User:Federico/Final presentation
Selection of relevant projects, prototypes, external works that can summerize those two years in XPUB
1000 shades of language
In the first trimester I've been focused on coding, testing out python, javascfript and a lot of different tools:
- local jupyter-lab
- NLTK
- Pandoc
- SCSS
- P5.js
- Pillow
- WeasyPrint
- DeepSpeech
- selenium
- and HTML, CSS, JS and Python, of course
My contribution for the Special Issue 13 was the republication of Practical Vision , what I proposed was a comparison between language propagation, language hegemony, complexity. The web version is an interactive map based on anchor links.
For the republication, I used P5.js to generate hand-drawing style shapes in order to highlight the most important (for me) passage in the text. Since the text is about the importance to deal also with not-western languages I asked to a Senegalese friend and to the author, some translations of Practical Vision in different African languages.
I also made a telegram bot: https://t.me/practical_vision_bot
This Telegram BOT makes a crowd-sourced dictionary with your translations.
You could add every word/sentence you want from English to be translated into any language.
I also toke care of the [landing page https://issue.xpub.nl/13/] of the whole project, proposing a randomic system to get different text at every refresh of the page.
WAIT A SEC, DATA FLY AROUND
Then, from the second trimester I focused on the backend but also on software for modding:
- unix
- nginx
- wireshark
- liquidsoap
- Doom buiilder
- slade
Hotspot politics
Local networks as situations, situations as concrete building of ephemeral scenarios of life, local networks as ephemeral manifestations of interactions of life. The publishing process become a means for distributing (not-only) knowledge and the constitution of a public space of deliberation, where different points of social intersection could come across. Pleasure, intrigue and playfulness together in a "beautiful distribution" which embrace the site-specificness as a way to re-approach the way we share and assimilate contents. We aim to see the City as playground, or as a pinball table, hotspots as pinball elements (bumpers?)
People as balls of the pinball, their trajectory defined both by factors of randomness and control How those people can inhabit the situations? Our project is not an attempt to change the world but to suspend the meaning of time. Like in a playground where people make tribes and socialise, our local networks are micro-cosmos to speculate ephemeral realities. We’re building hidden urban environments which dwell in our devices. How encourage free play? How let people interact between the networks? Is it necessary? Or are the networks independent micro world?
Communicating via terminal from my phone to the raspberry pi via wireless local network :D
hotspots How to install an antenna and set up a local wireless network on a Raspberry Pi: here is when I started to find really magic this kind of systems.
Data packages are floating in the air, we cannot see them, but they are matter.
PRAXIS
Since we were dealing with situationism, I evoked the sacred act of detournament and: I worked on a DOOM's mod and a zine based on it:
In PRAXIS you have to fight the CEOs of the big tech corps in order to redistribute the source codes and the servers to create a decentralized world.
The standardization of tools is something that I can consider scary. I wonder if sooner or later there's gonna be an armed struggle against those industries. Unabomber, u there?
wiriting research: The ZINE: https://hub.xpub.nl/sandbot/PrototypingTimes/HOTSPOTS/4%20shoppingstreet/praxis/
SI15 AND THE RADIOS
For the last Special Issue I contributed in different forms, as everybody. Having a sound/,music background I was having a lot of fun testing out tools such as Pure Data, VCV rack...
I've never really liked the radio, but then I realized it can be an incredible archive method. From here my interest on wireless data transmission really started, also because two months later, in Habitat, we started to record with constancy episode for the residency archive, and this year I started to have interests in analog radio transmissions
...escaping the void...
I tried to do as much as I could because I was afraid to stop and think about my life. It was a bad decision, but I worked on very nice stuff and workshops
During those two years I worked on three citygames after the Special Issue 14:
- Earthrise, with Louisa, Camilo and other people
- Caution Weird Floor, with Martin
- Etheraxis, with Louisa, Camilo and other people
All of the games are GPS based, another wireless tool very often used for surveillance purposes.
A kind of an hegemonic bird vision, a panopticon from the space, an headache.
In all of them I toke care of the practical/coding side, mostly for the last one, Etheraxis, I extensively worked on the dramaturgy. The main point was world-building through finding liminal spaces between our reality and the aether. How? Using bluetooth to unlock unknown languages, use the gyroscope dancing to unlock secret buttons ...
Is a hybrid board game + LARP Game which works with a web app.
The structure of the gameboard emphasizes four main axes, each connected to multiple ancient symbols of alchemy, hacked to uncover their original meanings. In this constellation of four interlaced geographic grids, the dreamer wanders through bridging fields on a spatiotemporal axis. Throughout the Overkill Festival, EtherAxis lures you into the streets to find its messages hidden in plain sight, stepping over to the worlds floating in the ether.
The Ether is the liminal space where the contact between our reality and possible realities happens. You have to go around Enschede to find the ether-access-point, you will enter through different (wireless-)riddles through your smartphone.
and feel the presence of the network with a bell
During the first Arduino Club in xpub studio, I created the DING, an idea that came up with Kamo. "DING" is a tool to have a physical/metaphysical understanding of the urbanism of our sandbot.
"DING" is composed of a Tibetan bell, a servomotor, and a wifi ESP32 module. I created an Access Point from our sandbot and connected it to the wifi module, and thanks to a socket (a protocol) which connects directly the homepage of the sandbot to the wifi module, when anybody accesses the homepage of the sandbot a signal is sent to the wifi module and consequently the servo motor is triggered to play the bell.
Workshops:
- speculative imaginaries for a crying world, at Meet Milano
- The myth of Natural Lanugage, with Francesco XPUB1
- Scraping Workshop at Spread Zine Fest
- Automatic layouting paged.js at Zine Camp
...enter the rural...
In the summer I went to Habitat. I did a ton of stuff.
- telegram scraping, then made booklet out of the contents
- a portfolio on a wirless local network, upload assets, automatic layout
- a publication with Enrico Tarò, used tf-idf and poems from a local competition, reflections on archive
- sculpture! [1]
- some "mental-techno" experiment, with poems recited by Enki
- radio recordings second episode
Habitat has a lack of connectivity. But there is internet, in a room, that comes from a wifi long range service. Reflections on wireless, on data, on the behaviors brought by this
I just didn't want to leave Habitat. This is when some issues started.
I don't really know what happened then. after the first trimester of the second year, I came back there for NY eve and after that, back in the Netherlands, I was completely in another world
But there, in xmas time, we started to set up the server and the infrastructure:
installed OS, webserver, wiki, etherpad, hosted webpages, radio archive, media archive and experiments such as the tombola
![[1]](https://pnofrc.github.io/ass/pics/garden.jpg){kind=link}
STRUGGLING IN THE URBE
I left Habitat in january while I was reading "Magic and Technic" of Federico Campagna, this text changed my life, my vision of reality, ideas, attitudes....
To the other side I struggled a lot. I focused on... esoteric studies. I needed another language to decodify reality and my innerself.
https://media.anobii.com/covers/01bdd5b50354e0bb30/290/440/1/paperback/png/1262710226
I was slowly recovering doing researches for the thesis. Mixing telecomunication, magic, tools development --
A great moment was having MA Studio for Immediate Spaces from Sandber Institute (Amsterdam) guest in Habitat in April. With Jacopo we prepared the "Transumanza", a performance, a walkscape. From the village nearby Habita to Habitat walking, with discussions, readings And a lot of other spontaneus initiative.
The week was concluded with a radio streaming.
PRACTICAL MAGIC, CULT-RURAL, MYTHOLOGICAL COMPUTATION
Thesis: Towards a Cosmology for Rural Computing
The thesis was an attempt to define another framework in which is possible to develop and deploy tools in a sustainable, low tech, convivial way starting from a metaphysical reflection instead of a technical one. Finding mythologies around telecommunication. Another existence defined by the search of the essence of our tools.
A Glossary:
➟ Ecosystem ➟ Technic ➟ Seriality ➟ Magic ➟ Ineffable ➟ Tools ➟ Community ➟ Repair Culture ➟ Rurality ➟ Low Tech ➟ Mythology ➟ Conviviality ➟ Rituality ➟ Telecommunication ➟ Telepathy ➟ World Building ➟ Computation
Prototypes
- A coil microphone to hear the 5g antenna we have next to our cottage in Habitat
- ding, a system with a servo motor, a stick and a bell: when someone access to a webpage, a signal is sent to the system. The presence on a server is revealed with the bell
- a flying kyte antenna
1° Concerto della Piana del Cavallo
My main project for the graduation is the Concerto, a collective performance.
The concert is not just an orchestra of musicians playing songs, but also an agreement to carry out a common action between several people: the community of the Tramazzo Valley concerts to tell its own history, distant and recent, but also future. The heart of the concert will be a radio broadcast, broadcast from the Piana del Cavallo, near Ca 'de Monti. There will be characters that come from the mythology of the Community: a mythology that must be created slowly, which has its roots in the local tradition and will evolve in dialogue together. Come and tell us your stories, recite poems, make wishes, imagine things that don't exist yet! Bring with you photographs, poems, diaries, recipes and stories to tell about Tredozio, the nearby valleys, and its characters… Let's refresh your memory together!
https://hub.xpub.nl/sandbot/~poni/concerto/
FM transmission via Raspberry Pi, controlled through terminal from my smartphone (Termux for Android). Smartphone connected to a wirless local hotspot from the raspberry pi. Possible to control the audio clip and the moments of action by the people without sound from the radio.
87.5 mHz
Two radio from a second hand shop
Walkie Talkie
Expo
In the expo I will show:
- radio receivers used
- antenna-spear (small reproduction)
- coil microphone with photo documentation from Pietro Bucciarelli
- walkie pongie - poni talkie, can-walkie-talkie with photo documentation from Pietro Bucciarelli
- short video documentation of the Concerto
- armor used by the Warrior of the Piana del Cavallo
- a homebrew analog radio, very minimal, very dirty sund
With Jacopo we will set up a web radio, the content will be given by a button that will print a random page from Habitat Wiki.
Pub
In the pubblication there will be the text of the Concerto, some words made with Martin, Euna and Jacopo
I CAN STATE I AM AN ANARCHO-DEFESTIST (aka conclusions)
Working closely with Jacopo changed my practice, or maybe refined it. Sometimes I feel I came back to my previous practice, but maybe I just improved it with new skillset. The radio is something incredibly important now, Jacopo and I will go to AMRO festival to do a worklab in collaboration with Varia.
Next steps are surely continue the research on Rural Computing, continue the installations of the infrastrucutre and improve what is already there in Habitat, and test out forensic and speculative telecommunicative-tools:
I wait the catastrophe, at least let's have fun
sudo shutdown -r now