The Crossing Machine is a mind tool conceived to stimulate the creation of new publishing artifacts. The main purpose of the project is to investigate technologies and publishing from a post-digital perspective and to propose new methodologies for producing self-reflective works.
The Crossing Machine has been conceived and developed by Davide Giorgetta and Graziana Dammacco in 2014. Categories and items are inspired by P—DPA, an inventory of experimental publishing run by Silvio Lorusso.
The Crossing Machine by Graziana Dammacco and Davide Giorgetta derived from the discussions about the notion of innovation through different media. This online slot machine provides instructions to create projects and artworks. The fields are the instructions themselves, contents’ sources, technologies, media and the time span. During a performance, the group actually tested the machine by developing a couple of projects that involved Yahoo Answers, Tumblr, copy-machines, etc. I was particularly pleased by the fact that they took as an inspiration P—DPA’s index page, so that the categories listed there became a selection of operative strategies.