User:Berna Bereit SI22
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Special Issue #22: September - December 2023 In collaboration with Radio WORM
WEEK 1
Monday 18 September
- meeting at Radio WORM — visiting the studio, learning about the history of WORM, closer look at the film-lab
- introduction to project " Radio Worm: Protocols for an Active Archive"
- experimenting with cassett recorder — listening to old tapes; rewrite tapes; record live radio, experiment with it
- introduction to Radio Aporee and small task: find a field recording of a place you've been before (schrammsteine.mp3); record the metadata (metadata-berna-bereit.mp3) and connect a memory with this place (memory-berna-bereit.mp3); result: /week 1: field recording
- finding the first 3 caretakers for first radio show — Maria, Victor and me
Tuesday 19 September
- kick-start into first radio show — shownotes
"For the purposes of promoting the radio slot we will be using. Ash asked for a title, description, and image for promotion. These can be adapted and changed over the weeks! Michael Murtaugh (talk) 19:25, 14 September 2023 (CEST)
Title: Radio Worm: Protocols for an Active Archive
Description: Students from the Piet Zwart Institute's Experimental Publishing Master (XPUB) explore and create techno-social protocols for potential active archives of Radio WORM while making radio themselves.
XPUB is the Master of Arts in Fine Art and Design: Experimental Publishing of the Piet Zwart Institute. XPUB focuses on the acts of making things public and creating publics in the age of post-digital networks.
XPUB’s interests in publishing are therefore twofold: first, publishing as the inquiry and participation into the technological frameworks, political context and cultural processes through which things are made public; and second, how these are, or can be, used to create publics. Source: XPUB" (read whole page)
Collection of words describing my experience (not sorted):
familiar // experimental // tape // volume // mixer // ai jingle // reading // explaining // structured structurlessness // memo of memories // youtube cats
- setting up first server
- but our server needs a name tba.
Wednesday 20 September
- talking about methods of annotating and reflecting on our own way of annotating
- collective reading of "Postscript on the Societies of Control" by Gilles Deleuze (1992) — taking notes and discussing them
- after that split into four groups; in my group we read "On the data set’s ruins" by Nicolas Malevé (2020)
- afterwards reflecting on different methods of annotating
Further links: The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)// Eventual Consistency by Michael Murtaugh // From Counterculture to Cyberculture by Fred Turner (2006)
WEEK 2
Monday 25 September
- meeting at Radio WORM — technical introduction on how to use the studio for everyone; in the meantime Michael tried to copy the digital archive but it crashed; with some help they managed to leave no damage and Michael could save some of the files for our project — the archive is massive and messed-up
- back in the studio we decided on a name for our server with a method introduced by Manetta: collecting names in pad; split in groups of 2; couple up with another group and at the end all groups meet again to present their decision — the server name is CHOPCHOP
- afterwards we further set up the server; everyone has their own folder and webpage no; we learned more commands for the terminal and made ourselves familiar with the environment
- in the evening I did the Barthes prerecording for the second radio show; everyone read one part of the text "The Death of the Author" by Roland Barthes (1967)
Tuesday 26 September
- we listended to the show and took notes — shownotes [here are now all the collected feedbacks]
- we then started to set up our coding environment and connected the server so we are able to upload files and started with html/css
- the group was split in 2; one half got an introduction on html and the other half which I was part of tried to brainstorm about a possible soundboard using the WORM archive
- Thijs and Riviera were already working on a set-up so they can work at the same time in one html file — we then tried to work with 7 people in one file but it didn't work out :D
Further links: Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization by Alexander R. Galloway (2004) // The Real World of Technology by Ursula Franklin (1989) // Hearing the Subway // In The Beginning ... Was The Command Line by Varia // Collective Conditions by Constant // Radiotext(e) by Neil Strauss and Dave Mandl (1993)
WEEK 3
Monday 2 October
me being 30min late
- catch up and introduction to upcoming events: Zine Camp @ Worm 4th-5th November
- the caretakers for tomorrows show are asking the rest of the group for contributions my homework for today
- small discussion about the 3 text and sharing our thoughts
- afterwards input on transmission and streaming
- experimenting in different groups: radio, stream, podcast
- it was harder to broadcast than expected
Tuesday 3 October
- I listened to the radio show from home and tried to enter the jitsi call but my microphone didn't work :( this happens quite often my homework for somewhen
- in the afternoon we experimented with speakers, microphones, mixers, piazza modules, ventilators — we recorded some piece
Wednesday 4 October
- we took the time to finish the texts that we started 2 weeks ago
- my evaluation
- it took us longer than expected - that's because we read each section silently and then took the time to talk about it
- it was good to fully understand the text at the same time it takes way longer then reading it first and then discussing the whole text
- luckily there was an abstract and a conclusion - so at the end we were still able to collect the most important informations and connect them to our SI22
- afterwards we started a big mindmap on which we are collecting all the topics that we talked about so far in the past 3 weeks - it is meant to give us an overview and connect everything
- at the end the goal is to create a glossary
- the mindmap is now part of our studio
Friday 6 October
- today I went to the studio and met Thijs and later Riviera and Alessia
- we spontaneously took the time to rearrange the studio space so everyone has a workplace, maybe some space in one of the shelves to leave stuff and a space where we can meet and work together
- later on Victor joined as well and Michel was there too
- now we want to collect plants and small things to make the space more cozy and less like a callcenter
WEEK 4
Monday 9 October
- we first had a little check-in talking about the text we read and about general to dos, ideas, people showing stuff they've been working on so far and how we can make ongoing side-projects transparent to everyone
- we transfered all mp3 files to our public_html so we can start experimenting with them
- in the afternoon we got to now PagesMedia and how pdfs can be created using css
- in a second group we worked with regexes (not sure if I understood what it is :D): it makes it possible to search for words, to split up textes, count the used words, ...
prepare a dip for the first breakfast-radio-listening-session
Tuesday 10 October
- in the morning we had our first breakfast-radio-listening-session which was very nice - this should be continued - we had snack all day long
- we got an introduction to graphviz to create flowcharts using code - we then split up in groups after we collected relevant questions concerning our archive (like what is consensus, accessibility, how to activate, inside/outside, time)
- together with Anita and Alessia we discussed about accessibility: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/acessibility_pad
- in the second second half we spend the time setting up our computers to plott - this didn't go as plannend, only a few of us were able to plott - so to be continued
- we even tried to set it up on chopchop - but didn't work as well :(
- kick-off meeting with everyone to prepare the following steps of zine camp 2023
- this was a nice and useful start to clarify what to expect and find a way how to communicate
- where can we collect collectively - find a transparent way of working together without missing out on ideas of each one
- we spend not more than a hour to discuss this and will use the automn break to explore and seek out for possible content and tools we would like to use
- https://pad.xpub.nl/p/zine-camp-2023
Wednesday 11 October
- we worked on the glossary - finding a name for it and further selected terms for the glossary
- we tried to find a structure so everyone includes similiar points while defining - not sure we managed to find a general protocol for it
WEEK 6
Monday 23 October
- learning how to download yt videos via the terminal
- catching up on upcoming events
- talking about the 10min audio piece we want to make for the 10th November
- in the second half we experimented with tape decks and magnetic tapes
- finding different ways to record and cut it to create different rhythms and/or overlapping sounds
Tuesday 24 October
- collective listening session to the radio show
Wednesday 25 October
- working on techniques of paraphrasing and how we can improve the skill for ourselves
- going back into the text we read in smaller groups a few weeks ago and define one term that is discussed in it for our glossary wordhole
- finding an inner motivation why we want to have the glossary and why we want to extend it
- discussion about the content for the presentation of our class for zine camp - this took quite some time - the discussion should be continued
WEEK 7
Monday 30 October
- check-in
- speaking about collaborative and distributive work and how we want to collaborate on projects for zine camp
- in the afternoon Rosa, Thijs and I took some time to talk about the audio-visual-soundboard we are creating for zine camp
- my task: create the directory and collect the files; Rosa: in charge of the code; Thijs: full support - but at the sime time working on several projects - helps with giving his input