User:Thijshijsijsjss/Notes on SI23

Pre-SI

Before the launch of Special Issue 23 -- the wiki has been teasing me -- we have a Week of Workshops. I've heard the timing of these has been the point of much discussion over the years. Personally I appreciate them being scheduled after the December break. We've already worked together intensly. More importantly, we've not seen each other in a month. It's nice to start of with a personal touch before jumping into the SI.

Workshop: Creatives with Unseen Disabilities (CUD)

Karina Dukalska came in to give a workshop. I was pretty excited for this event, not only...

for its relevance within xpub,

the insights it might yield to better facilitate our group conversations (remember: emotional labour)

and its relation with the response some of us had after the SI22 release event at Worm,

but also

for its connections to GMT and interaction technology as a whole

(multimodal interaction, controller design, serious games, designing for disabilities)

and

because I must be confronted with an personal internal conflict I have not been acknowledging.

I am reminded that I once advised myself to always have a book of Elaine Aron on sensory processing sensitivity on my shelf. It is not there. Lately (lately) I have been dreading the unescapability of constant sensory overload more and more, not just mental, but physical, too, my eyes receive so much light, why won't my calves untense? At the start of the day, we were asked to express our needs at that moment in a subgroup. I was unable to. It's maybe my main takeaway of today:

Noticing a feeling, an obstacle or uncomfortableness is very different from noticing, formulating and voicing a need.

These seem to represent the bounds within which my whole spectrum of inexpertise is situated.

We were divided into subgroups once more, to discuss specific technologies and create the beginnings of templates to be used to facilitate certain needs when using these technologies. I had the pleasure of working with Chae! But there was so much to discuss.

100% accessibility does not exist.

After the workshop, I asked Karina about her feelings on AI. I've found myself to be hopeful once more. 100% accessibility does not exist... if there is a human design bottleneck. An AI powered service could tailor to an individual's needs with much more rigour, without it potentially being incompatible with another individual's needs.

Once again, I feel insecure about my wiki. What am I saying? Where's the poetry?

Workshop: Owning our Shit and Making it Together!

Figurative tension

A two day workshop by Nor. The first morning, we were invited to discuss one particular question in pairs: are you achieving professional success? Of all the questions to discuss -- and I did appreciate the moment for an intimate conversation greatly -- this was one I found myself surprisingly apathetic towards, maybe in contrast to previous years. I want to allow myself this apathy. But, with all the pathia I posses, let me examine why this is.

Professional success is an odd metric, for it is no metric at all. Tell me, o Muse, the math of many devices:
*d ( x , x ) = 0
*If  x ≠ y , then  d ( x , y ) > 0 (Positivity) 
*d ( x , y ) = d ( y , x ) (Symmetry)
*d ( x , z ) ≤ d ( x , y ) + d ( y , z ) (Triangle Inequality)
For any binary function d presenting the difference in professional success in instances x and y, one needs only inspect the property of symmetry to find that it is no metric. It is the individuality of instances x and y, their temporality, that prevents comparability. Hence, it is a function of both time and person, how to assess success.

All my previous so-called metrics have been defeated. 
I must now ignore temporality once more.
And I'm doing lots of stuff. New stuff.
In that sense, yes, I am achieving definition.

Finally, I may listen.

I did feel powerful Friday when walking back to Rotterdam Central Station. Maria, you might wonder, I called by mother that evening.

SI23 Kickoff

A technology that... Potlucklunch Prototyping mini session

cd ~/.ssh/
ssh-keygen -t ed25519

My chopchop ssh keychain

+--[ED25519 256]--+
|       =++o++    |
|      @++ B=..   |
|     Xo= * o=.   |
|    o =o= ...+   |
|     .o=S+ . .E  |
|     .  = B .    |
|         B o     |
|        . +      |
|         .       |
+----[SHA256]-----+

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The webquilt The table My userpage

Amazing human computing exercise -- polite pulling

disappearance

.gitignore

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yay Lídia and Steve are back and hi Marloes has joined us

Editorial team 2, space, flooded, caretaker, did not do a good job

is chopchop a space or a place?

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misc: left laptop, good result (walking) no wiki edits outside of school hours on school days Message to Manetta

New Ethereal Library // a temporary place

week	name	date
Week.. 2?	Workshop CUD	2024-01-10
	Design Choices	<-- Exercises on media and tools 2024-01-10
	Video
	Audiobooks & PDFs
	Image Descriptions & Alt-text
	Screenreaders
	SI22 Website	2024-01-10
Week 3	MASTERPAD	2024-01-15
	Pad of the Monday	2023-01-15
	Pad of the Tuesday	2024-01-16
	Pad of the Wednesday	2023-01-17
	Editorial team 1	<-- 3 teams' annotations on 'space' 2024--01-17
	Editorial team 2
	Editorial team 3