Trimester II Assessment
This is a work in progress, shoo!!
What was your interest
What stood out
How did you collaborate
A frustration, would you like to go back to it?
Special Issue #25
⇔ Bureaucratic Review Committee (SI25)
- coding was hard to follow, especially since it was my first time working on an interactive project like the telephone. Fred would upload the code to our shared wiki page and I would read it in my own time. It did not make sense to work on the code myself as this would slow down the process, so I would occasionally follow Fred’s explanation of the code as he would be working.
- I joined later on…
- I helped in wiki documentation and scenography of the exhibition (explain a bit more about the choices of the scenography)
- Hardware set up, it was the first time I had to solder attachments and work with a raspberry pie.
- Was part of the logistics team
- Preserving peoples comments
⇔ Prototyping
- soundboards: leading to my first ever coding workshop (save as) - introducing this to the Maltese context.
⇔ Methods
Special Issue #26
⇔ Quilting <p> (SI26)
- wiki page as research
- Class workshop
- Researching ways of translating mediums
- Finding connections between css elements with physical quilting techniques
⇔ Prototyping
i love penplotting (put examples here)
⇔ Methods
- fan fiction exercise, helped me remember more details from the text
- pippin barr's lecture was rly fun and made me feel really inspired
Future works
★ Thesis research
Inheritance / Monuments / Why we collect
Transmission of information/ sharing of information / data storage and structure
Printers ( the beating heart)
Radio - sstv imagery
★ Possible residencies
Residency in Malta with Unfinished Artspace - happening in the watchtower of Ghajn Tuffieha
Ideas of making a server for the watchtower? Still an early idea though!
★ Past projects / works since starting XPUB
I hosted my first coding workshop!
During February 2025, I had the opportunity to host my first coding workshop! My expertise with workshop hosting usually focuses on clay and jewellery making, but I wanted to explore the idea of using workshop giving as a tool for my artistic research. When pitching my idea, Sustain Delay happily accepted that I would host their first ever workshop! Sustain-Delay is a programme of adventurous music presented by the Malta Society of Arts. It is a series of concerts, workshops or talks spread over four seasons in 2025: Winter (February), Spring (April), Summer (July) and Autumn (November). My workshop, Save as: sonic fieldwork and collective coding session, took place in the town of Ħamrun, Malta. During the workshop, we gathered for a collective sound walk around Ħamrun, capturing the sonic textures of the area. After walking back to the workshop space, we transformed these recordings into digital soundboards, exploring ways to archive and preserve local soundscapes through collective coding.
In preparation for this workshop, I made a soundboard dedicated to the sounds of devices (as mentioned in the thesis research section, I'm very interested in the rhythmic sounds of things turning on/off). You can test out the sound board on cereal box.
I wanted to prepare two soundboard examples for the participants, so instead I opted for an image + sound based example and the other one could change the pitch, pause, and loop the sound. I shared these examples, along with a few notes prior to the workshop, so the participants could get familiar with the work and use it as a guiding structure.
Reflections:
- I really enjoyed the overall outcome of this workshop, people were initially a bit intimidated when they heard the word 'code' but I wanted to host this type of workshop to invite creatives that have always wanted to do som ething like this but never found the space to do so!
- In my previous workshops, I would use clay as a medium to record, preserve and narrate. Similarly, the soundboard holds the same characteristics: we could collectively preserve the sounds of the town and collect them onto our online soundboard, share them with the public, etc..
- Overall great vibe, I made new friends and I love the communal aspect of these workshops. 100% will do again!
soldering practice with dad!
My dad has a radio license and he loves to build his own radios. During the Christmas holidays, I asked him if he could give me some soldering tips and we also dismantled my old tamagotchis to take a look inside them! He also shared with me some of his own radio building project and I helped him set up his Arduino which I gifted him in Christmas! I guess this isn't necessarily a work update but it made me happy to connect with my father and get him interested in what I was exploring in the course.
★ my own website
Since I graduated from my bachelors in 2021, I've always dreamt of making a website for my works. I've always resorted to cargo collective to make a portfolio website but I did make my own in my bachelors and I remember feeling so accomplished with this page! I want to get that feeling again, so I plan to slowly work on it.
☆Website manifestations☆
- I want my website to be a space to show my work, but also showing my process and research / things i find interesting.
- I want my website to look like a repository. During my time at Heritage Malta, I was very inspired by archival cataloguing systems, where I renumbered and filed numerous amounts of archival imagery - i want my website to feel the same way?
- I want my website to be a container of information.
- I want my website to be my diary/ note taker.
| I started to experiment on how I want the core structure of my website to look like: |
