Quilting infrastructures

Kick-off - WEEK 3

Monday 15 January, 10:00 - 17:00

• afternoon (15:00-17:00): extra prototyping session with Manetta, Check in with chopchop! Jupyter + HUB introduction

Tuesday 16 January, 10:00 - 17:00

Prototyping with Manetta and Joseph (until 15:00) in the Aquarium

• morning + afternoon: Introduction prototyping SI23 + What is a web quilt?

A webquilt (or web quilt) is a collection of websites linked together in a quilt structure, and usually organized around a specific theme, often educational, social, cultural or artistic. They were popular in the 1990s and early 2000s, particularly among amateur websites.

To be a part of the webquilt, each site has a common navigation bar; it contains links to the previous and next sites. By selecting next (or previous) repeatedly, the user will eventually reach the site they started at; this is the origin of the term webquilt.

[GIT]+[HTML]+[CSS]+[JS]

Assignment for next week: Make your own userpage on chopchop (https://hub.xpub.nl/chopchop/~YOURUSERNAME) as part of the quilt

Wednesday 17 January, 11:00 - 17:00

Methods class with Steve, Lidia and Marloes

• What: introduction to Word Quilt (a continuation of Wordhole)
• Reading: Fragments of Fritsch, K., O’Connor, C. and Thompson, A.K. (eds) (2016) Keywords for radicals: the contested vocabulary of late-capitalist struggle. Chico, CA: AK Press.
• Shelf: https://hub.xpub.nl/bootleglibrary/shelf/101

topic? - WEEK 4

Tuesday 23 January, 10:00 - 17:00

Prototyping with Joseph in the Aquarium

• morning: server energy and performance measurement
• afternoon: [HTML]+[CSS]+[JS]

Assignment for next week: make a tile about this weeks input.

Wednesday 24 January, 11:00 - 17:00

Methods class with: Lídia.

• What: exploring vocabulary around servers, writing and rewriting definitions
• Reading:
  • more from Keywords for radicals.
  • https://eeefff.org/en/projects/picnic-near-data-center.html
  • http://openhumanitiespress.org/books/download/Hristova-Neilson-Rossiter_2023_Data-Farms.pdf
  • CLOUD COSMOGRAM or HABITS, DATA, LABOUR: FROM WAREHOUSES TO DATA CENTRES or https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0163443716643007?journalCode=mcsa (tbc)

topic? - WEEK 5

Tuesday 30 January, 10:00 - 17:00

Prototyping with Manetta and Michael in the Aquarium

• morning: Torn at the seems, on feminist methods in artistic technological practices, with Michael
• afternoon: vernacular tools prototyping session on imagemagick + processing

Assignment for next week: make an image collage using imagemagick around a desired (visual) language of servers and networks, starting point: other geometries: (https://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/othergeometries/2019/othergeometries_inc.pdf). And add it to the quilt.

Wednesday 31 January, 11:00 - 17:00

Methods class with: Marloes

• What: writing synopsis and feeding into Word Quilt
• Reading:
  • Murtaugh, M. (2021) Torn at the seams: vernacular approaches to teaching with computational tools, https://vltk.vvvvvvaria.org/w/Torn_at_the_seams:_vernacular_approaches_to_teaching_with_computational_tools
  • Star, S.L. (2015) Misplaced Concretism and Concrete Situations: Feminism, Method, and Information Technology. In: Bowker, G. et al. (eds) Boundary objects and beyond: working with Leigh Star. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press (Infrastructures series).
  • A Trans*feminist server wishlist, Feminist Server Manifesto

topic? - WEEK 6

Tuesday 6 February, 10:00 - 17:00

Prototyping with Joseph in the Aquarium

• morning: performing routing algorithm (for example the Dijkstra's algorithm is (or was) used for community networks to make routes for all the devices in the network https://ir.cwi.nl/pub/9256/9256D.pdf)
• afternoon: sound in the browser (web audio API) (more [HTML]+[CSS]+[JS] & a little bit of bash)

Assignment for next week: Make a tile about this weeks input and connect it to the quilt

Wednesday 7 February, 11:00 - 17:00

Methods class with: Lidia

• What: annotating and feeding into Word Quilt
• Reading:
  • Fuchs, C. (2017) Sustainability and community networks. Telematics and Informatics 34 (2): 628-639. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2016.10.003
  • Markus Krajewski - The Server

topic? - WEEK 7

Tuesday 13 February, 10:00 - 17:00

Prototyping with Manetta in the Aquarium

• morning + afternoon: small publishing scripts with Python (making custom bash scripts, Python scripts under the hood, publishing on the web quilt), dive into Python basics.

Assignment: make a publishing script that connects bash with the web. Install it on chopchop so the others can work with it as well, and add the web pages to the quilt.

Wednesday 14 February, 11:00 - 17:00

Methods class with: Steve

• What: orientation towards publication
• Reading: no reading this week, digesting what has been read.

topic? - WEEK 9

Tuesday 27 February, 10:00 - 17:00

Prototyping with Joseph in the Aquarium

• TBA (probably something with Python)

Wednesday 28 February, 11:00 - 17:00

Methods class with: Marloes

• What: feminist methodology and research
• Reading:
  • Janet Vertesi - Seamful Spaces: Heterogeneous Infrastructures in Interaction https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0162243913516012
  • Prado, D. (2019) Community networks and feminist infrastructure: reclaiming local knowledge and technologies beyond connectivity solutions, GenderIT.org. Available at: https://genderit.org/feminist-talk/community-networks-and-feminist-infrastructure-reclaiming-local-knowledge-and

topic? - WEEK 10

Tuesday 5 March, 10:00 - 17:00

Prototyping with Manetta in the Aquarium

• TBA (probably something with Python)
• Options: text adventure games? (python, potentially terminado to publish them)

Wednesday 6 March, 11:00 - 17:00

Methods class with: Lidia

• What: line editing and proofreading
• Reading: tba

topic? - WEEK 11

Tuesday 12 March, 10:00 - 17:00

Prototyping with Joseph in the Aquarium

• morning (11:00-13:00): Permacomputing Aesthetics talk with Aymeric
• afternoon: TBA

Wednesday 13 March, 11:00 - 17:00

Methods class with: Steve

• What: editorial work
• Reading: t.b.a.

topic? - WEEK 12

Tuesday 19 March, 10:00 - 17:00

Prototyping with Manetta in the Aquarium

• morning + afternoon: SI support

Wednesday 20 March, 11:00 - 17:00

Methods class with: Marloes

• What: editorial work
• Reading: no reading

topic? - WEEK 13

Tuesday 26 March, 10:00-17:00

Prototyping with Joseph

• SI support

Wednesday 27 March, 11:00 - 17:00

Methods class with: Steve, Lidia, Marloes

• What: Editorial work
• Reading: no reading