User:Kendal/radioimplicancies

If technological systems are implicated in the structuring of knowledge and knowledge systems are implicated in how technology operates … how do we start to think the world otherwise?!

"We understand the world better if we tremble with it" - Edouard Glissant

Background + Explorations

NB: > denotes big interest in this idea.

• We know that technology orients knowledge and constrains what world(s) can be thought, studied, imagined and critiqued. But where do we start when we want to do things differently?
• Toolset for ‘thinking the world’ by paying attention to both matter and form. >
• What other ways of calculating, validating, ordering collections of digital material could emerge? >
• Entangled forms of responsibility.
• Possibility of webs of connections. >
• Objects do not preexist their intertwined worldings. >
• Agency is not an attribute but the ongoing reconfiguring of the world.
• Particular material articulations of the world become meaningful.
• To breathe life into ever new possibilities for living justly. >
• How datafication contributes to ‘iteratively’ re-inscribing the ‘Digital Divide'. >
• Firstly, consider geo-political and body-political orientation when designing, building, researching or theorizing about computing phenomena.
  
  

RELEASE EARLY, RELEASE OFTEN

Knockdown the cathedral building style of development and switch it out to bazaar building. Float multiple distributions

Related Projects

• https://mimionuoha.com/the-library-of-missing-datasets Mimi Onuoha - The Library of Missing Datasets (2016)
• https://mimionuoha.com/what-is-missing Mimi Onouha - What is Missing Is Still There (2018)

ONLINE EXPLORATION SPACE

https://hub.xpub.nl/sandbot/~kendalb/SI15/notes.html

"Hidden Worlds of Digital Voices An exploration into the invalidated, hidden and rejected data and where it resides In a virtual space of multitudes of data, what happens to the pieces which fail to be accepted?

Throughout the broadcasting timeframe, I want to construct a virtual world that gives life and a voice to the hidden and undefined.

Inspired by projects from Mimi Onuoha, I am interested in giving space to the missing and their significance to "successful" datasets."

DIFFRACTIVE READING

• Melanie Feinberg (2014), A Story Without End: Writing the Residual into Information Infrastructure
• Ramon Amaro (2019), Artificial intelligence: Warped, colorful forms and their unclear geometries

Prototyping

ASCII map with Euna

Pure Data

First try with Liquid Soap: https://hub.xpub.nl/sandbot/SI15/radio.html

• collectivity through tools
• hacking files
• text algorithms
• wordnet
• xdexing (rethinking the format of the index)

15.1

Reinterpreting 'She Unnames Them' by Ursula K Le Guin

15.2

TF-IDF

Measuring the frequency of words within a collection of documents. Certain words are emphasised, shown as more important?

15.3

Working With Datasets

Datasets and what is left out. Clip graveyard of Mozilla Voice

15.4

Pure Data

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  First Test

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  Making Sounds

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  Testing patches

Broadcasts

15.1

Text in a Virtual World w/ Louisa

15.2

XPUB Department of Digital Records w/ Euna

15.2 Concepts

ASCII - characters hold weight but are worthless without the white space.

ASCII Villages, manifesto village, they work in relation to each other

TF-IDF - emphasized words the contrast in a text in terms of font-size Also playing with colour to add tones of humanity

the manifesto will be flat if it is not being surrounded by others, explore how we can remove small parts of the ‘village’ to highlight the relations and differences, removing text files changes the TF-IDF result

philosophical algorithms - speaks to a wider question of the need for multiple to have weight and difference.

A space of digital records.

Relistening to the broadcast - Pad

15.3

Field Recording - Clip Graveyard

Datasets and what is left out.

15.4

The Act of Untethering.

The Word of Unbinding, adapted radio play using pure data.

15.5

Broken Phone

Exercises in Style, retelling the story through distorted voices.

15.6

Sobramesa

Collective Meditation and the critique of methods.

15.7

XPUB Cookbook

Online zine. Advert of 'The Hidden Oracle', incorporating an explanation and brief demo reading.

15.8

XPUB LAND

A live stream from the garden in Ijzerblock, A collection of previous broadcasts with the whole storyline revealed

SCREENSHOTS

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  Broadcast 1

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  Broadcast 2

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  Broadcast 3

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  Broadcast 4

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  Broadcast 5

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  Broadcast 6

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  Broadcast 7

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  Broadcast 8