The DiY ['Do it yourself'] Ethos: A participatory culture of material engagement

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The DiY ['Do it yourself'] Ethos: A participatory culture of material engagement

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University of Waikato

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Do it Yourself (DiY) is a participatory culture which exemplifies a particular ethos in its approach to technology and materials. Rather than engage with ‘complete’ technologies, such as a technology supplied as ready-to-go item, the DiY practitioners examined in this thesis engage with the raw materials of garbage and recycling, ‘incomplete’, broken and discarded technologies. In this type of DiY practice the emphasis is towards creating individualised and custom-built forms of technology: o...

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Research Paper

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Thesis

Thesis level

Doctoral

Date created

2016

Creator

Snake-Beings, Emit

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10289/9973

Related subjects

Material agency / Techno-Animism / Animism / Multi-Author / Do it Yourself culture / DiY / Do-it-yourself / music / robotics and sound / noise music / New Zealand sound culture / Extended mind / extended agency / machines / re-functioning / participatory culture / garbage and new media / recycling / upcycling / trash / re-use / machine talk / Material Entanglement / SteamPunk / de-territorialisation / insider research / error and inefficiency / negative identity / tacit knowledge / dominant discourse of technology / intra-action / non-idiomatic music / random aleatory sound / generative art / generative sound / Bingodisiac machine / The Trons: Robot garage band / Oscillators / electronic music / electronic sound / perpetual prototype / The Womble ethic / material engagement / non-human actants / DiY politics and the avant-garde / Practice-based theory / non-totalising assemblage / insider researcher / DiY electronics / community of difference / material practices / material analysis / actants / community of practice / Hamilton music / Hamilton sound culture / distributive agency / tinkering and tinkerers / xtreme waste / material environment / human and the material environment / re-functioned materials / recycled art / digital analogue / electroacoustic music / sonic art / computer music / digital music aesthetics and practice

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