It's a Bomb!" - Material Literacy and Narratives of Making"
summary
Ethnographic claim: interpreting objects requires a practiced material literacy that links electronic, physical and narrative traces. Makers dismantle a battered blue fiberglass case, read soldering and PCBs, use a hacked chip reader and obscure disassembler to extract strings (a company name and 1996), then locate the original inventor; the object proves to be the first prototype of a cash-in-transit case that later went into mass production. The paper highlights six material qualities including opacity and hybridity that drive the investigation.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:30Background
- 1:55Location
- 4:34Material Properties
- 7:08Code Extraction
- 9:49Summary
- 10:12Perspective
- 11:00Interaction with Technology
- 12:20Material Qualities
- 13:51Relations
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