User:Chrissy/T2 Assessment
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Radio
Broadcast 2: Soundmapping Rotterdam:
Since we worked a lot with sound in the beginning of the first Trimester, we decided on recording sounds in the city, because everybody just moved freshly to Rotterdam. We split into groups; one group interviewed people on the street, and we walked over the market in Rotterdam to record interesting and typical sounds. On another day I walked quite a long way through Rotterdam (including walking into an insane rainstorm) and recorded everything I could find. Besides the city recordings, we used the recordings of the Jam Session we did with Joseph as well. We also asked our class for experiences of Rotterdam, posting them in the radio worm chat and reading them live during the show. My role was at this show the interface, so I mixed the volume and created a drew timeline during the show, which marks field recordings, interviews, the read memories, experiences and the recording of the Jam Session, to get during the live show and afterward an overview of what we played.
➜ Soundmapping Rotterdam
Broadcast 3: Underwater Exploration:
Though an inspiration of the previous Broadcast, where I wrote in the chat, "I really love water, and there is water everywhere. Even in places where I thought there couldn’t be any water, there is." We decided as a group on the main topic of water, the journey in three phases from getting towards the water, swimming and diving. We collected sounds of water, and my part was collecting music with the topic of water/rain/sea/rain with YouTube Converter and cutting it into snippets to have a 5:51 min audio with different songs, which I also ordered into our three phases.
➜ Underwater Exploration
Broadcast 7: Improvisation:
Since the 7th show took place right before the Protocols for Collective Performance Event, we decided on an improvised show, which we “planned” in 10 minutes. The idea was to bring the meeting of the planning into the actual show, to show a kind of “behind the scenes” to the listeners. We brought different things, like vinyls, to talk about if we should play them in the next show or not. Since we had after six shows a better understanding and experience of making radio, we felt very comfortable just to talk live in the show, without a lot of preparation. This acknowledgement felt incredible good. In advance, I read the text “Radio as Radical Education by Grégoire Rousseau & Nora Sternfeld in 2024.” We talked in the beginning of it, and I explained the parts I found interesting in the text—like a podcast.
➜ Improvisation
Broadcast 8: Lost Music:
In this show–we already prepared weeks ahead—we decided on the topic Lost Music, the storage, the archiving and “owning” of music. For me personally, the production and radio itself were extremely remembering and nostalgic of my using of CDs as a kid and teenager. The illegal downloading of music files, sampling them together to a mix, burning them on CDs, designing the Cover and the CD itself, and playing it infinitely on my CD player. Also showing my friends the new music I found and collected. It remembered me again, how it was to listen to a CD all day long all over again and the whole process behind it instead of streaming music on Spotify with the urge of finding new music every day again and often not able to play it without internet connection.
For the show, we asked our class for their music between 13 and 16 in our categories "Shame, Guilt, Sorrow and Love." Combining these specific feelings with discovering old music gave me a deeper understanding and diving into my past self, then just searching into old music. We got a lot of feedback on how amazing it was to dig into these old and forgotten songs and get remembered again what feelings and memories they provoked.
We planned to produce a little gift for the class and let them physically owning our collected songs, separated in each category. For the CD inlet, I designed the poster combined with drawings, pictures and icons by Kiara, Charlie and Tessa of their teenage years. We printed it in the Print Station with the new Riso printer. Additionally, we designed and printed a sticker sheet to stick the elements on the CD boxes and CDs themselves, too. The burning and designing of the CDs we did together while listening to our created mixtapes and sinking into memories.
Kiara designed and coded the website for our show, which works as a music player for all the songs we collected. For this website, I made a 3D model of our CD in Blender, which is animated and rotates. The dolphin as stickers and on the CD I made in Blender as well.
➜ Lost Music
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Protocols for Collective Performance | SI25
Before
During the planning of our Event Protocols for Collective Performance for the Special Issue 25 I worked on the design and coding of the Event website. On the basis of Tessa’s poster design, I coded the website. I got a lot of help from Kim, especially for the responsiveness, and learned so much with it.
➜ SI25 – Event Website
I really enjoyed the planning and organization of the event in general with the whole class. Furthermore, I’m already experienced in working with groups—in my studies and several movements and protest organizations—but learned so much from our self-directed planning in terms of the speech culture, working on specific outcomes together and divided.
I helped with the stuff like printing the project stickers, cutting them and other things which had to be done last minute for the event. Working with pressure helps me the most.
During
Lost in Narration
For the Lost in Narration project, I worked in the group with Alexandria, Claudio, Eleni and Kiara. When everybody presented their possible ideas for the event, the ideas of Kiara and Eleni merged together. I loved the idea of bringing together different Ideas of speech to text and the VCV Rack into a new project complete in itself. In the first place, I was not so sure about the whole performance idea; because I never really got in touch personally with it. But during the planning and the event itself, I really loved the outcome. On the one hand, the performance was kind of scripted, since we read the texts of the screen produced by the observers, and it gave me the possibility to follow and react to each other, which gave the whole performance, including the audio output of Eleni’s every time a new layer and another form of communication along with each other. On the other hand, the performance had a really funny part, which made it accessible to follow for the visitors and also to participate eventually. I had during and after a lot of thoughts about observing, especially events. In my position with sitting just in front of the screen and not being able to look through the room, I observed though other eyes transformed into text. Especially the responding to each other—the narrators with each other, with us and we all among ourselves—made it every time individual. Additionally, the receipt printing turned into a kind of poetry/storytelling and again into interesting and unpredictable errors. For me, I realized the exact outcome or project really just at the day of the event. We talked about it a lot, but never really tried out the whole circle of the performance, which made it even more exciting to see how the interactions with each other work out eventually.
➜ Lost in Narration
Post Production
After the event, I joined the Post Production group for the website of our Special Issue 25.
Before the event, the group had the idea to collect all the content of the wikis together on the website and have an include paged.js for a printed version. Later, I was part of the design of the website, which was first a challenge for me since we fetched all the content from the wikis, which made it more complicated for me to use the classes and IDs and CSS in general. But together with Kiera’s and Kim's help, we managed to almost finish the website. It was amazing to work on this website in the group with all the generated content of the whole class.
➜ Special Issue 25 website
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Specific Lens
For the SI26 I worked with Kiara on a browser Extension, which we almost finished. The project had from the beginning an educational approach for interested people in learning about CSS Positions and Display. The project was above all important from the beginning to me, since I’m also learning CSS and still have troubles with the Position and Display values and was looking for a tool that could help me. Additionally, more than a bug, which is even better—we implemented a game in the browser extension, which, besides showing the values, also enables the collecting of all Position and Display values of the page. Therefore, the educational reason is even better, since we implemented a playful way for the seemingly dry CSS values.
➜ Specific_Lens
SuperVisual HyperZine
I love working with collected things, and especially with these screenshots of our class. From the beginning we made screenshots of all the experiments of the Extensions we made with Doriane and Joseph and generated so many super different ones, which often look like new media art works. I appreciated the idea of collecting them together into a zine, since I also worked a lot with the practice of Zines.
The implementing of Jinja and paged.js I really enjoy, because of discovering and learning about other tools and trying to use them, even though I might not understand them in the first place completely. But since we work on the accreditation publication for the Piet Zwart Institute, I got a way better understanding of paged.js. In the first place, I didn’t really see the advantages of using it instead of a WYSIWYG layout tool, but of course, by using them hands-on, the possibilities and advantages arise. The collective work is way easier; major changes in the layout and design come more easily and are automated. ➜ Hyperzine
Browser Extension Trump=Turd
We worked with Joseph on Browser Extension, and since the beginning I was interested in changing specific words automatically in others. For now, I just decided on a funny way of changing the word Trump into Turd, but I can see similar and more thoughtful projects with that.
➜ Trump=Turd
write poetry
Manetta showed us a Python script based on “A House of Dust” by Allison Knowles in 1968, which I really loved. I was interested in generating poetry and rewrote the script into JavaScript to host it on a website.
I exchanged the word inputs into verbs, adjectives, nouns, locations (as where), prepositions, articles, pronouns, emotions as smileys and emojis, and ASCII sparkles as a decorative end element. All the words and elements are generated randomly. For now, I worked on five sections; one is the love letter I made with Eleni and Sevgi for Valentine's Day. One of the other sections starts with “Do absolute nothing” and gives advice on doing something (not). The other one is a statement out of three words; another is a recommendation of adding two things and getting a result; and the last one is a poem.
The sections, except for the love letter, are still a work in progress, because the sentences have many grammatical errors, because of missing fill words or endings. But since I work on it, I kind of like the errors, since it shows that it’s generated and let's stumble over the text.
➜ Prototype write poetry
➜ wiki write poetry
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I had to think a lot about the text we read, “THE TYRANNY of STRUCTURELESSNESS” and also recommended it to friends, who work in different political groups. I worked already in different groups and it sometimes felt not really empowering. In the sense for myself as well as the group or the reason we work for. The content, or more the text itself, helped me in the way to think more about the structure of groups in general. Especially also the practical use, as, for instance, the Special Issue 25 Event.
Personal Reader
I started to make a website for my personal reader with code from https://ainsleyromero.com/
➜ You can see the start of my Personal Reader webpage here/
Although, the separation in "aesthetics," "kinda tech" and "memes/GIFs work (not)" doesn't fit anymore, because the thematics of my readings is a bit more all over the place and right now I cannot sort in this raster anymore. I still want to keep a raster for a better overview for myself.
However, I'm planning to make a basic website as my personal reader with the function to export as PDF. Since most of my resources are online and my annotations are digital as well, this way makes the most sense in my opinion. I also want to link to the PDFs I'm reading and have an extra "reading list" with all my resources without my personal notes, to use it as a form of resource sharing.
➜ Personal Reader
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In 2024, I visited the transmediale in Berlin. I was stunned by the work “Annihilation Core, Inherited Lore ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶” of Noura Tafeche. First I saw the collaborative performance “She’s Evil, Most Definitively Subliminal” of her with Alex Quicho. A two-channel projection with found audio and screenshots/videos. The performance and the installation show how the popular online aesthetic operates in the service of the exaltation of war culture. It showcases how social media platforms are aestheticizing war through the culture and aesthetic of kawaii and media propaganda.
Annihilation-Core-Inherited-Lore
She-s-Evil-Most-Definitively-Subliminal
Right now, I’m looking more into the philosophy of aesthetics in general and Social Media/Internet aesthetics. Also before and now during my Masters about Anti-Capitalist practices and anti-work culture, which I’m planning to combine together. In general, I’m planning to work around/combine activism/feminism/politics, maybe even in a broader sense. In my exam project last year, a very broad topic was knowledge and resource sharing, which is still a big interest of mine and I would like to implement in a way.
For another project I was also interested in implementing through iFrames (and maybe API?) news articles of the German right-wing party AFD onto one page, searching for specific terms, and comparing them all together. Another similar idea is to use the news articles of BILD, a right/conservative news publishing house in Germany, and bring all the most racist and problematic articles into one page. I tried to start this project but hadn’t the capacity to continue on it since I just know how to use iFrames but not at all to use APIs (which is a me problem; I haven’t really work into it yet) or to automate the process.
I would also really love to use Blender and TouchDesigner in my future projects, since I have worked since a couple of years more or less with Blender and started workshops in the station skills for Blender and TouchDesigner and would like to continue with these software programs.
In general, as you see, I collect a bunch of ideas in my artistic practice and research. I find them for myself fascinating and try to connect them eventually together, because I have a hard time ditching ideas since they all sound important to me. During my research, I stumble across other ideas, of course and collecting them as well in my project idea. I think I really need to learn to dig more into specific topics while trying not to find new ones. In the early states of a project, this practice is understandable, but it doesn’t really change while reaching the end of a project—more the deadline of the project forces me to stop and tries to connect the already collected together.
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glyphs4gaza
I found the good glyphs project[website], which raises funds for Doctors Without Borders, and got inspired for an Open Call.
I wanted to start an Open Call for the collection of symbols/icons for the design of a dingbat font to raise funds for the Gaza Strip. The project is currently paused, but we will continue after the SI26 Event, when we have more time and capacity for it. I started to make a poster and website, which Kiara will continue on the website, and after hosting the website, we want to start the Open Call with distributing posters all around Rotterdam as well in social media. I work with Kiara, Eleni, Tessa and a few members of a German antiracist working group on it.
➜ Website glyphs4gaza [under construction]
station skills
Had so much fun doing stuff with my hands, that I wanted to include it here :)) I'm also planning to work for my thesis in the stations to combine my work with physical elements.
