Quilting infrastructures

Kick-off - week 3

2024-01-15 Monday 11:00 - 17:00

• afternoon (15:00-17:00): with Manetta, Check in with chopchop! Jupyter + HUB introduction

2024-01-16 Tuesday 10:00 - 17:00

with Manetta and Joseph (until 15:00) in the Aquarium

• morning + afternoon: Introduction prototyping SI23 + What is a web quilt?

A webquilt (or web quilt) is a collection of websites linked together in a quilt structure, and usually organized around a specific theme, often educational, social, cultural or artistic. They were popular in the 1990s and early 2000s, particularly among amateur websites.

To be a part of the webquilt, each site has a common navigation bar; it contains links to the previous and next sites. By selecting next (or previous) repeatedly, the user will eventually reach the site they started at; this is the origin of the term webquilt.

[GIT]+[HTML]+[CSS]+[JS]

Assignment for next week: Make your own userpage on chopchop (https://hub.xpub.nl/chopchop/~YOURUSERNAME) as part of the quilt

2024-01-17 Wednesday 11:00 - 17:00

Methods class with Steve, Lidia and Marloes

• What: introduction to Word Quilt (a continuation of Wordhole)
• Reading: Fragments of Fritsch, K., O’Connor, C. and Thompson, A.K. (eds) (2016) Keywords for radicals: the contested vocabulary of late-capitalist struggle. Chico, CA: AK Press.
• Shelf: https://hub.xpub.nl/bootleglibrary/shelf/101

topic? - week 4

2024-01-23 Tuesday 10:00 - 17:00

with Joseph in the Aquarium

• morning: server energy and performance measurement
• afternoon: [HTML]+[CSS]+[JS]

Assignment for next week: make a tile about this weeks input.

2024-01-24 Wednesday 11:00 - 17:00

Methods class with: Lídia.

• What: exploring vocabulary around servers, writing and rewriting definitions
• Reading: more from Keywords for radicals.

topic? - week 5

2024-01-30 Tuesday 10:00 - 17:00

with Manetta (and Michael TBC) in the Aquarium

• morning: Torn at the seems, on feminist methods in artistic technological practices, with Michael
• afternoon: vernacular tools prototyping session on imagemagick + processing

Assignment for next week: make an image collage using imagemagick around a desired (visual) language of servers and networks, starting point: other geometries: (https://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/othergeometries/2019/othergeometries_inc.pdf). And add it to the quilt.

2024-01-31 Wednesday 11:00 - 17:00

Methods class with: Marloes

• What: writing synopsis and feeding into Word Quilt
• Reading: Prado, D. (2019) Community networks and feminist infrastructure: reclaiming local knowledge and technologies beyond connectivity solutions, GenderIT.org. Available at: https://genderit.org/feminist-talk/community-networks-and-feminist-infrastructure-reclaiming-local-knowledge-and

topic? - week 6

2024-02-06 Tuesday 10:00 - 17:00

with Joseph in the Aquarium

• morning: performing routing algorithm (for example the Dijkstra's algorithm is (or was) used for community networks to make routes for all the devices in the network https://ir.cwi.nl/pub/9256/9256D.pdf)
• afternoon: sound in the browser (web audio API) (more [HTML]+[CSS]+[JS] & a little bit of bash)

Assignment for next week: Make a tile about this weeks input and connect it to the quilt

2024-02-07 Wednesday 11:00 - 17:00

Methods class with: Lidia

• What: annotating and feeding into Word Quilt
• Reading: Fuchs, C. (2017) Sustainability and community networks. Telematics and Informatics 34 (2): 628-639. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2016.10.003

topic? - week 7

2024-02-13 Tuesday 10:00 - 17:00

with Manetta in the Aquarium

• morning + afternoon: small publishing scripts with Python (making custom bash scripts, Python scripts under the hood, publishing on the web quilt), dive into Python basics.

Assignment: make a publishing script that connects bash with the web. Install it on chopchop so the others can work with it as well, and add the web pages to the quilt.

2024-02-14 Wednesday 11:00 - 17:00

Methods class with: Steve

• What: orientation towards publication
• Reading: no reading this week, digesting what has been read.

topic? - week 9

2024-02-27 Tuesday 10:00 - 17:00

with Joseph in the Aquarium

• TBA (probably something with Python)

2024-02-28 Wednesday 11:00 - 17:00

Methods class with: Marloes

• What: feminist methodology and research
• Reading: Star, S.L. (2015) Misplaced Concretism and Concrete Situations: Feminism, Method, and Information Technology. In: Bowker, G. et al. (eds) Boundary objects and beyond: working with Leigh Star. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press (Infrastructures series).

topic? - week 10

2024-03-05 Tuesday 10:00 - 17:00

with Manetta in the Aquarium

• TBA (probably something with Python)
• Options: text adventure games? (python, potentially terminado to publish them)

2024-03-06 Wednesday 11:00 - 17:00

Methods class with: Lidia

• What: line editing and proofreading
• Reading: Murtaugh, M. (2021) Torn at the seams: vernacular approaches to teaching with computational tools, https://vltk.vvvvvvaria.org/w/Torn_at_the_seams:_vernacular_approaches_to_teaching_with_computational_tools

topic? - week 11

2024-03-12 Tuesday 10:00 - 17:00

with Joseph in the Aquarium

• Support SI23

2024-03-13 Wednesday 11:00 - 17:00

Methods class with: Steve

• What: editorial work
• Reading: t.b.a.

topic? - week 12

2024-03-19 Tuesday 10:00 - 17:00

with Manetta in the Aquarium

• Support SI23

2024-03-20 Wednesday 11:00 - 17:00

Methods class with: Marloes

• What: editorial work
• Reading: no reading

topic? - week 13

2024-03-27 Wednesday 11:00 - 17:00

Methods class with: Steve, Lidia, Marloes

• What: Editorial work
• Reading: no reading