The first issue of the tekhnē online journal outlines the field of DIY with its practices, cultures and politics. A central observation of the tekhnē project is that technological changes often go hand in hand with social changes, such as the emergence of electronic instruments that became musical instruments and changed not only who made the music, but also what we consider music to be. This first issue is compiled by Brussels based Q-O2.
Featured writers and artists are VNS Matrix, Melinda Rackham, Sholto Dobie, Julia Eckhardt, Giuliano Obici, Indra Menus, Celeste Betancur, Gloria González Fuster, Eleni Ikoniadou, and Verena Kuni. They are discussing topics such as cyberfeminism, the historicity of technology in relation to instrument building, Brazilian Gambioluthiery, DIY cultures in an Indonesian village, the artistic use of programming languages, data protection in Europe, a science fiction governmental report about social media, and a glossary in progress based on the tekhnē website.