User:Angeliki/Grad-proposal drafts

4th draft/ 8 November

Topics:
a tactical voice: hacking the tools for voice/ tactics of reclaiming the voice in spaces/platforms that surround us and mediate the voice
Voice as a medium of networking and activating public spaces/commons
The impact the voice has in those spaces and the quality it gives to them

Project title:
A (tactical) voice
Walking, listening, scanning, transcribing, talking, eavesdropping, gossiping, tracing, streaming, being present, leaving, looping

The project is about an invitation on realizing the power of our (embodied) voice in the diverse spheres that surrounds us (and transfer it) and tactics of appropriating the tools that interact with it. I will realise that by providing ways of occupying the space with hacked mechanisms used for training speech recognition software (reading and recording) and radio technologies (broadcasting) and propose other ways of making things public through the voice. In questioning the act of speech and the platforms that transfer it, I want to make visible the transcendence, the parallel presence of the voice and its political power in those spaces, but also interrogating the politics of those technologies. This will be done with triggering different actions that will become inputs for a collective transcribing/reading process in public. Speech acts and the walking practice in public spaces produce space, by including the body.

The textual representation of voice is like the presence of the voice in the media sphere and important element of the speech tools. In The Practice of Every Day Life, De Certueau analysed popular culture not as a ‘domain of texts’ or artefacts but rather as a set of practices or operations performed on textual or ‘text like structures’. (the ABC of tactical media, p.91). My approach is more the one of the tactical media.

The spatial quality of the voice/ thickening of the space: In what kind of platforms and spaces the voice can being tranferred and projected? What quality the 'new' voice gives to the spaces?

I want to create a common ground where people participate through collective reading/conversation online, in radio and physical space. The purpose is the voice to be amplified in such a way that raises questions over the presence in public spaces (virtual,digital,online or physical). (Introducing feedback voice technologies as a process of thickening the space.)

How I want to make it:
During my process I will realize small interventions and experiments that will support my concept of the tactical (embodied) voice.

The steps I want to follow till December:

-Writing abstracts, synopsis, essays

-Editing project proposal,thesis outline, chapters

-Hackpact and collecting material from my experiments

-Attend workshops and lectures on radio and speech recognition (CCC, FOSSDEM, RADIO MACCBA)

-Conduct more interviews and transcribe them (Julie, RootIO, RADIO MACCBA)

-prototyping with radio/antennas and webcast/broadcast and embroidered antennas (I can walk with them)

-prototyping with speech recognition and reading in public

-documenting events, public spaces (where the electromagnetic, online sphere and speeches appear, surveillance spots, How the spaces are mediated and use tracking devices or software for communication, how the voice [that is embodied/corporal] can be mediated, technologies that are already made for surveillance and are related to speech recognition in the city )

-searching archives like city archive, Kootwijk history, radio communities, voice in relation to software/technology in other communities like queer

The reason I am doing that:

Generally, I want to dive into the in between space of media and physical landscapes. Regarding the expanses of public spheres in diverse spaces interesting networks are created that can stay active by circulating the knowledge produced by the people being involved. Knowledge is circulated also through the speech and the voice of people in internet, electromagnetic spheres, communication platforms in general and physical spaces. The small conversations/murmurings/gossiping spread around those communication platforms are making a public space, that differs from the public access in spaces as Saskia Sassen mentions and the big political, religion, institutional speeches dominating the public spaces. Seeing the documentation of these voices/sounds/speeches as an archive of collective memory, this material could be placed together on a way that proposes alternative of perceiving ourselves individually and collectively into those landscapes. It can also propose other ways of "publicness". As Ong observed in Orality and Literacy, the condition for a democratic social dialogue in oral cultures was the presence of people in the space and their oral speech and thus after many discussions and performative behaviours they would reach to a decision together or they would just share their individual identities and stories. At the same time peoples voices are used for the creation of phonemes that would help the "machine" to understand, recognize and imitate human voices, conversations. How political decisions affect those spheres?
My initial motivation to do this project is (gender,educational,cultural) exclusion, that I have felt, in communication platforms like radio because of the exclusion in the technical knowledge of them. Another reason is my experience in a previous project I had regarding what voice/speech triggers in public spaces and the power of the invisible soundscapes to create borders and social spheres, (but also the training). My purpose is to redefine those mediums (like radio) by appropriate them in a way that follows up the "situation"/position (cultural, political) of a person. But also to subvert the use of speech recognition software and radio as a tool for control and war, misuse the errors of the tool for the purpose of using the voice as a medium for presence. There is also a public sphere (inactive in terms of political and social aspects) called radio amateurs. How the voice can circulate through it? It is a gendered space. With the purpose to learn for it and approach it (revealing legal,gender,cultural obstacles) I would like to write down all their words (able only for technical conversations and weather) and put them together with other material.
The voice is carrying the culture, gender and other elements of a person and can represent her/him in another space than the actual location of that person. I am interested in the voice as presence in the public space through the absence of the body and for its power to be an initiator for public assemblies, where people interact and exchange through speech acts.

Who could help me:
Matt, Yoanna and Roel help me a lot with the construction of antennas and software for radio. Reni Hofmüller, who I interviewed, can help me in the future when the project gets more concrete as she has a great knowledge on radio (antennas, community radio, pirate radio). Yoanna can also help in the the general direction of the project as her graduation project was related to voice and public space

Previously

I interrogated the language structure by bringing together people from different backgrounds and contexts to read, listen and write texts in a playful way that reveals layers and structures of the language. At the same time I keep being interested in how the tool becomes the output and reverse. I worked with collective writing, reading, speech recognition, collective annotation, collective reading and interacted with digital communities to construct the software.

More specifically the pattern in my work regarding the parallel presence through the voice and the tools that relate the embodied and the distant voice (telepresence) is like that:
Sound Acts in Victoria Square: multiple hacked sound/radio devices that 'carry' the voices of the women interviewed and represent them in the square. Their voices come from a past time at the same place, when they were present physically. At another time only their words are present in the place and 'participate' in conversations in the square. From my text describing the project: “The broadcasted female voices were abruptly intervening into the existing conversations in the specific places, giving the impression of an non-invited “absent” guest.” The distant voice is the mediated voice of women in a past time at the square.

My Way Home: a person follows the voice of another person in another time and place from her/him, giving instructions for navigating in the space and sharing a personal route. The voices are recorded and played back with mp3 devices or cellphones. The distant voice is the mediated voice of someone in the past of the same route but in another place.

Language Poetry Lab: international friends and students are listening to my voice reading a text in Greek (an unknown language for them) live. I ask them to write down what they understand in their languages. The error in translation resembles the game of broken telephone. The distant voice is my embodied voice that becomes unfamiliar because of the unknown language.

Ttssr: it is like the broken telephone. Voices being recorded live that are filtered through the machine and coming back [broadcasted] in loops. The distant voice is the voice mediated by a machine using the 'pocketsphinx' tool.

Projects from other artists:
(Cradiff- her long hair): through the process of walking and listening Cardiff invited people to listen to her recorded voice while she was making the same route at another time. Her breathing, her voice and other sounds of her walking were a companion to the person walking through mp3/Cdplayer. The distant voice is the mediated voice of Cardiff in the past of the same route.

Larger context:
locative media, (urban) tactical media, media hacktivism, radio amateurs, text as a social space, architecture and media, radio public sphere, tracking, speech recognition, speech acts, orality, feminism, mapping

Other keywords:
thickening, parallel, embodied, transition, spatial, occupy movements, vernacular, misreading, tracing

Relation to publishing:
What is that you're trying to make public? The mediation of the embodied voice and its possibility to claim parallel presences in the spaces that is mediated/ the impact it has on those spaces. The relation of the embodied and the distant voice [telepresence]. To be aware of this quality of the voice including the condition of the body[identity, gender, gestures, volume]
How is this going to happen/work? I will show examples of how this is happening daily with a specific concern on 'weak' voices and attempts for establish a presence, like women communities in Afghanistan or queer shows or related hacks. Experimenting with the tools that mediate and represent the embodied voice and engage people in that process.
What are the strategies you are putting in place to create a public around the issue/theme you are interested in? Conducting interviews with people and groups that used voice_based tools and platforms to reclaim their medium/space/role. Researching and revealing communities that used this voice tactics [like microphonic demonstration, gossiping as alternative, radio artists/activists, queer communities, feministic approaches]. Trying out tactics in public space, like broadcasts, collective readings, walking. Trying out online by providing a platform [containing my context] where people can participate in try outs [like transcribing their phone calls, making soundwalks].

Οι ομάδες των τακτικών μέσων θέλουν να έχουν μία διακριτική υλική επίδραση και όχι μία θεμελιώδη δομική διαμόρφωση, όπως επιβάλλεται από τη σύγχρονη αρχιτεκτονική. Αφήνουν μερικά υλικά ίχνη αλλά στο τέλος αυτό που μένει είναι μία ζωντανή ανάμνηση.

3d draft/ 1 November

older drafts
NEXT: make small proposals/paragraphs for every topic. What I want to figure out now is that specificity. What is that special with the voice in the public domains, like radio and streets?

Topics:
a tactical voice: hacking the voice/ hacking the tools of voice/ tactics of reclaiming the voice in spaces that surround us/ public space-communication platforms and voice
Voice as a medium of networking and activating public spaces
The presence of voice in diverse spheres (physical, airwaves, online)

the access of our voice/ the gender and the space of the voice:
social and political context, gender: gossiping as a way to establish the presence
non-access because of technical ignorance and social hierarchies: radio/antennas (FM, AM, satellites)- activism of the voice/hacking the radio/re-visiting br />

Project title:
A (tactical) voice
Walking, listening, scanning, transcribing, talking, eavesdropping, gossiping, tracing, streaming, being present, leaving, looping

The project is about an invitation on realizing the power of our (embodied) voice in the diverse spheres that surrounds us (and transfer it) and tactics of appropriating the tools that interact with it. I will realize that by first providing ways of approaching, accessing and mapping/documenting the tools and platforms that appropriate voice, especially speech recognition tool and radio, but also documenting those practices that will be realized. For example, a software that I will create will provide a way to scan/listen to frequencies and other speech related platforms and transcribe what it is said live. Next, I intend to create a 'channel' through which people will be able to transfer speeches, phonemes, voice sounds, text and coordinates to an accessible web platform. In questioning the act of speech and the platforms that transfer it, I want to make visible the transcendence of the voice and its political power in those spaces. This will be done with actions of walking in the city and talking through a device that will stream the voices back to a web platform as a text being visible in mutliple people's gatherings. The walking practice itself is like receiving, listening, scanning, and as an action that produces space.

The textual representation of voice is the presence of the voice in the media sphere and important element of the speech tools and media platforms. In The Practice of Every Day Life, De Certueau analysed popular culture not as a ‘domain of texts’ or artefacts but rather as a set of practices or operations performed on textual or ‘text like structures’. (the ABC of tactical media, p.91). My approach is more the one of the tactical media. Examples of platforms and spaces could be radio (all possible frequencies), youtube videos and other, outside space/stores, blogs, social media, gossiping in public, in Netherlands, Greece,... The collection will be audio samples and text being produced by the speech recognition of the audio. The collection of the text and sounds recorded and streamed will be collocated together on the platform on a way that produces new meanings and interpretations over the vocal presence of a body (either institutional or individual).

More specifically the live action will be like that: This process will be visible/public and will happen in a live action (here and now) in which I will invite people to interact with, either by listening or scanning or participating in an instance/stimulation of a speech platform/sphere or an instance of oral/vocal communication sphere. I would like to involve people in the process and the sphere (listening and scanning) that will be created. This sphere that people will participate could be a collective reading/conversation online, in radio and physical space. The purpose is the voice to be amplified in such a way that raises questions over the presence in public spaces (virtual,digital,online or physical)./Introducing feedback voice technologies as a process of thickening the space.

How I want to make it:
During my process I will realize small interventions and experiments that will support my concept of the tactical (embodied) voice. Ideas for that:

Collection of material: Listening/ Walking/ Scanning

-Developing scan tools and trying them out. A device with which you record and transcribe conversations of people/ radio frequencies outside I want to make a radio/sound scanner carrying it with me as I walk in the city and transcribe everything I listen to (gossiping etc./like small antenna of Christina Kubisch listening to mobile phones of passengers/radio signals/noise). As a small sculpture of the moment of conversations in public spaces. By making antennas and listening to what is broadcasted in different frequencies. Directing the antenna with my body with the purpose to find the source. Walking with it in the city. Try the AM antenna

- Scanning my physical surroundings, speech recognition to everything. The representation of the street through is radioactive fields

Streaming and acting/being present

-Creating local networks and instances outside where people will be able to talk to.

-Or carrying a device that will broadcast and receive speech

-Streaming and collecting everything on a web platform that I will create: The data (like voice, time, coordinates) of the people participating will be sent to the platform/ Lines and antennas: to set up an antenna requires material, sometimes from the location. Physical location of antennas, range, traces, routes of people in attempt to direct an antenna/ Mapping and sending speech and coordinates to django while doing the walk tours

-Ask to broadcast in an FM frequency where people can get connected and broadcast instructions that other people will follow somewhere else (O' Rourke pg. 125). In the same frequency people would be invited to speak or send recorded audio resembling phonemes. In the same frequency also the collected sounds could be broadcast. Extracts of texts will be shared to participates to choose? Conversations of topics- silence

-The text circulated in the digital sphere (social media, news etc) read/broadcasted (espeak?people participated to create phonemes? fake voices of politicians) live to participants while walking in the city. Choosing spots that have an importance (historical, political, surveillance spots etc) in relevance to my documentation and research.

-In reverse: sounds/voices/speeches of the electromagnetic-online realm being transcribed to a text that is shared to the public.(ex: Here While We Walk)/ the text becomes part of the walking/ artist with the pool

-Points of local networks, temporary spaces/platforms traced on the map, as you walk and talk you are traced, activating conversations, reading texts/extracts from my collection of texts./ Taking my research text into the archival material (texts, transcriptions, voices, speeches) and manipulate it with the tools that I will create

Documenting/ Presenting/ Publishing/ Participating (the action of travelling/transition)
What forms of presentation are appropriate for this practice? I want to build a way for that. My project proposes a range of possibilities and parallel processes (live action, happening at the same time or with delay). "since the arts are grounded in the material structure of society, artists must revolutionize the means by which their work is produced and distributed. One way this can be accomplished is for authors to be involved in publishing"(O'Rourke, pg.xiii)

The steps I want to follow till December:

-Writing abstracts, synopsis, essays

-Editing project proposal,thesis outline, chapters

-Hackpact and collecting material from my experiments

-Attend workshops and lectures on radio and speech recognition (CCC, FOSSDEM, RADIO MACCBA)

-Conduct more interviews and transcribe them (Julie, RootIO, RADIO MACCBA)

-prototyping scan frequencies

-prototyping with radio/antennas and webcast/broadcast and embroidered antennas (I can walk with them)

-documenting events, public spaces (where the electromagnetic, online sphere and speeches appear, surveillance spots, How the spaces are mediated and use tracking devices or software for communication)

-searching archives like city archive, Kootwijk history, radio communities

-search for technologies that are already made for surveillance and are related to speech recognition in the city

-interview people related to pirate radio (Reni Hofmüller)

-find references that are not so academic

-prototyping with mapping and lines (scripts of walking/coordinates to lines)

-prototyping with speech recognition

-Set-up a platform to document prototyping, writing, experiments in public. People can contribute to that. Comminication friction. leave a trace. Establish temporary platforms

-Collect bibliography

-Setting up questions

-Reading- Making abstracts

The reason I am doing that:
What is the reasonable follow-up action to my reason?
Generally, I want to dive into the in between space of media and physical landscapes. Regarding the expanses of public spheres in diverse spaces interesting networks are created that can stay active by circulating the knowledge produced by the people being involved. Knowledge is circulated also through the speech and the voice of people in internet, electromagnetic spheres, communication platforms in general and physical spaces. The small conversations/murmurings/gossiping spread around those communication platforms are making a public space, that differs from the public access in spaces as Saskia Sassen mentions and the big political, religion, institutional speeches dominating the public spaces. Seeing the documentation of these voices/sounds/speeches as an archive of collective memory, this material could be placed together on a way that proposes alternative of perceiving ourselves individually and collectively into those landscapes. It can also propose other ways of "publicness". As Ong observed in Orality and Literacy, the condition for a democratic social dialogue in oral cultures was the presence of people in the space and their oral speech and thus after many discussions and performative behaviours they would reach to a decision together or they would just share their individual identities and stories. At the same time peoples voices are used for the creation of phonemes that would help the "machine" to understand, recognize and imitate human voices, conversations. How political decisions affect those spheres?
My initial motivation to do this project is (gender,educational,cultural) exclusion, that I have felt, in communication platforms like radio because of the exclusion in the technical knowledge of them. Another reason is my experience in a previous project I had regarding what voice/speech triggers in public spaces and the power of the invisible soundscapes to create borders and social spheres. My purpose is to redefine those mediums (like radio) by appropriate them in a way that follows up the "situation"/position (cultural, political) of a person. But also to subvert the use of speech recognition software and radio as a tool for control and war, misuse the errors of the tool for the purpose of using the voice as a medium for presence. There is also a public sphere (inactive in terms of political and social aspects) called radio amateurs. How the voice can circulate through it? It is a gendered space. With the purpose to learn for it and approach it (revealing legal,gender,cultural obstacles) I would like to write down all their words (able only for technical conversations and weather) and put them together with other material.
The voice is carrying the culture, gender and other elements of a person and can represent her/him in another space than the actual location of that person. I am interested in the voice as presence in the public space through the absence of the body and for its power to be an initiator for public assemblies, where people interact and exchange through speech acts.

Who could help me:
Matt, Yoanna and Roel help me a lot with the construction of antennas and software for radio. Reni Hofmüller, who I interviewed, can help me in the future when the project gets more concrete as she has a great knowledge on radio (antennas, community radio, pirate radio). Yoanna can also help in the the general direction of the project as her graduation project was related to voice and public space

Previously:
I interrogated the language structure by bringing together people from different backgrounds and contexts to read, listen and write texts in a playful way that reveals layers and structures of the language. At the same time I keep being interested in how the tool becomes the output and reverse. I worked with collective writing, reading, speech recognition, collective annotation, collective reading and interacted with digital communities to construct the software. My way of working looks like an alien creature but weirdly make sense; I combine different unrelated (technically and conceptually) software with the purpose to follow the concept behind.

Larger context:
locative media, urban tactical media, media hacktivism, radio amateurs, text as a social space, architecture and media, radio public sphere, tracking, speech recognition, speech acts, orality More specific:

radio art, electromagnetic public sphere, platforms of communication and how to contest them, broadcasting and webcasting

mapping tools, walking practices

voice as a tool, speech recognition, transcriptions, voice in communication platforms

in relation to the above: interventions of text

Other keywords:
thickening, parallel, embodied, transition, spatial, occupy movements, vernacular, misreading, tracing, platforms, phonemes, phonetics,temporality, local networks, databases and GPS/sql

Whatever code we hack, be it programming language, poetic language, math or music, curves or colourings, we cre- ate the possibility of new things entering the world.... In art, in science, in philosophy and culture, in any production of knowledge where data can be gathered, where information can be extracted from it, and where in that informa- tion new possibilities for the world are produced, there are hackers hacking the new out of the old.” 1

Οι ομάδες των τακτικών μέσων θέλουν να έχουν μία διακριτική υλική επίδραση και όχι μία θεμελιώδη δομική διαμόρφωση, όπως επιβάλλεται από τη σύγχρονη αρχιτεκτονική. Αφήνουν μερικά υλικά ίχνη αλλά στο τέλος αυτό που μένει είναι μία ζωντανή ανάμνηση. Για παράδειγμα, οι ακτιβιστές κυβερνοπειρατές με τη δράση floodnet (λογισμικό που υπερφορτώνει έναν διακομιστή με επισκέψεις χρηστών με αποτέλεσμα να μπλοκάρει) αφήνουν υλικά ίχνη της δράσης τους σε server logs (φάκελοι διακομιστών που καταγράφουν τι γίνεται στην εκτέλεση ενός συστήματος).

2nd draft/15 October

Draft explanation: Here I will write as many scenarios as possible popping out of my mind. And then I will choose what fits to me the best. I will imagine it as crazy as I can and then I will slow down.

Project title:
The presence of voice or other related sounds in diverse spheres (physical, airwaves, online)

I want to scan through platforms of speech and collect audio and text material related to speech/voice. Examples of platforms and spaces could be radio (all possible frequencies), youtube videos and other, outside space, blogs, social media, gossiping in public, in NL and GR. The collection will be audio samples and text being produced by the speech recognition of the audio. After that I will collocate them together on a way that produces new meanings and interpretations over the vocal presence of a body (either institutional or individual). This process will be visible/public and will happen in a live action in which I will invite people to interact with, either by listening or scanning or participating in an instance/stimulation of a speech platform/sphere or an instance of oral/vocal communication sphere. More specifically I would like to involve people in the process and the sphere (listening and scanning) that will be created. This sphere that people will participate could be a collective reading/conversation online, in radio and physical space. The purpose is the voice to be amplified in such a way that raises questions over the presence in public spaces (virtual,digital,online or physical).

How I want to make it:
Collection of material: listening, walking, scanning

-I want to make a radio/sound scanner carrying it with me as I walk in the city and transcribe everything I listen to (gossiping etc./like small antenna of Christina Kubisch listening to mobile phones of passengers/radio signals/noise). As a small sculpture of the moment of conversations in public spaces.

-Making antennas and listening to what is broadcasted in different frequencies. Directing the antenna with my body with the purpose to find the source.

-Developing scan tools and trying them out.

Experimenting with software and concepts
During my process I will realize small interventions and experiments that will support my project. Ideas for that:

-Ask to broadcast in an FM frequency where people can get connected and broadcast instructions that other people will follow somewhere else (O' Rourke pg. 125). In the same frequency people would be invited to speak or send recorded audio resembling phonemes. In the same frequency also the collected sounds could be broadcast.

-The text circulated in the digital sphere (social media, news etc) read/broadcasted (espeak?people participated to create phonemes?) live to participants while walking in the city. Choosing spots that have an importance (historical, political, surveillance spots etc) in relevance to my documentation and research.

-In reverse: sounds/voices/speeches of the electromagnetic-online realm being transcribed to a text that is shared to the public.(ex: Here While We Walk)/ the text becomes part of the walking

-Points of local networks, temporary spaces/platforms traced on the map, activating conversations, reading rooms?.

-Taking my research text into the archival material (texts, transcriptions, voices, speeches) and manipulate it with the tools that I will create

-Lines and antennas: to set up an antenna requires material, sometimes from the location. Physical location of antennas, range, traces, routes of people in attempt to direct an antenna

-Scanning my physical surroundings, speech recognition to everything. The representation of the street through is radioactive fields

-What about a platform for people to add voices, antennas, coordinates/ like a map (django?)

The steps I want to follow till December:

-Conduct more interviews and transcribe them

-prototyping scan frequencies

-prototyping with radio/antennas and webcast/broadcast and embroidered antennas (I can walk with them)

-documenting events, public spaces (where the electromagnetic, online sphere and speeches appear, surveillance spots, How the spaces are mediated and use tracking devices or software for communication)

-searching archives like city archive, Kootwijk history, radio communities

-search for technologies that are already made for surveillance and are related to speech recognition in the city

-interview people related to pirate radio (Reni Hofmüller)

-find references that are not so academic

-prototyping with mapping and lines (scripts of walking/coordinates to lines)

-prototyping with speech recognition

-Set-up a platform to document prototyping, writing, experiments in public. People can contribute to that. Comminication friction. leave a trace. Establish temporary platforms

-Collect bibliography

-Setting up questions

-Reading- Making abstracts

The reason I am doing that:
My initial motivation to do this project is (gender,educational,cultural) exclusion, that I have felt, in communication platforms like radio because of the exclusion in the technical knowledge of them. Another reason is my experience in a previous project I had regarding what voice/speech triggers in public spaces and the power of the invisible soundscapes to create borders and social spheres. My purpose is to redefine those mediums (like radio) by appropriate them in a way that follows up the "situation"/position (cultural, political) of a person. But also to subvert the use of speech recognition software and radio as a tool for control and war, misuse the errors of the tool for the purpose of using the voice as a medium for presence. There is also a public sphere (inactive in terms of political and social aspects) called radio amateurs. How the voice can circulate through it? It is a gendered space. With the purpose to learn for it and approach it (revealing legal,gender,cultural obstacles) I would like to write down all their words (able only for technical conversations and weather) and put them together with other material.
Generally, I want to dive into the in between space of media and physical landscapes. Regarding the expanses of public spheres in diverse spaces interesting networks are created that can stay active by circulating the knowledge produced by the people being involved. Knowledge is circulated also through the speech and the voice of people in internet, electromagnetic spheres, communication platforms in general and physical spaces. The small conversations/murmurings/gossiping spread around those communication platforms are making a public space, that differs from the public access in spaces as Saskia Sassen mentions and the big political, religion, institutional speeches dominating the public spaces. Seeing the documentation of these voices/sounds/speeches as an archive of collective memory, this material could be placed together on a way that proposes alternative of perceiving ourselves individually and collectively into those landscapes. It can also propose other ways of "publicness". As Ong observed in Orality and Literacy, the condition for a democratic social dialogue in oral cultures was the presence of people in the space and their oral speech and thus after many discussions and performative behaviours they would reach to a decision together or they would just share their individual identities and stories. At the same time peoples voices are used for the creation of phonemes that would help the "machine" to understand, recognize and imitate human voices, conversations. How political decisions affect those spheres?
The voice is carrying the culture, gender and other elements of a person and can represent her/him in another space than the actual location of that person. I am interested in the voice as presence in the public space through the absence of the body and for its power to be an initiator for public assemblies, where people interact and exchange through speech acts.

Who could help me:
XPUB gang, Reni Hofmüller ,Roel, Matt, Joanna,...

Previously:
I interrogated the language structure by bringing together people from different backgrounds and contexts to read, listen and write texts in a playful way that reveals layers and structures of the language. At the same time I keep being interested in how the tool becomes the output and reverse. I worked with collective writing, reading, speech recognition, collective annotation, collective reading and interacted with digital communities to construct the software. My way of working looks like an alien creature but weirdly make sense; I combine different unrelated (technically and conceptually) software with the purpose to follow the concept behind.

Larger context:
locative media, urban tactical media, hacktivism, radio amateurs, text as a social space, architecture and media, radio public sphere, tracking, speech recognition, speech More specific:

radio art, electromagnetic public sphere, platforms of communication and how to contest them, broadcasting and webcasting

mapping tools, walking practices

voice as a tool, speech recognition, transcriptions, voice in communication platforms

in relation to the above: interventions of text

Other keywords:
occupy movements, vernacular, misreading, tracing, platforms, phonemes, phonetics,temporality, local networks, databases and GPS/sql

OLD NOTES:
An attempt to:
Walking, parallel actions. Setting up local networks of writing and reading and working with programming. Reading rooms. Deconstruct research methodologies by collaborating together in the physical space while being in the cyber. Bringing conflictuous contexts together. How the language is an error, how projects with the language become a tool for communication and interrogation as a group, collective. Collaborating and communicating/antennas hardware. Hack the available medium into each instance/context I will be involved. Writing abstracts mostly and use them as a first raw material to experiment with. Working with software that seems related even if it looks irrelevant, like antennas software, speech recognition, local networks, python/nltk?, pirate libraries. While writing and prototyping I intend to interact with public spheres. I would like to try interact with contexts outside of my known area, like the art-initiatives in Philippines (already interacting) and Greece/Romania or local groups here and communities online.

1st draft/13 September

What do you want to make?
How do you plan to make it?
What is your timetable?
Why do you want to make it?
Who can help you and how?
Relation to a larger context

A series of experiments interacting with the public, while researching. Walking, parallel actions. Setting up local networks of writing and reading and working with programming. Reading rooms. Deconstruct research methodologies by collaborating together in the physical space while being in the cyber. Bringing conflictuous contexts together. How the language is an error, how projects with the language become a tool for communication and interrogation as a group, collective. Collaborating and communicating/antennas hardware. Hack the available medium into each instance/context I will be involved (How the spaces are mediated and use tracking devices or software for communication)

Keep writing and prototyping. Writing abstracts mostly and use them as a first raw material to experiment with. Working with software that seems related even if it looks irrelevant, like antennas software, speech recognition, local networks, python/nltk, pirate libraries. While writing and prototyping I intend to interact with public spheres. I would like to try interact with contexts outside of my known area, like the art-initiatives in Philippines (already interacting) and Greece/Romania or local groups here and communities online.

The steps I want to follow:

Check again questions I ve done last year, topics and refs, which softwares interest me

Collect bibliography

Setting up questions

Reading- Making abstracts

Set-up a platform to document prototyping, writing, experiments in public. People can contribute to that. Comminication friction. leave a trace. Establish temporary platforms

The reason I am doing that: I want to find out alternative ways of questioning, researching. To understand what publicness means for different contexts. What make things public? The software becomes a way for me to interrogate structures of social interaction, politics, democratic speeches online or in public spaces. It helps me to understand and share easily this knowledge with others. I have though about these questions:

• How is the media sphere related to public spaces? How they do construct the space?
• What that reveals for the space (either physical or digital) and our surroundings?
• How the commons are related to that and how can be influenced by that?
• How the tools provide another perspective and way of research or communicating?
• How walking and including the presence of our body into this media occupied public space reveals hidden meanings and perspectives?
• How the art and architecture opens up to these possibilities that this technical knowledge of programming, media provides? How can this still be conceptual, poetic? How can this include the "I" and the "we"? How and why to make things public?
• Is it object, is it an endless process, is it an action?

Who could help me: XPUB gang, Clara,Roel,...

Previously I interrogated the language structure by bringing together people from different backgrounds and contexts to read, listen and write texts in a playful way that reveals layers and structures of the language. At the same time I keep being interested in how the tool becomes the output and reverse. I worked with collective writing, reading, speech recognition, collective annotation, collective reading and interacted with digital communities to construct the software. My way of working looks like an alien creature but weirdly make sense; I combine different unrelated (technically and conceptually) software with the purpose to follow the concept.

Larger context: urban tactical media, hacktivism, occupy movements, radio amateurs, text as a social space

Feedback: communicative language very academic