Manifesto

Focusing on creative exploration instead of pursuing optimization

At the core of E99 lies the desire to merge advanced technology with handcrafted techniques while expressing a personal vision of what technology means and how it shapes the world. In an age dominated by optimization, acceleration, and cost reduction, where efficiency often comes before meaning, E99 moves deliberately in the opposite direction. It inhabits the space between worlds that seem irreconcilable: the precision of machines and the slowness of gestures, the predictability of algorithms and the unpredictability of natural materials, inherited crafts and the logic of code. Between low-tech and high-tech, it seeks not reconciliation but friction, an active tension that generates new aesthetics, new imaginaries, and new ways of making.

Rejecting technosolutionism, E99 treats technology as a medium of expression and emancipation rather than a tool for optimization. Robots and 3D printers are imperfect, hackable, and repurposable machines, open to failure and interpretation. They act as companions and collaborators rather than subordinates or servants. Their limits and misbehaviours reveal a space for experimentation, where deviation becomes creation and error becomes language. E99 resists the industrialization and homogenization of objects and the erasure of local cultures and artisanal knowledge. Artifacts are made slowly, sometimes more slowly than traditional craftsmanship, reclaiming time as an act of resistance. Technology is approached as a language of diversity, deviation, and care, a medium to explore, create, and imagine alternative ways of engaging with the world, sometimes with intelligence but above all with naivety and curiosity.