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Special Issues Contributions

Reading Practice

Best of readings

Certeau, M., (1984). The practice of everyday life
Crary, J., (2001). Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture
Crawford, K., Lingel, J., Karppi, T., (2015). Our metrics, ourselves: A hundred years of self-tracking from the weight scale to the wrist wearable device
Debord, G., (197). The Society of the Spectacle
Foucault, M., (1982). Technologies of the Self. [online] Available at: https://www.foucault.info/documents/foucault.technologiesOfSelf.en/ [Accessed March 29 2022].
Foucault, M., (1977). Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Fritsch, K., (2018). Towards an emancipatory understanding of widespread datafication [online] Available at: https://medium.com/ [Accessed March 11 2022].
Kholeif, O., (2018). Goodbye, World! — Looking at Art in the Digital Age
Morozov, E., (2019). Capitalism's New Clothes. The Baffler [e-journal] Available through: https://thebaffler.com [Accessed March 11 2022].
Seymour, R., (2019). The Twittering Machine
Wu, T., (2016). The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads. Available at: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/
Zuboff, S., (2019). The age of surveillance capitalism

Prototyping Practice

October 2021

In October 2021, I started using Arduino for the first time, during a workshop with Dennis de Bel. During a workshop, we started with a very basic unoficial arduino kit, a led, a motor, and a sensor. After making a few connections, we got to understand a bit how it works. It was from that point that I started getting more and more familiar with Arduino and work with ultrasonic sensors.

How to make a sensor work
Credits: Dennis de Bel

Sensortest during workshop

Splitscreen Arduino + Sensor + Serial Plotter + Responsive Space

Sketch 1: Arduino Uno + Sensor

Sketch 2: Arduino Uno + Sensor + LCD

Sketch 3: Arduino Uno + Sensor + LCD + LED

Sensor Test VS Elastic Space

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November 2021

During the month of November, I started working with multiple sensors at the same time in order to map the position of an obstacle on a wider detection range.

ArduinoExtraDigitalPins

SensorMediaQueries

Physical Space Mapping

ArduinoMegaSensorBuzzerLCD

Sensor Wall 01

PhysicalMapping2

December 2021

In December, after being a lot more confortable with Arduino, I investigated the possibilty to transmit the values detected by the sensors and Arduino to P5.js, by making a serial communication (with P5.serialcontrol). By doing so, I could gain more freedom in terms of visual/sound feedbacks. However, the serial communication between Arduino and P5.js was in stand by for a very long time, because I didn't know (yet) how to send the values of more than one sensor.
During the Window exhibition at Buitenboel, I created micro-installation composed of a LCD screen and sensor(s) inviting users/visitors to change the color of the screen and displayed messages by getting closer from the window.

P5.js and ultrasonic sensor

LCD Arduino Variable poster

ScreenPortalFront

ScreenPortalback

LCDScreenTest

February 2022

In February, we created a small hybrid reality quest with Louisa. For this occasion, I created a mini-game with a sensor setup, allowing players to unlock a secret password by taking the good positions in space.

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Hybrid reality game with Louisa
photo: Louisa

March 2022

In March 2022, I started designing differents stages/steps for the installation. The installation requires once again the player to hold on on specific position in order to unlock new stages.

Stage 0
The subject is located too far away

Stage 0
The subject is well located and will hold position to reach next stage

Stage 1
The subject unlocked Stage 1 and will hold position to reach next stage

Stage 2
The subject unlocked Stage 2 and is located too close

Stage 3
The subject unlocked Stage 3 and need to get closer

Transition Stage
The subject unlocked all stage and needs to wait the countdown for following steps

April 2022

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Captcha:
one action needed moving forward, backward or standing still next stage unlock after action done and short animation

Self Tracking:
no interaction needed visitor must stand still until one of the goal is completed

Slot Machine:
no interactions needed transition between 2 stages determines randomly the next stage displayed when nobody detected

Social Live:
no interaction needed visitor must stand still until money goal is completed

Stock Ticket:
no interactions needed displayed when nobody detected

May 2022

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Stock Ticker Interface on small screen

Calibrating sensors angle to 15°

Drilling and displaying the TV support vertically

TV Screen can now be fixed vertically

Vertical TV Screen 02

Rounded_Sensors_Array_01

Rounded_Sensors_Array_02

Rounded_Sensors_Array_03

Rounded_Sensors_Array_04

Streaming Interface on Vertical Screen

June 2002

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Arduino Uno DataSheet Preview

Webcam LogitechC920 DataSheet Preview

Samsung P42 H Datasheet Preview

PL031 SMS DataSheet Preview

UltraSonic Sensor DataSheet

Thesis: Hidden in plain sight

Hidden in plain sight:
Understanding our consent and distrust in the context of capitalist techno-surveillance

1 → Homo Data
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2 → Addiction machines
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3 → Self-empowerment
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4 → Agree and continue?
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Graduation Work: Count On Me

Count On Me

"Count On Me" is an interactive data collector that rewards your attention span and responsiveness in crypto-currency. In order to maximize profits, you will need to accurately position yourself in the space and pay attention to the instructions. Each micro-task performed allows the visitor to get extra payouts and unlock different stages ranging from stock ticker interfaces, wellness applications, gambling games, captchas, streaming platforms, self-checkouts, eg. Once ready to leave, the visitor can convert its crypto-earnings into euros by refering to a randomly assigned conversion rate.