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Inspirational Quotes
=Daily Aims List: Legend=


+ = mischief managed
+ = mischief managed
'''(text)''' = comments
<strike>text</strike> = not working -ever, or right now
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=2015-04-15=
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=¤2015-04-15¤=


+ Write "short" text on background of personal motivation which lead me to Piet Zwart
+ Write "short" text on background of personal motivation which lead me to Piet Zwart
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+ Organize presentation about chosen media objects according to notes in sketchbook
+ Organize presentation about chosen media objects according to notes in sketchbook


*+Extend on/type interpretation of Heidegger into .txt document ( I made a recording of + + Conway's Game of Life as I typed into it)
*+Extend on/type interpretation of Heidegger into .txt document '''( I made a recording of + + Conway's Game of Life as I typed into it)'''
*+Visit and document at www.electricsheep.org
*+Visit and document at www.electricsheep.org
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=2015-04-16=
=¤2015-04-16¤=


+ Present work on (media) object according to illuminations of Heidegger
+ Present work on (media) object according to illuminations of Heidegger
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+ Read the appropriate paragraphs in chapters 5-7 of the Handbook for protocol and criteria.
+ Read the appropriate paragraphs in chapters 5-7 of the Handbook for protocol and criteria.


+ Use 'Cookbook' on PZI Wiki to learn about Image using Python (root & imagemagick, installing pip)
+ Use 'Cookbook' on PZI Wiki to learn about Image using Python '''(root & imagemagick, installing pip)'''


----
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=2015-04-17=
----
=¤2015-04-17¤=


==10:00-11:00==
<u>10:00-11:00</u>
----
----
* + Check on cultivation of mushroom colony (still nothing... recolonize?)
* + Check on cultivation of mushroom colony '''(still nothing... recolonize?)'''
* + Check on plant cultivation (1 plant survived the germination period)
* + Check on plant cultivation '''(1 plant survived the germination period)'''


==11:00-13:00==
<u>11:00-13:00</u>
----  
----  
* + Extend on daily short aims list
* + Extend on daily short aims list
* + Add daily short aims list to PZI wiki
* + Add daily short aims list to PZI wiki


==13:00-15:00 (16:19 - took longer than 2 hours)==
<u>13:00-15:00 (16:19 - took longer than 2 hours)</u>
----
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*Buy for current practice:
*Buy for current practice:
Sterilized injection needle
  +Glue gun '''(Xeno)'''
Liquid latex
  +Plastic boxes, rectangular translucent '''(Action)'''
  +Glue gun
  +Sealant spray, acryclic '''(Action)'''
Spray can (white)
+Latex applying sticks '''(Schaapje)'''
Arduino/Raspberry Pi for video/audio installation
  +Working gloves '''(Schaapje)'''
Metal thread (iron/steel)for shell
  +Protective glasses '''(Action''')
  +Plastic boxes, rectangular translucent
 
  +Sealant spray
*+Collect receipts from last excursion
  +Working gloves
  +Protective glasses
----
----


==15:00-18:00==
<u>15:00-18:00==</u>
----
----
*+Upload photographed mushroom sketches, link PDF in WIKI
*+Upload photographed mushroom sketches, link PDF in WIKI
*+Scan mushroom sketches in PZI scanner, send to email
*+Scan mushroom sketches in PZI scanner, send to email
*+Edit photographed mushroom sketches in Photoshop (contrast/light, levels, desaturate)
*+Edit photographed mushroom sketches in Photoshop '''(contrast/light, levels, desaturate)'''
*+Upload scanned sketches to PZI Wiki page, name it "Monumental Mushroom Sketches"
*+Upload scanned sketches to PZI Wiki page, name it "Monumental Mushroom Sketches"
----
----


==18:00-19:30==
<u>18:00-19:30</u>
----
----
*+Ask Joseph/Julie/Manetta about montage python script (Joseph helping @ circa 20:00)
*+Ask Joseph/Julie/Manetta about montage python script '''(Joseph helping @ circa 20:00)
'''


==19:30-21:00==
<u>19:30-21:00</u>
----
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<strike>*Outside event: 20:00 - 22:00 Printroom - On Pixels and Cathedrals: http://www.printroom.org/</strike>
<strike>*Outside event: 20:00 - 22:00 Printroom - On Pixels and Cathedrals: http://www.printroom.org/</strike>


==21:00-00:00==
<u>21:00-00:00</u>
----
+Relax, buddy.
 
----
----
=¤2015-04-18¤= Construction Helmet=
 
<u>11:00-12:00</u>
 
*+Extend on daily short aims
 
<u>12:00 - 13:00</u>
 
*Buy for current practice:
 
+Metal wire '''(iron/steel)'''for shell support '''(Schaapje)'''
+Fixation liquid for charcoal '''(Harold's?)'''
+12 charcoal sticks '''(willow)'''
+Charcoal eraser
+Wireframe for shell surface
 
 
===<center>LUNCH</center>===
 
<u>14:00 - 17:00</u>
*+Begin on sculpture dummy
+Don working gloves '''(tying wireframe should be made without gloves)'''
+Make metal wire frame '''(learn how to solder or use metal links in order to make it look less flimsy)'''
 
*+Take photo of progress
*+Record video of progress
'''(Glue gun must have glue stick before construction can commence)'''
*+Rethink sculpture approach
 
<u>17:00 - 19:00</u>
----
*+Print Student Handbook '''(again)'''
*+Read the appropriate assessment/presentation paragraphs in chapters 5-7 of the Handbook for protocol and criteria for presentation/reassessment on.
*+Take notes while reading. (over a beer, make it comfortable)
 
<u>19:00 - 21:00</u>
----
*+Use 'Cookbook' on PZI Wiki to learn about Image using Python '''(found no more helpful posts on image, migrate to ImageMagick site)'''
*+Download and setup python module Montage '''(already in ImageMagick)'''
 
<u>21:00 - 00:00</u>
----
----
Relax, buddy.
Relax, buddy.


==2015-04-18==


=¤2015-04-19¤ = White Cap=
<u>10:00 - 14:00 = Slow Morning</u>
*+Visit MyWDKA
*+Apply to WdKA sculpture workshop '''(found no sculpture workshop, focus on wireframe/wire art)'''
*+See [https://youtu.be/CcC5opK-VIU| video on wire art]
*+Watch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KupW_8w3MU|The Electric Sheep and their Dreams in High Fidelity] '''(only evol-code, no image sampling :( )'''
*+Create account at electricsheep.org
*+Enter "animate your own electric sheep" at electricsheep.org '''(1st try: "Access Denied You are not authorized to access this page.")'''
*+Google search and enter page from another direction
*<strike>Download Fr0st '''(doesn't seem to have a live commuity, last post from 2012; deals in *.py though)(for Win)'''</strike>
*+Download Apophysis '''(a more livelier community at Sourceforge, has tutorials, plugins. For rendering fractal flames)(for Win)'''
*+Test-run Apophysis '''(UI is a bit glitchy, but it stabilized; running higher than 50x50px preview of samples is laggy on laptop-duh)'''
*+Download Oxidizer '''(for Mac OSX, @ PZI)'''
*+Put '''(comments)''' in bold
*+¤Make dates clearer¤
*+<u>Underline dates instead of titling them</u> '''(Shorter overview list)'''
*+Make legend of daily aims list
----
<u>14:00</u>
===<center>LUNCH '''(retrieve cash)'''</center>===
<u>15:00 - 20:00</u>
'''(over a beer or tea with music, make it comfortable, begin with at least three sentences on each What, How & Why)'''
'''(You want them to know what you're doing)'''
*+Form collective practice overview document '''(Word/OpenOffice)'''
'''(Too long list, too condensed, couldn't make a good text out of this, merely rehashing what I've said before, make it freer!)'''
<b>@PZI</b>
*+Test Oxidizer '''(still makes single frames, no animations. Maybe render before animation?''')
<u>20:00 - 23:00</u>
*+Work on Montage in ImageMagick + script tutorial with Mikhail '''(short tutorial on python scripts, continued tomorrow)'''
*+Clean up daily aims list
----
=¤2015-04-20¤=
*+Dread my indecision and ambitious dreams
PC Homonculous statue
Cybernetic Space: In Practice
Mediating Fungi: fungi sculptures which make images out of the passersby, resizes the images to 100x100 & makes the images into 1x1 gifs and adds them to a image grid, then makes generative music out of it as each picture adds 100 new notes for each image
Making something mediadesign-like with my drawings
Python Image Manipulation: montage of gifs
Image to Sound: Image reading with sound output depending on pixel values (checking on numpy)
Extending on Skype & Cigarettes
Wireframe sculpture from Mushroom Sketches
A mediadesign game involving Simon says
*+Watch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA7JSySxfRk|How to Draw Interior Spaces: 2-Point Perspective [Star Wars Fan Art] ]
=¤2015-04-29¤=
*+Study Elleckes thesis
*Draw mindmap of Elleckes main points
*+Edit interview transcript
*<strike>Meet Steve Rushton</strike>
*Look up exhibitions related to chat
*Look up sources related to online reenactment
*Read and take notes on '''(possible)'''literature related to topic (digital miscommunication, like Skype & Cigarettes)
*<strike>Ask Steve on how to improve daily short aims list</strike>
*+Create mindmap of Ellekes subject '''(her subject had changed fundamentally and no longer involved her father, her main topic is to bring sculpture practice to photography)'''
*+Continue reading Maccluhans "the medium is the message"
----
----
*+Print former PZI projects
 
=¤2015-05-03¤ - Experiment & Struggle=
*+Make wire art by tying together the metal wires of cables into a mycelium-like mesh '''(I'm too unskilled for this, I added liquid latex to parts of the mesh but it made the copper mesh go green)'''
*+Experiment with creating rhizomatic patterns in a flowchart program '''(I tried, but I didn't receive any inspiration from doing it.)'''
*+Finalize order of http://vandervlis.nl/lenovo/ with debian distro preinstalled '''(A very pleasant reception from the seller 5 stars) Michael also likes!'''
*+Research mycelium http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/wong/BOT135/Lect03_b.htm
----
 
=¤2015-05-04¤ - Kill My Darlings=
*+Visit WdKA interaction studio for idea on putting mushrooms into a augmented reality environment, as well as work on scanning, editing and printing mushroom sketches into a book '''(Academy closed)'''
 
*+'''(_KILL MY DARLINGS_)'''
 
*+buy grown bag of king oyster mushroom mycelium & fruit bodies from Markthal and experiment with ideas:
Map of connectivity worldwide, place mycelium on areas with most activity http://gizmodo.com/a-map-of-every-device-in-the-world-thats-connected-to-t-1628171291
Experiment with how the speaker input reacts to the mycelium, and whether the mycelium reacts back
 
 
*+buy plastic boxes for bought king oyster myshroom cultivation
 
*+Order Paul Stamet's "Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms could Save The World" from fungi.'''(.com?)
*+Download document on media literacy and mass-communication '''('SUMMARY OF INTRODUCTION TO MASS COMMUNICATION BY STANLEY BARAN')'''
*+Research mushroom hacks: http://hackaday.com/2010/06/24/mushroom-terrarium-automation/ , http://hackaday.com/tag/mushrooms/
 
*+Look into conversation theory, Gordon Pask '''(Still a bit over my head; it's about the significance of horizontal conversation in the practice of learning)'''
 
*+Get hyped up on coffee
 
*+Get cardboard to use as growth medium for mushroom cultivation
 
*+Replace cardboard with sawdust for mushroom cultivation
 
*+colonize plastic boxes with sterile mycelium from bought king oyster fruit bodies
+sterilize hands '''(Wash)'''
+sterilize knife '''(Open flame)'''
+sterilize cardboard growth medium '''(30 min cooking)
sterilize plastic boxes '''(dress with alcohol and wash; they might be contaminated, lets hope not!)'''
+extract sterile mycelium from bought king oyster mushrooms
+put inside kitchen cupboard to keep dark and warm '''(20-28 degrees celsius)'''
 
*+attend group critiqu session '''(Alot of good ideas! notes taken)'''
 
----
=¤2015-05-05¤=
 
*+form list of links from mac osx at PZI Wiki '''(& later laptop computer)'''
*+read parts of van dijks 'network society'
*+make mycelium-like mesh out of metal wires in cables '''(could be useful)'''
*+visit kristof kintera's "you are the light of my life" at kunsthal '''(another good and playful exhibition with machines)'''
*+help first year Stone Shi with R-dam house hunting


----
----
*<strike>Continue working on adding further links to outlines of RWRM text
*Extend on current practice's relation to past practice and vice versa</strike>


=¤2015-05-06¤=
*+bring bag of king oyster mycelium to PZI '''(warmer there)'''
*+[[User:Themsen/SDR/LOL|form list of links from laptop at pzi wiki]]
*+Buy cables in second hand shop
*+Experiment with making mushroom-like statuettes (?) out of thick steel wire '''(Two made)'''
*+Buy glass containers in second hand shop
*+Bring work home:
+Glue gun
+Acrylic cavas
+Cables from second hand
+Glass containers
+Chip board (x2) from printer
+Steel wire coil
+Acrylic paint
+Paint brushes
Door bell '''(Forgot it at school, d'oh)'''
*+Send Jan Van Dijk's "Network Society" to email
----
----
*+Organize physical texts into folders
*+Buy:
+Folders(plastic translucent, HEMA)


=Unassigned=
=Unassigned pile-up=
 
*<strike>Transcribe 3 sentences from paper


*See video on appliance of liquid latex to plastic/metal surfaces
*<strike>Relate future practice to inspirations and the motivations behind my choice '''(What, How, Why)'''
*Build static dummy (got no metal wire - delayed)
Organic randomness & Constructed randomness </strike>


*<strike>Review what needs to be added/worked on and add it to the bottom of collective document '''(I'm not sure how I should present this)'''</strike>
----
----
*Borrow videocamera, perhaps tripod
*Record mushroom sketch session on camera
*Upload and link electricsheep.org & conway's game of life-video to An Encyclopdia of Media Objects, as 'Anti-Heideggerian'


*Assess Media Artists relation to practice
*Visit metal department at WdKA '''(don't think I have yet)'''
*See video on making of wireframe shells
*+See video on appliance of liquid latex to plastic/metal surfaces '''(Weird 80s inspired sales-video, applying 20 layers to 1 statue)'''
*+Build static dummy, without latex <strike>'''(got no metal wire - delayed</strike>, applied latex to copper wire. The ammonia sure made it greener)'''
*+Ponder on why everything went wrong
----
----
*Use 'Cookbook' on PZI Wiki to learn about Image using Python
 
*Download and setup python module Montage
 
*'''(extend on 3 sentences)'''</strike>
 
*Write shortly about '''(be blunt, simpler, write on paper)''':
**+Former PZI projects' relation to current practice
**+Write about current practice: mushroom junk sculpture's description '''(What, How, Why)'''
**<strike>Write about current practice: mushroom sketches' description '''(What, How, Why)'''
**Write about former practice's relation to current practice and future practice '''(What, How, Why)'''
**Write about relation of mushroom sketch practice to sculpture practice '''(What, How, Why)'''
**Write about relation to current practice and future practice. '''(What, How, Why)'''
**Extend on future practice: Fungi Media description '''(What, How, Why)'''</strike>
 
 
 
*+Borrow videocamera, perhaps tripod
*+Record mushroom sketching session on camera
*+Upload and link electricsheep.org & conway's game of life-video to An Encyclopdia of Media Objects, as 'Anti-Heideggerian'
 
*+Print texts Latour & Garcia
*+Read texts for An Encyclopedia of Media Objects, Latour & Garcia [[https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/An_encyclopedia_of_media_objects]]


----
----
*Tie former PZI projects to current practice  
*+Study Solange's practice on her WIKI page for interview at RWRM next week
What
How
Why


*Analyze former practice's relation to current practice and future practice
*+Study Allyson's practice on her WIKI page for interview at RWRM next week
*Extend on current practice: mushroom junk sculpture's description
*Extend on current practice: mushroom sketches' description
*Relate mushroom sketch practice to sculpture practice
*Relate current practice to future practice.
*Extend on future practice: media fungi's description
  What
  What
  How
  How
  Why
  Why
*+Reread Annette's tips on interviewing
*+Write questions (double the amount you'll need)


----
----
*Print texts Latour & Garcia
*+Use 'Cookbook' on PZI Wiki to learn about Image using Python
*Read texts for An Encyclopedia of Media Objects, Latour & Garcia [[https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/An_encyclopedia_of_media_objects]]
*<strike>Download and setup python module Montage (20150417-19:18 = can't install Montage for some reason)</strike>
*+Ask Joseph/Julie/Manetta about montage python script


----
----
*Study Solange's practice on her WIKI page for interview at RWRM next week
*Upload everything necessary to last day's work on my student Wiki
*Study Allyson's practice on her WIKI page for interview at RWRM next week
 
*Reread Annette's tips on interviewing
*<strike>Continue working on adding further links to outlines of RWRM text
*Write questions (double the amount you'll need)
*Extend on current practice's relation to past practice and vice versa</strike>


----
----
*Use 'Cookbook' on PZI Wiki to learn about Image using Python
*Download and setup python module Montage (20150417-19:18 = can't install Montage for some reason)
*Ask Joseph/Julie/Manetta about montage python script


----
12:00 - 13:00
*Upload everything necessary to last day's work on my student Wiki
*+Buy for current practice:
*Read the appropriate assessment/presentation paragraphs in chapters 5-7 of the Handbook for protocol and criteria for presentation/reassessment on.
Sterilized injection needle for colonization of mushroom spores (?)
+Applicable silicon
+Spray can, white (Harold's)
Arduino/Raspberry Pi for video/audio installation (Ask Max Dovey first) [http://www.dil.nl/start.aspx|DIL Electronica]
+Glue stick for glue gun (Xenos)

Latest revision as of 21:58, 6 May 2015

Daily Aims List: Legend

+ = mischief managed

(text) = comments

text = not working -ever, or right now




¤2015-04-15¤

+ Write "short" text on background of personal motivation which lead me to Piet Zwart

+ Organize & add content to user wiki page according to frame of RWRM module

+Write description of most recent work

  • What
  • How
  • Why

+Write research strands, add links to related content

+Write description of future work

  • What
  • How
  • Why

+ Screen record session in Conway's Game of Life

+ Use 'Cookbook' on PZI Wiki to learn about Image using Python

+ Organize presentation about chosen media objects according to notes in sketchbook

  • +Extend on/type interpretation of Heidegger into .txt document ( I made a recording of + + Conway's Game of Life as I typed into it)
  • +Visit and document at www.electricsheep.org


¤2015-04-16¤

+ Present work on (media) object according to illuminations of Heidegger

+ Use 'Cookbook' on PZI Wiki to learn about Image using Python

+ Read the appropriate paragraphs in chapters 5-7 of the Handbook for protocol and criteria.

+ Use 'Cookbook' on PZI Wiki to learn about Image using Python (root & imagemagick, installing pip)



¤2015-04-17¤

10:00-11:00


  • + Check on cultivation of mushroom colony (still nothing... recolonize?)
  • + Check on plant cultivation (1 plant survived the germination period)

11:00-13:00


  • + Extend on daily short aims list
  • + Add daily short aims list to PZI wiki

13:00-15:00 (16:19 - took longer than 2 hours)


  • Buy for current practice:
+Glue gun (Xeno)
+Plastic boxes, rectangular translucent (Action)
+Sealant spray, acryclic (Action)
+Latex applying sticks (Schaapje)
+Working gloves (Schaapje)
+Protective glasses (Action)
  • +Collect receipts from last excursion

15:00-18:00==


  • +Upload photographed mushroom sketches, link PDF in WIKI
  • +Scan mushroom sketches in PZI scanner, send to email
  • +Edit photographed mushroom sketches in Photoshop (contrast/light, levels, desaturate)
  • +Upload scanned sketches to PZI Wiki page, name it "Monumental Mushroom Sketches"

18:00-19:30


  • +Ask Joseph/Julie/Manetta about montage python script (Joseph helping @ circa 20:00)

19:30-21:00


*Outside event: 20:00 - 22:00 Printroom - On Pixels and Cathedrals: http://www.printroom.org/

21:00-00:00


+Relax, buddy.



¤2015-04-18¤= Construction Helmet

11:00-12:00

  • +Extend on daily short aims

12:00 - 13:00

  • Buy for current practice:
+Metal wire (iron/steel)for shell support (Schaapje)
+Fixation liquid for charcoal (Harold's?)
+12 charcoal sticks (willow)
+Charcoal eraser
+Wireframe for shell surface


LUNCH

14:00 - 17:00

  • +Begin on sculpture dummy
+Don working gloves (tying wireframe should be made without gloves)
+Make metal wire frame (learn how to solder or use metal links in order to make it look less flimsy) 
  • +Take photo of progress
  • +Record video of progress

(Glue gun must have glue stick before construction can commence)

  • +Rethink sculpture approach

17:00 - 19:00


  • +Print Student Handbook (again)
  • +Read the appropriate assessment/presentation paragraphs in chapters 5-7 of the Handbook for protocol and criteria for presentation/reassessment on.
  • +Take notes while reading. (over a beer, make it comfortable)

19:00 - 21:00


  • +Use 'Cookbook' on PZI Wiki to learn about Image using Python (found no more helpful posts on image, migrate to ImageMagick site)
  • +Download and setup python module Montage (already in ImageMagick)

21:00 - 00:00


Relax, buddy.


¤2015-04-19¤ = White Cap

10:00 - 14:00 = Slow Morning

  • +Visit MyWDKA
  • +Apply to WdKA sculpture workshop (found no sculpture workshop, focus on wireframe/wire art)
  • +See video on wire art
  • +Watch Electric Sheep and their Dreams in High Fidelity (only evol-code, no image sampling :( )
  • +Create account at electricsheep.org
  • +Enter "animate your own electric sheep" at electricsheep.org (1st try: "Access Denied You are not authorized to access this page.")
  • +Google search and enter page from another direction
  • Download Fr0st (doesn't seem to have a live commuity, last post from 2012; deals in *.py though)(for Win)
  • +Download Apophysis (a more livelier community at Sourceforge, has tutorials, plugins. For rendering fractal flames)(for Win)
  • +Test-run Apophysis (UI is a bit glitchy, but it stabilized; running higher than 50x50px preview of samples is laggy on laptop-duh)
  • +Download Oxidizer (for Mac OSX, @ PZI)
  • +Put (comments) in bold
  • +¤Make dates clearer¤
  • +Underline dates instead of titling them (Shorter overview list)
  • +Make legend of daily aims list



14:00

LUNCH (retrieve cash)

15:00 - 20:00

(over a beer or tea with music, make it comfortable, begin with at least three sentences on each What, How & Why)

(You want them to know what you're doing)

  • +Form collective practice overview document (Word/OpenOffice)

(Too long list, too condensed, couldn't make a good text out of this, merely rehashing what I've said before, make it freer!)

@PZI

  • +Test Oxidizer (still makes single frames, no animations. Maybe render before animation?)

20:00 - 23:00

  • +Work on Montage in ImageMagick + script tutorial with Mikhail (short tutorial on python scripts, continued tomorrow)
  • +Clean up daily aims list



¤2015-04-20¤

  • +Dread my indecision and ambitious dreams
PC Homonculous statue
Cybernetic Space: In Practice
Mediating Fungi: fungi sculptures which make images out of the passersby, resizes the images to 100x100 & makes the images into 1x1 gifs and adds them to a image grid, then makes generative music out of it as each picture adds 100 new notes for each image
Making something mediadesign-like with my drawings
Python Image Manipulation: montage of gifs
Image to Sound: Image reading with sound output depending on pixel values (checking on numpy)
Extending on Skype & Cigarettes
Wireframe sculpture from Mushroom Sketches
A mediadesign game involving Simon says


¤2015-04-29¤

  • +Study Elleckes thesis
  • Draw mindmap of Elleckes main points
  • +Edit interview transcript
  • Meet Steve Rushton
  • Look up exhibitions related to chat
  • Look up sources related to online reenactment
  • Read and take notes on (possible)literature related to topic (digital miscommunication, like Skype & Cigarettes)
  • Ask Steve on how to improve daily short aims list
  • +Create mindmap of Ellekes subject (her subject had changed fundamentally and no longer involved her father, her main topic is to bring sculpture practice to photography)
  • +Continue reading Maccluhans "the medium is the message"

¤2015-05-03¤ - Experiment & Struggle

  • +Make wire art by tying together the metal wires of cables into a mycelium-like mesh (I'm too unskilled for this, I added liquid latex to parts of the mesh but it made the copper mesh go green)
  • +Experiment with creating rhizomatic patterns in a flowchart program (I tried, but I didn't receive any inspiration from doing it.)
  • +Finalize order of http://vandervlis.nl/lenovo/ with debian distro preinstalled (A very pleasant reception from the seller 5 stars) Michael also likes!
  • +Research mycelium http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/wong/BOT135/Lect03_b.htm

¤2015-05-04¤ - Kill My Darlings

  • +Visit WdKA interaction studio for idea on putting mushrooms into a augmented reality environment, as well as work on scanning, editing and printing mushroom sketches into a book (Academy closed)
  • +(_KILL MY DARLINGS_)
  • +buy grown bag of king oyster mushroom mycelium & fruit bodies from Markthal and experiment with ideas:
Map of connectivity worldwide, place mycelium on areas with most activity http://gizmodo.com/a-map-of-every-device-in-the-world-thats-connected-to-t-1628171291
Experiment with how the speaker input reacts to the mycelium, and whether the mycelium reacts back


  • +buy plastic boxes for bought king oyster myshroom cultivation
  • +Look into conversation theory, Gordon Pask (Still a bit over my head; it's about the significance of horizontal conversation in the practice of learning)
  • +Get hyped up on coffee
  • +Get cardboard to use as growth medium for mushroom cultivation
  • +Replace cardboard with sawdust for mushroom cultivation
  • +colonize plastic boxes with sterile mycelium from bought king oyster fruit bodies
+sterilize hands (Wash)
+sterilize knife (Open flame) 
+sterilize cardboard growth medium (30 min cooking)
sterilize plastic boxes (dress with alcohol and wash; they might be contaminated, lets hope not!)
+extract sterile mycelium from bought king oyster mushrooms
+put inside kitchen cupboard to keep dark and warm (20-28 degrees celsius)
  • +attend group critiqu session (Alot of good ideas! notes taken)

¤2015-05-05¤

  • +form list of links from mac osx at PZI Wiki (& later laptop computer)
  • +read parts of van dijks 'network society'
  • +make mycelium-like mesh out of metal wires in cables (could be useful)
  • +visit kristof kintera's "you are the light of my life" at kunsthal (another good and playful exhibition with machines)
  • +help first year Stone Shi with R-dam house hunting

¤2015-05-06¤

  • +bring bag of king oyster mycelium to PZI (warmer there)
  • +form list of links from laptop at pzi wiki
  • +Buy cables in second hand shop
  • +Experiment with making mushroom-like statuettes (?) out of thick steel wire (Two made)
  • +Buy glass containers in second hand shop
  • +Bring work home:
+Glue gun
+Acrylic cavas
+Cables from second hand
+Glass containers
+Chip board (x2) from printer
+Steel wire coil
+Acrylic paint
+Paint brushes
Door bell (Forgot it at school, d'oh)
  • +Send Jan Van Dijk's "Network Society" to email

Unassigned pile-up

  • Transcribe 3 sentences from paper
  • Relate future practice to inspirations and the motivations behind my choice (What, How, Why)
Organic randomness & Constructed randomness 


  • Review what needs to be added/worked on and add it to the bottom of collective document (I'm not sure how I should present this)

  • Assess Media Artists relation to practice
  • Visit metal department at WdKA (don't think I have yet)
  • See video on making of wireframe shells
  • +See video on appliance of liquid latex to plastic/metal surfaces (Weird 80s inspired sales-video, applying 20 layers to 1 statue)
  • +Build static dummy, without latex (got no metal wire - delayed, applied latex to copper wire. The ammonia sure made it greener)
  • +Ponder on why everything went wrong


  • (extend on 3 sentences)
  • Write shortly about (be blunt, simpler, write on paper):
    • +Former PZI projects' relation to current practice
    • +Write about current practice: mushroom junk sculpture's description (What, How, Why)
    • Write about current practice: mushroom sketches' description (What, How, Why)
    • Write about former practice's relation to current practice and future practice (What, How, Why)
    • Write about relation of mushroom sketch practice to sculpture practice (What, How, Why)
    • Write about relation to current practice and future practice. (What, How, Why)
    • Extend on future practice: Fungi Media description (What, How, Why)


  • +Borrow videocamera, perhaps tripod
  • +Record mushroom sketching session on camera
  • +Upload and link electricsheep.org & conway's game of life-video to An Encyclopdia of Media Objects, as 'Anti-Heideggerian'
  • +Print texts Latour & Garcia
  • +Read texts for An Encyclopedia of Media Objects, Latour & Garcia [[1]]

  • +Study Solange's practice on her WIKI page for interview at RWRM next week
What
How
Why
  • +Study Allyson's practice on her WIKI page for interview at RWRM next week
What
How
Why
  • +Reread Annette's tips on interviewing
  • +Write questions (double the amount you'll need)

  • +Use 'Cookbook' on PZI Wiki to learn about Image using Python
  • Download and setup python module Montage (20150417-19:18 = can't install Montage for some reason)
  • +Ask Joseph/Julie/Manetta about montage python script

  • Upload everything necessary to last day's work on my student Wiki
  • Continue working on adding further links to outlines of RWRM text
  • Extend on current practice's relation to past practice and vice versa

12:00 - 13:00

  • +Buy for current practice:
Sterilized injection needle for colonization of mushroom spores (?)
+Applicable silicon
+Spray can, white (Harold's)
Arduino/Raspberry Pi for video/audio installation (Ask Max Dovey first) Electronica
+Glue stick for glue gun (Xenos)