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writing

A lot of my time here has been spent writing. Writing and editing text has always been something that I enjoy, but (except for a three-month internship in journalism), I never focused on it much. Since I find myself doing it regularly, though, I would like to do it more intently.

✏️ Wiki Writing — Documenting my process and my own as well as group projects

✏️ SI28 Editorial Group — Wrote promotional texts and the introduction to our A_maze_zine

✏️ Blog — Very fun (but scary)!

✏️ Writing Wednesdays — Biweekly meetup to sit down and write together

making

writing machines

output from Poetry Generator exhibited at Creative Coding Utrecht

For the first few weeks of XPUB, reading texts, learning about new tools, and documenting everything has been all I did. I was longing to actually make things, and was excited to start tinkering with writing machines. I have long been interested in surrealists methods such as automatic writing and exquisite corpse, and I started noticing writing machines in the wild, and had lots of fun making my own. One thing that I did struggle with though, was finding meaning (beyond “I had fun“), in the texts produced.

🪄 Multinational Poetry Remix 🪄 Nod-Blink-Yawn State Machine 🪄 Glyphica Text Machine

🪄 Psychogeographic Writing Machine 🪄 The Calm Machine: Walking Protocol 🪄 Mud-cell Poem 🪄 Poetry Generator (@ CCU)

a walking card scanned during our event at UBIK

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checking on the activity of the mud bacteria

zines

Making zines has been part of my practice for a long time. What I love about it: It is a very quick mode of publishing (if you want it to be—I tend to overthink the process), and there is a physical object to hold and distribute. During the last two Special Issues, I learned a few new things about zine-making and me: Command line tools are awesome! Pdfbook2 and weasyprint simplify tasks that I used to spend a lot of time on. And—making zines together is the most fun!

✂️ A_maze_zine — Wrap up of SI28 (wiki2print) ✂️ Practice and Scale — Interviews from Methods class (wiki2print)

✂️ A Grower's Guide to Writing — Writings and drawings for the Xtraterrestrial Zine Fair ✂️ Echt Nep?! — Collective Zine from our workshop at Leeszaal

websites

websites made during SI29

Before I came to XPUB, I had vibe coded most parts of all the websites I made. I was determined to actually learn HTML and CSS during my time here, but I am rarely finding the time to sit down and write code. These pages are what I made during SI29—very simple, but made without AI. That does not mean that I wrote everything from scratch, though. I got help from others, or used existing code snippets found on the web.

🔗 Echt Nep?! — Our collective zine to click through 🔗 LEa — Personal gossips from Doriane's class

🔗 A Grower's Guide to Writing — HTML hidden in a P2P-garden 🔗 File tree — Kamo helped with the pop-ups

field recordings

Although I adored the topic of SI28, I was less excited about the radio shows. I had very limited experience working with sound, and I am quite terrible at public speaking. Things that I did enjoy, though, were sharing music and found sounds with others, as well as making field recordings of my surroundings when going for a walk.

🔊 aporee.org/maps/?loc=70336 🔊 aporee.org/maps/?loc=70337 🔊 aporee.org/maps/?loc=70339

🔊 aporee.org/maps/?loc=70340 🔊 aporee.org/maps/?loc=70341 🔊 aporee.org/maps/?loc=70342

ferments

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learning

Workshops

CL tools

reflections & questions

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