User:Kim/Assessment 1

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Timeline

09 2024

• Presenting 'On Contamination - infectious interfaces' (website) at Naive Yearly in Ljubiljana performative reading of a very short text, interspersed by extensive footnotes which were explanatory, fictional, sometimes disorienting. on contamination as metaphor for digital publishing interfaces, inviting disruption, agency and multitude
• making radio shows: which feels confusing and very very new to me, sound feels overwhelming and the first acts of collaboration a bit bumpy, i enjoyed the sidequests, like drawing a map of field recordings
  • SI25 Broadcast 1: Soundmapping
  • SI25 Broadcast 2: Soundmapping Rotterdam

10 2024

• the idea of websites as sound interfaces resonates with me and I am starting a lot of attempts but never finish them
  • internet archive
  • pianola 1 pianola 2
  • web audio api mixer
  • User:Kim/Special Issue 1/Thoughts on Soundboard
• more radio shows this practice becomes a bit more familiar and with the very 'live' protocols we performed felt more organic
  • SI25 Broadcast 4: Protocols to Freestyle
• Website for and in an exhibition 'In between echoes' in Hamburg in-between-echoes.xyz maps visitors in the exhibition space and displays them as dot on the website together with a ping sound. The website is also presented in the exhibition space itself creating a feedback loop between the two spaces in which they constantly echo the other.
  

struggling a lot with this one, set up worked at home but completely failed in the exhibition space, exhausting hours of debugging, at the opening only cheated version works, I am feeling alienated presenting such work in a very fine arts coded context

exhibition view

website screenshot

11 2024

• User:Kiara and I prepare an HTML and CSS intro for XPUB 1 HTML/CSS Memo
• 'Sounds of Making' Special Issue 25 Public Moment
  • I am part of the PR group, working mostly on visual communication + coding support for event website collaboration here pushed me to my own limits in many ways: unreliability and missing communication makes everything hard to deal with, how do we collaborate with different skill levels (code: I want to give the opportunity to others to learn but I want to still practice it too. sometimes it might be smarter to factor in capacities, time, energy)
  • I present Tracing Networks Backwards
• Ben invites me to present at the Homemade Computer Club at Varia. He asks me about memory, I respond with an inquiry about time. He starts the session with presenting his research about time synchronization and I continue with speaking about time interfaces and the environment as crucial factor in timekeeping. Interfacing Time We Round up with a worksession of crafting our own (imaginary) clocks.
• I enjoy the detour we take into CSS print and would like to make it a more regular part of my practice

graphic artifact from the SI25 event 'Sounds of Making'

12 2024

• Radio show:
  • SI25 Broadcast 9: Event ReMix'd where I enjoy reading the text to speech receipt prints from the public event in a poetic form
• Coding (support) for the post production group to develop an Archival website based on the wiki https://hub.xpub.nl/cerealbox/Special-Issue-25/view.html while i am fascinated with the way we utilize the wiki api for this cause, its also a very confusing and exhausting code. Also the fact that it is still not finished... I initiated 2 days this year where Kiara, Chrissy, Tessa and I attempted to but its going slow and motivation is low, I could have done so alone or with one more person much earlier but thats not the point but then what is the point in an unfinished project?
• one week Coding intro Workshop at HBK Braunschweig with Karen My website is a... which was a super interesting and valuable experience but also disillusioning, a lot of chat gpt, not much interest in understanding code/ process/ exploration, very unresponsive group, doing it with Karen was essential - we work super well together

01 2025

I had covid, I had to move to a new apartment

02 2025

• giving a presentation for scholarship application
• Browser extension programming (with Doriane and Joseph) sparks a lot of experimentation and curiosity, I am intrigued by the idea of leaving most agency to the browser/ user and how far you can push this in terms of styling

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  replacing images with clouds

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  injecting source code comments

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  incrementally rotating text

• In a quick monday session, Fred and I develop a pure css extension revealing a websites head contents User:Wordfa/MetaWeb -- which grew to become part of larger extension bundle
• Doriane and Simon give a Workshop in Amsterdam with All Access Archive at Fanfare on annotation and collaboratively annotate (amongst others) the text I am working on 'On contamination' (also presented in Ljubiljana)

collaboratively annotated text at fanfare AAA workshop

scan of a single annotated page, fanfare AAA workshop

03 2025

• focussing on 4 Browser extensions around ideas of inspection

1. website age
2. source code comments
3. empty dom elements
4. html head

• Working on the coding/ interface part of the CSS Timeline
  • code draft
  • pdf draft

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  model of the css timeline setup

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  multiple rotations

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  code & website & print

• An interview with Miriam Suzanne new for me to see that you can just contact someone and they agree, and are happy, to join a conversation! I was positively surprised by the interest Miriam showed in what we did too and happy I overcame being shy, actively participated and asked a few questions

04 2025

• 'On contamination' (presentation I held in Ljubiljana last year) will be published with Are.na Editorial new experience, working with an editor, challenging to make a very situated presentation and thoughts more widely understandable, interesting to force text into a pretty fixed format (instead of building my own website for it)
• Special Issue 26 Public event:
  • source code comments reading (using comments browser extension). Maybe not 'only' the comments are read but part of the websites content too, blurring lines between source and content, annotation and main body of text
  • extra: posters for browser extension – using the extensions on different websites, taking screenshots and then comparing them (like in a field study) tell us something about the way they are built?

Reader

User:Kim/reading
reader interface experiments: [1] [2]

• texts that resonated most:
  • Generous Practices
  • The Laurence Rassel Show
  • The truth of fact, the truth of feeling
  • Dividing and Sharing
  • N. Katherine Hayles: Writing Machines
• and recently:
  • Performative Materiality and Theoretical Approaches to Interface

Outlook

practical

start using git

User:Kim/Stations, Skills, Resources#On Documentation

trying some new things in coding: static site generator, js frameworks (ambiguos)

themes

(user) interfaces not only graphical but also what they allow access/ insight to, tnb creates an interfaces for something that is there, but usually opaque (what links here?)

digital paratexts (footnotes, hyperlinks, postscripts, prefaces, marginalia, comments...) as these are infrastructural elements for a text or publication, facilitate circulation

infrastructure (digital, textual)

moments that draw my attention

disruption, failure or breaking that reveal inner workings of a thing
using browser extensions gives a new set of tools, interrupting what is already there

objects, interactions, stories were the way of telling becomes part of the tale
quite literally why the above mentioned texts drew me in so much, their fictional approaches, juggling sources and authorship – but then also bringing this into other media, what can a website tell about its making?

personal – group

leave things as they are and be more relaxed about it, dont try to fix everything

patience with different speeds of learning and comprehension e.g. when reading together or discussion

say more things out loud, people appreciate it (and no they can not read your mind) when planning things, communicate capacities better