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The following is a collection of the projects conceived for the main event of [[SI28|Special Issue 28]], that took place at Ubik, Rotterdam on 19<sup>th</sup> November 2025. | |||
== | == [[Projects SI 28/Writing Machine Ensemble|Writing Machine Ensemble]] == | ||
''Participants: [[User:Robin|Robin]], [[User:SHRED|Ema]], [[User:Daanprincen|Daan]]'' | |||
=== | === Description === | ||
With the Writing Machine Ensemble, rhythm and repetition will be experienced in a radically new form. Explorations in Potential Musicality is a musical journey through the sonic qualities of printers—with a strong emphasis on improvisation, yet promising dramatic intensity. | |||
Co-founded by its current members, is an international group of experimental musicians from around the XPUB Studio. Independent and idealistic, they focus on blending the role of 'instrument' and 'musician' in an assemblage of artistic creation, striving to find the essential musical quality in tools of writing. | |||
=== Media === | |||
Performance with dot matrix printer, pen plotter, typewriters. | |||
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== Gesture Machine == | == Gesture Machine == | ||
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''Participants:'' [https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Valentin97| Valentin] | ''Participants:'' [https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Valentin97| Valentin] | ||
=== Currently working on: === | |||
Experimenting with open source motion capture datasets in touchdesigner. | |||
=== Description === | |||
N. Katherine Hayles’ Cognitive Assemblages: People and technology made by people performing cognitive functions together. Only certain technologies considered as cognitive machines: The ones are capable of interpreting information of its own environment and act on the changes of the environment therefore changing its own context which creates meaning. | |||
Volumetric Regimes are the industries that keep the technology 3D representation in a close circulation, iterating the same technology over and over again. | |||
As a designer and amateur animator I take the position to make a cognitive animation table and attempting to explore free software provided by the above-mentioned industry through the lenses of Hayles’ Cognitive Assemblages. | |||
[https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/ | [https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/GestureMachineProject_ARA more info] | ||
=== Media === | |||
Hologram, stop-motion armature, human body | |||
''Keywords:'' | ''Keywords:'' | ||
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=== -> Input -> Output -> === | === -> Input -> Output -> === | ||
Input: | Input: hand gestures | ||
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Output: | Output: stop-motion animation | ||
== | == [[Projects SI 28/A story in a story in a story|A story in a story in a story]] == | ||
''Participants:'' | ''Participants: [[User:Youjung|Youjung]] [[User:Barbs|Barbs]] [[User:Kiki|Kiki]]'' | ||
=== Description === | |||
"A story in a story in a story" invites you into an interactive narrative that lets you explore, gather and plot. Wander around in the virtual environment, pick up what you resonate with and that is what you take with you at the end of the day and becomes a tiny part of you. | |||
=== | === Medium/Media === | ||
terminal, python, pen plotter, text adventure, fiction, paper & ink | |||
[ | == [[Projects_SI_28/The-Calm-Machine|The Calm Machine]] == | ||
''Participants: Lea & Sibyl'' | |||
=== | === Description === | ||
The Calm Machine is a quiet and cozy island in the buzzing and bustling of this event. Hidden away from the other stations, it provides privacy and a moment of peace. Come in, sit down, touch, listen and observe. We then invite you to go for a psychogeographic walk. Walking is a form of reading. Through the act of walking, you interpret and rewrite the city. You are a gear in the mechanics of the Calm Machine—by interacting, you make it come to life! Connect with your senses and surroundings, and perhaps generate a new sensation. | |||
=== Medium/Media === | |||
touchdesigner, touchboard, sound, desk lamp | |||
[ | == [[User:Lucatorsera/Marginalia|Marginalia]] == | ||
'' | ''Participants: [[User:Lucatorsera|Luca]]'' | ||
=== | === Currently working on: === | ||
Scripting pipeline to convert texts to graphs; Editorial research on specific textual archives | |||
== | === Description === | ||
Writing does something when published. Since the invention of text, it has functioned to flatten out a plurality of worlds from history, performing domination, differentiation and justifying violence. Marginalia takes selected texts in different historical contexts, and transforms them in experimental annotations engraved in canonical books. The resulting visual language communicates semiotics of displacement and a cartography manufactured by hegemonic world views. As a performance, layers of text, speech, and distortion present a writing machine as sonic warfare. | |||
=== Media === | |||
Laser engraving on books, laser projection, live sound | |||
==== | == [[Projects SI 28/Water Vessel Dwelling in Temporality|Water Vessel: Dwelling in Temporality]] == | ||
[[File:DSC02976.jpg|thumb|312x312px]] | |||
''Participants: Soda'' | |||
=== | === Currently working on: === | ||
Exploring about this city and all the Europe | |||
=== | === Description === | ||
<big>''Rotterdam feels to me like a vast writing machine''</big> | |||
-its stories continuously inscribed by the people who live here. | |||
I collected discarded wood from streets and construction sites and reassembled it into a suspended wooden form. The varied origins and textures of these materials echo people from different backgrounds coming together to form a temporary place of dwelling. | |||
Water gives the form shape while constantly altering it, just as residents and the city mutually reshape one another. | |||
This wooden structure becomes a metaphor for provisional belonging, capturing the fragile balance between drift and stability. | |||
'' | === Medium/Media === | ||
Wood Sculpture / Installation | |||
''Keywords:'' Fluidity, Temporality of Dwelling, Nonlinear Memory, Liminality, Fragmentation | |||
== | == [[Projects SI 28/Love Machine|Love Machine]] == | ||
''Participants: [[User:Phillip_Kesumo|Phillip]]'' | |||
=== | === Currently working on: === | ||
Picture storybook, comes with slides different images using AI and using my own word to tell the story of my characters such as Clara. | |||
=== Description === | |||
I use AI to write my novel, and then I use AI again to create images for a picture storybook. The prompts are heavily supervised by me, so it is based on my own plot, story, and characters. It includes original storyline as well, and some scenes in the picture storybook are not in my original novel. | |||
== [[Projects SI 28/The Metathinking Metamachine|The Metathinking Metamachine]] == | |||
= | [[File:Tommi’s Metathinking Metamachine.jpg|thumb|right|alt=Photo of Tommi next to the pen plotter, performing The Metathinking Metamachine]] | ||
''Participants:'' | ''Participants: [[User:Tommi|Tommi]]'' | ||
=== | === Description === | ||
A fictional seance with the <q>Gods of Tools</q>, using <q>The Ultimate Tool</q> to finally solve all Tommi’s software quests, utopian dreams, and issues. | |||
=== | === Media === | ||
Performance with pen plotter. | |||
Latest revision as of 00:45, 5 December 2025
The following is a collection of the projects conceived for the main event of Special Issue 28, that took place at Ubik, Rotterdam on 19th November 2025.
Writing Machine Ensemble
Participants: Robin, Ema, Daan
Description
With the Writing Machine Ensemble, rhythm and repetition will be experienced in a radically new form. Explorations in Potential Musicality is a musical journey through the sonic qualities of printers—with a strong emphasis on improvisation, yet promising dramatic intensity.
Co-founded by its current members, is an international group of experimental musicians from around the XPUB Studio. Independent and idealistic, they focus on blending the role of 'instrument' and 'musician' in an assemblage of artistic creation, striving to find the essential musical quality in tools of writing.
Media
Performance with dot matrix printer, pen plotter, typewriters.
Gesture Machine
Participants: Valentin
Currently working on:
Experimenting with open source motion capture datasets in touchdesigner.
Description
N. Katherine Hayles’ Cognitive Assemblages: People and technology made by people performing cognitive functions together. Only certain technologies considered as cognitive machines: The ones are capable of interpreting information of its own environment and act on the changes of the environment therefore changing its own context which creates meaning.
Volumetric Regimes are the industries that keep the technology 3D representation in a close circulation, iterating the same technology over and over again.
As a designer and amateur animator I take the position to make a cognitive animation table and attempting to explore free software provided by the above-mentioned industry through the lenses of Hayles’ Cognitive Assemblages.
Media
Hologram, stop-motion armature, human body
Keywords: gesture, non-verbal communication, body language, animation, stop-motion
-> Input -> Output ->
Input: hand gestures
Output: stop-motion animation
A story in a story in a story
Participants: Youjung Barbs Kiki
Description
"A story in a story in a story" invites you into an interactive narrative that lets you explore, gather and plot. Wander around in the virtual environment, pick up what you resonate with and that is what you take with you at the end of the day and becomes a tiny part of you.
Medium/Media
terminal, python, pen plotter, text adventure, fiction, paper & ink
The Calm Machine
Participants: Lea & Sibyl
Description
The Calm Machine is a quiet and cozy island in the buzzing and bustling of this event. Hidden away from the other stations, it provides privacy and a moment of peace. Come in, sit down, touch, listen and observe. We then invite you to go for a psychogeographic walk. Walking is a form of reading. Through the act of walking, you interpret and rewrite the city. You are a gear in the mechanics of the Calm Machine—by interacting, you make it come to life! Connect with your senses and surroundings, and perhaps generate a new sensation.
Medium/Media
touchdesigner, touchboard, sound, desk lamp
Marginalia
Participants: Luca
Currently working on:
Scripting pipeline to convert texts to graphs; Editorial research on specific textual archives
Description
Writing does something when published. Since the invention of text, it has functioned to flatten out a plurality of worlds from history, performing domination, differentiation and justifying violence. Marginalia takes selected texts in different historical contexts, and transforms them in experimental annotations engraved in canonical books. The resulting visual language communicates semiotics of displacement and a cartography manufactured by hegemonic world views. As a performance, layers of text, speech, and distortion present a writing machine as sonic warfare.
Media
Laser engraving on books, laser projection, live sound
Water Vessel: Dwelling in Temporality
Participants: Soda
Currently working on:
Exploring about this city and all the Europe
Description
Rotterdam feels to me like a vast writing machine
-its stories continuously inscribed by the people who live here.
I collected discarded wood from streets and construction sites and reassembled it into a suspended wooden form. The varied origins and textures of these materials echo people from different backgrounds coming together to form a temporary place of dwelling.
Water gives the form shape while constantly altering it, just as residents and the city mutually reshape one another.
This wooden structure becomes a metaphor for provisional belonging, capturing the fragile balance between drift and stability.
Medium/Media
Wood Sculpture / Installation Keywords: Fluidity, Temporality of Dwelling, Nonlinear Memory, Liminality, Fragmentation
Love Machine
Participants: Phillip
Currently working on:
Picture storybook, comes with slides different images using AI and using my own word to tell the story of my characters such as Clara.
Description
I use AI to write my novel, and then I use AI again to create images for a picture storybook. The prompts are heavily supervised by me, so it is based on my own plot, story, and characters. It includes original storyline as well, and some scenes in the picture storybook are not in my original novel.
The Metathinking Metamachine
Participants: Tommi
Description
A fictional seance with the Gods of Tools
, using The Ultimate Tool
to finally solve all Tommi’s software quests, utopian dreams, and issues.
Media
Performance with pen plotter.