.py.rate.chnic sessions aka Prototyping2

• 2018/09/18 pad: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/prototyping_18092018

General description

.py.rate.chnic are a series of 3 collective work-sessions organized by the XPUB second-year's students and attended by all XPUB students.

Each sessions is conducted by two second-years' who organize the session around a topic and format related to their graduation projects and will function as an opportunity to develop, experiment, test and discuss prototypes collectively.

Prototyping planning document

Each session you will need a Prototyping planning document, which includes:

• title:
• who:
• format: workshop?hackthon?test session?book sprint?
• short description:
  • what will happen?
  • why (relevance)?
  • outcome: what will be goal of the session
• prerequisites: reading list, preliminary research, software installs

Deadline for prototyping planning document: Wednesday evening of the previous week.

Do not overload the participants with prerequisites PLEASE. The idea of these planning documents, is that the sessions can start quickly and be productive and fun, rather than a tedious 2hours' install session.

Format

The format of sessions can range from a

• hackthon: where you ask the participants to explore a subject, through the development of a prototypes, from give a starting point.
• workshop: where you bring in a certain technology/prototype/... and ask others to develop or explore it. More focused on a approach and see what that approach can lead to
• (book) sprints: where the group writes collaboratively a manual / research text / book / and produces a wbesite/pdf/...
• test session: where a given procedure/methods is tested on the participants and at the end feedback is given
• ...others or combinations of these

Sessions

Schedule:

• 8.10.2018: Tash & Joca
• 29.10.2018: Zalan & Alex
• 12.11.2018: Angeliki & Alice

Planning Document

8.10.2018: Tash & Joca

29.10.2018: Zalan & Alex

12.11.2018: Angeliki & Alice

🍕 at the end

Examples

• Books sprint
  • https://www.booksprints.net/
  • https://flossmanuals.net/
  • https://unglue.it/work/141611/ The Cryptoparty Handbook
• Hackthon
  • Free Libraries for Every Soul: http://oooooooooo.io/index.php/Free_Libraries_for_Every_Soul

introduction aims of your project questions context what could you do to develop in 5h that relates to this? start off with things end of the day - presentation with gratis pizza sponsored by Andre

Tash possible topics to explore:

   anonymity
   creating safe, temporary, local networks (freedom of speech - freedom of connection!) http://rhizome.org/editorial/2018/sep/11/rest-in-peace-ethira-an-interview-with-amalia-ulman/
   censorship
   for research part: scraping, archiving
   steganography?
   meme culture
   

Joca Possible topics

   - Scraping and packing in a different interface

   - Language analysis, visualize results

   - Form art competition https://anthology.rhizome.org/form-art  // https://userinyerface.com/

Zalan Possible topics:

   sound visualisation
   generative visuals
   live vjing
   kinetic light 
   algo rave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorave
   light-shadow-sound-space relationships
   audiovisual installations
   human perception of light

Angeliki Possible topics:

   * radio art, electromagnetic public sphere, platforms of communication and how to contest them, broadcasting and webcasting
   * mapping tools, walking practices
   * voice as a tool, speech recognition, transcriptions, voice in communication platforms 
   * in relation to the above interventions of text

Alice

Possible topics:

   * natural language processing, training with a custom dataset, what is a cookbook, how can both meanings be met
   * pipelines for publishing
   * food hacking explorations