Themsen/PD2

+ = mischief managed

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2015-04-15

+ Write "short" text on background of personal motivation which lead me to Piet Zwart

+ Organize & add content to user wiki page according to frame of RWRM module

+Write description of most recent work

• What
• How
• Why

+Write research strands, add links to related content

+Write description of future work

• What
• How
• Why

+ Screen record session in Conway's Game of Life

+ Use 'Cookbook' on PZI Wiki to learn about Image using Python

+ Organize presentation about chosen media objects according to notes in sketchbook

• Extend on/type interpretation of Heidegger into .txt document ( I made a recording of + + Conway's Game of Life as I typed into it)
• Visit and document at www.electricsheep.org

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2015-04-16

+ Present work on (media) object according to illuminations of Heidegger

+ Use 'Cookbook' on PZI Wiki to learn about Image using Python

+ Read the appropriate paragraphs in chapters 5-7 of the Handbook for protocol and criteria.

+ Use 'Cookbook' on PZI Wiki to learn about Image using Python (root & imagemagick, installing pip)

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2015-04-17

• Simon Pummell: "Be humble."
• Talan Memmott: "If you know what you're doing; show me! Show me. Show me!"

10:00-11:00

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Check on cultivation of mushroom colony (still nothing... recolonize?)

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11:00-13:00

+ *Extend on daily short aims list + *Add daily short aims list to PZI wiki

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13:00-15:00

• Buy for current practice

Sterilized injection needle
Liquid latex
Glue gun
Spray can (white)
Arduino/Raspberry Pi for video/audio installation
Metal thread (iron/steel)for shell

• See video on appliance of liquid latex to plastic/metal surfaces
• Build static prototype

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• Print former PZI projects
• Tie former PZI projects to current practice

• Analyze former practice's relation to current practice and future practice
• Extend on current practice: mushroom junk sculpture's description
• Extend on current practice: mushroom sketches' description
• Relate mushroom sketch practice to sculpture practice
• Relate current practice to future practice.
• Extend on future practice: media fungi's description

What
How
Why

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• Upload photographed mushroom sketches
• Scan mushroom sketches in PZI scanner
• Edit mushroom sketches in Photoshop (contrast/light, levels, exposure)
• Borrow videocamera,
• Record mushroom sketch session on camera
• Upload and link electricsheep.org & conway's game of life-video to An Encyclopdia of Media Objects, as 'Anti-Heideggerian'
• Upload mistakes, be humble. Be you.

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• Continue working on adding further links to outlines of RWRM text
• Extend on current practice's relation to past practice and vice versa

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• Organize physical texts into folders
• Buy:

Folders(plastic translucent, HEMA)

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Read texts for An Encyclopedia of Media Objects, Latour & Garcia [[1]]

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• Study Solange's practice on her WIKI page for interview at RWRM next week
• Study Allyson's practice on her WIKI page for interview at RWRM next week
• Reread Annette's tips on interviewing
• Write questions (double the amount you'll need)

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• Use 'Cookbook' on PZI Wiki to learn about Image using Python
• Download and setup python module Montage
• Ask Joseph/Julie/Manetta about montage python script

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• Upload everything necessary to last day's work on my student Wiki
• Read the appropriate assessment/presentation paragraphs in chapters 5-7 of the Handbook for protocol and criteria for presentation/reassessment on.