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== Week 1 Gossip as a form of knowledge sharing ==
Got stucked in the snow and could not go to the intro day for the SI#29 woth Doriane.

== Week 2 Keywords, Grapevine ==
Online Methods class with Marloeas where we discussed pattern languages as in archtecture's aproach for city planning where each attern is a problem and a general solution of the problem. (e.g. the citizens being disconnected from bodies of water -> having small canals integrated into the plans). This way of thinking about problem solving could give the same solution but many iteration for one proble which could also end up ove generalizing specific issues.

We also talekd about [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keywords:_A_Vocabulary_of_Culture_and_Society| Keywords] and [https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781849352437| Keywords for radicals : the contested vocabulary of late-capitalist struggle ]. These two books offer a way to establish a vocabulary on certain keywords as form of start learning about a certain topic. The latter also sees major changes in language (meaning crisis) as an indicator of political changes.

She proposed to start a collective glossary writing called [https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Grapevine| Grapevine] which I transclude to the bottom of this page. 

== Week 3 Filesharing==

During prototype class we got introduced into the topic of filesharing and thinking about filesharing as an act of resistance. https://pad.xpub.nl/p/SI29-prototyping-week-1

Daan and I share the same interest on synths and [https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/MIDI| MIDI] controllers, generating sounds in general. So we started a conversation about working with sound.

== Week 4 SSServers, Synths, Structurlessness ==
=== Monday ===
Today with DOriane and Kaa we were exploring together possible ways of using [https://hub.xpub.nl/sergio/| Sergio] as a collective tool for editing, sharing, and zine making.

Daan made a [https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/MIDISharingAdventure| wiki page for our journey with MIDIs].

=== Tuesday ===
Today on the fermentation session with Manetta we shared one sentence ideas about filesharing and the first protoyping ideas to each other.

=== Wednesday === 
Today we were discussing [https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm| The Tyranny of Structurelessness by Jo Freeman] and the reviews around it. The text is adressing that in small movement groups the power is practiced by an 'informal elite' usually sharing same background and having the time allocated to 'run' the movement. She adresses that these informal elite friend groups are becoming problematic when the movement is about to scale to nattional level because they are not formally elected, there is no defined roles and so on... there is no formal structure so the power structure falls back into undeveloped stage.

== Week 5 Workshop Facilitator at ArtEZ, Arnhem ==
=== Monday ===
Datacenter tour: Didn't attend :(
<br>
Deep Listening Workshop (facilitator):
<br> Unforrtunately I could not join the tour because I was giving a workshop at my bachelor course for GDA students. The workshop was about deep listening and my experience as a workshop facilitator is getting somewhere. 
The connecction with XPUB is that the theme comes from the 3 day workshop from the very beginning with Clara Balaguer. After some consultaion with her I managed to put a one day workshop together: <br>

A Bug in My Ear:
<br> 
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/DeepListeningMain

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/DeepListeningGroup01
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/DeepListeningGroup02
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/DeepListeningGroup03
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/DeepListeningGroup04
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/DeepListeningGroup05
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/DeepListeningGroup06
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/DeepListeningGroup07
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/DeepListeningGroup08
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/DeepListeningGroup09


Secretary: Documents everything that happens in the conversation between speaker and listener, takes notes, pictures, records, drawings.

Listener: Asks questions 

Speaker: Has 20 minutes to give insights of how the/she/they listened to their own body while slow walking.

APPROACHING QUESTIONS:
* How are you feeling?
* How do you feel about the morning walk?
* Where  were you mentally while walking?
* Where were you physically ?
* Describe the path you took?
* What are we doing here? 
* How far would you like to go?

ENTERING QUESTIONS:
* When we think of listening what comes to your mind/body?
* Do you have any painful memory about listening? 
* Do we have memories of making mistakes not listening to ouselves or others?
* Do you remember situations when you deeply felt to be listened to?
* Do you have any experiences of communicating your thoughts/feelings sucessfully?

[[File:Deep Listening Workshop - A Bug in My Ear - Zine 01.png|frameless|300 px]]
[[File:Deep Listening Workshop - A Bug in My Ear - Zine 02.png|frameless|300px]]

=== Tuesday ===
Today I gave another workshop together with a friend of mine [https://lucaszuidema.com/| Lucas Zuidema]. The workshop was about to observe bodies moving throug space and record them somehow on an aoudio file. From these recordings we built a narrative in the afternoon. <br>
Earlier phase I asked Lucas to create a tool which we can use as acollective editing tool for the workshop, so he made a [https://www.reaper.fm/| REAPER] Plug-in. (not published yet)

== Week 6 ==
=== Monday ===
Today we were collective CSS-ing using Dorian's [https://cards.declarations.style/| Declaration Project], a project to learn CSS and to learn about CSS in a playful way. <br>
Beside that, I talked to Daan about finishing the first prototype the Mapping instuments into letters. And also the USB drive adventure which we started to develop. We call it "shadowshares " and the idea is to leave USB stick in CDJs all aorund the world with a README.txt file on it.

[[File:Shadowshares READEME.txt.png|frameless|600px]]

[https://project.xpub.nl/modular-matter/| Modular Matter]

Reasearching [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_on_hold| Music on Hold (MOH)]
[https://magazine.raspberrypi.com/articles/raspberry-pi-telephone-exchange| Home made PBX]

=== Tuesday ===
Fermantation session, we shared ideas and prototypes among the classmates.

=== Wednesday ===
Reflecting on a chapter ''There is a Problem with Scale'' from Anna Tsing's ''Mushroom at The End of The World''. This text supposed to be an example of situated research and knowledge building where the author problematizing certain monoculture projects and the effect on the environment and society from a very particular point of view. The characterization of such problems with scaling up the monocultural agriculture model could be misleading in a way that the author's political bias towards a colonial past gets highlighted, instead of criticizing the agricultural process on its own context. The smaller problem with the text is that the author is over romanticising one very special form of simbiotic relationship between mushroom and tree which is again a narrowing the perspectives of understanding nature and realationships between living entities. 

In the afternoon we practiced interviewing each other, as part of 'ethnographic' approach to research. I really enjoyed it because I have been doing interviews since 3-4 years now and learnt about the ethics surrounding making interviews:)

=== +Saturday ===
Me and Lucas started putting together a basic HTML CSS workshop. We use [https://neocities.org/| Neocities] for this workshop to get startedm because it has text editor, folder structure, and hosting on one platform so we can explain and get started easy with hands-on coding websites. https://pad.xpub.nl/p/%23buildyow

I also messaged to the cafes and the local library to help us hosting the workshop and waiting for response.

[[File:Emailing to host our hand crafted website workshop.png|frameless|600px]]

== Week 7 Planning the workshop ==

=== Monday ===
Today we had a very nice class about termux. During this class we were ssh accesing old phones and using them as servers. Maria's website, https://wiki.comphost.club/ collects information about this process in a form of tutorial/documentation. She worked together with Rhein (from Arnhem).:))

== Week 8 GeoJson, MIDI API, Ethnography ==

=== Monday ===
Today we got an introduction into digital maps and map making as a way to display information. Every map has a tile which is built from points, lines, and polygons. Every line and polygon is built from points. Lines could represent streets, polygons usually represent an area or building, and points could be connected any sort of information.
How does the connecting of points works?
Every point on the tile could be matched to data in a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoJSON GeoJSON] format. 
Open Street Map offers a collectively editable map with a tile and a collecitvely developed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoJSON GeoJSON] layer. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoJSON GeoJSON] could be used to create maps with a specific purpose in mind. 

About the workshop: We have a place, the local queer bar De Kurk, and posters and flyers, and a signup sheet. 

=== Tuesday ===
We had a slow morning sharing the process of prototyping. Everyone seems to be on track and going in a direction. Frustration about not having a fully developed project but many small experiments. In the afternoon me and Daan were working on my MIDI API tester website. We were brainstorming about. whare it could posibbly develop and came to an idea that we could make an online MIDI jam session kinda platform/tool/place by using the Websocket protocol to create sessions and send and update MIDI data to a website which is visible for the people (clients) joind to the same session.

=== Wednesday ===

Today Marloes introduced some techniques and ethics for conducting an Ethnographic research.  She specifically highlighted a participatory observation method which is somewhat more favoured then 'the fly on the wall' method. Participating in a community that the reasearcher wants to research requires time to intergrate to observe to actually define where participation and where observation sits. It is also a lot  of consideration of ethics and positioning the researcher and the reasearch to not exploit the communty that is being observed. It is a method tthat is courisity drivven and wants to find out and map dynamics, roles, work distribution etc. and able to place in a specific context. 

The problem of objectivity in Donna Harraway's writing is a problem of defining the position of the oserver. Highlighting the fact that there is no unversal truth only specific contexts, opbjectives to examine a certain case through. 

Critical fabulation is method to research and speculate about a topic that is missing documentation, archival material, there fore gaps in knowledge. Critical fabulation is a way to fill these gaps and build stories.

== Week 9 Bootleg Simon, Bootleg Bot ==

=== Monday ===
Today we had a session with bootleg library Simon. He came to introduce the brief history of the boootleg library which started as a self-induced project when he studied at XPUB. Bootleging as method of re-owning materials such as printing pirated books and giving a physical shelf to them is somewhat close to me as well. Anyway the bootleg library in its digital form was using [https://calibre-ebook.com/ calibre], an e-book manager that could be accesed via local networks. Due to that it was first connected to eduroam, everyone who was connected to eduroam could potentially acces it. (nice!) Later when he was thinking about putting it online online he used [https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web calibre web] to serve these PDFs. 

Due to its content bootleg library is not available anymore online, but a local RPI serves it which emits wifi signal with a range of ~5m (boo :( ). 

We explored different ways to connect and clone the content of the bootleg lib. One way is to SSH into it another is to unmount the USB where all the PDFs are stored and copyit onto our computers.

=== Tuesday ===
Today we continued on yesterday's bootleg lib. session and created a Zulip chatbot to browse into the meta data of the bootleg lib. 

[https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Bootleg_bot#SSH_to_bootleg_library Bootleg Bot]

== Week 10 Snails, MIDI Files, Autoethnography ==

=== Monday ===
Today's session was about answering wuestions that came up with organising the workshops.
A quote from Laurel Schwulst caught my attention while having a conversation with Doriane.

''"My favorite aspect of websites is their duality: they're both subject and object at once. In other words, a website creator becomes both author and architect simultaneously. There are endless possibilities as to what a website could be. What kind of room is a website? Or is a website more like a house? A boat? A cloud? A garden? A puddle? Whatever it is, there's potential for a self-reflexive feedback loop: when you put energy into a website, in turn the website helps form your own identity."''

Laurel Schwulst

I think by saying that when someone is making a website and becomes both an author who writes the content and the architect who creates the structure for the content is interesting in a way the it rewuires a constant back and forth of switching these mindesets which is stimulating to me. 

Some extra thoughts from today regarding the next year research:

*How does knowing about the economical context/ situation of a certain platform influences the way of interactingwith that platform? (To use a platform when you know their economical model?) example >> [https://www.are.na/ are.na]

*Using everyday technology in different ways, cam up with the example of Kamo and Chey [https://draw-it-with-others.org/ DIWO] project when we put our phones together to make a collective canvas. (smart !!)

=== Tuesday ===
Today we started the day slowly by raising some questions about the T2 assesment. After that me and Daan moved to the library to work on the MIDI File Sharing Adventure. At this point of the collaboration we had to ask ourselves what are we doing and why are we doing in order to define a next step. Manetta joined the discussion and we were discussing that working with websocets and building a web app for connecting MIDI devices remotely might be too abitious for the next prototype. (Manetta was hesitant based on the answer that we got from mastodon "It seems like there were many attempts which not followed by development in other cases").  

So we came up with a very simple protocol for the next session:
*share exploration from previous week
*Try to share MIDI files in many ways and DOCUMENT !!!
*look up online MIDI file sharing culture online

=== Wednesday ===
Today we were discussing autoethnography as a method for research  whi is combining methods of writin auto biography and methods of ethongraphy. The idea is to write about our own practice and lived experiences and situate it in dofferent contexts (historical, cultural) in order to explore  certain topics. It is a waz of writing through self reflection which usually more approachable for non-academic audiences too. 

'''Note for myself:'''
* Since it is a somewhat personal and highly selfreflective way of writing it can be challanging but maybe combining with other methods this could serve as the introduction for my thesis next year.

We also practiced to talk about our own practice in small groups. While the person who shared their thoughts about their artistic practice the others were listening and writing down keywords, these keywords later served as a base for wiritn a few sentece introduction.

<div style=" border:5px dotted lightblue; padding:10px;">
''My practice is motivated by '''exploration''' and '''fascination''' of diversity of acitivities, theories, methods, practices, cretive technologies. '''Mutual pedagogy''', has a central role that allows my practice connect to other practitionares on the intersection of art-design, technology, theory and culture (and even outside of it). Due to my design education background materiality, visuality is apparent when it comes to giving form to my projects. Working with '''language''' is becoming more important recently, in a way that reading, annotating and interpreting others work is happening through communication which could be written (code, essay, application etc.) or oral (conversation, lecture, meeting etc.). In my practice, '''everyday technology''' plays role to bridge between different disciplines, '''communities/collectives''', practitioners by understanding their relation to these everyday items. ''Documenting'', archiving is essential part of my practice, which allows me to trace back my thoughts, activities, and earlier '''explorations'''.'' 
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== Week 12 ==

=== Monday ===
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=== Wednesday ===
I was gonna update my log because we had a fruitful conversation yesterday which opened up a lot of questions regarding art education system we are part of, digital commons, and EU's tech sovereignty plans. 

Insted of writing my own words I will just copy-paste Marloes' text which I think formulates these questions better than I will ever do: 


''Dear @XPUB1 In the train back home I kept on thinking about this feeling of powerlessness that was expressed in class, when experiencing the discrepancy between what we practice, teach and read at xpub and how things are unfolding in the world (critical interrogation of technological systems versus for example how the EU's tech sovereignty plans are unfolding, or on a smaller scale, the frictions between xpub and the neoliberal educational system)... The texts we read were of course not meant to discourage you or make you feel powerless, on the contrary! They are meant to help us think these things through together, to defamiliarize ourselves with normalised (technological and political) systems we are surrounded by, to see them with fresh eyes, to critically reflect on them, so we can make informed decisions about how we want tech (and education, group work etc.) to feature in our practice and lives. The texts are about repoliticising technology and even though our individual and collective actions will not directly make the EU change their tech sovereignty policy to prioritize social needs rather than market competitiveness, or change the neoliberal education system, our actions do matter and they are not cringe if they do not match the institutions we operate in. We don't have to be silent nor compliant just because we work or study or live somewhere. Whataboutism is a way to shut people up. There is no opt-out, nobody can speak from a position that is not already part of a larger system, as someone quoting Le Guin pointed out. I added a small snippet of Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism to the toilet quote on the Grapevine. It ends with one of the ways forward, next to the things we discussed yesterday (situated work, collectivising struggles, defamiliarizing normalised techno-social and techno-legal systems), in response to hopelessness: "Such fatalism can only be challenged if a new (collective) political subject emerges." Thank you all for this amazing, difficult, confusing but also really thoughtful, complex and very important discussion ♡ and thank you for a lovely trimester!!!!'' 

In the afternoon I worked on the workshop documentation website 
* https://markergraphic.neocities.org/Situated%20Mututal%20Pedagogy/

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4Z6Iv4gfMA Figurative Politics arguments and counter arguments]

{{:Craft your own website}}

= MIDI Sharing Adventure =
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= Grapevine =
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