User:Eleanorg/Thematic1.1/Programm(ing/ed) Culture
THEMATIC PROJECT 25 Oct 2011: Programm(ed/ing) Culture
http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/wiki/Programm(ed/ing)_Culture
Audrey Samson
@ideacritik
ideacritik.com
-From Quebec, background in flying planes, ceramics, media design Interests: -'The order of thigs' - how we categorize things -Re-interfacing - taking data and putting it into a new interface not usually associated with it eg: 'Threads' (on Vimeo) - collection of women's stories in audio, browsed with a keyboard. http://threads.ideacritik.com/
- roger10-4.hotglue.me
Collaborative project Taking apart old radios etc, making accessories with them. Philosophy of 'break now, think later' (ie practice-led) 'Electromagnetic Field Sniffing' - using coils from old radios to detect electric fields When you can see components exposed "you can see where the beginning and end of their influence is, and where you can have a discussion about it" Inspired by Nick Collins
- Confession
networked-performance.eternal.name Networked performance with Nancy In a church, using church's database of dead ppl. Users entered q's thru a touchscreen interface; Nancy was in Australia answering queries by serving up info to the screen. (Interesting intermediary between user and database)
- Aether9
http://aether9.org/ Telematic performance collective, started 2007 Members all round the world, mostly organised online 'distributed authorship' storytelling - Project: 9 frames in a webpage, each one a live prformance from somewhere else in the world. Live chat also shown, and you could attend one of the live events. - Little Red Riding Hood (2008). A 'wolf' seeks a girl in cyber sex sites. Multiple online performers, also a live audience - Ghost Study (2010). Streamed performance. Inspired by Beckett's play for BBC, 'Ghost Trio'.
- Gender Changers
Formed 1999 at 'ASCII' - Amsterdam Subversive Code for Information Interchange (free software lab). Name taken from 'genderchanger' computer part, changing the sex of a port Manifesto of sharing skills & knowledge w/ recycled hardware, FLOSS, for women & gender minorities - Systerserver - OX4-like server space for women's projects. Server lives in Amsterdam. - /etc - Eclectic Tech Carnival - 3 day festival of tech http://eclectictechcarnival.org/ Spin-off project - International Women's Day action 2007 - virtual 'march' across IRC channels saying slogans: http://genderchangers.org/march.html - WAITS Foundation (now closed) - set up as an official foundation to recieve funding - No longer active, mailing-list based
- Digital Art Lab
Formed 2010 A digital art lab within the CKC community arts centre in Zoetermeer. Aiming to reach audiences who are used to new technologies and new teaching models Work with teachers to experiment w/ how they could incorporate new media into their lessons
Eric Schrijver
http://ericschrijver.nl
See also Eric's own notes
Background: Visual art background, but lonely - not open source collaboration. Moved into design & theatre - more people-ey Involved in OSP (Open Source Publishing) - uses FLOSS but also open licensing & posting process on blog, making sources available etc Open Source typography - http://klepas.org/openbaskerville/
Programming fundamental to our time; why more artists etc not interested in learning it? Percieved as "that's for a certain kind of people, and that's not my kind of people" 'Geek pride' doesn't often extend outside programming community
Not only stereotypes are offputting - programming communities can be homophobic & sexist. See for example: Gay people come to rails http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2009/03/gay-people-come-to-rails.html
Deploy like a pr0n star http://www.linux-magazine.com/w3/issue/105/094-095_projects.pdf http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/CouchDB_talk
Contact w/ open source via anarcho activist scene; became more interested in the tech side later. (Interesting that Eric comes from being a geek and travelling to a point of being ok with that. My experience is from the opposite direction: of wanting to participate but being in the process of overcoming very high barriers to entry. At what point is it legitimate to identify as a geek?)
Interesting discussion of 'barriers to entry' - lots of ppl try to deny them by saying anyone can be a geek etc. But this itself can be offputting.