Semester 4

chae's research log for semester 4

Short Cuts or Keywords

• breakfast club with grgr Every Wednesday, 9:30-11:00 @ XPUB STUDIO
• chatty, messy, sticky, () with Nami
  • chatty, messy, sticky, tsss... @Habitat
  • chatty, messy, sticky, huuup!!! @Zine Camp 2022
• Critical_and_Intimate_Evaluation_of_Crunchiness with grgr ----> CLICK ME
• chae_hackpact
• Minor Stories (pad for the grad project)
  • Minor Stories 1st attempt @ Leeszaal
  • Lost Stories @Het Bollenpandje
• Spark(l)ing Curiosities: jumping in-between languages and feelings (pad for the thesis outline)

• updating Materials page

week 1 (12 Sept - 16 Sep)

intro / moving
I am obsessed with our new studio set-up

S/S: Embroidery

I could watch the embroidery machine for hours. Super funny movement.

infrastructour

Now I get it!!!!
What XPUB is!!!
XPUB_Infrastructour <--- click this

Workshop: hosted by Nor

• https://pad.xpub.nl/p/workshop_with_nor_xpub2

note-taking as an act of caring

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/writing-points-chae

Reading is fundamental

Finish reading: Parable of the Sawer

week 2 (19 Sept - 23 Sept)

Michael showed us how our second year will unfold + SHOW and TELL

Lots of cool thesis and GRAD projects!!!!!
Nice objects

breakfast club #1 (21-09-2022)

This week menu: Coffee, Yoghurt and more... Catch up and MFAD/GRS-mind-Prep
https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/breakfast-club/
Every Wednesday, 9:30 - 11:00, @xpub studio near the sink
Keywords: 8 am is when everyone moves!-a little girl singing out loud-scramble egg as the best breakfast-many have joined the first breakfast club

GRS #1: intro and get-to-know

• https://pad.xpub.nl/p/group_1_chae+garv_loui

Reading is fundamental

Finish reading: Making Matters ===> Full of nice examples

week 3 (26 Sept - 30th Sept)

prototyping: M&Ms (Emm | chae) / Server 101

• https://pad.xpub.nl/p/XPUB2-Mondays-2 (overall pad for prototyping)

M&Ms - recurring image

• https://pad.xpub.nl/p/loop-images-how-we-know (the pad that I prepared for M&Ms)
• http://www.jokerobaard.nl/pdf/Unconditional-Love.pdf (from Joke Robaard)
• Maybe check these out?
  • https://www.valiz.nl/en/publications/archive-species (REF from J #1)
  • https://dinakelberman.com/#smokeandfire (REF from J #2)
  • http://www.jokerobaard.nl/index.php (studio based in Amsterdam) (REF from J #3)
  • https://www.batiasuter.org/(Also based in Ams) (REF from J #4)
  • https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262522953/sorting-things-out/ (REF from Gg and J)

Recurring Images Reflection

1. I do not really care for squares
2. Maybe it is not meant to be shown --> Then try to write the images I realized that I use these materials as starting point for drawings
3. Observe how these images recur and how I use and combine these images
4. Making postcards is the perfect surface to hold these images
5. http://www.jokerobaard.nl/pdf/Unconditional-Love.pdf (from Joke Robaard) => Really agree with this statement
6. The nicest thing was that I revisited half of the pictures while preparing for the M&M session
7. Surprisingly not many consider taking pictures as part of their practice => interview friends who do take a lot of pictures (홍떰, 가영언니, 주영 ...)
8. Maybe I want to organize these images
9. WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH LOOPING IMAGE in Dear Science?!!

Group Tutorial: server 101

I recorded the screen, so check the recorded screen.mov and the pad

• https://pad.xpub.nl/p/hosting-and-serving (pad for how to set your server step by step)
• https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Shell_Cheat_Sheet

<form> tag log #1

The HTML form tag is required when you want to collect information that visitors provide. For example, you may want to collect specific data from visitors, such as name, email address, and password.
(from this website)

Collect. Provide. 모두 목적어 대상을 필요로 해. 무언가를 수집하고, 무엇가를 제공하고. 그 무엇이 무엇인가?

A form is essentially a container for inputs. 
 

*The action attribute points to the back-end of our web page, which handles the form submission
*The method attribute is used to upload the data. The most commonly used attributes are the GET and POST methods

breakfast club #2 (28-09-2022)

This week's menu: Coffee and free-style eggs
https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/breakfast-club/
Every Wednesday, 9:30 - 11:00, @xpub studio near the sink
Keywords: yoga-streeeeeetch-sneaky-smuggle-marble-egg-zen_pomegranate-desire_for_more_self-hosted_workshops-guest_lecturer_as_public_event_#4

yoga-streeeeeetch-sneaky-smuggle-marble-egg-zen_pomegranate-desire_for_more_self-hosted_workshops-guest_lecturer_as_public_event_#4

Reading is fundamental

Finish reading Fragility: To Touch and Be Touched ===> Super nice book, very very nice illustrations
Continue reading Dictee ===> Super nice and sad and empowering

GRS #2: 1st hackpact | first first graduation project draft

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergraphy (REF by GG)
• https://divided.online/#world-of-interiors (World of Interiors by Aurelia Guo, recommendation from Natasha)

S/S: Knitting Machine

Keywords: punchcard => maybe this could be a lead to the telephone tree/hiccup?

BB with GG

I went to the Book Binding(BB) station(?) at Rietveld Academie to see GG and make a new notebook for the semester!

Keywords: new book (World of Interiors by Aurelia Guo and A Jornal of the plague year by parasite) - San Serif - spring binding - 🐛 - carmen - leaving a space that you can grip - 3d printed opensource knife - a 10cm ruler business card - two more books (hypergraphy and one thesis, both books from GG)

week 4 (3 Oct - 7 Oct)

dinner with Kim, again brainstorming and supporting kim's idea

• super feeling, de appel => made me think of the spectrum of performance <--> workshop
• Kiffe ta race, a french podcast talking about race and feminism, super nice. They have three English episodes
• https://pad.xpub.nl/p/proposal_leeszaal

Individual session with Michael

some references and highlights:

• [city script], the website is broken, yet it's super funny. Observational photo,
• form art by Alexei Shulgin
• the complexity of categories
• you learn through the system, you shape the system but also system shape you

<form>tag log #2

played with fieldset that creates border/line around the form tag

I realize that you have many different input types, such as date. You can also set min and max. I set min and max 1982-11-05 so that when the user click the date, it is automatically set to 1982-11-05. The day Theresa Hakkyung Cha was murdered..

Workshop: with BB and Clara

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S/S: Turning wheel with grgr

It's quite hard. Totally new muscle!!!! It might take some time to be comfortable with it. Letting things go but at the same time, putting a little bit of force. Balancing between those: be steady and supportive - push and form
Just ordered an underglaze pencil!
Now I have it!!(4th Dec.) But when can I try it?!

Useful links

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/product-recommendations/best-underglaze-drawing-tools-1234587176/

SVG Animation Log #1

My attempt was to...

1. push the button or slider
2. the drawing will change into one another: 1(chick) -> 2(mamang) -> 3(pommbear) and then 1 again.

But I realized that it is actually super difficult to do so, since I have 500 points. A lot of frustration and a moment of reality check that I need many small steps to take to achieve this...

REF

• https://spotify.github.io/coordinator/ (get svg coordinator)
• https://evasive.tech/34/ (by Raphael)

CMS() Project: with Nami, documentation

Here are some rules that we agreed on:

1. approach it as comic strips, all the main images are illustrations, clumsy drawing
2. humble font, humble aesthetic, light web
3. make different stickers and have fun with different CSS, HTML tags(ex. when you hover over pongie's mouth, the sound of pongie explaining the concept of buchimgae publication, starts to play)
4. later, use page.js to make a comic strip
5. since it's workshop series, every chapter starts with clear instructions on the workshop activities
6. the focus of the documentation is on sharing the process not the results. So approach it as a log/diary.

Recurring Images Log #2: phonecall with Hyein a.k.a. thumb

updated the pad: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/loop-images-how-we-know

keywords: food pictures - texture - thoughts and intentions that triggered to take pictures - text with an intention to capture floating thoughts - saving the same picture, like if your fridge is super disorganized you ended up buying the same vegetables that you already have - Instagram - how Instagram shaped our way of using the camera - different accounts archiving specific stuff (ex. energy drinks on the street, one glove on the street, chewing gums on the street etc)

Lunch with grgr, and work on Crunchy Research

With grgr, we cooked chicken with rice, ginger, garlic and two small yet very spicy chilly peppers in a pressure cooker. IT WAS AMAZING. Very comforting, perfect for cold weather like these days. Since the weather was super fresh and sunny, after this VERY satisfying lunch, we went for a walk. Encountered very strange yet alarming ppl (hint: museum, unintentional, art, dressed up). Had two gluten-free cakes(?). Two espressos. Brainstormed. Very nice conversations.

notes of discussion on the future of crunchy project

CMS() Project: with Nami, documentation, setting up GIT

• https://pad.xpub.nl/p/cmsproject_studying_together

week 5 (10 Oct - 14 Oct)

prototyping: M&Ms (jamming) / Arduino 101

My phone as an instrument

Deep Listening

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth_Sinfonia
• https://youtu.be/-wiRivDMIYM (😭) LOVE THIS SO MUCH
• https://youtu.be/hpJ6anurfuw (😂) THIS ONE TOOO

Arduino 101 #1

need to add notes

breakfast club #3 (12-10-2022)

This week's menu: Coffee and tosti
https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/breakfast-club/
Every Wednesday, 9:30 - 11:00, @xpub studio near the sink
Keywords: grgr was sick :-( - singing and chanting kids on the way - fresh bread on my way to the studio - some failed experiments - some cheese and baked beet root on the table - recording sounds of crunchiness - discuss on GRS draft

grgr was sick :-( - singing and chanting kids on the way - fresh bread on my way to the studio - some failed experiments - some cheese and baked beet root on the table - recording sounds of crunchiness - discuss on GRS draft

Workshop with page.js

Ⓕ These words/concepts

1. cascading
2. responsive
3. booksprint
4. flux -> pagination
5. polyfill
6. open-source
7. Coko
8. CMS
9. markdown
10. css print

Links

• https://slides.julie-blanc.fr/20190626_DigitalPublishingSummit.html
• need to fill in
• https://resources.julie-blanc.fr/list-of-resources/#ress-typo

GRS

need to finish the draft

CMS() Project: with Nami, documentation, re-setting the GIT log

BIG THANKS to Michael. Got many useful tips. Still tricky to use git but feel I'm becoming more prepared.

BREAK

Start feeling sick, time to rest.

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Continue reading...

1. Dictee
2. Worlds of Interior
3. Dark Room

week 6 (17 Oct - 21 Oct)

Leezaal Public event

• See also: whispering

cabinet of interesting things

• The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Crunchy Research with Erica grgr

On the day of the presentation, grgr and I facilitated a meditative biting event. We invited visitors to fill out the form, and reflect on what are their values/criteria for crunchiness. Also, we used this opportunity to call for participants for intimate, in-depth crunchy sessions. Overall, the residency was SOOOOO FUN!!!!

CMS() Project: with Nami, documentation

Did not really have time to work on this...

week 7 (24 Oct - 28 Oct)

still in Sardinia (*´∇｀*)

CMS() Project: with Nami, documentation

Did not really have time to work on this...

week 8 (31 Oct - 4 Nov)

breakfast club #4 (02-11-2022)

This week's menu: coffee, yoghurt and homemade granola
https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/breakfast-club/
Every Wednesday, 9:30 - 11:00, @xpub studio near the sink
Keywords: Sardinian Bread - kim reading book, On Life in the Kitchen Balancing a Job and a Side Job - Boyana's super crunchy super nice homemade granola (gluten free) - left early due to the appointment at Den Hague

Sardinian Bread - kim reading book, On Life in the Kitchen Balancing a Job and a Side Job - Boyana's super crunchy super nice homemade granola (gluten free) - left early due to the appointment at Den Hague

CMS() Project: Workshop @Zine Camp with Nami

chatty, messy, sticky, tsss... Printed a booklet with Nami

It was dramatic, but with Nami, we managed to print out our first booklets! Using page.js...! Super cute!

This is the first booklet we(nami chae) made for the Zine Camp 2022. We did not use Indesign, instead we used page.js, a web-to-print technique. It documents the first cms()project, chatty, messy, sticky, tsss... which took place at Habitat.

chatty, messy, sticky, huuup!!!

"chatty, messy, sticky, huuup!!!" is a workshop where participants collage their unpublished materials and present them in a performative way. Hosted by two Rotterdam-based artists, Chaeyoung and Nami, this workshop aims to create a temporary platform where individuals' unpublished contents become published.

Letting go of shyness, laziness, unsatisfaction, and so on... participants will have a moment to look at the materials and position them in a new context.

To participate, please select and bring two unpublished materials* made or collected by you; 1 print and 1 digital file**

*Q. What do you mean by 'unpublished materials'?
'Unpublished materials' can be a picture, a story, a recipe, a drawing, a text, a sound piece, a piece of knowledge, etc that you haven't shared with anyone (nor any social platform).

**Q What do you mean by 'print' and 'digital file'?
'Print' literally means all different kinds and sizes of printed matter. 'Digital file' can be a photo from your phone, a recording of your voice, a video, a piece of code, you name it.

week 9 (7 Nov - 11 Nov)

Prototyping: trying out the elegant decision-making method/whispering / group tutorial

• See also: whispering

Group tutorial with Manetta and kamo

breakfast club #5 (09-11-2022)

This week's menu: eggs with onion and cheese, cherry tomatos and dried bread from Italy
https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/breakfast-club/
Every Wednesday, 9:30 - 11:00, @xpub studio near the sink
Keywords: Reading the random chapter from the book, Language by Xiaolu Guo - cooking scrambled eggs - checking in how SI19 is going

Reading the random chapter from the book, Language by Xiaolu Guo - cooking scrambled eggs - checking in how SI19 is going

writing exercises with Kim

Now I have keywords!

11 keywords (vulnerable private personal unspeakable intimate publishing sharing playing-with-setups-materials physical-digital disarming-ㅠㅡㅠ everydaylife)

Cabinet of interesting stuffs

• https://zoop.hetnieuweinstituut.nl/activities/collective-material-practices-critical-times
• Notre pain quotidien, Lalie Thebault Maviel
• https://bread-on.earth/

week 10 (14 Nov - 18 Nov)

breakfast club #6 (16-11-2022)

keywords: buckwheat(?) flour pancake(!!!!thank you Michael), pancake drawing, super cute

This week BREAKFAST CLUB is a bit SPECIAL: This week, it’s not Wednesday but Thursday. It’s going to be bigger and wilder….! WHEN? 17th THU 9:30-11:00 WHERE? at XPUB studio THEME is RED, YELLOW, GREEN We will make Experimental pancake (🥞)!! Bring some toppings for the pancake that is 🔴🟡🟢. Join whenever before 11:00. PS: We have a new zulip stream, sign up if you wish eheh (breakfastclub)

two due-dates

1) graduate proposal: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/chae-graduate-proposal
2) thesis outline: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/chae-thesis-outline

week 11 (21 Nov - 25 Nov)

prototyping, individual tutorial with Josepe

flask svg and flask

meeting for Crunchiness with grgr

I have a new FANCY passport. After picking up my passport, I went to grgr's place. We had good food, planned a bit for what to do for Crunchy Research.

breakfast club #7 (23-11-2022)

Keywords: ongoing conflicts between desire --- actual execution. Everything needs certain amount of time, care and headspace(여유)

the idea was to read xpub2s graduate proposals but it was difficult. The ongoing friction between idea or desire - actual execution.. Hmm. But the fun part was kamo's headphone intervention

S/S: metaaaaaal

everything was collapsing but it's always nice to keep your hands busy!
Plus I was so excited to see XPUBies using metal works that I made to crack walnuts. (lol)

I HAVE A NEW LAPTOP!!!!!!! ( 」ﾟДﾟ」

While installing and decorating my /Desktop environment, I imagined a desktop as a space where ppl can make a dedicated folder but with custom-made drawings or photos and some notes or page which is a story. So when you submit the story, it will create a folder with a drawing as an icon. Something like this. (Not the image below but see thumbnail pic with lost-things-sketch subtitle)

lost-things-sketch

BREAK

quite ill, time to rest.

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Reading is Fundamental

Finish reading: Language, Leek
Start Reading: 21세기 사상의 최전선

week 12 (28 Nov - 2 Dec)

Het Bollenpandje: Lost Stories

a3-zine-for-lost-stories

Super nice. It went well. Collected a lot of cute, heart-warming lost stories T^T

Future topics for the diary:

• discussion around Dutch translation, several hours before the event
• questions that kim and grgr raised
• talks that the majority of us (XPUB2) had, the day we had to send materials for the zine
  

Cabinet for interesting stuff

• colorama.space (Publishing? Riso? Residency! in Berlin. Kimberley's recommendation)
• https://spainsnews.com/a-collective-multilingual-and-infinite-poem-the-campaign-of-collection-of-verses-in-which-anyone-can-participate/ (mentioned by Suzan)
• https://universalpoem.com/ (mentioned by Suzan)

breakfast club #8 (30-11-2022)

groovy mood-cleaning-and-cleaning-and-cleaning-checking in-sauce drawing

groovy mood-cleaning-and-cleaning-and-cleaning-checking_in-chestnut_pancake_thanks_grgr-sauce_drawing

cabinet of interesting stuffs

• https://hackmd.io/@forkonomy/southkorea#/1 (Winne Soon)
• https://kelleyswanberg.com/about/ (who are you?! intriguing website hmmm very dry though)

week 13 (5 Dec - 9 Dec)

thesis first chapter draft deadline

I've been listening to a podcast titled, 혼밥생활자들의 책장 A LOT. If I roughly translate it, it would be a bookshelf of the Hon-bap single. One of the notes that I made some time ago.
Also added more notes and transcription today. (https://pad.xpub.nl/p/writing-points-chae)

breakfast club #9 (07-12-2022)

keywords: i am very sorry slug - slow - vacation Homeworks - insurance issues -

keywords: i am very sorry slug - slow - vacation Homeworks - insurance issues -

thank you kam0

이해하기 쉽게 정리해두기 미래의 나를 위해서 우리를 위해서

# portability (you can easily install your project on another machine) (using the virtual environment and the requirements.txt file) 
# the prefix /soupboat/ in front of every url, that ultimately is the most annoying thing of working in the soupboat bc it breaks all the links
# the ngnix configuration that is the most tricky part to figure out, but now there is like 1 year of struggle and trial and error and finally make sense.
# setting up the application as part of the server services, in the way that it runs automatically when the server starts and when the soupboat crash 
[telegram chat that kamo sent]

How to: pdf. into Booklet and then print it with a Hogeschool printer

1 you need pdf. Just regualr A4 size pdf.
2 upload your pdf. on soupboat
3 open the terminal and do this

chae@soupboat:~ $ cd public_html/
 chae@soupboat:~/public_html $ pdfbook <인풋 파일 이름 예컨대:hee_jueong_son.pdf> --outfile <아웃풋 hee_jueong_son-booklet.pdf> 

4 now you have the booklet version (hee_jueong_son-booklet.pdf).
5 print settings:

• portrait
• finishing- Print Style: 2-sided Printing
• Binding Location: Long Edge (left)
  

6 Done!

Bibliography & Ref. note: 혼밥생활자의 책장

www.youtube.com. (n.d.). 123화 혼밥생활자의 스피커 | 포스트 낙태죄 폐지..이제 대학에 피임클리닉을 요구하자 with 손희정, 이유림, 김다은. [online] Available at: https://youtu.be/vQkGkr58UTg [Accessed 8 Dec. 2022].

‌=> 욕망을 상상하기. 이제 피임클리닉을 욕망하고 요구하는 것. 어떤 것을 적극적으로 욕망해내고 상상할 것인가. 그리고 이 에피소드를 들으면서 들었던 가장 큰 생각은 예리하고 세심하게 살피는 일이 얼마나. 얼.마.나. 중요한 일인지를 절감했어. 언어를 예리하게 쓰는 것. 좀더 예리하고 섬세하게 작업을 접근하는 태도가 이런 점에서 중요하다는 생각을 많이하게 돼. 나아가, 졸업 프로젝트와 연결해서 생각해봤을때 너무 중구난방이 되지 않도록 잘 선택하는 것이 중요할 것 같다는 생각. 여차하면 너무 넓어져서 예리함을 잃을 수도... 잃는다기 보다는 강약이 필요해. 하이라이트, 반짝임을 생각하며 접근하기. 하이라이트가, 반짝임이 존재하기 위해서는 콘트라스트, 묵직하게 톤을 잡아주는 것이 필요해. [내가 글 적어두는 패드에서 가지고 옴]

Bibliography & Ref. note: Care Manifesto / Reading is fundamental

세상에 대한 돌봄
 
세상에 대한 돌봄 파트에서 소개된 다양한 초국가적 행동과 규제들을 읽으면서 그리고 현재 월드컵이 진행되고 있는 상황을 바라보면서, 문득 우리는 다른 식의 연대의식을 느낄 수 있는 것이 필요하다는 생각이 들어. 예컨대 모로코 대 스페인 전에서 모로코가 이기고, 그래서 네덜란드에 사는 모로코 이주자들 혹은 그렇게 정체화하는?이들이 거리를 점유하는 것을 보면서 아. 좋다 라는 생각을 했었는데, 다시금 이 거리를 점유하는 사람들. 이 도시를 사는, 구성해내는 이들이 누구인가를 느낄 수 있는 시간이었기 때문이야. 헌데 국가적 아이덴티티를 강화하는, 국뽕 국힙 등의 말들, 다양한 월드컵 등 처럼 국가의 정체성을 국가의 이미지를 강화하면 할수록 초국가적 사안들을 상상해내는 것이 어려워지지는 않을까?라는 생각. 물론 강력한 국가적 아이덴티티를 갖고 있으면서도 초국가적, 지구적 차원의 행동들을 상상하는 것이 가능할수도 있지만, 국가적 아이덴티티를 강화하는 이미지들을 생산하면 생산할수록 무엇이 그것에 가려지는가?

세상에 대한 돌봄

역사적으로 풀뿌리 저항은 종종 대단히 놀라운 결과를 만들어냈다. 일시적으로나마, 2012년 아랍의 봄에서 본 것처럼 탄압하는 정부를 무너뜨리거나, 배수관 설치, 채굴, 파쇄, 삼림 벌채 또는 댐 건설 등으로 비록되는 환경 위해를 저지하기도 했다. 레베카 솔닛이 언급했듯이 '모든 저항운동은 세상의 균형을 바꾸거나' 그럴 수 있는 잠재력을 가지고 있다. 어떠 한 곳에서 발생한 저항의 양식이 억압을 받는다 해도 지리적 경계를 뛰어넘어 다른 지역에서, 심지어 지구 반대편에서 또 다른 형식으로 싹을 틔울 수 있다.

Finish reading: Care Manifesto
Start reading: 재난 시대의 정동 / Citizen: An American LyricBook by Claudia Rankine

Flask-documentation with Kamo

what it means to work on a web-based project in XPUB with the shared server

• Flask (xpub wiki page about Flask, also document how to deploy your app to the server aka. soupboat)
• XPPL (xpub wiki page about the project that is using a more advanced version of Flask)
• branched out documentation (Maybe this could lead to the future Flask workshop with XPUB2)
• webhook -> then you do not need to open the terminal in soupboat to pull from git any more!!?

week 14 (12 Dec - 16 Dec)

Winter break BUT BEFORE...

Assessment

super tiny screen (display mode)

breakfast club #10 (14-12-2022)

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