DIALOGS is an experimental publishing platform where individuals engage in conversations to navigate contemporary subjects only through live chat messages.
DIALOGS serves as a space where intimate exchanges are made accessible to those who wish to observe. DIALOGS shows the raw material of thinking, pauses, pivots, and sudden insights that emerge when two minds meet and explore the questions that matter to them, challenging each other and building meaning together.
DIALOGS’s rhythm is asynchronous; who converses (and who reads) can borrow time to think, to step away and return with fresh perspective, to live a concept for a while before sharing it in an unedited format.
DIALOGS makes visible a form of dialogue that has always existed in private, but never had an audience.
DIALOGS does not pursue engagement, but rather aims to bring the discourse out of algorithm controlled endeavours.
DIALOGS is an ongoing experiment on alternative publishing formats for art, design, computation, technology, activism, and antidisciplinary practices and enquiries. It stems from the idea that unscripted investigations and open conversations lead to new forms of discoveries and co-created knowledge.
DIALOGS will be curated temporarily by OBOT Collective and utilized as a tool for collaborative research interventions around the globe on the subject of Re-wiring the Post-Peproductive Sensorium, a series of residencies started in 2026.
Other collectives, scholars and curators will be invited to share conversations in the form of guest thematic series.
References from all conversations will be shared via a community channel that will also be open for discussions upon request. Find it here if you wish to connect.
Visual design and coding of version 0.1 are by Alessandro Plantera @alessandro_plantera and Alice Mioni @alice.mioni.
DIALOGS runs on ChatCast, developed by Lorenzo Romagnoli and Alessandro Plantera, accessible at this GitHub repository.
Ideation and interaction design are by Serena Cangiano, who is also the editor in chief.
About image courtesy of © A. Michael Noll 1962 available at http://noll.uscannenberg.org/Art Papers/BTL 1962 Memo.pdf