User:Berna Bereit SI22

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Special Issue #22: September - December 2023 In collaboration with Radio WORM

WEEK 1

Monday 18 September

• meeting at Radio WORM — visiting the studio, learning about the history of WORM, closer look at the film-lab
• introduction to project " Radio Worm: Protocols for an Active Archive"
• experimenting with cassett recorder — listening to old tapes; rewrite tapes; record live radio, experiment with it
• introduction to Radio Aporee and small task: find a field recording of a place you've been before (schrammsteine.mp3); record the metadata (metadata-berna-bereit.mp3) and connect a memory with this place (memory-berna-bereit.mp3); result: /week 1: field recording
• finding the first 3 caretakers for first radio show — Maria, Victor and me

Tuesday 19 September

• kick-start into first radio show — shownotes

Maria, Victor and Bernadette @ Radio WORM; photo: Florian Cramer

"For the purposes of promoting the radio slot we will be using. Ash asked for a title, description, and image for promotion. These can be adapted and changed over the weeks! Michael Murtaugh (talk) 19:25, 14 September 2023 (CEST)

Title: Radio Worm: Protocols for an Active Archive

Description: Students from the Piet Zwart Institute's Experimental Publishing Master (XPUB) explore and create techno-social protocols for potential active archives of Radio WORM while making radio themselves.

XPUB is the Master of Arts in Fine Art and Design: Experimental Publishing of the Piet Zwart Institute. XPUB focuses on the acts of making things public and creating publics in the age of post-digital networks.

XPUB’s interests in publishing are therefore twofold: first, publishing as the inquiry and participation into the technological frameworks, political context and cultural processes through which things are made public; and second, how these are, or can be, used to create publics. Source: XPUB" (read whole page)

Collection of words describing my experience (not sorted):

familiar // experimental // tape // volume // mixer // ai jingle // reading // explaining // structured structurlessness // memo of memories // youtube cats

created my own user on our server

• setting up first server
• but our server needs a name tba.

Wednesday 20 September

• talking about methods of annotating and reflecting on our own way of annotating
• collective reading of "Postscript on the Societies of Control" by Gilles Deleuze (1992) — taking notes and discussing them
• after that split into four groups; in my group we read "On the data set’s ruins" by Nicolas Malevé (2020)
• afterwards reflecting on different methods of annotating

Further links: The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)// Eventual Consistency by Michael Murtaugh // From Counterculture to Cyberculture by Fred Turner (2006)

WEEK 2

Monday 25 September

• meeting at Radio WORM — technical introduction on how to use the studio for everyone; in the meantime Michael tried to copy the digital archive but it crashed; with some help they managed to leave no damage and Michael could save some of the files for our project — the archive is massive and messed-up
• back in the studio we decided on a name for our server with a method introduced by Manetta: collecting names in pad; split in groups of 2; couple up with another group and at the end all groups meet again to present their decision — the server name is CHOPCHOP
• afterwards we further set up the server; everyone has their own folder and webpage no; we learned more commands for the terminal and made ourselves familiar with the environment
• in the evening I did the Barthes prerecording for the second radio show; everyone read one part of the text "The Death of the Author" by Roland Barthes (1967)

Tuesday 26 September

• we listended to the show and took notes — shownotes [here are now all the collected feedbacks]
• we then started to set up our coding environment and connected the server so we are able to upload files and started with html/css
• the group was split in 2; one half got an introduction on html and the other half which I was part of tried to brainstorm about a possible soundboard using the WORM archive
• Thijs and Riviera were already working on a set-up so they can work at the same time in one html file — we then tried to work with 7 people in one file but it didn't work out :D

Further links: Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization by Alexander R. Galloway (2004) // The Real World of Technology by Ursula Franklin (1989) // Hearing the Subway // In The Beginning ... Was The Command Line by Varia // Collective Conditions by Constant // Radiotext(e) by Neil Strauss and Dave Mandl (1993)

WEEK 3

Monday 2 October

me being 30min late

• catch up and introduction to upcoming events: Zine Camp @ Worm 4th-5th November
• the caretakers for tomorrows show are asking the rest of the group for contributions ^{my homework for today}
• small discussion about the 3 text and sharing our thoughts
• afterwards input on transmission and streaming
• experimenting in different groups: radio, stream, podcast
• it was harder to broadcast than expected

Tuesday 3 October

• I listened to the radio show from home and tried to enter the jitsi call but my microphone didn't work :( this happens quite often ^{my homework for somewhen}
• in the afternoon we experimented with speakers, microphones, mixers, piazza modules, ventilators — we recorded some piece

Wednesday 4 October

• we took the time to finish the texts that we started 2 weeks ago
• my evaluation
  • it took us longer than expected - that's because we read each section silently and then took the time to talk about it
  • it was good to fully understand the text at the same time it takes way longer then reading it first and then discussing the whole text
  • luckily there was an abstract and a conclusion - so at the end we were still able to collect the most important informations and connect them to our SI22
• afterwards we started a big mindmap on which we are collecting all the topics that we talked about so far in the past 3 weeks - it is meant to give us an overview and connect everything
• at the end the goal is to create a glossary
• the mindmap is now part of our studio

Friday 6 October

• today I went to the studio and met Thijs and later Riviera and Alessia
• we spontaneously took the time to rearrange the studio space so everyone has a workplace, maybe some space in one of the shelves to leave stuff and a space where we can meet and work together
• later on Victor joined as well and Michel was there too
• now we want to collect plants and small things to make the space more cozy and less like a callcenter

WEEK 4

Monday 9 October

• we first had a little check-in talking about the text we read and about general to dos, ideas, people showing stuff they've been working on so far and how we can make ongoing side-projects transparent to everyone
• we transfered all mp3 files to our public_html so we can start experimenting with them
• in the afternoon we got to now PagesMedia and how pdfs can be created using css
• in a second group we worked with regexes (not sure if I understood what it is :D): it makes it possible to search for words, to split up textes, count the used words, ...

^{prepare a dip for the first breakfast-radio-listening-session}

Tuesday 10 October

• in the morning we had our first breakfast-radio-listening-session which was very nice - this should be continued - we had snack all day long
• we got an introduction to graphviz to create flowcharts using code - we then split up in groups after we collected relevant questions concerning our archive (like what is consensus, accessibility, how to activate, inside/outside, time)
• together with Anita and Alessia we discussed about accessibility: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/acessibility_pad
• in the second second half we spend the time setting up our computers to plott - this didn't go as plannend, only a few of us were able to plott - so to be continued
• we even tried to set it up on chopchop - but didn't work as well :(
• kick-off meeting with everyone to prepare the following steps of zine camp 2023
  • this was a nice and useful start to clarify what to expect and find a way how to communicate
  • where can we collect collectively - find a transparent way of working together without missing out on ideas of each one
  • we spend not more than a hour to discuss this and will use the automn break to explore and seek out for possible content and tools we would like to use
  • https://pad.xpub.nl/p/zine-camp-2023

Wednesday 11 October

• we worked on the glossary - finding a name for it and further selected terms for the glossary
• we tried to find a structure so everyone includes similiar points while defining - not sure we managed to find a general protocol for it

WEEK 6

Monday 23 October

• learning how to download yt videos via the terminal
• catching up on upcoming events
• talking about the 10min audio piece we want to make for the 10th November
• in the second half we experimented with tape decks and magnetic tapes
• finding different ways to record and cut it to create different rhythms and/or overlapping sounds

Tuesday 24 October

• collective listening session to the radio show

Wednesday 25 October

• working on techniques of paraphrasing and how we can improve the skill for ourselves
• going back into the text we read in smaller groups a few weeks ago and define one term that is discussed in it for our glossary wordhole
• finding an inner motivation why we want to have the glossary and why we want to extend it
• discussion about the content for the presentation of our class for zine camp - this took quite some time - the discussion should be continued

WEEK 7

Monday 30 October

• check-in
• speaking about collaborative and distributive work and how we want to collaborate on projects for zine camp
• in the afternoon Rosa, Thijs and I took some time to talk about the audio-visual-soundboard we are creating for zine camp
• my task: create the directory and collect the files; Rosa: in charge of the code; Thijs: full support - but at the sime time working on several projects - helps with giving his input

WEEK 13

Tuesday 12 December

• reflection time

Monetas: