Curator Conversations

Typewriter Orchestra (Robin, Daan, Ema)

Conversation #1

Robin:

• Works together with Daan and Ema on a "Typewriter Orchestra"
• Experimenting with the dot matrix printer which will create the base rythm for their orchestra
• Typwriters will be the extra 'melody ' on top
• Maybe using some sytetisers to modify these sound
• Foleded BOOK reference from EMA
• Thinking on the even setting (visual outcome maybe a score to recreate the play of the orchestra)
• Interested in the tension between orality and literacy by translating a performance into one another

Gesture Machine (Valentin)

Conversation #1

• motion capture
• mocap
• found databases of full body suit motions
• managed to load in blender in c3d format
• depth scanner > hologram
• input from someone else, does any project output a text?

Kiki

Conversation #1

• Many ideas, bit of a mess.
• Steve suggested doing a collection of ideas, collection of protocols
• 1st idea: About machine. 1001 nights. Story inside a story. It inspired me to make this machine. This led to my site.
• 2nd idea: A machine about definition. Because a lot of times i need to look up the definition of a word in English. And when I dont know a word in the definition, I need to look up that word again. And again, and so on. It's infinite, this gave the idea for the definition machine.
• 3rd idea: Machine about translation, but not about the meaning of word but the shape of the word. But this one is still vague.
• Way of presenting: making a group.

Conversation #2

• multiple writing machines
• all with their own structures/protocols
• 1001 story machine/chat bot?
• loop over items in stories, to feed back a story from the book
• a story from the story
• casted loops

Youjung

Conversation #1

• have one experiment from the radio show : cooking spam emails https://hub.xpub.nl/sergio/youjung/spam-email-recipe/index.html which is a python base itartion machine of a spam email
• interested in game pome and textadventure
• interested in writing vs speaking (literacy and orality)
• intersted in BOTs
• medium is website

Barbs

Conversation #1

• Leaning towards text-adventure chatbot direction - big possibility
• Thinking of: Frankenstein, linking the computer to nature.
• Example of the instructions to the Hobbit, what if you don't get these instructions?
• Is looking for a groupproject in our class: where do I end and where does group begin?
• How to install all projects at WORM/curation: Showing things that are beautiful on it's own but which do co-exist under one roof. Patchwork of different projects, cross-referring in different projects.
• A cool way to navigate would be to make a walking tour, the whole event as a text-adventure design.
• The whole event as a writing machine on a larger scale.

Conversation #2

• feminist chat bot
• barbara
• insipired by eliza
• text adventure, inspired by carrier bag of theory, response to combats in video game culture
• instead of a hunter, you are a gatherer
• Barbara & Youjung are thinking of connecting these two! 👆👇
• poetry and small drawings, small messages

Lea

Conversation #1

• Other small teams than the Typewriter Orchestra > Sybil > Food theme
• Having food at the event would be nice, to not be hungry> counts for the public and ourselves as class.
• Workshop about fermenting
• Started reading Walking and Mapping: Artists as Cartographers
• Maybe incorporating walking as exploring as a machine?
• Youjung: incorporating a maze > Lea found fluxus maze > through the building maybe(?) maybe guiding them and stopping for a snack

Conversation #2

• walking algorithm as writing machine
• book: walking and mapping
• to explore the surroundings in scripted ways
• send people outside during the event?
• maybe connection possible to the event map/adventure?

Sibyl

Conversation #1

• For now she has an idea in which she would like to involve people to make something collectively, like for example in bulding a chair out of wood (got the suggestion from the wood station).

• She would like to make some sort of protocol in order for ppl to let out their bad feelings, and to feel in a community safe and helpful environment.

• She's also interested in live coding with an inclination for sound, mostly for the radio show that she'll have next. i suggested her that this is also as a way to come together, to build something together and to create community.

This can be the tool that she may use in order to put all of those concepts of community, communality, bulding together, in once.

• I suggested her to look at V2_ Live coding events + The text "all problems of notation will be solved by the masses"

Conversation #2

• make audience feel cosy and comfortable
• using light or sound?
• topic of healing
• try to connect to a writing machine

Soda

Conversation #1

• observing the "trash" whatsapp group
• also making 3D scans of these trash piles in Rotterdam
• Wants to tell a narrative of Rotterdam beign an immigrand (transient) city where people always moving and leaving these trash piles behind. AWESOOOOME IDEA
• Using the medium of a sculpture and projection mapping

Phillip

Conversation #1

• would like to present his book to people. He thinks that is better to present a book by talking about it with ppl, instead of asking them to read it at first.

Tommi

Conversation #1

• Tommi for now is only focused on bulding technical tool for the event, since he's part of the dev team. He is searching for a way on how to automatically upload stuff to the wiki from simple notes files (for example with Obsidian).

• For some sort of project for the event he has no idea for now. So i suggested him to work on what he's already doing and what his interests are. This way of bulding tools for the people, that are open and easy to use, and to come around technical difficulties tight to softwares, coding and APIs. So i suggested him to reflect on that to maybe translate this to an outcome that people can experience during the event.
• For example he might expose how sometools in reality are closed systems of language and rules (coding is exactly that), and possible ways to go around those limitations.