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Which are the aspects of design, art practices and technology that really interests me?.<br>
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Alternative methods, activism, underground - accessibility vs exclusivity, piracy, audio, gadgets, diy, Puredata software, create an electronic sequencer, feedback loops from different audio/video inputs, experiment with microphones, webcams, monitors, data bases, digital archives, finding out how to use optical flow in python by using many video inputs simultaneously connected, the sound of mobility perhaps, different cameras pointing onto specific urban pathways where people’s interaction generates audio responses. Thinking of an installation of big dimensions where monitors are piled together, each of them showing the camera’s live input. Research on sensor technologies: which technologies use such devices and to what purpose? Will there be any social implications? What we people then become if used at an individual level?
This text is a method to help developing a clear perspective on the topics I am interested in regarding media design practices, as well as defining those stimulating aspects from my previous and current practical experience studying the Master of Experimental Publishing, involving a variety of subjects, ranging from environmental issues (scarcity of resources), audio programming languages (concerning the merging/interaction of mankind with technology) and digital libraries (related to the legality of public spaces).
Life exists only in action. There is no innovation that has not an aggressive character. Creation must be a violent assault on the forces of matter, Having such a practical focus is a great way to engage students and it allows them to complete signif- icant projects. However, Python can also serve as an excellent foundation for introducing important computer science concepts. Since Python fully supports procedures and classes, students can be gradually introduced to topics such as procedural abstraction, data structures... understand the synergy between technology and language, not to produce a timely data-reference guide.
I am currently working on building a digital platform/data base with Max and Giulia, which will work as a digital archive/library for the Poortgebouw building, giving public access to specific knowledge in form of digitalized documents concerning the legality of this historical urban space, from 1980 to nowadays. This work will provide information such as letters from the previous owners, town hall and other institutions, files from different (previously and/or nowadays active) cultural centers or existent communities in the city of Rotterdam supporting the initiative of having an alternative space to help the youth, schedules, news leaflets or handwritten letters designed from previous inhabitants, architectural maps of the building’s refurbishment, etc.
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We are physically building an office on the ground floor of the building; setting up printers, scanners, monitors and towers that were left over untested. This archiving system we are working on has bigger social implications/dimensions than the fact of being a work-in-progress experiment of this course project. This may not only entice the current inhabitants to be together as a community socially more active, but also external institutions such as the “Het Nieuwe Instituut” to contribute with us. With regards to technical aspects, it contemplates the possibility of recording life footage, so that further material related to the current legality process of the building can be stored. We are also learning on transforming digital images such as jpeg, tif or pdf documents containing text, whether in English or Dutch, into editable (translated) text files using an OCR program. Further tweaking/editing will be possible in order to ensure a correct format transition. Eventually, we will need to build a graphic interface that will store and dynamically update all this data into this online/offline library.
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'''I’m very into you. Kathy Acker and McKenzie Wark'''  (emails correspondence)
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Here before you is the surviving correspondence between Kathy Acker and McKenzie Wark. These emails were hastily wrinen, casual and often indirect; they crossed "in the mail" and beth the sequence and references may confuse the reader. The authors barely knew each other, the correspondence lasts a little over two weeks, and their relationship lasted only a few weeks beyond the last of the letters.
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'''The filter bubble. What the Internet is hiding from you.'''
In relation to this subject, I am personally interested to the fact of creating an interactive digital platform that may continuously generate new data, which could work as a cross over experiment within different creative practices; being an archive itself, exploring on how to efficiently use sensor technologies connected to different video inputs simultaneously on specific urban environments, further exploring audio environments, combining printed matter, contemplating the idea of the “posthuman” in the current and future technological era. This connects to the projects we’ve been working on this year, specially for reading methodologies as we will need to go through written communication.
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The Internet software that we use is getting smarter, and more tailored to our needs, all the time. The risk, Eli Pariser reveals, is that we increasingly won’t see other perspectives. In The Filter Bubble, he shows us how the trend could reinforce partisan and narrow mindsets, and points the way to a greater online diversity of perspective.”
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'''The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence. Ray Kurzweil.'''
May the fact of being able to diy our own devices such as scanners, powerful computers, speakers or create editorial objects/books exposing unique material, makes our digitally oriented path to become a more crafted technologically based work, something in between unconventional non-standardized home made art and a science laboratory. As the book from Naomi S. Baron “Always on...” says; “The challenge is not words but technologies and the systems we build upon them for communicating with one another.” The interest here remains in the combination of power between technology and language, as Kathy Acker’s real email correspondence in her book “I’m very into you”. In Eli Pariser’s “The Filter Bubble”, it is investigated what does technology hides from us and questions our awareness to daily used technologies.
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“Ranges widely over such juicy topics as entropy, chaos, the big bang, quantum theory, DNA computers, quantum computers, Godel’s theorem, neural nets, genetic algorithms, nanoengineering, the Turing test, brain scanning, the slowness of neurons, chess playing programs, the Internet—the whole world of information technology past, present, and future. This is a book for anyone who wonders where human technology is going next.”
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Draft 2 - drafting a guide



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This text is a method to help developing a clear perspective on the topics I am interested in regarding media design practices, as well as defining those stimulating aspects from my previous and current practical experience studying the Master of Experimental Publishing, involving a variety of subjects, ranging from environmental issues (scarcity of resources), audio programming languages (concerning the merging/interaction of mankind with technology) and digital libraries (related to the legality of public spaces). I am currently working on building a digital platform/data base with Max and Giulia, which will work as a digital archive/library for the Poortgebouw building, giving public access to specific knowledge in form of digitalized documents concerning the legality of this historical urban space, from 1980 to nowadays. This work will provide information such as letters from the previous owners, town hall and other institutions, files from different (previously and/or nowadays active) cultural centers or existent communities in the city of Rotterdam supporting the initiative of having an alternative space to help the youth, schedules, news leaflets or handwritten letters designed from previous inhabitants, architectural maps of the building’s refurbishment, etc. We are physically building an office on the ground floor of the building; setting up printers, scanners, monitors and towers that were left over untested. This archiving system we are working on has bigger social implications/dimensions than the fact of being a work-in-progress experiment of this course project. This may not only entice the current inhabitants to be together as a community socially more active, but also external institutions such as the “Het Nieuwe Instituut” to contribute with us. With regards to technical aspects, it contemplates the possibility of recording life footage, so that further material related to the current legality process of the building can be stored. We are also learning on transforming digital images such as jpeg, tif or pdf documents containing text, whether in English or Dutch, into editable (translated) text files using an OCR program. Further tweaking/editing will be possible in order to ensure a correct format transition. Eventually, we will need to build a graphic interface that will store and dynamically update all this data into this online/offline library.

In relation to this subject, I am personally interested to the fact of creating an interactive digital platform that may continuously generate new data, which could work as a cross over experiment within different creative practices; being an archive itself, exploring on how to efficiently use sensor technologies connected to different video inputs simultaneously on specific urban environments, further exploring audio environments, combining printed matter, contemplating the idea of the “posthuman” in the current and future technological era. This connects to the projects we’ve been working on this year, specially for reading methodologies as we will need to go through written communication.

May the fact of being able to diy our own devices such as scanners, powerful computers, speakers or create editorial objects/books exposing unique material, makes our digitally oriented path to become a more crafted technologically based work, something in between unconventional non-standardized home made art and a science laboratory. As the book from Naomi S. Baron “Always on...” says; “The challenge is not words but technologies and the systems we build upon them for communicating with one another.” The interest here remains in the combination of power between technology and language, as Kathy Acker’s real email correspondence in her book “I’m very into you”. In Eli Pariser’s “The Filter Bubble”, it is investigated what does technology hides from us and questions our awareness to daily used technologies.

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