User:ØverLørd/Special Issue 22

Personal Notes on Special Issue 22:
Protocols for an active archive

week 1

monday 18/9

This day started with a tour at worm. We got to see the different workstations, the studios and the different event spaces. The highlight of this tour was to see the radio-studio, which we were going to occupy for the following weeks. I think it is very nice that we can get introduced to the creative communities, which breathe life into the the cultural scene of Rotterdam.

When we got back to school we discussed the concept of post-digital as it is at the core of the study-programme´s philosophy and approach to art and design.
From my understanding the concept envelopes how processes and relations are mediated and conducted through a multiplicity of various channels that can be both digital, mechanical or human. Understanding these interfaces between different nodes in a network bears a lot of potential for exploration and experimention.
To further explore this concept we were introduced to a tape-recorder-and-player which could could record and was a suggested tool for creating material for our radio broadcast.

To start exploring the theme of this Special Issue we had got a small task related to field recordings. The task was to use radio aporee´s field recording archive, and find a recording that provoked a memory. Then we recorded ourselves talking about this memory in one recording, and read the meta-data of the origianl field recording in another. Finally the task called for us to compile these three recordings in a wiki page.

This task taught us how to activate an archive, and how one can interact and iterate over information available. In this task there were multiple archives being activated: radio aporees field recording archive, our personal archive of memory, and the wiki-archive of the PZI.

Another theme of the Special Issue was discussed, the theme of protocols, therefore the group discussed different protocols for how the radio broadcast at worm could be carried out. Since our first broadcast was the following day, one of the most urgent questions was who was going to be in the studio for this first day. The group agreed that Bernadette, maria adn Victor was going to be the first group of caretakers to inhabit the Radio Worm Studio.