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source: https://archives.tangible-cloud.be/207_from-appropriate-technology/
author: Marloes de Valk
title: Tangible Cloud Oracle
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The Tangible Cloud Oracle is a modified publication of the famous Smith-Waite Tarot cards, designed by Pamela ’Pixie’ Colman Smith (1871–1951). The cards are based on designs and ideas from the 2022 Tangible Cloud and Art Meets Radical Openness workshops in which participants created a set of cards with executable words that can help think through more sustainable artistic practices making use of tech; from hardware to software, from websites to types of services that can be run on a server. The deck brings together counter-narratives about technology in solidarity with human and non-human others. 

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Tangible Cloud gathered thirty people from different backgrounds (artists, designers, philosophers, economists, etc.) in two worksessions, which took place in May and June 2022 in Brussels. Together, they tried to imagine, through artistic practices, counter-narratives to the mainstream vision of digital: cloud computing.