Karina/RW&RM class notes

25 JANUARY

Evernote
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s368/sh/c3aef1aa-1964-4174-8a1c-fc9025fba7dc/f306422acef0c3376c7514607ca710e3

Pirate Pad
http://piratepad.net/notes-25-01-17

wiki
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Methods_xpub#25_January_2017

Steve gives intro:
15:15 we make notes and briefly research possible subject for the second essay
15:30 meet in groups
Group A: large project space
Group B: Studio

Discuss:
What do you want to research this trimester?
Researching the second essay

Suggestions:

1. Look at the conclusion of the last essay and consider the research strands it suggests.
2. Formulate a question arising from the group work you did last trimester
3. Consider new questions that arise at the start of this trimester
4. Consider the core questions at the centre of you self-directed research
5. Follow leads suggested by your bibliography
6. Use previous methods (see below)
7. Explore Jstore

Timetable:
First draft: 22 February
Deadline: March 22

New project: collaboration with DePlayer the theme: the relation between scores and sound. Michael, Aymeric, a graphic designer, Andre. Still speculative: DePlayer have a publication in which sound artists make works and have invited contributions for the next issue.
They have been showing their records, Michael been showing how to produce sounds from scripts, Andre technical devices. Looking into the science
Tmrw it is graphical scores – probably start with John Cage.
Also a publication with Florian, about experimental publishing, decided to write a manifesto which can be amended by other students.
What is stake in writing a manifesto?
Performing an intention.
One opinion: Manifesto classifies = self classifying, you may see the hypocracies and contradictions in your thinking, you are making a stand which places you in a position which others may oppose.
Another opinion: The manifesto is a tool to experiment and understand what we are doing. Part of the topic we have to explore: which political structures communicate to other people; the M is a declaration of intent, the process should allow for reflection on the course. An action which shows an ideology.
What do we agree on?
We start with a question." Steve's notes end here

Manifesto for Florian
How to make a manifesto that:

• is personal / has character
• balances being objective / subjective (both?)
• accessible to future students
• allows content to be manipulated / added / taken away
• is a tool / shows action, not only ideas

Issues that arise

• need to see whether there are already existing similar manifestos
• is self classifying / hypocrisies of own ideas

Book worth reading for next essay
Lauren Slater - Opening Skinner's Box https://www.amazon.co.uk/Opening-Skinners-Box-Psychological-Experiments/dp/074756860X

• B.F. Skinner
• Stanley Milgram
• David Rosenhan
• Harley & Latané
• Leon Festinger
• Harry Harlow
• Bruce Alexander
• Elizabeth Loftus
• Eric Kandel
• Antonio Egas Moniz

recording time using photography
memory flow - photography as memory

not archival - too vast
how photography brings back memories - the time and date do not

Noemie

• parallel between conference of d'usse - who you get an idea? how the act of creation begins
• how can you make conceptual art? medium is the idea itself
• can the idea have an aesthetic?
• Noemie: idea was created by the people that think about it.
• Her teacher: idea is there. people only have the concept
• Paradox between what is said and what is done
• work is organised and think about form, yet they do not acknowledging form
• the photography is not the art, but the proof that the performance existed

Franc

• cybernetics - confrontation between machine and men. physical can be improved by gadgets
• technology is evolving. are we taking good use of it.
• is it wise to express ourselves through social media?
• digitally controlled gadgets - we could perceive wider using tech. we could be losing ourselves?
• electronic surveillance
• answers answered through time, continuously evolving
• can't classify as good or bad - its part of human nature. it's morally challenging
• established by religion
• comparison of thermostat - adjusting temperature to our needs
• missiles for medical advances
• didn't want to hand over research to military
• games used for military uses
• good or bad? it's neutral

Claudia

• contextualising glitch historically, aesthetically
• what it was personally too?
• looked into history (avant-garde) and it's beginnings 20th century
• at first breaking patterns, now breaking patterns technologically
• be more critical, and say what is happening right now
• might not follow with technological glitch, because now sees as a concept of breaking
• wants to have deeper understanding what it is personally
• wants to explore what is avant-garde right now

Notes from other's about my future essay / work
http://piratepad.net/notes-25-01-17

• Norbert Wiener wrote about: Newtonian time. Bergsonian time
• See Bergson's : matter and memory, which talks about how we experience time, how we live time, (duration) as opposed to abstract time (the clock, the watch)

• How people from different cultures relates with time.
• She thinks about exploring the relation between photography and time. And how abstract it can be. Photography helps to bring memories back, it captures time and memory.
• Memory has loads to do with media. Archival is something that she wouldn’t like to go much into. But more into the psychological aspect of it.

• Connexion between culture and time. Other philo that it may not be a cultural thing but a personal kind of thing.
• Abstract of time. Looking at photographies bring back memories. Lack of memory. How photographie capture time and memory.

• Time perspective and cultural diversity
• Where do people really come from? from a biological and non-political perspective
• What is time?
• Relativity
• Significant vs insignificant, preconception

ideas that popped in mind:

• Memento - movie by Christopher Nolan http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209144/

14 DECEMBER

Evernote
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s368/sh/fb3e74c5-9e66-4d15-bdfa-f3d4cdebc8c4/3908e527645135c19f5af085605f80af

Insight into next trimester

encyclopaedia of media objects
http://v2.nl/events/an-encyclopedia-of-media-objects

• what is an encyclopaedia?
• what is media?
• what is an object?

Florian's research on wiki
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/An_encyclopedia_of_media_objects

"A saint you would pray to and they would direct you to god"
Things that connect one with another
Numbers in pages
Buttons

Random discussions during class

WIRED - New Forms for 2017 by Nick Compton
New building inspired by pixels - 56 leonard New York

Southpark growing human penis on mouse (response to growing human ear on mouse)


www.radio.garden
Radio around the world: what is played right now

http://radiooooo.com
Music around the world: choose your region and year

www.techno.org
see how music genres are connected / music guide radio

The Funny Fish Finger Friends - falls into pond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGWXhj1dhkY

Matthew Barney - cremaster 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaS4yFs40vE

Jean-Marc Cote
https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/france-in-the-year-2000-1899-1910/

Mishka Husky - Give Me My Toy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiO-BTldRpA

Un Autre Monde JJ Grandville
http://gallimaufry.typepad.com/.a/6a014e5fb9e8aa970c01a3fc9f8310970b-pi

Years: What Tree Rings Sound Like Played on a Record Player
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB6Sn_yC3AE

Dark humour comics
www.pbfcomics.com

Unprepared Piano - Thompson & Craighead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOe4nrjguaw

Grabs parts of torrents that are being downloaded live
http://thepiratecinema.com

30 NOVEMBER

Evernote
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s368/sh/51c8d959-23d1-4eb7-845e-87880551b275/958026cd4f8c5b344b7ddaac6463e8b1

Franc - Cybernetic Nature
Further reading for Franc:

Katherine Hayles - 'How We Became Posthuman' (1999)
http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/Hayles-Posthuman-excerpts.pdf

Neil Harbisson: The man who hears colour
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29992577

Flatland (movie) abut - 2D world turns 3D
descriptive geometry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descriptive_geometry

Meet Graham, The Only Man Who Can Survive A Car Crash
http://www.boredpanda.com/graham-body-survive-car-crash-road-safety-victorian-government-patricia-piccinini/

Our body is no older than 7 years old. How could we use this biological phenomena into technological immortality?
Nature already regenerates our body and cells. The way nature boycotts that is by cancer (constantly regenerating cells)

Giulia - Choreography of Identitarian Control
Further reading for Giulia:

• Foucault - distinguish difference between disciplinary societies (technology of the super ego)
• Panopticon example: prisoners look at control tower wonder whether they are looked at discourse is the material practice
• disciplinary societies: teritorialised on written presets - don't work the same in different discourses (school, army, church)
• controlled societies: deteritorialised and digital (airport:information intersection)
• ideal: flow of information through a system

Max - passports / free movement
Further reading for Max:

• Weight / power of passports and connections between countries
• World Passport 1954
• World government
• Inbetweenies: New Models of Collective Practice http://bak.spc.org/everything/e/hard/texts2/inbetweenees.html
• The Slovenian Artists'Collective (NSK) http://bak.spc.org/everything/e/hard/texts2/1nsk.html
• Literacy test african american voters
• 'Literacy' test to get passports
• Referendum in Switzerland a few years ago
• Papers Please mundane game
• The Hand That Signed the Paper
• Sarajevo Passport Holders - Ebsen Hansen
• Nike Arns - The Nigerian Connection - NSK passports as escape and entry vehicles

Claudia - conceptualising glitch
Further reading for Claudia:

• glitch outside of computer functions - can be aesthetic / social
• avant garde: collage / surrealists / dada / constructivism
• duchamp- large glass (the bride stripped bare of her bachelors even)
• Edit (movie)
• Andre Bretton - glitch in literature
• Exquisite corpse (poem)
• Ambivalent
• The more used, it becomes normal, no longer glitch - breaking continuity
• Kenneth Goldsmith - `Uncreative Writing'
• Stephen McMennamy - photography (you / your brain are the glitch)
• Denis Carrier - photographer
• Friedrich Kittler - Discourse Networks 1800-1900 (avant garde is the symptoom of that)
• Photography and phonography
• Kittler - 'Literature, Media, Information Systems: Essays' - Introduction by John Johnston
• Everynone - 'Words' (video) - causes glitch in thought https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5ykdE7B-qQ

Emily - Wonkr, Douglas Coupland's app for the future
Further reading for Emily:

• People need to be responsible about using social media / apps / sharing content
• Need to battle for rights
• responsibilisation is asymmetrical - I need to learn about the responsibilities, but they don't need to
• difference between opacity and transparency (making things transparent)
• Panopticonism - I will behave myself because I might get caught
• Spotify - pay people to stop commercials (freedom is not a right)
• How to see it from the developers / corporate perspective?
• Facebook held accountable for Trump's victory because of false news
• Israeli defence force - saturating news with positive articles before planned attacks
• Florian Cramer
• Networks Without a Cause (institution of network cultures) http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745649672

Karina - Time Perspectives and Cultural Diversity
Further reading for Karina:

• Zimbardo's prison tests
• look at social psychologic & anthropologists methods / experiments (control group?)
• milgrims on obedience (filmed experiment)
• newtonian time (clock time ) burgsonian time (take away pace)
• the more time you had, the
• children feel the weight of time differently
• bursonian time -based on experience
• how are you structuring your time?
• time is imbricated in culture and lifestyle

• look at time linearly or as a cycle (karma)
• slaughter house 5 - kurt volume (book)
• memento (movie)