2000
Artist / Author: Raqs Media Collective
Title : The Concise Lexicon of the Digital Commons
Photo: Sarai Archive
2000
The Concise Lexicon of the Digital Commons is an A-Z of the relationship between social, digital and material space written as a hyper-textual instrument.
The Embroidered Digital Commons (the physical network of embroidered texts that has ground around the Concise Lexicon as a ‘Recension’), which is part ‘b’ of this entry, says that -
“…the lexicon weaves together an evolving metaphorical language of common ownership, common use and access in physical space and across digital
platforms.”
Raqs Media Collective makes art, thinks, teaches, listens and acts to discover cognitive and affective resources for a changing world, and creates, nurtures and develops infrastructures of contemporary cultural conversation at a proximate as well as planetary scale.
2008 (ongoing)
Title : The Embroidered Digital Commons
Artist / Author: Ele Carpenter and Others
Screengrab from https://www.embroidereddigit+lcommons.net/(For full credits, see - https://www.embroidereddigitalcommons.net/#/credits/ )
The Embroidered Digital Commons (EDC) is a collective close-reading and close-stitching of A Concise Lexicon of the Digital Commons. The project began in 2008 as part of the Open Source Embroidery project facilitated by Ele Carpenter and exhibited at Bildmuseet, Umea University, Sweden, and the Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Fransico. Workshops have taken place at conferences & exhibitions in various locations and online.
Ele Carpenter is Curator of the Nuclear Culture Project at the Umeå University’s UmArts Research Centre and coordinator of Embroidered Digital Commons