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Draft 2 - drafting a guide

This text hopes to developing a clear perspective on media design practices, as well as defining those stimulating aspects from my previous and current practical experience studying the Master of Experimental Publishing,

involving a variety of subjects, ranging from environmental issues (scarcity of resources), audio programming languages (concerning the merging/interaction of mankind with technology) and digital libraries (related to the legality of public spaces).

I am currently working on creating a digital platform/data base with Max and Giulia, which will work as a digital archive/library for the Poortgebouw building [what does the building do? a local support centre, helping with...(youth, publications add to list)]. The Poortgebouw project gives public access to specific knowledge in form of digitalized documents concerning the legality of this historical urban space, from 1980 to today.

Our project will make accessible information such as letters from the previous owners, town hall and other institutions, files from different cultural centers or existent communities in Rotterdam (these documents are previously and/or nowadays active. The files supported the initiative of having an alternative space to help the youth, schedules, news leaflets or handwritten letters designed from previous inhabitants, architectural maps of the building’s refurbishment, etc.

We are building an office on the ground floor of the building; setting up printers, scanners, monitors and computer towers that were left over untested. The archiving system we are working on, has bigger social implications and dimensions that extend beyond a work-in-progress of this course.

This may not only inspire the current inhabitants to engage more actively to social projects, but to external institutions such as the Het Nieuwe Instituut to contribute to the support of the archive. With regards to technical aspects, it contemplates the possibility of recording live footage, so that further material related to the current legal status of the building can be stored.

We are also learning to transform digital images such as jpeg, tif or pdf documents containing text, whether in English or Dutch, into editable (translated) text files using an OCR program.

Further tweaking and editing will be necessary in order to ensure a correct format transition. Eventually, we will need to build a graphic interface that will display and dynamically update all this data into this online/offline library.

I am personally interested in creating an interactive digital platform that may continuously generate new data, which could work as a cross over experiment within different creative practices. [start a new sentence] eing an archive itself, exploring on how to efficiently use sensor technologies connected to different video inputs simultaneously on specific urban environments, further exploring audio environments, combining printed matter.

[ maybe unpack this how is it post human: the way we change ourselves, how does the technology within the building effect those living there? How can you go with archiving a space? : contemplating the idea of the “posthuman” in the current and future technological era.]-

This connects to the projects we’ve been working on this year, specially for reading methodologies as we will need to go through written communication. We have to read a lot and also read over; summarize. We may need to use Dutch-native speakers and editors

May the fact of being able to diy our own devices such as scanners, powerful computers, speakers or create editorial objects/books exposing unique material, makes our digitally oriented path to become a more crafted technologically based work, something in between unconventional non-standardized home made art and a science laboratory. [<please make this clearer]

As the book from Naomi S. Baron “Always on...” says; “The challenge is not words but technologies and the systems we build upon them for communicating with one another.” The interest here remains in the combination of power between technology and language, as Kathy Acker’s real email correspondence in her book “I’m very into you”.

In Eli Pariser’s “The Filter Bubble”, it is investigated what does technology hides from us and questions our awareness to daily used technologies, which is quite significant to the idea of hiding knowledge and the existing pirate libraries striving for the freedom of information.

Media object:

What is the specificity of this object?
This is an A6 format notebook, which I use either for taking notes at school, writing thoughts, contacts, scheduling tasks or drawing what my mind brings up in no specific situation. It is an archived memory which can be cryptographically interpreted as no specific data format is applied to the typology of this object.

Unchanging object.
The very openness of the system makes transgression very difficult.

Talk about our personal take in the object.
Why is it different from other medias?

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-Which are the aspects of design, art practices and technology that really interests me?.<br>
+This text hopes to developing a clear perspective on media design practices, as well as defining those stimulating aspects from my previous and current practical experience studying the Master of Experimental Publishing,
+<br>
+<br>
-Alternative methods, activism, underground - accessibility vs exclusivity, piracy, audio, gadgets, diy, Puredata software, create an electronic sequencer, feedback loops from different audio/video inputs, experiment with microphones, webcams, monitors, data bases, digital archives, finding out how to use optical flow in python by using many video inputs simultaneously connected, the sound of mobility perhaps, different cameras pointing onto specific urban pathways where people’s interaction generates audio responses. Thinking of an installation of big dimensions where monitors are piled together, each of them showing the camera’s live input. Research on sensor technologies: which technologies use such devices and to what purpose? Will there be any social implications? What we people then become if used at an individual level?
+involving a variety of subjects, ranging from environmental issues (scarcity of resources), audio programming languages (concerning the merging/interaction of mankind with technology) and digital libraries (related to the legality of public spaces).
+<br>
+<br>
+I am currently working on creating a digital platform/data base with Max and Giulia, which will work as a digital archive/library for the Poortgebouw building [what does the building do? a local support centre, helping with...(youth, publications add to list)]. The Poortgebouw project gives public access to specific knowledge in form of digitalized documents concerning the legality of this historical urban space, from 1980 to today.
+<br>
+<br>
-Have a look at: <br><br>
+Our project will make accessible information such as letters from the previous owners, town hall and other institutions, files from different cultural centers or existent communities in Rotterdam (these documents are previously and/or nowadays active. The files supported the initiative of having an alternative space to help the youth, schedules, news leaflets or handwritten letters designed from previous inhabitants, architectural maps of the building’s refurbishment, etc.
-'''The 3D Activist cookbook''' <br>
-Life exists only in action. There is no innovation that has not an aggressive character. We implore you – radicals, revolutionaries, activists, Additivists – to distil your distemper into texts, templates, blueprints, glitches, forms, algorithms, and components. Creation must be a violent assault on the forces of matter, to extrude its shape and extract its raw potential. having spilled from fissures fracked in Earth’s deepest wells The Beyond now begs us to be moulded to its will, and we shall drink every drop as entropic expenditure, and reify every accursed dream through algorithmic excess.
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+<br>
+We are building an office on the ground floor of the building; setting up printers, scanners, monitors and computer towers that were left over untested. The archiving system we are working on, has bigger social implications and dimensions that extend beyond a work-in-progress of this course.
 <br>
+<br>
-'''How to think like a computer scientist: learning with Python'''
+This may not only inspire the current inhabitants to engage more actively to social projects, but to external institutions such as the Het Nieuwe Instituut to contribute to the support of the archive. With regards to technical aspects, it contemplates the possibility of recording live footage, so that further material related to the current legal status of the building can be stored.
-One of the reasons why I like Python is that it provides a really nice balance between the practical and the conceptual. Since Python is interpreted, begin- ners can pick up the language and start doing neat things almost immediately without getting lost in the problems of compilation and linking. Furthermore, Python comes with a large library of modules that can be used to do all sorts of tasks ranging from web-programming to graphics. Having such a practical focus is a great way to engage students and it allows them to complete signif- icant projects. However, Python can also serve as an excellent foundation for introducing important computer science concepts. Since Python fully supports procedures and classes, students can be gradually introduced to topics such as procedural abstraction, data structures…
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+<br>
+We are also learning to transform digital images such as jpeg, tif or pdf documents containing text, whether in English or Dutch, into editable (translated) text files using an OCR program.
 <br>
+<br>
-'''Always on. Language in an online and mobile world. Naomi S. Baron'''
+Further tweaking and editing will be necessary in order to ensure a correct format transition. Eventually, we will need to build a graphic interface that will display and dynamically update all this data into this online/offline library.
 <br>
-The challenge is not words but technologies and the systems we build upon them for communicating with one another. Those technologies include personal computers and mobile phones, and the systems have such names as email, instant messaging (IM), Facebook, and blogs… My ultimate interest in this book is to understand the synergy between technology and language, not to produce a timely data-reference guide.
+<br>
+I am personally interested in creating an interactive digital platform that may continuously generate new data, which could work as a cross over experiment within different creative practices. [start a new sentence] eing an archive itself, exploring on how to efficiently use sensor technologies connected to different video inputs simultaneously on specific urban environments, further exploring audio environments, combining printed matter.
+[ ''maybe unpack this how is it post human: the way we change ourselves,  how does the technology within the building effect those living there? How can you go with archiving a space? :'' contemplating the idea of the “posthuman” in the current and future technological era.]-
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+<br>
+This connects to the projects we’ve been working on this year, specially for reading methodologies as we will need to go through written communication. We have to read a lot and also read over; summarize. We may need to use Dutch-native speakers and editors
 <br>
+<br>
-'''I’m very into you. Kathy Acker and McKenzie Wark'''  (emails correspondence)
+May the fact of being able to diy our own devices such as scanners, powerful computers, speakers or create editorial objects/books exposing unique material, makes our digitally oriented path to become a more crafted technologically based work, something in between unconventional non-standardized home made art and a science laboratory. [<please make this clearer]
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-Here before you is the surviving correspondence between Kathy Acker and McKenzie Wark. These emails were hastily wrinen, casual and often indirect; they crossed "in the mail" and beth the sequence and references may confuse the reader. The authors barely knew each other, the correspondence lasts a little over two weeks, and their relationship lasted only a few weeks beyond the last of the letters.
+<br>
+As the book from Naomi S. Baron “Always on...” says; “The challenge is not words but technologies and the systems we build upon them for communicating with one another.” The interest here remains in the combination of power between technology and language, as Kathy Acker’s real email correspondence in her book “I’m very into you”.
 <br>
 <br>
-'''The filter bubble. What the Internet is hiding from you.'''
+In Eli Pariser’s “The Filter Bubble”, it is investigated what does technology hides from us and questions our awareness to daily used technologies, which is quite significant to the idea of hiding knowledge and the existing pirate libraries striving for the freedom of information.
 <br>
-The Internet software that we use is getting smarter, and more tailored to our needs, all the time. The risk, Eli Pariser reveals, is that we increasingly won’t see other perspectives. In The Filter Bubble, he shows us how the trend could reinforce partisan and narrow mindsets, and points the way to a greater online diversity of perspective.”
+<br>
-<br>
-“You spend half your life in Internet space, but trust me—you don’t understand how it works. Eli Pariser’s book is a masterpiece of both investigation and interpretation; he exposes the way we’re sent down particular information tunnels, and he explains how we might once again find ourselves in a broad public square of ideas. This couldn’t be a more interesting book; it casts an illuminating light on so many of our daily encounters.”
+</span>
-'''Cyborg. Caronia'''
-<br>
-In the post-Fordist era of digital networked media the cyborg unfolds itself in the dissem- ination of multiple bodies: on the Internet, in the shift of individual identity, in the new col- lective aggregation connected by software. It bridges virtuality and concreteness, possibility and necessity. The cyborg thus becomes a eld of social con ict, one of the new gures in which the bio-political perspective is embodied.
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+'''Media object:'''
-'''Diversity of plays. Fuchs.'''
+What is the specificity of this object?
-<br>
-Diversity of Play provides a critical view on the current state of digital games from theoretical, artistic, and practical perspectives. With an interview with Karen Palmer and essays by Astrid Ensslin, Mathias Fuchs, Tanya Krzywinska, and Markus Rautzenberg, the book explores the uncanny in games, the power of “unnatural” narratives, and the exceptions and uncertainties of digital ludic environments.
-<br>
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+This is an A6 format notebook, which I use either for taking notes at school, writing thoughts, contacts, scheduling tasks or drawing what my mind brings up in no specific situation. It is an archived memory which can be cryptographically interpreted as no specific data format is applied to the typology of this object.
-'''The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence. Ray Kurzweil.'''
-<br>
-“Ranges widely over such juicy topics as entropy, chaos, the big bang, quantum theory, DNA computers, quantum computers, Godel’s theorem, neural nets, genetic algorithms, nanoengineering, the Turing test, brain scanning, the slowness of neurons, chess playing programs, the Internet—the whole world of information technology past, present, and future. This is a book for anyone who wonders where human technology is going next.”
-<br>
-“A compelling vision of the future from one of our nation’s leading innovators. Kurzweil brings serious science and a twinkling sense of humor to the question of where we are headed ... With his pioneering inventions, and his penetrating ideas, Kurzweil convincingly takes us through what promises to be the most pivotal of centuries.”
-<br>
-“An extremely provocative glimpse into what the next few decades may well hold ... Kurzweil’s broad outlook and fresh approach make his optimism hard to resist.”
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+Unchanging object.
 <br>
+The very openness of the system makes transgression very difficult.
-'''THE ADAPTIVE BRAIN'''
+Talk about our personal take in the object.
-<br>
-THE MAKING OF A SYNTHETIC BRAIN REQUIRES NOW LITTLE MORE THAN TIME AND LABOUR. . . . SUCH A MACHINE MIGHT BE USED IN THE DISTANT FUTURE . . . TO EXPLORE REGIONS OF INTELLECTUAL SUBTLETY AND COMPLEXITY AT PRESENT BEYOND THE HUMAN POWERS. . . . HOW WILL IT END? I SUGGEST THAT THE SIMPLEST WAY TO FIND OUT IS TO MAKE THE THING AND SEE.
-ROSS ASHBY, “DESIGN FOR A BRAIN” (1948, 382–83)
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+Why is it different from other medias?
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