User:Artemis gryllaki/Potential Workshop

*Pirate collective self-education

1st part: Bring your laptop and sit together. A collection of library items is provided, relevant to piracy/copyright/authorship. Choose one text. Where is it available in Rotterdam (library/school/bookshop/internet platform)? Search online. Is anywhere available for free or for what price? Is it available both in physical and digital form? Which pirate libraries do we know already? Name a phew and discuss there differencies. Try to download the chosen item through a pirate library. Discuss on our experience.

2nd part: Discussions will be the form of annotating the "source" in this workshop. Creation of a "local" forum. Verbal annotations help us towards forming shared understandings of the text. Read out loud collectively (and record?) part of the downloaded item.

Comments on the text? Which part was interesting or relevant to you? The resulting discussions can be recorded and published in a pirate library along with the "source", as an "extended audio version" of it?? It would be interesting to annotate again at another time, the extended audio version, after publishing it in a web-platform(e.g. soundcloud annotations on audio files). There are 3 stages of this experiment: 1) The first published content/source from an author 2) A temporary local community which reflects on the source through piracy and annotations 3) On top of the extended source, remote annotations through a pirate internet platform.

Practical info: Group of 5? Have a time limit for each "action". Take care of having internet connection, computers and recording infrastructure. Tools: 1)Record in decent quality a discussion of a group of people 2)Text annotation in audio file. Or audio annotation if audio file?

Aim

Create a temporary situated learning community supported by pirate libraries. Awareness of what is possible and what interfaces the law.

Think if that experience would be possible for everyone if we didn't use pirate ways of sharing "knowledge". Transformation of the "source", "translate" it in another medium (from text to audio). The extended version includes the temporary discourse about the thematic contained in the "source".

Questions of the workshop

How difficult it is to have access to a text in legal and extra legal means?

What happens when we pirate and annotate "collectively"? Can piracy be a social activivty? Why is it interesting to try this?

Role of annotation

Annotations in the form of discussions shape a space to learn from each other and have collective understandings. 

In this process the "source" is enriched with our personal voices/stories/understandings. The "content" is then extended to a situation of learning.

Previous Thoughts

A collection of pirate annotated research readers

Making public the process and materials for research, according to our experience. What is the "content" of a research? Apart from the final project with its bibliography, what about the different materials and proccesses that lead to it. What is regarded as knowledge? It makes sense to work with something that is relevant to our personal interests and will be useful to us, or other students in the future? Working with readers that circulate at PZI? To bring together these scattered references. Base-collection would be the material that is already being annotated. Connect the references to the issues? Relate to workshops/lectures that took part? How do the references,materials become part of research? Multiple forms/levels of annotation. It seems useful to create a place to gather

1) our researches and materials that lead to them

2) categorise the collections in thematics/issues (a different way of organising shared items in a library)

3) publish extended-augmented versions of processes, references, (multimedia) annotations along with final research projects

Questions:

- Digital/analog/multimedia?

- How is it (could it be made) interesting for other people outside PZI?

- What technologies?

- How do we create, collect and share these collections?

- Related to Rita's question about different media annotations. Relates probably to tancre's idea of augmented epubs.