p If your livelihood is made online, you are locked into an extractive relationship with the technologies on which you depend.
p The global creative industry and its output is valuable — social media platforms extract significant incomes from the collaboration, publication and display of creative work. This relationship means that finding and cultivating an online-first livelihood is increasingly precarious.
p Underscore is an emergent creative community of open platforms, co-operative tools and public spaces where art and culture can survive – and thrive – online.
p(style="margin-bottom: 0;") We are:
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li Community owned and led, non-commercial and profit free.
li Fully independent of Big Tech infrastructure.
li Built to protect and respect personal data from the ground up.
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p Underscore is a research project by #[a(href="https://newdesigncongress.org" target="_blank") The New Design Congress]. See our #[a(href="https://newdesigncongress.org/en/privacy" target="_blank") privacy policy].