Methods xpub

In this series of workshops we concentrate on methods of annotation and text analysis which help us research this trimester's Special Issue. Each session has a specific outcome.

2024/2025

September 11th, 2024

Intro to Methods 24/25

Pad of the day: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/110924_Methods

2023/2024

Previous sessions:XPUB1: 20 Sept 2023- 11:00 - 17:00 Methods for PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE with Steve + Lidia, in the aquarium

XPUB1: 11:00 - 17:00 Methods with Steve + Lidia, in the aquarium

Methods sesh #1 PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE with Lidia and Steve

André Malraux's "The imaginary museum" from 1950. Image: Krauss, Rosalind: Das Schicksalsministerium, In: Wolf, Herta (Ed.): Paradigma Fotografie-Fotokritik am Ende des fotografischen Zeitalters. Bd. 1. Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp Verlag. 2002, p. 395.

Outcome for the day: 4 annotations and discussion in which reading experiences are compared.

Outcome for the PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE methods seminars (December): an annotated reader.

Intro:

Whilst working on PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE, the methods sessions provide a moment to step back and consider the special issue we are working on. We take time to reflect. In the first session we will experiment with methods of collective annotation. This is an informal, group activity that helps collective reading and thinking. We read and take notes, share knowledge and raise questions.

1) Brief intros: how, what and why we annotate?

Protocol: For this session Steve and Lidia have chosen 4 texts which relate to PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE. We will try out a collective annotation in a big group to establish the principle. As we progress, we can use these reading and annotation sessions to add texts (in which case "text" can be widely defined) and establish new protocols through which to collectively annotate. After several sessions a "reader" will be generated.

2) The group split into 4 sub-groups and annotate one of the texts below.

3) The groups will gather into one group and reflect on their reading of the texts (the "thesis", the similarities and differences between texts).

4) Building a PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE bibliography together (in which case "bibliography" can be widely defined).

Group 1

On the data set’s ruins

Nicolas Malevé (2020)

https://sci-hub.se/10.1007/s00146-020-01093-w

ANNOTATE HERE: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/AnnotateDataset'sRuins

Group 2

Postscript on the Societies of Control

Gilles Deleuze (1992)

https://cidadeinseguranca.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/deleuze_control.pdf

Collective Annotation: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/PostscriptControlSocieties

Subgroup Annotation: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Deleuze_Control_Group

Group 3

The Tyranny of Structurelessness

Jo Freeman (1970-73)

https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm

ANNOTATE HERE: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/TyrannyAnnotation

Group 4

Queering Homophily

Wendy Chun (2018)

https://meson.press/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/9783957961457-Pattern-Discrimination.pdf

(PAGE 59)

ANNOTATE HERE: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/QueeringHomophily

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/MethodsSesh123

Barthes Radio

BarthesRadio

Text for next week: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/BarthesWormRadio

Upload Barthes sound files here: https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/BarthesRadio

Album of photographs gathered by Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909), Italian criminologist: the photographs correspond to different types of criminals (at least according to the system Lombroso used). “The criminal man”

Methods Session #2

11:00 - 17:00 Xpub1 Methods with Lídia

Methods sesh #2 PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE with Lídia

Outcome for the day: Collective visual mapping exercise, introduction to PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE glossary

Outcome for the PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE methods seminars (December): an annotated reader.

Intro:

In the second session, we will finish the collective annotation experiment of our previous session. In order to start processing the materials and connecting these texts to what you have been doing and reading with Michael, Manetta & Joseph, we will then get started on a visual mapping exercise in order to link concepts, practices and ideas. This map will be an ongoing process. Finally, we will introduce the PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE glossary.

1) Finish collective annotation exercise in 4 groups.

2) The groups will gather into one group and reflect on their reading of the texts (the commonalities, the divergences, the updates, agreements and disagreements).

3) Collective visual mapping of concepts, practices and ideas discussed so far.

3) Introduction of PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE glossary.

PAD OF THE DAY: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/MethodsSesh410

Group 1
"On the data set’s ruins", Nicolas Malevé (2020)
https://sci-hub.se/10.1007/s00146-020-01093-w
ANNOTATE HERE: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/AnnotateDataset'sRuins

Who:
Thijs
Bernadette
Victor
Rosa

Group 2
"Postscript on the Societies of Control", Gilles Deleuze (1992)
https://cidadeinseguranca.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/deleuze_control.pdf
ANNOTATE HERE: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Deleuze_Control_Group

Who:
Riviera
Alessia
Maria

Group 3
"The Tyranny of Structurelessness", Jo Freeman (1970-73)
https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
ANNOTATE HERE: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/TyrannyAnnotation

Who:
Zuzu
Lorenzo
Michel
Mania

Group 4
"Queering Homophily", Wendy Chun (2018)
https://meson.press/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/9783957961457-Pattern-Discrimination.pdf (PAGE 59)
ANNOTATE HERE: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/QueeringHomophily

Who:
Senka
Anita
Wang

Methods Session #3

• with Steve

Outcomes: A GLOSSARY for a PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE + Visual map of PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE.

Pad of the day: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Wed-11-Oct23

Visual map

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Problemsofnotation-for_annotation

References:

Scratch Orchestra's Nature Study Notes (1969) http://intuitivemusic.dk/iima/sonsn.pdf

John Cage's Song Books Vol 1 (1970) https://monoskop.org/images/0/03/Cage_John_Song_Books_Volume_1.pdf

Pad: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/LensBasedScratchNov2

Addition to small library: Eno: Oblique Strategies (card game)

https://monoskop.org/images/8/8c/Eno_Brian_Schmidt_Peter_Oblique_Strategies.pdf

11:00 Review progress;

Intro: The Annotated Problems of Annotation are Problems of the Masses (some links and rabbit holes).

From 11:30 work on

AM: Visual Map (use to gather words for glossary)

PM: Glossary for an Active Archive

"'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less."

GLOSSARY of PROTOCOLS FOR AN ACTIVE ARCHIVE

Definition (general)

Definition (as used by us)

Mentioned in:

In use (in context; example)

Glossary of productive play

This is a TEST PAGE

Prototype for a Glossary

This is the glossary:

Wordhole

Wordhole as category list

https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Category:Wordhole

Post-Apocalypse

11:00 - 17:00: The first Post-Apocalypse (ongoing apocalypse) Methods class with Steve

Pad of the day: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/2023-11-29

Project That May...

Pad That May or May not be...: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/17-4-24MethodsProjectsThat

Upload link to Project That May or May Not Be Made here:

Bernadette: User:Berna Bereit Project That May or May Not Be Made

Senka: Projects that May or May not be Made

Zuzu

Maria: User:Mxrwho/SI24 Repository

Thijs's PTMoMNBM depot

Lorenzo's Projects that May/Mayn't

Anita: Knitting city noise

Riviera's Project That May or May not be Made

Previous PMOMM - Rapid Prototype session:

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Problemsofnotation-for_annotation

References:

Scratch Orchestra's Nature Study Notes (1969) http://intuitivemusic.dk/iima/sonsn.pdf

John Cage's Song Books Vol 1 (1970) https://monoskop.org/images/0/03/Cage_John_Song_Books_Volume_1.pdf

Brian Eno: Oblique Strategies (card game)

https://monoskop.org/images/8/8c/Eno_Brian_Schmidt_Peter_Oblique_Strategies.pdf

"Do it" project, Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist: https://curatorsintl.org/exhibitions/18072-do-it-2013

Project That May or May Not Be Made template

What is it?

Why make it?

Workflow

Timetable

Rapid prototypes (scratches)

Previous practice

Relation to a wider context

Choice made

Rapid prototype template

Write one sentence instruction for a work.

Make it.

Previously:

https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/NotationsExperiment22

https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Rapid_Prototype_Directory_LB1

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/LensBasedScratchNov2

Previously...

Archive of the 2023 methods sessions: Methods2023Archive

Here is a link to Xpub Rapid Prototypes and Projects That May or May Not:

Rapid Prototype Session 2

Here is a page with all the methods sessions in SI18, SI19, SI20 (made for the audit by Leslie and Manetta): Methods SI18 SI19 SI20.

Here is the archive of methods sessions from previous years Pre2020Methods