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In this series of workshops we concentrate on methods of annotation and text analysis which help us research this trimester's Special Issue. Each session has a specific outcome.




Intro:
== 2024/2025 ==


The Reading, Writing, and Research Methodologies Seminar is tailored towards (further) developing research methods within the first year of this master. By establishing a solid foundation of research skills, it will eventually prepare students for their Graduate research in the second year. Through reading core theoretical texts, they will establish a common vocabulary and set of references to work from. They will learn the practice of classic ‘essayistic methodologies’, including close reading, annotation, description and notation, students learn to survey a body of literature, filter what is relevant to their research and create comparative pieces of analysis. The seminar helps students to establish methodical drafting processes for their texts, where they can develop ideas further and structure their use of notes and references. The course takes as axiomatic that the perceived division between ‘practice’ and ‘theory’ is essentially an illusion.
=== September 11th, 2024 ===


Intro to Methods 24/25


Pad of the day: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/110924_Methods


Curriculum: The seminar will involve:


(a.) Identifying the object of your research: description and analysis of your work


(b.) Contextualizing your work through description and reflection on contemporary and historical practices.
== 2023/2024==


(c.) Identify research material key to your practice.
=== Previous sessions:XPUB1: 20 Sept 2023- 11:00 - 17:00 Methods for PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE with Steve + Lidia, in the aquarium===
XPUB1: 11:00 - 17:00 Methods with Steve + Lidia, in the aquarium


(d.) Synopsis and annotation of key texts
'''Methods sesh #1 PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE with Lidia and Steve'''


(e.) Writing machines: creating methods for group and individual writing.
[[File:AndreMalrauxs1950.png|400px|thumb|left|André Malraux's "The imaginary museum" from 1950. Image: Krauss, Rosalind: Das Schicksalsministerium, In: Wolf, Herta (Ed.): Paradigma Fotografie-Fotokritik am Ende des fotografischen Zeitalters. Bd. 1. Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp Verlag. 2002, p. 395.]]


Throughout, there will be an emphasis on working collectively, whether in a larger discussion group or in smaller reading and writing groups.  
'''Outcome for the day:''' 4 annotations and discussion in which reading experiences are compared.  




[[ Editing Reading, Writing & Research Methodologies - handbook information]]
'''Outcome for the PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE methods seminars (December):''' an annotated reader.


https://xpub.pzimediadesign.nl/curriculum.html
Intro:
 
[[Plagiarism]]
 
 
==Simple Wiki Style Sheet:==
 
Titles and works = italics
 
Essays = Title in Caps
 
Notation = Harvard System (writer, page number) = (Smith, 26)
 
URL = make link
 
==Guide to Essay Writing==
 
 
[[A Guide to Essay Writing]]
 
==Outcome of the seminar (trimester three) ==
 
The specific outcome for the RW&RM seminar of 2016-17 will be a 1500 word text which reflects on your own method and situates your work in relation to a broader artistic and cultural context.  The various texts produced within the RW&RM seminar will serve as source material for your text on method. In common with all modules on the course RW&RM serves to support your self-directed research. Therefore, the text on method will inform your Self-Evaluation at the end of the third trimester and provide the basis for your Graduate Project Proposal that you will produce in the fourth trimester.
 
Key texts that will inform this course
 
[[XPUB Reader]]
 
 
==TRIMESTER TWO==
 
 
 
*  ''[[User:noemievd | '''Noémie''' Vidé]]''
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/First_draft
 
*  [[User:giulla | '''Giuli₳''']]
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/First_draft_essay
 
*  [[User:Buzzo | <span style="background-color:#ff9999;color:#FFF;font-family:chalkboard"> E M I L Y </span>]] http://www.arngren.net/JUL2010-reindeer05.gif
* [[User:Eastwood | Max]] : [[User:Eastwood/research writing/Passports | Passports]]
* [[User:Clàudia | ♥ Claudii]]
* [[User:Karina | Karina]] [https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Karina/measurement_of_time_-_essay_draft Measurement Of Time - Essay Draft]
* [[User:Francg | Franc]]
 
==8-10 March: Serving Library Workshop==
 
 
 
 
 
Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey writes:
 
This brief workshop is based on The Serving Library, an archiving/publishing platform located online at www.servinglibrary.org, and offline at an art school gallery in Liverpool. The engine of its activities is a journal originally titled ‘Dot Dot Dot’ (since 2000), now ‘Bulletins of The Serving Library’ (since 2011). The Liverpool venue is conceived as a ’satellite seminar space’, set up to work with local, national and international groups of students. Its walls are lined with around 100 framed objects, each of which originally appeared as an illustration in one of the two journals. Classes are typically based on the journal’s wide-ranging themes, such as Time, Psychedelia, Numbers, or Perspective, with the works on the walls reflexively drawn into the discussion.
 
 
Following an introductory talk, during which I will elaborate on the past, present and future of The Serving Library, you are then invited to propose a new object and accompanying (short) text, to be written *in the manner of The Serving Library* – whatever we decide that means – and presented by the end of Friday’s session. We will discuss your proposals in progress, individually and in groups.
 
 
Those intending to participate should familiarize themselves with the Serving Library website and make sure to read the following sample Bulletin before we begin on Wednesday morning:
 
 
http://www.servinglibrary.org/journal/9/three-object-lessons
 
 
 
Sign up for studio visits here:
 
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Calendars:Networked_Media_Calendar/Networked_Media_Calendar/09-03-2017_-Event_1
 
groups tutorials in numbers of three
 
10:00 Giulia & Franc
 
 
10:45 Giulia & Franc
 
 
11:30
 
 
12:15 Max & Nadine
 
 
13:00 LUNCH
 
 
14:00 fine art
 
 
14:45 fine art
 
 
15:30 Emily & Pleun
 
 
 
16:15: fine art
 
==Practical details==
 
Program:
 
10:00 Wednesday: Introduction to workshop
 
Wednesday PM: Studio Visits with Stuart
 
Friday AM: Studio Visits with Stuart
 
Friday PM: Group review work done
 
What you need to do
 
1) Please attend the introductory seminar (10:00 Wed)
 
2) Please sign up to discuss your object and text with Stuart (you can do this in groups of 2 or 3 if you wish)
 
Sign below
 
3) Please attend the session on friday  afternoon in which we review what you have all done
 
==Meet in Small Project Space at 14:00 Friday 10 March for review of work done==
 
==Outcome Serving Library: Make page for 300 words of text and an image of the object you chose below. Deadline 12:00 Friday==
 
 
 
 
[[file:max-ausImm-ServingLibrary.pdf]]
 
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/The_Ambivalent_Manifesto_of_Queueing Giulia & Franc
 
==22 February==
 
a)
 
14:00 - 14:15: Review progress
 
b)
 
14:15- 16:00: Give annotated feedback on your colleague's draft
 
c) 
 
16:00- 17:00: Take back annotation and review your colleague's comments. Make plan to finish essay
 
 
Alongside this Steve will give 30 minute individual tutorials in the office
 
Sign up here:
 
14:15-14:45 : MAX
 
14:45 -15:15 GIULIA
 
15:15 -15:45
 
15:45-16:15
 
17:00 Meet in Large project space to review progress and set aims for next session
 
 
Timetable:
 
First draft: 22 February
 
Deadline: March 2
 
==8 February==
 
From 14:00 meet in research groups to
 
a) review progress of essay
 
b) review relevant texts together, read drafts and notes, give constructive comment
 
c) set achievable aims for the next session
 
Group A: Large project space
 
Group B: Studio
 
 
https://pad.bleu255.com/p/stevefeb8
 
== 25 January 2017==
 
15:00 meet in lrg Proj Spc
 
Steve gives intro:
 
15:15 we make notes and briefly research possible subject for the second essay
 
15:30 meet in groups
 
Group A: large project space
 
Group B: Studio
 
 
Discuss:
 
What do you want to research this trimester?
 
Researching the second essay
 
Suggestions:
 
1) Look at the conclusion of the last essay and consider the research strands it suggests.
 
2) Formulate a question arising from the group work you did last trimester
 
3) Consider new questions that arise  at the start of this trimester
 
4) consider the core questions at the centre of you self-directed research
 
5) Follow leads suggested by your bibliography
 
6) Use previous methods (see below)
 
7 ) Explore Jstore
 
 
Steve's notes on what the x-pubers are doing this trimester, serves as an example:
 
"New project: collaboration with DePlayer the theme: the relation between scores and sound.
Michael, Aymeric, a graphic designer, Andre. Still speculative: DePlayer have a publication in which sound artists make works and have invited contributions for the next issue. They have been showing their record library; Michael has been showing how to produce sounds from scripts; Andre ahs been taking us through various technical devices.
In the next session we will be looking into graphical scores – probably start with John Cage.
We will also be making a publication with Florian. It will be about experimental publishing. We decided to write a manifesto which can be amended by other students.
 
Steve: What is stake in writing a manifesto?
 
One opinion from the group:  'A manifesto classifies  = it is self classifying, you may see the hypocrisies and contradictions in your thinking, you are making a stand which places you in a position which others may oppose.'
 
Another opinion from the group: 'The manifesto is a tool to experiment and understand what we are doing. Part of the topic we have to explore: which political structures communicate to other people; the manifesto is a declaration of intent, the process should allow for reflection on the course. An action which shows an ideology. What do we agree on?  We start with a question'."
 
Steve's notes end here
 
'''Timetable:'''
 
First draft: 22 February
 
Deadline: March 2
 
'''Task: Before the next session'"
 
(a) read and research.
 
(b) organize another session together in which you discuss the research you have done in the meantime.
 
(c) Set realistic aims for the next methods session.
 
(d) Set agenda for next session:
 
research group one's pad:
 
http://piratepad.net/notes-25-01-17
 
research two,  Group Emily, Max and Giulia's pad
 
https://pad.pzimediadesign.nl/p/StevegroupGIM
 
==30 November - upload final version of essay here==
 
Noémie Vidé https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Final_draft
<br>
Karina Dukalska - [https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Karina/time_perspectives_and_cultural_diversity_essay Time Perspectives and Cultural Diversity]
<br>
Franc González - [https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Francg/expub/media-writing/cybernetic-nature Cybernetic Nature]
<br>
Giulia de Giovanelli - [https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Final_draft_essay:_Choreography_of_Identitarian_Control]
<br>
Clàudia Giralt Monedero - [https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Cl%C3%A0udia/methods-reflections-glitch Reflections on glitch]
<br>
Emily Buzzo - [http://emily.buzzo.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Emily-Buzzo.-Wonkr-Douglas-Coupland%E2%80%99s-app-for-the-future..pdf Wonkr, Douglas Coupland's app for the future.]
 
==23 November- upload latest version of essay here==
 
 
Steve will give written feedback


Whilst working on PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE, the methods sessions provide a moment to step back and consider the special issue we are working on. We take time to reflect. In the first session we will experiment with methods of collective annotation. This is  an informal, group activity that helps collective reading and thinking. We read and take notes, share knowledge and raise questions.


<span style="font-size:122%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.5em;"><div style="text-align: left">[https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Francg/expub/media-writing/essay-draft1 Franc G - The Art of Cybernetic Union - Essay Draft 1 ]<br></div></span>


== 16 Nov = DEADLINE FOR ESSAY FIRST DRAFT, REVIEW==


==Todays task==


Give a title
1) Brief intros: how, what and why we annotate?


Make an abstract (two to three sentences which give outline of the text- answer: what do you want this text to do?)
Protocol: For this session Steve and Lidia have chosen 4 texts which relate to PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE.  We will try out a collective annotation in a big group to establish the principle. As we progress, we can use these reading and annotation sessions to add texts (in which case "text" can be widely defined) and establish new protocols through which to collectively annotate. After several sessions a "reader" will be generated.
 
2) The group split into 4 sub-groups and annotate one of the texts below.


Use the Harvard method to make references
3) The groups will gather into one group and reflect on their reading of the texts (the "thesis", the similarities and differences between texts).


Make bibliography
4) Building a PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE bibliography together (in which case "bibliography" can be widely defined).


Useful links:
Group 1


Notes on Harvard method are here:
'''On the data set’s ruins'''


[[A Guide to Essay Writing]]
Nicolas Malevé (2020)


Jstor is a very useful resource
https://sci-hub.se/10.1007/s00146-020-01093-w


http://www.jstor.org/
'''ANNOTATE HERE:''' https://pad.xpub.nl/p/AnnotateDataset'sRuins


Group 2


This is the guideline from the last session:
'''Postscript on the Societies of Control'''


Describe, in your own words, what the text (s) you are reading are about.
Gilles Deleuze (1992)


Why this text is of interest to you?
https://cidadeinseguranca.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/deleuze_control.pdf


What is its relation to your self directed research?
'''Collective Annotation:''' https://pad.xpub.nl/p/PostscriptControlSocieties


How can you turn the questions these texts raise into work?
'''Subgroup Annotation:''' https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Deleuze_Control_Group
Group 3


'''The Tyranny of Structurelessness'''


Make link to your drafts here > 
Jo Freeman (1970-73)


https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm


'''ANNOTATE HERE:''' https://pad.xpub.nl/p/TyrannyAnnotation


Group 4


*  ''[[User:noemievd | '''Noémie''' Vidé]]''
'''Queering Homophily'''
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/First_draft


*  [[User:giulla | '''Giuli₳''']]
Wendy Chun (2018)
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/First_draft_essay


*  [[User:Buzzo | <span style="background-color:#ff9999;color:#FFF;font-family:chalkboard"> E M I L Y </span>]] http://www.arngren.net/JUL2010-reindeer05.gif
https://meson.press/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/9783957961457-Pattern-Discrimination.pdf
* [[User:Eastwood | Max]]
* [[User:Clàudia | ♥ Claudii]]
* [[User:Karina | Karina]]
* [[User:Francg | Franc]]


==9 Nov==
(PAGE 59)


Lesson plan:
'''ANNOTATE HERE:''' https://pad.xpub.nl/p/QueeringHomophily


Continuing from the last session


The aim between now and the end of the trimester to write an essay (1500 words max).  
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/MethodsSesh123


This week we will discuss the material you are working on and next session (next week) we will review the first drafts.
===Barthes Radio===


Aim of essay: Choose two texts that have been reading which have a relation to each other and make a comparison.
[[BarthesRadio]]


To do so you will need to make a synopsis of the texts (outline what the thesis of each is = what is the text about? = what does it have to say?).  
Text for next week: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/BarthesWormRadio


Upload Barthes sound files here: https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/BarthesRadio


Groups of three: Make notes on the pad of what your peers have to say.


http://piratepad.net/zjuOfHBY37
[[File:CesareLombroso.jpg|400px|thumb|left|Album of photographs gathered by Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909), Italian criminologist: the photographs correspond to different types of criminals (at least according to the system Lombroso used). “The criminal man”]]
https://pad.pzimediadesign.nl/p/StevegroupGIM
1) Writer: describe, in your own words, what the text (s) you are reading are about.  


2) Readers: make notes on the pad of what your peer is saying.
===Methods Session #2===


Readers, ask:  
11:00 - 17:00 Xpub1 Methods with Lídia


3) Why this text is of interest to you?
'''Methods sesh #2 PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE with Lídia'''


4) What is its relation to your self directed research?
'''Outcome for the day:''' Collective visual mapping exercise, introduction to PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE glossary


'''Outcome for the PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE methods seminars (December):''' an annotated reader.


At 16:30 we meet as a group to review work done.
'''Intro:'''


==12 Oct==
In the second session, we will finish the collective annotation experiment of our previous session. In order to start processing the materials and connecting these texts to what you have been doing and reading with Michael, Manetta & Joseph, we will then get started on a visual mapping exercise in order to link concepts, practices and ideas. This map will be an ongoing process. Finally, we will introduce the PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE glossary.


Lesson Plan
1) Finish collective annotation exercise in 4 groups.


2) The groups will gather into one group and reflect on their reading of the texts (the commonalities, the divergences, the updates, agreements and disagreements).


So far you have
3) Collective visual mapping of concepts, practices and ideas discussed so far.


(1) made a brief description (what, how and why?) of a project you worked on
3) Introduction of PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE glossary.


and
PAD OF THE DAY: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/MethodsSesh410


(2) made notes on a lecture by Vilém Flusser and/ or Marshall McLuhan
'''Group 1''' <br>
"On the data set’s ruins", Nicolas Malevé (2020)<br>
https://sci-hub.se/10.1007/s00146-020-01093-w<br>
ANNOTATE HERE: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/AnnotateDataset'sRuins


If you have not done so, please make a link from the methods page to those texts: like this:
''Who:''<br>
Thijs<br>
Bernadette<br>
Victor<br>
Rosa


https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Francg/expub/media-wiriting
'''Group 2'''<br>
"Postscript on the Societies of Control", Gilles Deleuze (1992)<br>
https://cidadeinseguranca.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/deleuze_control.pdf<br>
ANNOTATE HERE: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Deleuze_Control_Group


or this
''Who:''<br>
Riviera<br>
Alessia<br>
Maria


https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Eastwood
'''Group 3'''<br>
"The Tyranny of Structurelessness", Jo Freeman (1970-73)<br>
https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm<br>
ANNOTATE HERE: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/TyrannyAnnotation


(3) For Wednesday's session: Bring along a text you are reading or want to read in the near future.
''Who:''<br>
Zuzu<br>
Lorenzo<br>
Michel<br>
Mania


Please choose a* text* that has a relation to the work you are doing on the course.  
'''Group 4'''<br>
"Queering Homophily", Wendy Chun (2018)<br>
https://meson.press/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/9783957961457-Pattern-Discrimination.pdf (PAGE 59)<br>
ANNOTATE HERE: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/QueeringHomophily


For instance, a text that may have been referred to in Florian's seminar; a text you have discussed in tutorials; or a text you have encountered in your self-directed research.
''Who:''<br>
Senka<br>
Anita<br>
Wang


In this session we will devote time to making a synopsis of the text and ask how we unpick and follow productive research strands.
=== Methods Session #3 ===


* This can be a text or other piece of media (online lecture, film or video).*
* with Steve


The key thing is that the text is important to you and relates to your own interests.
Outcomes: A GLOSSARY for a PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE + Visual map of PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE.


==28-Sept==
Pad of the day: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Wed-11-Oct23


Organizing my texts on the wiki
[[File:Visual map.jpg|thumb|Visual map]]


Please make page for your own RW&RM entries on your "student" page
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Problemsofnotation-for_annotation


Here is an example of good practice:
References:


https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Laurier_Rochon
Scratch Orchestra's Nature Study Notes (1969) http://intuitivemusic.dk/iima/sonsn.pdf


*  ''[[User:noemievd | '''Noémie''' Vidé]]''
John Cage's Song Books Vol 1 (1970) https://monoskop.org/images/0/03/Cage_John_Song_Books_Volume_1.pdf
*  [[User:giulla | '''Giuli₳''']]
*  [[User:Buzzo | <span style="background-color:#ff9999;color:#FFF;font-family:chalkboard"> E M I L Y </span>]] http://www.arngren.net/JUL2010-reindeer05.gif
* [[User:Eastwood | Max]]
* [[User:Clàudia | ♥ Claudii]]
* [[User:Karina | Karina]]
* [[User:Francg | Franc]]


==28-Sept==
Pad: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/LensBasedScratchNov2


Main session:
Addition to small library: Eno: Oblique Strategies (card game)


Today's theme: orality and literacy
https://monoskop.org/images/8/8c/Eno_Brian_Schmidt_Peter_Oblique_Strategies.pdf


Task: Identify the thesis in a given text, making notes


AKA what is it about?:
11:00 Review progress;


Steve will read or show a series of texts. Your task is to identify and articulate the argument at the heart of the text.
Intro: The Annotated Problems of Annotation are Problems of the Masses (some links and rabbit holes).


Links:  
From 11:30 work on


Flusser
AM: Visual Map (use to gather words for glossary)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyfOcAAcoH8
PM: Glossary for an Active Archive


McLuhan
"'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImaH51F4HBw
[[GLOSSARY of PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE]]


==14-Sept-Introducing Steve==
Definition (general)


http://www.roddickinson.net/pages/closedcircuit/project-video.php
Definition (as used by us)


Mentioned in:


http://www.roddickinson.net/pages/closedcircuit/project-text-theycame.php
In use (in context; example)


[[Glossary of productive play]]


http://www.roddickinson.net/pages/pre_reviews/SignalNoise-Bulletin.pdf
This is a TEST PAGE


[[Prototype for a Glossary]]


http://www.theshowroom.org/projects/signal-noise


This is the glossary:


I started working like this because of this:
==='''[[Wordhole]]'''===


http://bak.spc.org/everything/
Wordhole as category list


the last example of collaborative, discursive approach to research is this series of videos I did with Thomson & Craighead
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Category:Wordhole


http://www.thomson-craighead.net/warfilm.html
==Post-Apocalypse==


==What is RW&RM?==
11:00 - 17:00: The first Post-Apocalypse (ongoing apocalypse) Methods class with Steve


==Today's Task==
Pad of the day: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/2023-11-29


===Project That May...===


Pad That May or May not be...: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/17-4-24MethodsProjectsThat


{{:RapidPrototypeandProject that May}}


300 word description of your work
==Previously...==


100 words = what?
Archive of the 2023 methods sessions: [[Methods2023Archive]]


100=How?
Here is a link to Xpub Rapid Prototypes and Projects That May or May Not:


100= why?
[[Rapid Prototype Session 2]]


http://piratepad.net/Sz6I826p6h
Here is a page with all the methods sessions in SI18, SI19, SI20 (made for the audit by Leslie and Manetta): [[Methods SI18 SI19 SI20]].


[[last years trail]]
Here is the archive of methods sessions from previous years [[Pre2020Methods]]

Latest revision as of 09:32, 11 September 2024

In this series of workshops we concentrate on methods of annotation and text analysis which help us research this trimester's Special Issue. Each session has a specific outcome.


2024/2025

September 11th, 2024

Intro to Methods 24/25

Pad of the day: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/110924_Methods


2023/2024

Previous sessions:XPUB1: 20 Sept 2023- 11:00 - 17:00 Methods for PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE with Steve + Lidia, in the aquarium

XPUB1: 11:00 - 17:00 Methods with Steve + Lidia, in the aquarium

Methods sesh #1 PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE with Lidia and Steve

André Malraux's "The imaginary museum" from 1950. Image: Krauss, Rosalind: Das Schicksalsministerium, In: Wolf, Herta (Ed.): Paradigma Fotografie-Fotokritik am Ende des fotografischen Zeitalters. Bd. 1. Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp Verlag. 2002, p. 395.

Outcome for the day: 4 annotations and discussion in which reading experiences are compared.


Outcome for the PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE methods seminars (December): an annotated reader.

Intro:

Whilst working on PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE, the methods sessions provide a moment to step back and consider the special issue we are working on. We take time to reflect. In the first session we will experiment with methods of collective annotation. This is an informal, group activity that helps collective reading and thinking. We read and take notes, share knowledge and raise questions.



1) Brief intros: how, what and why we annotate?

Protocol: For this session Steve and Lidia have chosen 4 texts which relate to PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE. We will try out a collective annotation in a big group to establish the principle. As we progress, we can use these reading and annotation sessions to add texts (in which case "text" can be widely defined) and establish new protocols through which to collectively annotate. After several sessions a "reader" will be generated.

2) The group split into 4 sub-groups and annotate one of the texts below.

3) The groups will gather into one group and reflect on their reading of the texts (the "thesis", the similarities and differences between texts).

4) Building a PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE bibliography together (in which case "bibliography" can be widely defined).

Group 1

On the data set’s ruins

Nicolas Malevé (2020)

https://sci-hub.se/10.1007/s00146-020-01093-w

ANNOTATE HERE: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/AnnotateDataset'sRuins

Group 2

Postscript on the Societies of Control

Gilles Deleuze (1992)

https://cidadeinseguranca.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/deleuze_control.pdf

Collective Annotation: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/PostscriptControlSocieties

Subgroup Annotation: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Deleuze_Control_Group

Group 3

The Tyranny of Structurelessness

Jo Freeman (1970-73)

https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm

ANNOTATE HERE: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/TyrannyAnnotation

Group 4

Queering Homophily

Wendy Chun (2018)

https://meson.press/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/9783957961457-Pattern-Discrimination.pdf

(PAGE 59)

ANNOTATE HERE: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/QueeringHomophily


https://pad.xpub.nl/p/MethodsSesh123

Barthes Radio

BarthesRadio

Text for next week: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/BarthesWormRadio

Upload Barthes sound files here: https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/BarthesRadio


Album of photographs gathered by Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909), Italian criminologist: the photographs correspond to different types of criminals (at least according to the system Lombroso used). “The criminal man”

Methods Session #2

11:00 - 17:00 Xpub1 Methods with Lídia

Methods sesh #2 PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE with Lídia

Outcome for the day: Collective visual mapping exercise, introduction to PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE glossary

Outcome for the PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE methods seminars (December): an annotated reader.

Intro:

In the second session, we will finish the collective annotation experiment of our previous session. In order to start processing the materials and connecting these texts to what you have been doing and reading with Michael, Manetta & Joseph, we will then get started on a visual mapping exercise in order to link concepts, practices and ideas. This map will be an ongoing process. Finally, we will introduce the PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE glossary.

1) Finish collective annotation exercise in 4 groups.

2) The groups will gather into one group and reflect on their reading of the texts (the commonalities, the divergences, the updates, agreements and disagreements).

3) Collective visual mapping of concepts, practices and ideas discussed so far.

3) Introduction of PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE glossary.

PAD OF THE DAY: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/MethodsSesh410

Group 1
"On the data set’s ruins", Nicolas Malevé (2020)
https://sci-hub.se/10.1007/s00146-020-01093-w
ANNOTATE HERE: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/AnnotateDataset'sRuins

Who:
Thijs
Bernadette
Victor
Rosa

Group 2
"Postscript on the Societies of Control", Gilles Deleuze (1992)
https://cidadeinseguranca.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/deleuze_control.pdf
ANNOTATE HERE: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Deleuze_Control_Group

Who:
Riviera
Alessia
Maria

Group 3
"The Tyranny of Structurelessness", Jo Freeman (1970-73)
https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
ANNOTATE HERE: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/TyrannyAnnotation

Who:
Zuzu
Lorenzo
Michel
Mania

Group 4
"Queering Homophily", Wendy Chun (2018)
https://meson.press/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/9783957961457-Pattern-Discrimination.pdf (PAGE 59)
ANNOTATE HERE: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/QueeringHomophily

Who:
Senka
Anita
Wang

Methods Session #3

  • with Steve

Outcomes: A GLOSSARY for a PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE + Visual map of PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE.

Pad of the day: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Wed-11-Oct23

Visual map

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Problemsofnotation-for_annotation

References:

Scratch Orchestra's Nature Study Notes (1969) http://intuitivemusic.dk/iima/sonsn.pdf

John Cage's Song Books Vol 1 (1970) https://monoskop.org/images/0/03/Cage_John_Song_Books_Volume_1.pdf

Pad: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/LensBasedScratchNov2

Addition to small library: Eno: Oblique Strategies (card game)

https://monoskop.org/images/8/8c/Eno_Brian_Schmidt_Peter_Oblique_Strategies.pdf


11:00 Review progress;

Intro: The Annotated Problems of Annotation are Problems of the Masses (some links and rabbit holes).

From 11:30 work on

AM: Visual Map (use to gather words for glossary)

PM: Glossary for an Active Archive

"'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less."

GLOSSARY of PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE

Definition (general)

Definition (as used by us)

Mentioned in:

In use (in context; example)

Glossary of productive play

This is a TEST PAGE

Prototype for a Glossary


This is the glossary:

Wordhole

Wordhole as category list

https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Category:Wordhole

Post-Apocalypse

11:00 - 17:00: The first Post-Apocalypse (ongoing apocalypse) Methods class with Steve

Pad of the day: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/2023-11-29

Project That May...

Pad That May or May not be...: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/17-4-24MethodsProjectsThat


Upload link to Project That May or May Not Be Made here:

Bernadette: User:Berna Bereit Project That May or May Not Be Made

Senka: Projects that May or May not be Made

Zuzu

Maria: User:Mxrwho/SI24 Repository

Thijs's PTMoMNBM depot

Lorenzo's Projects that May/Mayn't

Anita: Knitting city noise

Riviera's Project That May or May not be Made

Previous PMOMM - Rapid Prototype session:

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Problemsofnotation-for_annotation

References:

Scratch Orchestra's Nature Study Notes (1969) http://intuitivemusic.dk/iima/sonsn.pdf

John Cage's Song Books Vol 1 (1970) https://monoskop.org/images/0/03/Cage_John_Song_Books_Volume_1.pdf

Brian Eno: Oblique Strategies (card game)

https://monoskop.org/images/8/8c/Eno_Brian_Schmidt_Peter_Oblique_Strategies.pdf

"Do it" project, Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist: https://curatorsintl.org/exhibitions/18072-do-it-2013


Project That May or May Not Be Made template

What is it?

Why make it?

Workflow

Timetable

Rapid prototypes (scratches)

Previous practice

Relation to a wider context

Choice made


Rapid prototype template

Write one sentence instruction for a work.

Make it.


Previously:

https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/NotationsExperiment22

https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Rapid_Prototype_Directory_LB1

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/LensBasedScratchNov2

Previously...

Archive of the 2023 methods sessions: Methods2023Archive

Here is a link to Xpub Rapid Prototypes and Projects That May or May Not:

Rapid Prototype Session 2

Here is a page with all the methods sessions in SI18, SI19, SI20 (made for the audit by Leslie and Manetta): Methods SI18 SI19 SI20.

Here is the archive of methods sessions from previous years Pre2020Methods

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