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sofixian.bsky.social
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@sofixian.bsky.social
230 followers 40 following 37 posts
sofi xian (aka sofia lee)
CARI institute
original `Frutiger Aero' researcher
digicam.love founder
comp. linguist

digicam photos are all my own
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sofixian.bsky.social
tilly norwood/
piers morgan fiasco only
triggers formative memories
of realising that hardly anyone
around me spoke cantonese
September 26, 2026 at 7:53 AM
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pankegallery.bsky.social
Thank you to everyone who came, and especially to @sofixian.bsky.social and @evanroth.bsky.social for their presentations!

📷 Fenja Cambeis

follow the link – Gallery Surfing Session with Sofi Xian & Evan Roth
panke.gallery/event/follow...

panke.gallery, 15 September 2026
Two presenters stand in front of a white wall covered with colorful outlined shapes, arrows, and text resembling elements of an early web interface. The wall is marked “1993” in large black letters. The presenter on the left wears a black turtleneck, wide black trousers, and white sneakers. The presenter on the right wears a plaid shirt, dark trousers, gray sneakers, and a patterned cap. Two presenters sit behind a white table during a presentation, each holding a microphone. Several laptops, an audio mixer, cables, and speakers are visible around them. A large green screen fills the background. The presenter on the left wears black clothing and white sneakers, while the presenter on the right wears a plaid shirt, dark trousers, gray sneakers, and a patterned cap. A large white projection structure displays a computer desktop and a web browser showing a grid of colorful images. In the background, a presenter sits at a table with a laptop and microphone in front of a large green screen. A bottle and other equipment are on the table. A presentation is taking place in a gallery space. One presenter sits behind a table with a laptop and microphone in front of a large green screen, while another presenter is partially visible beside them. Several people sit and stand in the foreground watching the presentation. Two speakers on stands flank the presentation area.
September 18, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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pankegallery.bsky.social
Thank you to everyone who came to tonight's surfing session, and to both artists for the amazing presentation.

follow the link – Gallery Surfing Session with @sofixian.bsky.social & @evanroth.bsky.social – 15 September 2026
panke.gallery/event/follow...
📍 panke.gallery
A wide photograph of a gallery event with an audience seated on black benches facing two presenters at a table. The presenters sit behind laptops in front of a large green screen, with two speakers on stands on either side. A projected browser window is visible on a white screen in front of the audience. The industrial gallery space has white walls, exposed ceiling pipes, and cables. A closer photograph of two presenters seated behind laptops at a white table in front of a large green screen. One presenter is looking at a laptop, while the other holds a microphone. Two speakers on stands flank the green screen, and audio equipment and cables are visible around the table. Several audience members are partially visible in the foreground.
September 15, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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pankegallery.bsky.social
follow the link – Gallery Surfing Session with Sofi Xian & @evanroth.bsky.social

📍 panke.gallery, Tuesday, 15 September 2026 from 7 to 10 PM
panke.gallery/event/follow...
See you there!

[pics] 🖼️ Images from artworks by Xian and Roth.
A large gallery installation covers the walls and floor with thousands of small, colorful photographic and printed images arranged in dense grids and collages. A woman in a long black dress stands near the center, facing the wall and viewing the work. A dark exhibition space contains a large installation of multiple vertical screens arranged in a loose, symmetrical composition. The screens display pink and red-tinted images of trees and landscapes, while cables hang from the screens to electronic equipment on the floor. Three small humanoid robots are positioned on a rocky overlook above a turquoise lake surrounded by dense green forest and mountains. One silver robot sits in the foreground, another blue robot sits farther back on the left, and a white robot stands on the right. An art installation resembling a bouquet of white and pale pink tulips stands in a transparent container. Green stems and leaves are interwoven with visible wires and electronic components, while a small transparent electronic control device rests on the white surface beside it.
September 14, 2026 at 4:33 PM
sofixian.bsky.social
this is today!
please tune in
or stop by if you
are in Berlin (at 19h)

@evanroth.bsky.social @pankegallery.bsky.social

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follow the link · panke.gallery
panke.gallery seeks to open up a dialogue between established and emerging artists whose work comes out of the connections between digital or net-based art and club culture, especially in the recent h...
www.panke.gallery
September 15, 2026 at 9:22 AM
sofixian.bsky.social
my review of
Nolan's Odyssey
and how its themes of
invasion and containment
go beyond the narrative itself
and into the medium it's shot
on and its distribution
Against the Grain
Control and Containment in and around The Odyssey (2026)
sofixian.substack.com
September 15, 2026 at 9:21 AM
sofixian.bsky.social
OUT NOW: exclusive interview
with Chang N. Suh CEO of Asadal,
the Korean Web company that brought
us many of the images we now
associate with 'Frutiger Aero'

interview by Yunseon Yang,
intro by me (Sofi Xian)

read here: sofixian.substack.com/p/frutiger-a...
https://sofixian.substack.com/p/frutiger-aer…
June 13, 2026 at 10:12 PM
sofixian.bsky.social
i'm writing about
Epic Movie now
Hidden Writings of Epic Movie
Introduction and Dossier 001: Blossoms Black and Sweet as Norwegian Crude
sofixian.substack.com
June 4, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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Hidden Writings of Epic Movie
Introduction and Dossier 001: Blossoms Black and Sweet as Norwegian Crude
open.substack.com
June 3, 2026 at 9:35 PM
sofixian.bsky.social
how do something like
apples become slop?
a piece i wrote
A is for Apple-slop
On differing regimes of apple signs
sofixian.substack.com
April 6, 2026 at 1:32 PM
sofixian.bsky.social
guangzhou through
a kyocera finecam
i picked up at a
market here
January 27, 2026 at 2:16 PM
sofixian.bsky.social
a wintry
day by the
lake captured
on my digicam
January 10, 2026 at 12:55 PM
sofixian.bsky.social
things i found in
thrift stores in 2015
January 2, 2026 at 5:04 PM
sofixian.bsky.social
what if social media
had a different metaphor:
you have a navigational file
manager and you just have to
search for content on a
messy virtual hard
drive
January 1, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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"Windows 10 was not about eco-futurist dreams but about augmented reality. Rather, the colors all strike me as coming from fashion or from interior design..."

Really interesting piece on a now-dead operating system's look and feel, by @sofixian.bsky.social

networkcultures.org/longform/202...
What Was the Windows 10 Aesthetic?
Today, Windows 10 is dead. Or this is to say that Microsoft is ending support for the operating system today, ten years after its release. In fact, Windows 10 has been undergoing a slow crawl towards
networkcultures.org
November 21, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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tironstefan.bsky.social
Found out about CARI from a series of excellent sounding workshops - as a part of the vernacular creativity + automation (ALGOFOLK) iTMF-funded project led [email protected]
bsky.app/profile/nots...
December 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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tironstefan.bsky.social
#aestethics #windows #materials #industrial

Excellent #mustread article by Sofi Xian (part of the CARI research group).

docs.google.com/document/u/0...
What was the Windows 10 Aesthetic
What was the Windows 10 Aesthetic? By Sofi Xian (2025.10.14) Summary: With the end-of-life of Microsoft’s Windows 10, questions arise of what legacy it will leave behind. This article undertakes an ar...
docs.google.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
sofixian.bsky.social
thinking about this
limited edition 'eternal
blue' Panasonic Let's Note
CF-LX6 with a glossy
blue lid
May 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
sofixian.bsky.social
digicam scenes from
a long journey from
amsterdam to
aarhus by
train
May 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
sofixian.bsky.social
Hitachi Prius Air
Note 100F (2003)
May 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
sofixian.bsky.social
new digicam pics
i am going to start
using this account
more i've decided
May 4, 2025 at 7:56 AM
sofixian.bsky.social
photos from
different spaces
taken on digicam
(the hague, rotterdam)
November 7, 2024 at 9:26 AM
sofixian.bsky.social
Sharp Mebius
PC-NJ70A (2009),
netbook with optical
sensor LCD touchpad
October 28, 2024 at 10:23 PM
sofixian.bsky.social
photos from the
opening last night
of my installation at
de aanschouw! i made
enlarged, uninterpolated
prints of my photos so
closer inspection of
the noise texture
could be done
October 25, 2024 at 8:08 PM