User:Angeliki/Research writing

"it is difficult to imagine how someone researching the equipment and technical skills necessary to produce her own broadcasts would fail to come across the information that what she is trying to do is probably illegal" John Anderson, presentation at Southern Illinois University, February 25, 2008.

Project proposal

What do you want to make?
How do you plan to make it?
What is your timetable?
Why do you want to make it?
Who can help you and how?
Who can help you and how?
Relation to a larger context

Small ideas:

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The text circulated in the digital sphere (social media, news etc) read/broadcasted (espeak?people participated to create phonemes?) live to participants while walking in the city. Choosing spots that have an importance (historical, political, surveillance spots etc) in relevance to my documentation and research.

• In reverse: sounds/voices/speeches of the electromagnetic-online realm being transcribed to a text that is shared to the public.
• local networks and reading rooms
• Taking my research text into the archival material (texts, transcriptions, voices, speeches) being compared

An attempt to:
Walking, parallel actions. Setting up local networks of writing and reading and working with programming. Reading rooms. Deconstruct research methodologies by collaborating together in the physical space while being in the cyber. Bringing conflictuous contexts together. How the language is an error, how projects with the language become a tool for communication and interrogation as a group, collective. Collaborating and communicating/antennas hardware. Hack the available medium into each instance/context I will be involved. Writing abstracts mostly and use them as a first raw material to experiment with. Working with software that seems related even if it looks irrelevant, like antennas software, speech recognition, local networks, python/nltk?, pirate libraries. While writing and prototyping I intend to interact with public spheres. I would like to try interact with contexts outside of my known area, like the art-initiatives in Philippines (already interacting) and Greece/Romania or local groups here and communities online.

The steps I want to follow:

prototyping with radio/antennas and webcast/broadcast and embroidered antennas

prototyping with mapping and lines

prototyping with speech recognition

prototyping with synopsis

Set-up a platform to document prototyping, writing, experiments in public. People can contribute to that. Comminication friction. leave a trace. Establish temporary platforms

documenting events, public spaces (where the electromagnetic, online sphere and speeches appear, surveillance spots, How the spaces are mediated and use tracking devices or software for communication)

searching archives like city archive, Kootwijk history, radio communities

search for technologies that are already made for surveillance and are related to speech recognition in the city

Collect bibliography

Setting up questions

Reading- Making abstracts

The reason I am doing that: I want to dive into the in between space of media and physical landscapes. Regarding the expanses of public spheres in diverse spaces interesting networks are created that can stay active by circulating the knowledge produced by the people being involved. Knowledge is circulated also through the speech and the voice of people in internet, electromagnetic spheres, communication platforms in general and physical spaces. The small conversations/murmurings/gossiping spread around those communication platforms are making a public space, that differs from the public access in spaces as Saskia Sassen mentions and the big political, religion, institutional speeches dominating the public spaces. Seeing the documentation of these voices/sounds/speeches as an archive of collective memory, this material could be placed together on a way that proposes alternative of perceiving ourselves individually and collectively into those landscapes. It can also propose other ways of "publicness". As Ong observed in Orality and Literacy, the condition for a democratic social dialogue in oral cultures was the presence of people in the space and their oral speech and thus after many discussions and performative behaviors they would reach to a decision together or they would just share their individual identities and stories. At the same time peoples voices are used for the creation of phonemes that would help the "machine" to understand, recognize and imitate human voices, conversations. How political decisions affect those spheres? I can imagine living in the world of voices.

Who could help me: XPUB gang, Clara,Roel,...

Previously I interrogated the language structure by bringing together people from different backgrounds and contexts to read, listen and write texts in a playful way that reveals layers and structures of the language. At the same time I keep being interested in how the tool becomes the output and reverse. I worked with collective writing, reading, speech recognition, collective annotation, collective reading and interacted with digital communities to construct the software. My way of working looks like an alien creature but weirdly make sense; I combine different unrelated (technically and conceptually) software with the purpose to follow the concept.

Larger context: urban tactical media, hacktivism, occupy movements, radio amateurs, text as a social space, architecture and media, radio public sphere, local to global, vernacular, paratext, misreading, platforms, phonemes, local networks, temporality, databases and GPS/sql More specific:

  * radio art, electromagnetic public sphere, platforms of communication and how to contest them, broadcasting and webcasting
  * mapping tools, walking practices
  * voice as a tool, speech recognition, transcriptions, voice in communication platforms 
  * in relation to the above interventions of text

Feedback: communicative language very academic

Approaching writing

I would like to keep writing abstracts, short essays. Writing texts to be merged with writing scripts and scores, until the point where the format of the text is deconstructed and proposes other ways of reading and writing the thesis. I would like to approach the text as a social space open to the public, like what we did the last trimester with reading a text in the tunnel, while walking.

Example of "blurry" writing:

"No_vowels poem"

#Takes out the vowels of a text
import sys
from sys import stdin

l=list('aeiou')
# original = input('give me the poem ')
original = stdin.read()

if len(original) > 0:
    word= original.lower()
    s=list(word)
    new_word=[]
    for i in s:
    	# or if i not in l
        if not i in l: 
           new_word.append(i)
    print (''.join(new_word))
else:
    print ('empty')

Jack tells Jill Jill tells Jack Jack wants Jill Jill wants Jack a perfect contract Jill wants Jack to want Jill to want Jacks want ofher want for his want of her want of Jacks want that Jill wants Jack to want Jill to want Jacks want of her want for his want of her to want Jack to want	jck tlls jll jll tlls jck jck wnts jll jll wnts jck prfct cntrct jll wnts jck t wnt jll t wnt jcks wnt fhr wnt fr hs wnt f hr wnt f jcks wnt tht jll wnts jck t wnt jll t wnt jcks wnt f hr wnt fr hs wnt f hr t wnt jck t wnt
From "Knots", R.D.Laing

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQuHs6xJWF5yEz3vcgM1RcS2mSYI71sI35NmIzSK20fNV29mx-D

Questions

• How is the media sphere related to public spaces? How they do construct the space?
• What that reveals for the space (either physical or digital) and our surroundings?
• How the commons are related to that and how can be influenced by that?
• How the tools provide another perspective and way of research or communicating?
• How walking and including the presence of our body into this media occupied public space reveals hidden meanings and perspectives?
• How the art and architecture opens up to these possibilities that this technical knowledge of programming, media provides? How can this still be conceptual, poetic? How can this include the "I" and the "we"? How and why to make things public?
• Is it object, is it an endless process, is it an action?

Steve's questions:

• What material from the 'text on method' you wrote last trimester could be useful for the proposal? ...Abstracts, descriptions of projects in process, collective writing...
• What possibilities are open to you? ...tools, places/networks I would interact with, workshops of writing...

(make a list of whys, questions, silly or not, eternal, going closer to the core)

Mood

Being practical/mechanical/physical and at the same time conceptual/intuitive

-----the core and the surroundings-----

Being an insect having or creating antennas. Being in place and being absent. Being expert to my tools and mechanisms. The non-art Hack the media surrounding us, use them as artistic tools (antennas, locative/in-situ? installation in between spaces, digital, physical, cultural) layers of sharing

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Projects

• Panos Kouros, ΠΑΣΙΦΙΛΗ – ΠΑΝΔΕΚΤΙΚΗ ΑΥΛΗ – ΕΠΟΧΕΙΣΘΑΙ 1998, https://player.vimeo.com/video/12430669
• Afroditi Psarra, EMF Sensing and Fractal Antennas, http://afroditipsarra.com/index.php?/workshops/emf-/
• Vangelis Vlachos, Athens Tower (Tenants Lists 1974-2004), https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/vlahos-athens-tower-tenants-lists-1974-2004-t13646, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cljvgkBLk3U