User:Alessia/PMOMNBM

here's the pad

✧What is it?
✧Why make it?
✧Workflow
✧Timetable
✧Rapid prototypes (scratches)
✧Relation to previous practice

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Alessia's-reader

Second year

little interactive poems made with Godot and Blender

this is part of the main research I would like to follow this year, here's the main wikis I am using:

• https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Alessia/poetry_and_games
• https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Alessia/Logbook
• https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Working_with_Godot#Adding_a_texture_to_a_3D_mesh_Blender-Godot

obsessive catalogue of madness

What is it?
Publication based on our(me+Lorenzo)'s online obsessive observations. Digging into online platform rabbitholes (mostly instagram and youtube).

The aesthetic of the aesthetic.

Spiritual colonisation and the online trends aesthetic politization. Brat summer, demure the importance of the format.
Cosplaying poorness.
Framing conservative spirituality as progressive ancient wisdom, being packaged as freeminded.

concerning the suffixes i.e. core, punk, esque
absurdity of the rapid speed of conceptualization of multiple aesthetics, freedom to just make anything and that 'freedom' has influence on daily life.

example: crustfund baby's: (majorably) white people getting into spirituality based on preconceptions that are presented online without the context of the inspiration.

example: new tradwife translated from american english to italian culture -> conservative catholicism

examples cryptobro culture etc

The Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, wealthy people create content and leisure.

Why make it?

for cultural observation, because we are insane

Workflow
This is a side project, this means we will work on this on our free time, we both are really passionate about these themes

Timetable
the only deadline we decided on is November 4th (public moment), it would be nice to present to the public a draft, even a really unfinished version of our little research. It might change into November 1st.

Rapid prototypes (scratches)

is our first meeting pad a prototype?
is our wiki a prototype?

Relation to previous practice
Doomscrolling and cynical thoughts

ritualistic mediterranean map

What is it?
An interactive ritualistic map project centered around mediterranean cultures, folklore and rituals, with the mediterranean sea as a symbol of history, magic and death.

Why make it?

To give a voice to struggling and disappearing communities and traditions, while bridging the past and present societies. The project needs to avoid romanticisation of the past, instead letting people understand the importance of preservation of ancient cultures, as a tool to understand the present struggles better.

By capturing sounds, visuals, interviews, the goal of the project is safeguard the intangible and fragile heritage of mediterranean cultures, and draw attention to those traditions that are still entwined in contemporary lives.

Workflow and Timetable

1 month
☼ get inspired by the land, people, languages and dialects of the mediterranean area
☼ find threads
☼ talk with multiple organisations that engage in the safeguarding of people and of heritages, exploring how ancient traditions are translated contemporary in art, design, music, how traditions are being shaped by migration, and how the mediterranean matter is being dealed with considering the deaths at sea
☼ create a draft of the website where the map will be stored

2 month
☼ research about events, meetings, workshops, lessons concerning the theme
☼ talk with present anthropologist and scholars that are analysing the matter
☼ contact people from Coro a Coro, Isabella, other singers and artists that work in the field
☼ getting some interviews online and offline, even from people, or almost all from people that migrated from the mediterranean area
☼ shape the website-archive fully

3 month
☼ finish the website, to make it available to the public
☼ contact venues or editors that could be interested in helping with making a independent publishing printed version of the project (studio Azzurro Milan)
☼ making drafts of the printed version
☼ collect feedback from the online version to improve the offline version
☼ let the archive be open to implement other addition from other people online

Rapid prototypes (scratches)

Relation to previous practice

My bachelor thesis was about the aesthetic of the Adriatic landscape, fractals, folklore and magic. So, I would like to continue my research

First year

folklore digital archive

What is it?
It's a multisensory installation that immerses the visitors in traditional apulian folklore and traditional rituals + a digital archive.
The main theme is the dance that you must do when a tarantula bites you, to get your body healed.

It's a large interactive spider web structure that uses ropes and strings, the visitor is encouraged to move through the web structure and while doing so sensors are triggered, they detect movements and trigger sounds, while the visitor mimics the traditional ritual of dancing to ward off the poison of the tarantula's bite.

Bells and other objects are attached to the structure so that any movements can be noisy.
If the idea of a physical web structure is too dangerous then a space open for movements filled with sensors could be the answer.

Then play a bit between physical and virtual.

Why make it?
It is a way to bring people closer to the pre christian traditions and folklore that the culture of southern Italy, especially in rural areas, is still permeated with. Telling about a land rich in superstition, cultural tears, female figures and exorcism as social healing.

In this way, talking only about a specific territory, but also about dance, ritual singing, performance, mental health and links with traditional cultures that are present everywhere.

Workflow
𓇼 Talk with traditional folk musician and dancers, interview them for the digital archive of the research
𓇼 Find a space, create archive
𓇼 Record ambient sounds and folk music to use for the installation
𓇼 Build the installation
𓇼 Enjoy

Timetable

Rapid Prototypes

Previous practice
I researched a lot about traditional folk traditions, Apulian landscapes. My bachelor thesis was about fragmented landscapes, magic and rituals.
I was part of some workshops and researches about traditional choir singing and pizzica/tarantella dances (the dances born as exorcist dances).

Relation to a wider context
With this installation people are not only going to delve into the intricacies of the Apulian territory but also explore a rich tapestry of traditional command practices part of all cultures around the world

https://sabukaru.online/articles/to-share-a-cup-of-tea-with-pierre-sernet
Body Sculpture by Jordan Wolfson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKeBvoZysgI
Se also Fluxus group (+ Yoko Ono); Valie Export
https://nikidesaintphalle.org/all-the-worlds-a-stage-niki-does-theater/

Printmaking, circuits

• Printing circuits
• Using circuit boards as etching plates

• Paper circuit
• Copper tape
• Conductive Paint Traces
• hand-drawn circuit boards
• CBs designed to look like art
• Pseudorandom 01: Hand Drawn PCBs (music vid)
• https://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.15/section.CBA/people/Schaad/week6-*electronics-design.html
• https://hackaday.io/project/18381-pcb-art-medium/log/49266-pcb-as-an-art-medium

• Printable/paintable electronics
• https://miscelanea.info/k608/paintable-electronics?lang=en
• https://hackaday.io/project/188607/gallery#e16d0d282a58222eec0d256019649334
• https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/the-great-big-guide-to-paper-circuits/all

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Making a robot hand for mezzotint (rocker)

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translation device

Translating environmental data into signals/outputs, a device that bridges between people and your surroundings, working on the invisible aspects of space perceptible and interactive.

Portable Language Translator Device

Giving out cryptic messages, oracle
A direct translation of values of spaces into words (or something else?)

That combines environmental data with cryptic phrases, device that interprets the space around in a poetic and mysterious way

Field recording + poetry

Spells
divination
horoscope
weather oracle device


microphone (noise) temperature sensor humidity sensor light sensor (oled display/ portable thermal printer) microcontroller wifi module communication blynk app (or make an app)
embroidery poetry generator