Al's xpub1

Contents
1  Special Issue #16: Vernacular languages processing 
2  Special Issue #17: Productive Play 
3 Special Issue #18: Radio Implicancies 
4 Reflection 
 Special Issue #16: Vernacular languages processing  ▶▶ Visit my Special Issue 16 Work page 


With our Special Issue 16 and prototyping classes, we aimed at combining programming with processing natural language. Thus, we started with Python (from scratch) and played with ways to process text. Each week we had to go through reads about Python and to learn to code step by step. At the same time, we also had reading sessions with Cristina and research, reading and writing with Steve. Here are the (mini)projects I worked on.

[highlighted work]  ▶ Rotterdam impressions
 Special Issue #17: Productive Play ▶▶ Visit my Special Issue 17 Work page 


With our second issue and the seventeenth one for XPUB, we dived into the topic of "productive play", led by artist and researcher Lídia Pereira. During the reading sessions, we have elaborated on gamification, video games, monetisation mechanics and all of those's impacts on our work & personal life. In order to reflect on the topic, we formed reading groups and made discussions in class. Here are all of the (mini)projects I was part of during this special issue.

[highlighted work] ▶ Can Gaming Make A Better World? ▶ Connect[less] ▶ Editorial of the publication
Special Issue #18: Radio Implicancies ▶▶ Visit my Special Issue 18 Work page 


Special issue 18 is about interconnections, sound and consequences. As a group, in pairs, or individually, we are creating recordings each week from 12 April until 25 June. My contributions and experiments week by week are available on Special Issue 18 Work.


[highlighted work] ▶ weekly contributions ▶ Release 05: Nested Narratives ▶ Intersection: our future is somewhere here
Reflection In one word: fulfilling. In two words: practice enriching. But also mind-changing. Here is the highlighted work i would like to elaborate more on.