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Project Punchline

Deadline 18 November 2050375826458789467430566054783063058746t57834307506026465566699887778900909908889209482984327357345743891732-7821-372-10XXVXXViii

IT IS NOT OK, COMPUTER

What do you want your first project to be?

Fun, has always been more than fun; it has always been an economic relation.

Over the next few months I intend to develop an interactive "platform" where users would be able/obliged to engage in the awkward, absurd but mostly, oppressive "game" with their devices. In order to reach this final stage of the project I am recently researching ideological and technical aspects of the suitable code creation. The nature of the code that I have in mind could be characterised by unbearably hesitant, unproductive, subjective and most probably alcoholic traits...or at least a quasi-marxist nature. All my intellectual effort is going to be conducted in order to investigate the idea of productivity and unproductivity in the context of western/ innovative/ neoliberal society. As Alexander R. Galloway states, it is impossible to differentiate cleanly between nonproductive leisure activity existing within the sphere of play and productive activity existing within the field of the workplace. I am planning to approach this theme from various angles: economic, semiotic, social and fatalistically existential.

How do you plan to make it?

In order to develop a double-meaning chatting system (productive at the surface but resistant underneath)I am planing to follow the conceptual schema mentioned below:

Western neoliberal society= the Solitaire Card Games on your desktop
Innovative society=squeezing the surplus form the trash, pop, and stupor
Cognitive surplus=smoking but not inhaling
Coercive laws of completion=the biggest chocolate cake on your Facebook wall
Code= naturalisation and fragmentation of ideology
Code = barriers of ideology
Code = LOGOS
Software = Action (in the beginning was the Word, the Ward was God)
Action= my favourite store in the NL.
Ideology= set of user-(un)friendly values
Ideology= a military entertainment / PLAYBOR
Playbor=fun factory for an intellectually unemployed, freed teddy bear
Teddy bear=no-collar tiger!
Code=FUN FACTORY, CHARCH, SUPERMARKET
Technology= fantasy and terror of NON WORKING >Time management
Moments=element$ of profit
Code =ahistorical map of meaning
Code =apparently transparent & neutral value generator
Code=denial of death/negation of an animal spirit
User=product=commodity = bearer of value
User in motion=temporality of value = producer
Value = useful, wanted, desirable schizophrenia
Symbolic x value = x passed in the process of user exchange
x = a hot potato
Symbolic zero value =empty floating signifier
The hidden signified-meaning-shines through and transforms itself into Action.Amen

Why?

I myself am sadly stricken with anxiety of participating in the value production system I do not quite understand. In other words, I am stuck in many enjoyable discurses that model the world around me as a "game" and it would be nice to rearrange this battle field accordingly to... ME.

Who can help and how?

All of the tutors seem to be quite competent, therefor I promise to book tutorials and ask members of staff questions related specifically to my project. I also promise to share knowledge with your peers.

What are you working on now?

Re-configuring my brain and composing some unholy algorithms.

Relation to previous practice

In my previous (and present, I believe) art practice I investigate the mechanisms of regular communications that, under the pretense of functionality or entertainment, conceal the order of power created during the constitution of such mechanisms. I am particularly interested in the nonviolent mode of system's operation that makes collectively cultivated semantic structures unattainable and often discriminative for their own users. In my previous works I have adopted the aesthetic of programming languages or encoded data to depersonalise the written statement or bring many different voices into the narrative line in order to expose the difficulty of entering the seemingly democratic space of language. Some of my performances have been based on absurdist re- interpretation of already established systems of directives, while others propose new systems of instructions for the performer and the audience to follow. I still remain faithful to the idea the action of deliberately confusing the natural language with the formal constructed language in order to communicate instructions both to the user and to the machine.

Showing an awareness of a broader context

Good old Fluxus (Fluxus is an attitude!),
The Situationist Int. (Détournement, the construction of situations and a devastating critique of technological efficiency of advanced capitalism)
Monty Python (absurd and genius)
and Karl Marx (...because he wasn't a real Marxist!)
elizabot
Game, Game, Game and again Game
TOC

References

Fun is a Battlefield : Software between Enjoyment and Obsession, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Andrew Lison
Digital Labour The internet as Playground and Factory, Trebor Scholz, Tiziana Terranova, Alexander Galloway, Jonathan Beller, McKenzie Wark
The Interface Effect, Alexander R. Galloway.

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-=First Project Outline=
-Deadline 18 November 2050.
+= Project Punchline=
-Word count 15 max.
+ Deadline 18 November 2050375826458789467430566054783063058746t57834307506026465566699887778900909908889209482984327357345743891732-7821-372-10XXVXXViii
-== "Tentative Title" ==
+== IT IS NOT OK, COMPUTER ==
+==What do you want your first project to be?==
-==What do you want your first project to be?==
+Fun, has always been more than fun; it has always been an economic relation.
-I would like to create an interactive platform ( the website seems to be the easiest solution, yet still unsatisfactory) where users would be able/obliged to engage in party funny, partly absurd and largely oppressive conversation with their devices. In order to reach this final stage of the project I am recently researching ideological and technical aspects of the suitable code creation. The nature of code I carry in mind, should be unbearably hesitant, unproductive, subjective and most probably alcoholic...or at least quasi-marxist.
+Over the next few months I intend to develop an interactive "platform" where users would be able/obliged to engage in the awkward, absurd but mostly, oppressive "game" with their devices. In order to reach this final stage of the project I am recently researching ideological and technical aspects of the suitable code creation.  The nature of the code that I have in mind could be characterised by unbearably hesitant, unproductive, subjective and most probably alcoholic traits...or at least a quasi-marxist nature. All my intellectual effort is going to be conducted in order to investigate the idea of productivity and unproductivity in the context of western/ innovative/ neoliberal society. As Alexander R. Galloway states, it is impossible to differentiate cleanly between nonproductive leisure activity existing within the sphere of play and productive activity existing within the field of the workplace. I am planning to approach this theme from various angles: economic, semiotic, social and fatalistically existential.
-All this intellectual effort is going to be conducted by me in order to “attack” the idea of productivity and unproductivity in the context of western/ innovative/ neoliberal society. After Trebor Scholz, I wish to state that it is impossible to differentiate cleanly between nonproductive leisure activity existing within the sphere of play and productive activity existing within the field of the workplace.
-I am planning to approach this theme form various angels: economical, semiotic, moral and existential.
 ==How do you plan to make it?==
-I am planing to follow the conceptual schema mentioned below:
+In order to develop a double-meaning chatting system (productive at the surface but resistant underneath)I am planing to follow the conceptual schema mentioned below:
 * Western neoliberal society= the Solitaire Card Games on your desktop
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 * Cognitive surplus=smoking but not inhaling
 * Coercive laws of completion=the biggest chocolate cake on your Facebook wall
-* Code= naturalization and fragmentation of ideology
+* Code= naturalisation and fragmentation of ideology
 * Code = barriers of ideology
+* Code = LOGOS
+* Software = Action (in the beginning was the Word, the Ward was God)
+* Action= my favourite store in the NL.
 * Ideology= set of user-(un)friendly values
 * Ideology= a military entertainment / PLAYBOR
-* Playbor=fun factory for intellectually unemployed, freed teddy bears
+* Playbor=fun factory for an intellectually unemployed, freed teddy bear
 * Teddy bear=no-collar tiger!
 * Code=FUN FACTORY, CHARCH, SUPERMARKET
 * Technology= fantasy and terror of NON WORKING >Time management
-* Moments=elements of profit
+* Moments=element$ of profit
 * Code =ahistorical map of meaning
 * Code =apparently transparent & neutral value generator
-* Code=denial of death/ animal spirit
+* Code=denial of death/negation of an animal spirit
 * User=product=commodity = bearer of value
-* User=motion=temporality of value
+* User in motion=temporality of value = producer
-* Value = useful, wanted, desirable
+* Value = useful, wanted, desirable schizophrenia
-* Value=schizophrenic form
+* Symbolic x value = x passed in the process of user exchange
-* Value=always in process=what is passed in the process of user exchange
+* x = a hot potato
-* Value=hot potato
-* Communication=the release of prisoners (parole)
 * Symbolic zero value =empty floating signifier
+* The hidden signified-meaning-shines through and transforms itself into Action.Amen
+==Why?==
-==Why do you want to make it?==
+I myself am sadly stricken with anxiety of participating in the value production system I do not quite understand.
+In other words, I am stuck in many enjoyable discurses that model the world around me as a "game" and it would be nice to rearrange this battle field accordingly to... ME.
-I would like to create a double meaning chatting system, productive at the surface but resistant underneath, mostly because I myself am sadly stricken with anxiety of participating in the value production system I do not quite understand.
+==Who can help and how?==
-==Who can help you and how?==
+All of the tutors seem to be quite competent, therefor I promise to book tutorials and ask members of staff questions related specifically to my project. I also promise to share knowledge with your peers.
-Book tutorials and ask members of staff questions related specifically to your project. Also share knowledge with your peers.
 == What are you working on now?==
-What is its relation to your proposal?
+Re-configuring my brain and composing some unholy algorithms.
 == Relation to previous practice ==
-How does your research connect to previous projects you have done?
+In my previous (and present, I believe) art practice I investigate the mechanisms of regular communications that, under the pretense of functionality or entertainment, conceal the order of power created during the constitution of such mechanisms.  I am particularly interested in the nonviolent mode of system's operation that makes collectively cultivated semantic structures unattainable and often discriminative for their own users.  In my previous works I have  adopted the aesthetic of programming languages or encoded data to depersonalise the written statement or bring many different voices into the narrative line in order to expose the difficulty of entering the seemingly democratic space of language. Some of my performances have been based on absurdist re- interpretation of already established systems of directives, while others propose new systems of instructions for the performer and the audience to follow. I still remain faithful to the idea the action of deliberately confusing the natural language with the formal constructed language in order to communicate instructions both to the user and to the machine.
-Here you can use the descriptions you made in the first session
-== Relation to a larger context ==
-Meaning practices or ideas that go beyond the scope of your personal work.  Write briefly about other projects or theoretical material which share an affinity with your project.  For example, if you are researching urban interventions, you might want to research about Situationist approaches to psychogeography, urban tactical media and activist strategies of reclaiming the streets.  Or, if you want to explore the way data is tracked, you might touch upon the politics of data mining by referencing concerns laid out by the Electronic Frontier or highlight theoretical questions raised by Wendy Chun or others.  (Keep in mind that we are *not* expecting well formulated conclusions or persuasive arguments in the proposal phase.  At this juncture, it's simply about showing an awareness of a broader context, which you will later build upon as your research progresses.)
+== Showing an awareness of a broader context ==
+* Good old Fluxus (Fluxus is an attitude!),
+* The Situationist Int. (Détournement, the construction of situations and a devastating critique of technological efficiency of advanced capitalism)
+* Monty Python (absurd and genius)
+* and Karl Marx (...because he wasn't a real Marxist!)
+* [http://www.masswerk.at/elizabot/ elizabot]
+* [http://collection.eliterature.org/2/works/nelson_game.html Game, Game, Game and again Game]
+* [http://www.tocthenovel.com/clips.html TOC]
 == References ==
+* ''Fun is a Battlefield : Software between Enjoyment and Obsession'', Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Andrew Lison
-A list of references (Remember that dictionaries, encyclopedias and wikipedia are not references to be listed.  These are starting points which should lead to more substantial texts and practices.)  As with your previous essays, the references need to be formatted according to the Harvard method.)  See: http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/wiki/A_Guide_to_Essay_Writing#The_Harvard_System_of_referencing
+* ''Digital Labour The internet as Playground and Factory'', Trebor Scholz, Tiziana Terranova, Alexander Galloway, Jonathan Beller, McKenzie Wark
+* ''The Interface Effect'', Alexander R. Galloway.
-''Feel free to include any visual material to substantiate, illustrate or elucidate your proposal.  For example use images to reference your work or that of others.''

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