Lead by Dr. Roberta Buiani, NEW113H unpacks digital technologies and their place in our society. Digital and analog, online and offline, software and hardware, artificial and natural, are all connected and often very much jumbled together in rather complex ways. While we cannot always identify and isolate each piece of technology, we can become aware of their interconnectedness. Even though we don’t quite know how they work, we can notice how they can be combined, assembled, re-assembled, and used creatively to solve problems, to satisfy a variety of needs, and why not? To create poetic, fantastic, futuristic narratives. The projects in this collection reflect on questions such as: what are technologies? What is our relationship with them? How do data and algorithms affect our privacy and identity? How are technologies assembled, distributed and discarded?