Designing digital artifacts as transient assemblies with different digital materialities
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Demosthenes Akoumianakis, Nikos Karadimitriou, Dimitrios Kotsalis, George Ktistakis, Costas Michailidis, Efthymios Syntychakis, 
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Demosthenes Akoumianakis, Nikos Karadimitriou, Dimitrios Kotsalis, George Ktistakis, Costas Michailidis, Efthymios Syntychakis, George Vellis, Nikolaos Vidakis, George VlachakisAuthors Info & ClaimsPages 388 - 393
Abstract
This paper is inspired by the concept of digital metamaterials and advances a proposal for a genre of digital artifacts that exhibit the transformative capacity to transcend technical boundaries in digital ecosystems. In terms of theoretical footing, our approach is ground on the conception of 'software as material' with intrinsic properties such as interactivity, editability, openness and reprogrammability, distributedness and emergence. We claim that as these properties are purposefully inscribed into digital artifacts, the latter become transient assemblies capable of exhibiting different digital materialities. To illustrate the concepts, the paper reflects upon a case study featuring the use of digital composites in boundary spanning virtual collaboration in organic farming.
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