This paper will examine the relationship between artistic intentions and structural constraints of materiality and form related to the work of Donald Judd’s ten concrete buildings at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas. Although the project was designed to be an ambitious structural thin shell concrete buildings, only minimal documentation of the project was produced, and only portions of th...

Digital innovation entails the combining of digital and physical components to produce novel products. The materiality of digital artifacts, particularly the separation between their material (e.g., hardware) and immaterial features (e.g., software and data), which is expressed through a layered architecture, lays the foundation for the generative potential of digital innovation. Gaining an und...

In this study we untangle the sociomaterial interactions between developers, users, and artifacts by analyzing what types of affordances occur in the interactions between actors and artifacts in the context of group generativity. Hereto, we conducted an indepth ethnographic and interaction analysis of video data of the interactions of groups of people with each other and with a set of self-deve...

As the era of ‘big data’ unfolds, researchers are increasingly engaging with large, complex data sets compiled from heterogeneous sources and distributed across networked technologies. The nature of these data sets makes it difficult to grasp and manipulate their materiality. We argue that moments of breakdown – points at which progress is stopped due to a material limitation – provide opportun...

Writing research has typically focussed on the text production elements of writing. Many everyday writing tasks, however, cannot be characterised simply in terms of text production since they often involve the use of source materials to support the composition process. As such, these tasks are better thought of as hybrid tasks. Such hybrid tasks have been given relatively little attention in th...