Date: Friday, 14th of November 2025
Time: 15:00 CEST
Duration: 3 hours
Entrance: Free, including coffee/tea/snacks
Location: Varia
Participation: is limited, to join please send an email to info@varia.zone with [homemade computer club session 3] in the subject.

The Homemade Computer Club is a gathering space for those curious about computers. The club is open to all levels of computer expertise and experience to come together to imagine what a computer might be if it weren’t a purely consumer product. If you’re an expert or an amateur, we would like to invite you to join the Homemade Computer Club to communally make sense of what should be computed and how. As part of Varia’s programme theme of Seasonal Computing, the Homemade Computer Club wants to look towards modes of computing as they are done within reason/season. Computing that is frugal, and computing that is communal. Through a series of meet-ups, presentations and mini-workshops, we will engage with unconventional computing methods that will help us imagine computing differently.

Our third meet-up will begin with the prompt: What is a file? We are going back-to-basics with this session. Computers run files, right? Then what constitutes a file? How do you define when something is a file and when something is not a file? Is there such a thing as not-a-file when it comes to a computer?

.txt, .mp3, .mp4, .wav, .jpg, .pdf, .mov, .eps, .html – .join .us .on .the .14th .of .November .from .15:00 .to .explore .what .a .file .is

The Homemade Computer Club is part of the Homebrewing Seed within Varia’s research into Seasonal Computing and is supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL.