User:Lor.ensō/Lorenzo's Projects that May/Mayn't

Inner-Troubleshooting

What is it?

The performance of ageism onto older electronics

or

Techno-biased Projection turned into a critical self-reflection

Case in point:

the iiyama screen at my desk is not working because it is too old!!!!!!! >:(

it's a projection on my own prejudgement

Why make it?

A frustration to both my inhabited luxury of having a second screen and finding that 'older machines are nice when they are usable but I have also grown biased to this "newer == better" while that is horse shit not true

Workflow

I see it for me that I would keep track of all the transactions that I inhabited and how these interactions grew into me. More a practice actually.

Timetable*

this is a short-time based project. A self-reflective practice, actually. This exercise can be done in 5-10 minutes.

over the long run it can be practiced with multiple forms of technology

be it the dependence of the droplet-key to enter the front door

Rapid prototype

Why isn't my screen working, old piece of electronic trash

Go stand against the wall! You should be ashamed

oh but maybe... it's not the screen.. let's try another HDMI to USB-C connector*

oh but it is working?!

maybe I should be less dependent than I think I am on these things

this is a bit dramatic but it's funny to be confronted with your own technological habits

Previous practice

The Monster of Albert Heijn

https://lorenzoquint.nl/ah.html

A previous project based on the newness / oldness of electronics in consumer culture and the adaptation of automated grocery shopping. It was based on growing annoyance.

Relation to a wider context

Choices made

This proposal is more a black mirror, how I adapt to these technological differences out of laziness yet also being forced to the new electronic consumerist habits.

Blaming it on a fine working 'older' screen, while a newer connection cable is the actual error in the connection.

I always think about a conversation I had with a stranger at Antwerpen train station about that (2013) in Belgium everything electronic wasn't working because it was too old (check in / out, ATM, public transport) and in NL the same things weren't working because it was just too new.

The work could be a step by step list of showing my own thought pattern through the automated steps.

other examples

Laundry

1. I need to do my laundry
2. for my laundry I need to upgrade 20 euros on my AppWash app
3. for my laundry I need to see through Internet of Things-technology if the washing and/or drying machines
4. for my laundry I need to have data on my phone, to check in with €1,50-€2,00
5. in order to do my laundry, I need to buy data to pay.

Keyboard connections for all my 'regular' keyboards to get the € I need to ctrl + shift + 5

on the 'alternative keyboard' I get '¼' or '¤; ((I use blind typing on this keyboard because actually using the system is not really helping))

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(<<Steve has been asked to unpack "Choices made" (here are 2 interpretations):

1) Why is this proposal different from your previous work? Perhaps there was a change of mind along the way. Perhaps you wanted to approach things differently. So, why did you choose to take the proposal in this direction? A change of mind demonstrates that you are thinking critically about your practice. ("choices made" is there to help you unpack your process).

2) You may interpret it as an opportunity to list the procedures you will go through when making the work. Again, these choices are critical (because you chose to do one thing rather than something else:-)

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