Our Shiver
Solar powered server, website, and publication
With contributions by Jacob Kahn, Megan Prelinger, Chia Amisola, Andrea Steves and Xiaowei Wang Book design by Chris Hamamoto Commissioned by The Lab and completed between 2021-2025 Server currently installed onsite at The Lab and the site can be visited at ourshiver.site "Our Shiver takes its name from descriptions of the improved processing mechanics of early computers, which were made to dither, in one of its earliest senses, or continuously “shiver,” in order to avoid the abrupt mechanical jerks which plagued these systems and decreased their accuracy. The introduction of the shiver helped turn computers into the reliable machines we now recognize and rely on. Our Shiver implies both a collective tremble and a shattering into fragments, a shaking apart in order to find what is necessary and what is extraneous. Hott introduces such a shiver so that we might process more completely what’s happening beneath the surface of our digital experience. And it is vital, as this project makes clear, that we undertake this effort collectively."
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