429: Too Many Requests
Technologica’s first winter exhibtion. Featuring 15 digital and new media works from artists and technologists spanning across video, web art, 3D modelling, sculpture, sonic works and more…
What is Technologica?
Technologica is a computational arts collective co-founded by Emir Johnston and Orisa Pather. The collective explores the intersections of art, philosophy, and technology, exploring how physical realities and are shaped by emerging digital cultures.
Founded on the principles of collaboration and an open-source mindset, Technologica seeks to create spaces where knowledge, and creative processes can be shared freely. Community engagement sits at the heart of what we do and we want to empower people with the right tools, connections and sense of community to explore their own creative projects.
The Technologica Manifesto
- The human is not outside the machine.
We are technological beings, not separate from technology, but shaped by it and shaping it in return. Our instincts to build and extend are encoded within us.
- Fragmentation is the default
To exist in the contemporary is to be split. Our identities are fractured across systems, this is a feature of being.
- Technology is not a tool : it’s a collaborator.
We reject the extractive model of tech-as-instrument. Instead, we embrace co-evolution: a relationship rooted in mutual influence, care, and transformation.
- Remix is resistance.
Remixing reality in our practice makes space for alternate futures. It reveals the multiple worlds that already exist in tension with the dominant one.
- Consciousness is an interface.
We recognise our perception is shaped by the devices we use, the screen we cannot turn off. Our minds are not separate from media, but entwined with it.
- Redistribute power, not data.
Technology must not serve dominance. We aim to transform systems built for control into tools for the people. The future is decentralised.
- Make, make, make.
Culture can no longer sustain pure consumption. We must create as much as we take, build, remix, prototype, fail, and begin again.
- Your data double is not neutral.
The digital self is active. It alters us just as we alter it. Identity is not fixed; it’s feedback.
- Distributed.
Computational work is collective work. Refusing collaboration, support, or distributed thought goes against the core of what this practice demands.