User:Kiara/Resources

Resources from the classes

Methods Sessions

SI25 - Protocols for Collective Performance

All Problems of Notation Will be Solved by the Masses: Free Open Form Performance, Free/Libre Open Source Software, and Distributive Practice, Simon Yuill, 2008 (11/09/2024)
The Tyranny of Structurelessness, Jo Freeman, 1970-72 (09/10/2024)
The Tyranny of Tyranny, Cathy Levine, 1979 (16/10/2024)
Mainframe Experimentalism, Hannah B. Higgins & Douglas Kahn, 2012 (21/10/2024)
Die Maschine, Georges Perec, 1972 (21/10/2024)
The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling, Ted Chiang, 2013 (05/11/2024)

SI26 - Declarations

Tactical Design, Nolwenn Maudet, 2022 (15/01/2025)

Handmade Web, J.R. Carpenter, 2015 (05/02/2025)

Indie Web | Nostalgia

Summary: This talk/text is Carpenter's spell upon the webuser/webmakers to EVOKE HANDMADE WEB. She casts this spell by redefining web as a medium from her own experience and perspective.; She explains web as a medium has unique properties of archiving, publishing and customization. Drifting through years of changes of web, the design and handmade properties keep getting lost in earlier versions. This is her suggestion for calling them back. She doesn't necessarily draw a strict line, but instead she makes us remember there was a way, and it is still out there for us to use. Opposite to Jo Freeman stating "this is the only way" she offers options to raise awareness rather than imposing her own way of thinking.; She criticizes social web platforms or web-builders as a de-personalized version of previously colourful ("bright, rich, personal, slow and under construction") nature of the web.; She creates a cookbook of body-presence breathed back into web design. She mentions appropriation and the links between physical and virtual (body, print) which are also topics addressed by (cyber)witches projects, which is why we use the word "spell" to refer to this text. It also has a magical structure → "I evoke the term 'handmade web' in order to..." as if she's calling an entity or a spirit of the web.
Importance: The text is tied to hand-coding websites. It takes a stance against delegation as a form of automation and AI, without even mentioning the topics. It is a good reference for everything tied to small web, indie web and the growing regain of interest for personal websites as a means of fighting the Big Tech. Even if I don't agree with everything and in my opinion it could dig deeper into the mentioned themes, it acts as a good starting point and reference for talking about those matters.
Notes: The part about physical body: I wish it to dig deeper into the metaphor, the examples she gives are interesting but seem like they could be more developed or questioned. Some projects go in this direction like cyberwitches, to reunite body and virtual. It was written in 2015, the cyberpunk and dystopian tech future stories were there, even in the 1990s actually so why not address the subject more???; The correlation between print and DIY web culture: "when people got to the end they stopped reading because that’s the way books work"; Connection to SI26: OWN YOUR WEB PRESENCE – be aware of the tools you use, the communities you're a part of, what you show (display) and how (position)

To read

Basic HTML Competency is the New Punk-Folk Explosion, Zach Mandeville, 2016
My Website is a Shifting House Next to a River of Knowledge. What could yours be?, Laurel Schwust, 2018
A Vernacular Web, Olia Lialina, 2005
A Dao of Web Design, John Allsopp, 2000

Recommendations

Lídia

The Situationist Times, overview
The Situationist Times, Issues to read

Manetta

Post-Print, N. Katherine Hayles

Research & Learning

Texts

Programming & Websites: Making

Accessibility

Building the most inaccessible site possible with a perfect lighthouse score, Manuel Matuzović, 2019

To read

Subtitles, Closed Captions, and Open Captions: What's the Difference?, Ben Myers, 2024
Not so short note on aria-label usage – Big Table Edition, stevef, 2024
Accessible <section> in HTML
Accessibility essentials, Martijn Hols
Formations et ressources en accessibilité web et numérique, Timothée Goguely

Handmade Website Making

To read

How to make a website, Henry Desroches, 2024
Backing up websites
How to make a damn website

CSS

Old CSS, New CSS, eevee (Evelyn Woods), 2024

To read

How to use SASS with CSS, Adalbert Pungu, 2022
Relearn CSS Layout
CSS Layout (Grid/Flex)
Organizing with CSS cascade layers

Programming & Websites: Research

(re)Building the web

To read

Fighting for our web, Molly White, 2024
We need to rewild the Internet, Maria Farrell and Robin Berjon, 2024
Cognition et design : Quand tout est biais, plus rien n'est biais, Baptiste Roullin, 2024
Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound, Lori Emerson, 2014
Ruined by design
The revolution will be decentralized
Folk interfaces, Maggie Appleton

About Code

Video Media

PixelPalooza 2024

For-Profit (creative) Software, EndVertex, 16-03-2025 (watched: 28-03-2025)

Creative Software | Business | Big Tech | Tools

Summary: EndVertex is a 3D artist making videos on YouTube (I didn't know them before this video).; In this +1 hour video, they describe and detail their journey and struggles around 3D-creation software. The video is about monopolies, the switch to subscription-based plans and the importance to find the right tool and support it however you can/want to. The video is quite pessimistic but a good overview of the state of the design tool marketplace...
Importance: Subscriptions are annoying, Free/Libre Open Source Software are a good alternative, we should donate them the money we don't put in subscriptions to keep them alive
Notes: How different websites looked in the 90s, "the problem with uniqueness is it can confuse people" so now we have design "rules", like templates and everything looks the same – design patterns (23:03)

Talks

What it Means to be Open, Lu Wilson, 10-10-2024 (listened: 03-2025)

Programming | Open Source | Workflow | Community

Summary: Lu Wilson works at tl;draw and gave a talk at Clojure in 2024 about their journey into programming and open licensing. In this 40mn talk, they explain how they got into programming and their adventure with the forums and open source community. They emphasize the need to cut the self-censoring because yes, there will always be someone out there to code-shame you (as in "your code is shit you should be ashamed") but it shouldn't prevent you from finding a job and creating a community of your own.
Importance: The way Lu built a whole community by publishing their work daily, then weekly on social media is very inspiring. Being open is above all being open minded and self-caring. This community building was not even intended, the first intention was to push themselves to create, experiment and keep a habit to work and go further in learning and skills. In the end it drew people towards their work and people starting interacting and adding to it. Everything they create is open source.
Notes: 404 NOT FOUND

Outside Bibliography

Texts

A wiki list of books I (am) read(ing)

Résister à la culpabilisation, Mona Chollet, 2024
House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski, 2001
Give it to me!, La Rata, 2024

To read

The house without windows, Barbara Newhall Follett
The seven dials mystery, Agatha Christie
A mirror for witches, Esther Forbes

Video Media

Videos

Why can't we make simple software? by Peter van Hardenberg
The neww HTML API that allows to trigger events without JavaScript
Internet Exploreuses S02E04, Lucie Ronfaut

TV Shows

The Office, 2005
Daria, 1997
Gotham, 2015
Mr. Robot, 2015
Pose, 2018
Queen's Gambit, 2020
Charmed, 1998
The I.T. Crowd, 2006
Las Chicas del Cable, 2017
The Haunting, 2018
Sherlock, 2010
Six Feet Under, 2001
The X-Files, 1993
Sense8, 2015
Dexter, 2006
Murder, she Wrote
And then there were none, 2015

To watch

The reboot of Pretty Little Liars (nostalgia hitting here)

Movies

Woman of the Hour, 2024
Respect, 2021
L'amour Ouf, 2024
Suspiria, 1977
Enola Holmes, 2020
Pretty much anything from the Alice in Wonderland universe
Nosferatu, 1922
The Guilty, 2021
Snowden, 2016
All the Batman movies with Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, Christian Bale and Robert Pattinson
Sherlock Holmes, 2010
Asteroid City, 2023
Wonka, 2023
Da Vinci Code, 2006
Death on the Nile, 2022
Split, 2017
Suzume, 2023
Donnie Darko, 2004
Murder on the Orient Express, 2017
Constantine, 2005
The Masque of the Red Death, 1964

To watch

Scorpion
Emilia Pérez
Anora

Listen

Death of the Follower & the Future of Creativity on the Web, Jack Conte at SXSW 2024
Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation, Cory Doctorow at DEF CON 32, 2024
The mazy web, Stuart Langridge at State of the Browser 2024
Que peut-on institutionnaliser dans la langue française ?, France Culture, 21-11-2024
CSS est un langage graphique, Graphic Matter & Julie Blanc

Other

A stereo extractor, Yann van der Cruyssen, 2024
The Pervasive Labor Union, Lídia Pereira, 2015

Some leads on research topics?

The way art schools teach only proprietary software –even in WdKA, while hosting XPUB and so many DIY workshops– (idea brought by this mastodon post)
On social media -- Is wikipedia a social media? is it the only one still alive through the earthquakes of internet? brought by the discussion here
FLOSS, getting away from GAFAM and proprietary software, active participation to ethical design circles → building and maintaining a server on a RaspberryPi; dual-booting
Patience | Learning. Making puzzles. Coding and debugging (links to the Handmade Web text by JR Carpenter and her praising of smallness and slowness as key points of the handmade web). Designing. Writing. Reading. Relationships. Activism. Making a change. Taking part/Taking action. Maintaining. It is all around us. Zoning out. Attention deficit. Daydreaming. How they communicate, intertwine, fail. Automation. Tricks. Hacks. Getting around the issues?
About slowness - discussion on Executing Micro-Temporality: if the throbber appears I'm just closing the page, I'm not going to wait for that! and our relationship towards instantaneity against patience/taking the time
About documenting, sharing as a practice and way of working / Building community around practices -- Linking back to Lu Wilson's talk "What it means to be open" and the T2 Assessment feedback | Practices shape community shape practices (ref to Doriane's sticker)
The same issue is raised at every PPP meeting: the publishing workflow is hard to change to turn it into single-source publishing because of habits. Nobody has an answer to get that to work. Snippets of conversation at PPPirates (04-2025):
"We need more examples, toolkits and projects to show those people the benefits of it" (Timothée)
"The question about power and who holds it in a project" (Quentin)
"It is a really present issue and we need to talk about it, what are the tools to talk about it? Do we need to write together about it? Medor manages for years now, the tools we have are so ready, we can set up workflows but it needs a change of tools but also of thinking. Maybe we need to publish about it? How can we be in solidarity with each other?" (Manetta)
"The people are aware of the tools they use but they're used to it and it can be violent to tell them they're working the wrong way. Another approach is using InDesign with the pandoc plugin then you can control the output and make websites, e-pubs or whatever you want" (Yann)
"But the people using this InDd workflow also work physically together and share the same habits about layout and design practices so that's why it works!" (Quentin)A day with Pippin Barr & Jaret VaderaQuestions to answer

How do you currently document your design/artistic practice? Could you bring or describe a specific example in class? How do you feel about the way you do it right now logistically?
I don't really document per se, I do have my own website and try to write in this wiki as much as I can but most of the time I don't think about doing it or am a bit lazy of doing it. So I tend to take a few hours a month to implement new content. I feel like I should document more actively but at the same time it's not much of a reflex or rooted practice for me... So I also don't have any precise example besides the website and wiki :)
What is your approach to reflecting on your design/artistic practice? Could you bring an example of how you have made a specific design decision?"
...?
Ideas and concepts

Use git's version control for writing → a nice way of tracking progress and having a clear overview
Write in Markdown which can also allow for online publication via a static site generator like hugo :)
Branching as trials and errors → learn more how to use it
Does documentation need to be very plain and to the point or is it relevant to include emotions in it? In the end, it is part of the process...

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Résister

Salomé Saqué Payot, 2024
144 pages
French only
Genre: Essay

Summary (in french obv): L'extrême droite est aux portes du pouvoir. Dans les urnes comme dans les esprits, ses thèmes, son narratif et son vocabulaire s'imposent. Il est encore temps d'inverser cette tendance, à condition de comprendre les rouages de cette progression et de réagir rapidement.

#essay #politics #resistance

À la poursuite du livre rêvé par Jean Giono & Maximilien Vox

Nicole Chosson, Maurice Darmon, Jean Garcia, Jean Giono, Frédéric Martin, Jacques Mény, Pierre Mréjen, Olivier Nineuil, Paule Palacios-Dalens, Alice Savoie, Emmanuël Souchier, Nicolas Taffin, Yoann Thommerel, Martin Violette, Maximilien Vox Centre Jean Giono & Les Rencontres de Lure, 2021
238 pages
French only
Genre: Archive, Research

Summary (in french obv): En 1954, l'écrivain Jean Giono et le typographe et éditeur Maximilien Vox rêvaient de fusionner toutes les potentialités expressives de la littérature et de la typographie dans un livre dont le titre aurait été Mort de Gutenberg.
Aujourd'hui les pistes de recherche ouvertes par ce projet non abouti, devenu texte d'archive, se prolongent à travers la parole de chercheurs, d'auteurs, de créateurs de caractères et d'éditeurs.
Qu'est-ce que l'image d'un texte ? Quelle est la place de la lettre dans le processus de lecture ? Quelle part revient à la création graphique en littérature ? Le numérique permet-il d'autres formes de collaborations créatives ?
Un livre qui en éclaire un autre. Un livre qui s'adresse tant aux amateurs de littérature qu'aux professionnels de l'édition. Un livre qui s'attache aux possibles de la typographie dans le champ littéraire.

#graphicDesign #typography #fonts

Copy this book

Author·s: Eric Schrijver
Published by: Onomatopee, 2018
Pages: 192
Language·s: English, French (maybe more...)
Genre: Guide

Summary: This book is an artist’s guide to copyright, written for makers. Both practical and critical, this book will guide you through the concepts underlying copyright and how they apply in your practice.
How do you get copyright? For what work? And for how long? How does copyright move across mediums, and how can you go about integrating the work of others? Because they get copyright too!
Copy this Book will detail the concepts of authorship and original creation that underlie our legal system. This way, it will equip you with the conceptual keys to participate in the debate on intellectual property today. (source)

#copyright #F/LOSS #art #design

<talismans pour celles qui ne savent pas de quoi ils parlent

Author·s: Lucile Olympe Haute
Published by: Self-published, 2023
Pages: 42
Language·s: French
Genre: Guide, Zine

Summary: It has to do with talismans (will give more info when I've read it). It is deeply linked to Lucile's art practice that revolves around witchcraft, tech, esoterism and magic in the cyberspace.
See her Cyberwitches Manifesto.

#witchcraft #magic #art #tech #code

Cyberwitches (d*sign week 2023)

Author·s: Lucile Olympe Haute
Published by: Self-published, 2023
Pages: 20
Language·s: English
Genre: Zine

Summary: One of the many Cyberwitches zine published by Lucile. She regularly does workshop in different places, about CSS-Print and the workshop material is linked with cyberwitches and feminism in tech. The result of these workshops are the various zines produced.
She writes it this way: This workshop proposes to circulate texts, words and images according to a slow temporality and materiality, and to a limited audience. The chosen vehicle is micro-edition. Participants produce the graphic layout of one of the texts gathered for the workshop (manifesto, open letter, short essay, fiction...) The corpus hinges on the triple intersection of political awareness, technological emancipation and spirituality. Participants also contribute with proposals. The method used to bring the texts together is appropriation through graphic design using open-source tools. Together we produce the new volume of the mini-anthology called 'Cybersorcières'. This workshop is an introduction to web-to-print, i;e graphic design for print using web tools and languages.

#witchcraft #magic #art #tech #CSS-Print #writing #manifesto

Read - with review

Résister à la Culpabilisation - Sur quelques empêchements d'exister

Mona Chollet
Zones éd., 2024
264 pages
French only
Genre: Essay

Summary (in french obv): Harcèlement, humiliations, insultes : nous sommes bien averti.es de ces fléaux de la vie en société et nous nous efforçons de lutter contre eux. Mais il y a un cas de figure que nous négligeons : celui où l'agresseur, c'est... nous-même. Bien souvent résonne dans notre tête une voix malveillante qui nous attaque, qui nous sermonne, qui nous rabaisse ; qui nous dit que, quoi que nous fassions, nous avons tort ; que nous ne méritons rien de bon, que nous présentons un défaut fondamental. Cette voix parle particulièrement fort quand nous appartenons à une catégorie dominée : femmes, enfants, minorités sexuelles ou raciales...
Ce livre se propose de braquer le projecteur, pour une fois, sur l'ennemi intérieur. Quels sont ces pouvoirs qui s'insinuent jusque dans l'intimité de nos consciences ? Comment se sont-ils forgés ?
Nous étudierons quelques-unes de leurs manifestations : la disqualification millénaire des femmes et, notamment, aujourd'hui, des victimes de violences sexuelles ; la diabolisation des enfants, qui persiste bien plus qu'on ne le croit ; la culpabilisation des mères, qui lui est symétrique ; le culte du travail, qui indexe notre valeur sur notre productivité ; et enfin la résurgence de logiques punitives jusque dans nos combats contre l'oppression et nos désirs de changer le monde. (source)

Review:
★★★★
It is simply AMAZING. I can only recommend it if you read French.

#essay #sociology #feminism

La Maison des Feuilles (House of Leaves)

Mark Z. Danielewski
Monsieur Toussaint Louverture éd., 2023 (first published in 2000)
736 pages
Originally written in English, available in French
Genre: Novel, Metafiction

Summary: The novel begins with the introduction of Johnny Truant, a young man who discovers a manuscript written by a deceased elderly man named Zampanò. The manuscript, titled “The Navidson Record”, recounts the experiences of the Navidson family, who move into a seemingly ordinary house that starts to exhibit bizarre and supernatural phenomena. As they explore the house’s mysteries, they uncover a seemingly endless and constantly changing labyrinth within its walls. (source)

Additional info:

Trigger warnings: unconventional writing and layout (mindfucking, see pictures), mention of dementia, (sexual) assault, death
There is a person who developed a Doom II mod in 2022 to depict the house, its maze and organic structure, the video is 1h42 of pure madness and amazement. If the book seems too much, I definitely recommend this video (TW: closed spaces, fire, dark spaces -- there is a disclaimer at the beginning of the video)

Review:
★★★★
It is up to its reputation: sometimes terrifying, sometimes confusing, but mostly breathtaking, impressive and mind blowing in all the meanings possible. This is not just a book, it's a whole experience. I can only recommend it.

#thriller #mystery #triggering #terrifying

Give it to me!

La Rata
Flammarion, 2024
256 pages
Originally written in Spanish, available in French, don't know if it's already been translated to English
Genre: Essay, History, Culture

Summary: This is a counter history of popular music that gives pride of place to female artists. For women in the music industry, the usual narrative highlights loneliness, vulnerability, misfortune, and erotic power, leaving aside their courage, strength, and success. Time to rewrite their stories with a book focusing exclusively on female artists from blues legend Billie Holiday to Beyoncé, Riot Girls to gender-fluid artists. (source)

Review:
★★★☆

Read the entire book in one day (a few hours), it's really interesting and fascinating.
The whole book is really nice, with also personal insight from the author and really strong takes. A really good dose of feminine shot that I really needed to get -BUT- I feel like the end of the book seems a bit rushed to me, or at least would benefit a bit more of nuance and critical opinion. Would love to talk about it if you read it!

#music #feminist #punkCulture #avantgarde #counterCulture #underground

Random recommendations

Culture Numérique

Dominique Cardon, Les Presses de Sciences Po, 2022
432 pages, French
Genre: Essay
Summary (in french): L’entrée du numérique dans nos sociétés est souvent comparée aux grandes ruptures technologiques des révolutions industrielles. En réalité, c’est avec l’invention de l’imprimerie que la comparaison s’impose, car la révolution digitale est avant tout d’ordre cognitif. Elle est venue insérer des connaissances et des informations dans tous les aspects de nos vies. Jusqu’aux machines, qu’elle est en train de rendre intelligentes. Si nous fabriquons le numérique, il nous fabrique aussi. Voilà pourquoi il est indispensable que nous nous forgions une culture numérique. (source)
#tech #internet #digitalCulture

Une longue route

Fumiyo Kouno, Kana, 2001
220 pages, French, Japanese, probably English too
Genre: Manga
Summary: 54 short stories, each 3 pages-long about a (hetero)couple, their love life marked by softness and sometimes a bit of spite.
Additional info: I received it as a gift by my best friend when I left France and read it between two trains, it's very sweet and funny.
#manga #love #realistic

Ask the dust

John Fante, 1939
220 pages, English, French
Genre: Novel
Summary: Arturo Dominic Bandini is a struggling writer living in a residential hotel in Bunker Hill, a rundown section of Downtown Los Angeles. Living off oranges, he unconsciously creates a picture of Los Angeles as a modern dystopia during the Great Depression era. His published short story "The Little Dog Laughed" impresses no one in his seedy boarding house except for one 14-year-old girl, Judy. Destitute, he wanders into the Columbia Buffet where he meets Camilla Lopez, a waitress.
Additional info: Apparently there's a movie adaptation, haven't seen it.
#semiAutobiography #italian-american #identity #poverty

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The Office

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La Fête est Finie ★☆☆☆
Bird Box ★★★★
Greta ★★☆☆
Carbone ★☆☆☆
I Origins ★★☆☆
Gifted ★★★☆
Frequencies ★★★★
Daria ★★★☆
Gotham ★★★☆
Mr. Robot ★★★☆
Maxxxine ★★★★
Suspiria (1977) ★★★★
The Darjeeling Limited ★★★★
Paranoia Agent (anime) ★★★★
Fuli Culi (anime) ★★☆☆
Knives Out ★★★★

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery ★★☆☆

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl ★★★★
The Dreamers ☆☆☆☆
I Kill Giants ★★☆☆
Eiffel ★★★☆
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women ★★☆☆
Moonrise Kingdom ★★☆☆
The Matrix ★★★★

The Matrix Revolutions ★☆☆☆
The Matrix Reloaded ★★★★
The Matrix Resurrections ★☆☆☆

House of Gucci ★☆☆☆
Goosebumps 2 ★☆☆☆
Bird People ☆☆☆☆
Before Midnight ★★★★

Resources from the classes

Methods Sessions

SI25 - Protocols for Collective Performance

SI26 - Declarations

To read

Recommendations

Lídia

Manetta

Research & Learning

Texts

Programming & Websites: Making

Accessibility

To read

Handmade Website Making

To read

CSS

To read

Programming & Websites: Research

(re)Building the web

To read

About Code

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AI

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Tools & Hardware

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Video Media

Talks

Outside Bibliography

Texts

To read

Video Media

Videos

TV Shows

To watch

Movies

To watch

Listen

Other

Some leads on research topics?

A day with Pippin Barr & Jaret Vadera

Currently reading

To read soon

Read - with review

Random recommendations

Currently watching

Watched recently (+rating)