User:Martin/Final presentation
Background + Special Issues + Extra Contributions
Incidences médiatiques:
the GUI (graphic user interface) as an elastic reading context
[WEB]
[WEB]
Incidences médiatiques is an online reissue of Raymond Queneau's book called Exercices de Style. In the original book from 1947, we can read an identical story, written in 99 differents writing styles. In order to increase this publication towards a more open form of literature, the project is presented here as its hypertextual version. This first plastic work, wanted to highlight the unpredictable nature of the devices by which we receive the online content.... They then appear to us in very different forms and aspects depending on the reading context. Factors such as the type of media used, the size of the screen, thesize of the digital window, the position of the cursor or our finger on the screen, are then suggesting us an infinity of possible reading directions.
Media Spaces:
the Web, the Print, the Exhibition Space as a series of reading/browsing context
[WEB TO PRINT + INSTALLATION]
[WEB TO PRINT + INSTALLATION]
Media Spaces deals with the question of representation through the different media, supports and spaces of representation. I primarily reflected on the status of networked writing and reading, by programming his dissertation in the form of an online Website. Subsequently, I wished to question the effects of the process of transposition from the Web to print, by printing my thesis publication on different physical supports, from espacesmediatiques.martinfoucaut.com (currently offline). Finally, it is about designing a scenography wishing to put in space this text and these images from the Web. It is then embodied in the form of an exhibition interface directly inspired by the network of Web pages of the online publication. We find there a series of interactive installations wishing to give to see, to read, but also to make a physical experience of the new media.
Special Issue 13:
Making the <invisible> visible
[WEB to PRINT]
[WEB to PRINT]
For the Special Issue 13, I interpreted the essay TENSE (2018) by Simon(e) van Saarloos. With my interpretation, I amplified the author’s discourse on descriptive language by exagerating the use of meta-descriptions through the form of HTMLtags. Normally, a HTML <tag> acts as a descriptive container, it is invisible from the Web-user point of view as it is only made to be read and interpreted by the computer in order to arrange the structure of the Web-page. By looking for ways to make these meta tags visible and readable from a Web-user’s point of view, I affect the reader’s interpretaion of the essay. Additionally to the Web, I made my three HTML documents (essay, artistic response and map) printable from the Web and included them in the Special Issue 13 book. As part of the design team of the Special Issue 13, I collaborated with two XPUB1 students to make the project’s visual identity, including the making of Web-to-print documents such as the blank map; bookcover and colophon.
For the Special Issue 14, I wished to explore, detect, and implement unconsidered Web events and situations in my own pinball game. Later on, this work evolved into a city-based pinball game, eventually becoming the publication’s launcher page. This launcher page allows the user to find coordinates of local Wi-Fi networks located within the city of The Hague.In addition to the launcher, I created a series of pinball inspired folder interfaces. Each of them allow visitors, who are connected to one of the local Wi-Fi network locations, to access content created and shared by XPUB1 students. This content can be games, texts or codes embedded within compositions of clickable pinball bumpers. In order to connect the launcher page with a total of five folder interfaces as part of a more unified navigation and visual system, I was working in the design team of the Special Issue 14 with three other students and together we assembled the project’s visual identity.
Special Issue 15: Civil Entertainment Sirens:
The GUI (graphic user interface) as an elastic context for sound performing
[WEB + SOUND]
[WEB + SOUND]
Civil Entertainment Sirens® is a Web-oscillator develloped during the Special Issue 15, and which was performed briefly during the XPUB event window.open at Page Not Found. The instrument allows to explore different combinations of sound frequencies, echoed in time, which can sound quiet similar to sirens. It consists of a series of polyphonic textures (drone) which sound differently depending on your screen size (developped with P5.sound.js).
Caution Weird Floor - XPUB Geocatching Game:
[WEB + GEOCACHING]
Federico and I developed a Web app allowing the visitiors of The Hague Contemporary Art Weekend 2021 to compose and generate custom routes across the different contemporary art locations of the city. These routes are generated from a series of combined words picked by the player, creating speculative poetry and offering many ways to explore the diverse manifestations from the 23 partners of the festival. During the festival, visitors could derive through The Hague catching the Weird Yellow Signboards around the locations and generate Weird Slippery Poems based on the imput description of each events. The yellow signs are the result of a (Webto) printing of the game interface.
Reading Practice
Best of readings
→ 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
- Questions the ethic of wearable self-tracking devices
- "commodification and knowledge-making that occurs between data and bodies."
→ Debord, G., (1967). The Society of the Spectacle
- Post-War consumerism leaded to a "Celebrity Culture", "Society of the spectacle" or society of self-performance.
→ Foucault, M., (1982). Technologies of the Self
- Form of power that is not necessarily only applied from one subject to another subject but also by the subject toward himself.
→ Foucault, M., (1977). Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
- The panopticon metaphor
→ Fritsch, K., (2018). Towards an emancipatory understanding of widespread datafication
- Dismantle the technological mysticism of these systems and propose artistic works that speak to everyone.
→ Kholeif, O., (2018). Goodbye, World! — Looking at Art in the Digital Age
- Data diary
- Normalizarion of data centered marketing strategies/advertisments / Aesthetization of data
→ Morozov, E., (2019). Capitalism's New Clothes. The Baffler
- Critic of Zuboff, S., (2019). The age of surveillance capitalism
- It is possible to imagine and build a society with the Internet without this logic of surveillance
→ Seymour, R., (2019). The Twittering Machine
- When interacting, we are collectively writing to the machines
- Social media platforms as "rigged lottery systems" where a post is a gamble
- Why do we persist using tools and platforms that exploit us
→ Wu, T., (2016). The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads.
- The rise of the attention economy of the Web
→ Zuboff, S., (2019). The age of surveillance capitalism
- Introduce the term surveillance capitalism, which differs from governmental surveillance
- Desillusions on the future of the Internet
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
Upgrade - Using a larger board
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
left
Sensor Wall 01
PhysicalMapping2
December 2021
- In December, after getting 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
January 2021
- In January 2021, I simulated scenarios with an updated version of my graduation project.
Visitor arrives in space
Visitor gets encourage to get a reward by staying on a specific location
Visitor is encouraged to move to the left
Visitor earns a badge
Visitor is about to leave the detection range
Visitor left the detection range for too long, a receipt in printed
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.
Password unlock with sensors: letter P appears
Password unlock with sensors: letter I appears
Password unlock with sensors: letter G appears
Password unlock with sensors: letter E appears
Password unlock with sensors: letter O appears
Password unlock with sensors: letter N appears
Hybrid reality game with Louisa
photo: Louisa
Hybrid reality game with Louisa
photo: Louisa
Hybrid reality game with Louisa
photo: Louisa
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
Early preview of the values I worked with
P5 serial control (debug)
Data from 5 sensors arrive in one line here (debug)
Serial monitor in Arduino (debug)
Serial plotter in Arduino (debug)
StockTicker_Visual_Reference_01
StockTicker_Visual_Reference_02
StockTicker_Visual_Reference_03
StockTicker_Visual_Reference_04
StockTicker_Visual_Reference_05
StockTicker_Visual_Reference_06
StockTicker_Visual_Reference_07
Checkout Visual Reference_01
Checkout Visual Reference 01
Checkout Visual Reference 03
Slot Machine Visual Reference 01
Captcha Visual Reference_01
Self Tracker Visual Reference 01
Self_Tracker_Visual_Reference_02
Self Tracker Visual Reference 03
Self Tracker Visual Reference 04
Self Tracker Visual Reference 05
Self Tracker Visual Reference 06
Self Tracker Visual Reference 08
Self Tracker Visual Reference_09
Self Tracker Visual Reference 10
April 2022
- In April, I started designing the final interfaces for my installation. The idea was to refer to the differents contexts of surveillance and self-surveillance evoked in my thesis.
- Luckily, Joseph explained to me how to make the serial communication between Arduino and P5.Js with more than one sensor value, by splitting the data in many parts.
left
center
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
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
- In May, I started considering to transiting from a small to a bigger screen for the grad show. I also updated the position of the different sensors.
- While I spent the previous month designing the different stages interfaces, I spent this one connecting all the displayed values to the sensors.
Sensors array mapping for the installation interface
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
000 Exit
01 Stock Ticker
02 Slot Machine
03 SelfTracker 01
04 SelfTracker 02
05 Livestream 02
07 Self Register
Thesis: Hidden in plain sight
Hidden in plain sight:
Understanding our consent and distrust in the context of capitalist techno-surveillance
1 → Homo Data
We approach here the model of surveillance and attention on which many of the tools and services we use are based and to situate this economy within the broader historical framework of the Internet. We learn how and when this business model emerged, how it evolved, and who we are (as human and users) inside this economy. As a clue of the widespread datafication and the culture of surveillance that emerged from this economy, we also observe how tech firms try to legitimise practices of surveillance and self-surveillance through the promotion of tracking apps and data-driven advertisements.
2 → Addiction machines
We investigate here the effects of the interfaces built to mobilise our attention, stimulate our interactions, obtain our consent, and create addictions.
We study the implementation of gamification, gambling and lottery systems in various connected devices and online platforms, as well as question their effects on online users.
By closely following these companies' expansionist logic, we also investigate the intrusion of these surveillance tools in our physical environments and our bodies, leading towards an entirely datafied society.
3 → Self-empowerment
A specific focus on the self-tracking/monitroing devices, framed in relationship with the discipline of the body and the technology of self from Foucault.
4 → Agree and continue?
We consider here other perspectives on the culture of surveillance and self-surveillance,notably through the exploration of counter-practices, alternative tools, and critical and activist works.
Thesis link
Graduation Work: Count On Me
Description
I am Count on me, an interactive installation speculating on the study and marketisation of human behavioural data in public spaces.
When I detect you, your position in space is simultaneously translated into information, interactions and ⇅* earnings/losses. During your journey through 8 different levels, you will be consciously participating to the commodification of your own existence!
In order to maximise “earnings”, you will have to keep letting me detect you, find the most lucrative positions and act accordingly to the instructions displayed on the screen.
Each micro-task successfully performed will allow you to unlock new data-driven interfaces. Once you exit the session for more than 5 seconds, your ⇅ earnings are automatically converted into euros according to the exchange rates.** ***
So, what are you waiting for?
Start counting today and you can count on me!
.* ⇅ = crypto-currency
.** see level 1: Stock ticker
.*** avg.ratio ⇅ 1 ≈ € 0.0001
Stages
When you leave/exit
What is it made of?
How to interact with the device?
How to unlock stages? (Soluce)
Plans for final publication
For the final publication, I want to connect my installation work with my writtings.
000 Exit
01 Stock Ticker
02 Slot Machine
03 SelfTracker 01
04 SelfTracker 02
05 Livestream 02
06 Captcha
07 Self Register
Schema Martin 01 Count on Me
Schema Martin 01 Count on Me
Schema Martin 01 Count on Me
Schema Martin 04 Count on Me
