication
Networks of One's Own 2 together with Manetta Berends, Lídia Pereira, Silvio Lorusso, Colm O'Neill, Roel Roscam Abbing, Luke Murphy, Yoana Buzova, Dennis de Bel
* digital archive for Rotterdam-based De Player's project
Pushing Scores with Sofia Boschat-Thorez
* organised and made work for
Data Workers with Algolit
* organised and made work for
Algoliterary Encounters with Algolit
*
In The Company of Bots graduation work for the Piet Zwart Institute
*
Infrapunctural Bots (2016, notes in progress)
/talks
*
Collective Infrastructures for Publishing, at the Borough Road Gallery
*
Practices towards interoperable imaginaries at the 1st International Conference on Social Technologies of Memory 2025, with Guillemette Legrand, Helen Pritchard, Jara Rocha and Roberta Burchardt
*
Hybridity and fragmentation at the peripheries of digital infrastructures at the STS CH 2025 conference, with Helen Pritchard
*
Conversation & listening session: Resonances of Change: Listening Beyond Timezones at Rewire 2025, with pantea, Yamen Mekdad, Golnoosh Heshmati
*
Critical / tactical / militant / imminent at Critical Media Lab, December 2024, with Johannes Bruder, Mona Hedayati, Femke Snelting and Helen Pritchard
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*
8M: Pickets in the Cloud at Hangar, March 2023. With Jara Rocha and Karl Moubarak.
*
Counter Cloud Strategies panel at transmediale 2023. A recording can be found
here
*
VLTK with Sofia Boschat-Thorez at the Connecting Otherwise H&D Summer Academy
*
Infrastructures of Collectivity with Manetta Berends at the Reassemble Lab
*
Parascenes of infrapunctures at the Packaging Across Networks workshop
* Collective and non-extractive digital infrastructures at
AI Infrastructures for Civil Society and the Arts with Sofia Boschat-Thorez
* part of the conversation
Hosting with the Others at Art Meets Radical Openness 2022
* Collective Infrastructures at
De-platformization, Ethics and Alternative Social Media with Lídia Pereira (on the practices of Varia)
*
Calm Technology panel @ Impakt festival 2019
*
The Social in the Media with Roel Roscam Abbing, Manetta Berends, Silvio Lorusso and Sofia Boschat-Thorez @ ODD, Bucharest (on the practices of Varia)
*
Re-imagining AI conference @ Critical Media Lab
*
Performing the data drive with Renée Turner @ Het Nieuwe Instituut
*
Critical Bots @ Het Nieuwe Instituut
*
Infrastructural Stress Relief @ Art Meets Radical Openness festival