User:Kiara/Resources
From the classes
Texts from Methods Sessions
- All Problems of Notation Will be Solved by the Masses: Free Open Form Performance, Free/Libre Open Source Software, and Distributive Practice, Simon Yuill, 2008 (11/09/2024)
- The Tyranny of Structurelessness, Jo Freeman, 1970-72 (09/10/2024)
- The Tyranny of Tyranny, Cathy Levine, 1979 (16/10/2024)
- Mainframe Experimentalism, Hannah B. Higgins & Douglas Kahn, 2012 (21/10/2024)
- Die Maschine, Georges Perec, 1972 (21/10/2024)
- The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling, Ted Chiang, 2013 (05/11/2024)
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- Tactical Design, Nolwenn Maudet, 2022 (15/01/2025)
- Handmade Web, J.R. Carpenter, 2015 (05/02/2025)
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- Basic HTML Competency is the New Punk-Folk Explosion, Zach Mandeville, 2016
- My Website is a Shifting House Next to a River of Knowledge. What could yours be?, Laurel Schwust, 2018
- A Vernacular Web, Olia Lialina, 2005
- A Dao of Web Design, John Allsopp, 2000
Lídia's recommendations
- The Situationist Times
Personal stuff that don't necessarily link to one another but are really nice
Texts
- A wiki list of books I (am) read(ing)
- Old CSS, New CSS, eevee (Evelyn Woods), 2024
#CSS #History #Essay #WomenCode - Résister à la culpabilisation, Mona Chollet, 2024
#Feminism #AntiPatriarchy #Essay #Empowerment - Rage Against the Machine, Alva Noë, 2024
#AI #Computer #AllanTuring - Building the most inaccessible site possible with a perfect lighthouse score, Manuel Matuzović, 2019
#Accessibility #ProgramsFailing - House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski, 2001
#Mystery #Puzzle #Riddle #BlurringBoundaries #MetaBook - Give it to me!, La Rata, 2024
#Feminism #Punk #Music #Claiming
Videos
- Conferences
- PixelPalooza 2024
- For-Profit (creative) Software, 2025
- TV Shows
- The Office, 2005
#Satire #Humour #Corporate - Daria, 1997
#Antisocial #Sarcasm #TeenAdults #90s #Feminine - Gotham, 2015
#Superheroes #Villains #Comics - Mr. Robot, 2015
#Hacking #MentalHealth #Psychology #Anticapitalism - Pose, 2018
#LGBTQ+ #90s #Vogue #Power - Queen's Gambit, 2020
#Feminine #Power #Game #MindGames #Psychology - Charmed, 1998
#Magic #Feminine #Witchcraft - The I.T. Crowd, 2006
#Nerdy #Humour #Satire #British - Las Chicas del Cable, 2017
#Feminine #Power #History #WomenInTech #Nerdy - The Haunting, 2018
#Mystery #Supernatural - Sherlock, 2010
#Mystery #Investigation #Puzzle #Riddle - Six Feet Under, 2001
#Psychology #Supernatural - The X-Files, 1993
#Mystery #Supernatural #Investigation - Sense8, 2015
#LGBTQ+ #SuperPowers #Power - Dexter, 2006
#Investigation #Mystery #Psychology - Murder, she Wrote
#Investigation #Mystery #Feminine - And then there were none, 2015
#Investigation #Mystery #Feminine
- The Office, 2005
- Movies
- Woman of the Hour, 2024
#TrueStory #Feminine #Power - Respect, 2021
#Biopic #Music #Feminine #Power - L'amour Ouf, 2024
#LoveStory #80s - Suspiria, 1977
#Mystery #Feminine #Spirituality #Crime - Enola Holmes, 2020
#Investigation #Mystery #Feminine #Puzzle #Riddle - Pretty much anything from the Alice in Wonderland universe
#Magic #Supernatural #Feminine - Nosferatu, 1922
#Gothic #Mystery #Supernatural - The Guilty, 2021
#Investigation #Mystery - Snowden, 2016
#Investigation #Mystery #History #Nerdy - All the Batman movies with Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, Christian Bale and Robert Pattinson
#Investigation #Mystery #Gothic #Superpowers #Riddle #MindGames - Sherlock Holmes, 2010
#Mystery #Investigation #Puzzle #Riddle - Asteroid City, 2023 (need to rewatch it also)
#Mystery #Supernatural - Wonka, 2023
#Magic #Superpowers - Da Vinci Code, 2006
#Investigation #Supernatural #Religion #Feminine - Death on the Nile, 2022
#Investigation #Mystery #Feminine - Split, 2017
#Investigation #Mystery #Power #Feminine - Suzume, 2023
#Supernatural #Mystery #Feminine - Donnie Darko, 2004
#Psychology #Mystery #Gothic #Supernatural - Murder on the Orient Express, 2017
#Investigation #Mystery #Feminine - Constantine, 2005
#Investigation #Supernatural #Religion - The Masque of the Red Death, 1964
#Supernatural #Mystery #Gothic
- Woman of the Hour, 2024
Stuff I want to read/watch/listen to/...
Read
- Ergo-L, Fabien Cazenave, 2024
#Keyboard - Subtitles, Closed Captions, and Open Captions: What's the Difference?, Ben Myers, 2024
#Accessibility - Fighting for our web, Molly White, 2024
#Web - We need to rewild the Internet, Maria Farrell and Robin Berjon, 2024
#Web - Cognition et design : Quand tout est biais, plus rien n'est biais, Baptiste Roullin, 2024
#WebDesign #UX #UI - How to make a website, Henry Desroches, 2024
#Web #HTML #IndieWeb - How to use SASS with CSS, Adalbert Pungu, 2022
#Web #CSS #IndieWeb - Not so short note on aria-label usage – Big Table Edition, stevef, 2024
#Web #Accessibility #IndieWeb - Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound, Lori Emerson, 2014
- Relearn CSS Layout
- CSS Layout (Grid/Flex)
- Organizing with CSS cascade layers
- The house without windows, Barbara Newhall Follett
- Accessible <section> in HTML
- The seven dials mystery, Agatha Christie
- Pourquoi je n'utilise pas ChatGPT, Florence Maraninchi
- Backing up websites
- Ruined by design
- Accessibility essentials, Martijn Hols
- Critical Coding Cookbook
- A mirror for witches, Esther Forbes
- The revolution will be decentralized
- Le statut d'entrepreneur salarié au sein d'une CAE, Timothée Goguely
- Formations et ressources en accessibilité web et numérique, Timothée Goguely
- How to make a damn website
- Adapter la revue Curseurs à paged.js
- Folk interfaces, Maggie Appleton
- HTML is actually a programming language. Fight me, Tim Carmody
- Ergo-L, Fabien Cazenave, 2024
Watch
- Maybe those could lead to research topics? (keywords: investigation/mystery | puzzles/riddles | tech/crafting | teaming up | (super)power | feminine)
GothamI rewatched it and while it's great it's just for leisure time- The reboot of Pretty Little Liars (nostalgia hitting here)
- Scorpion
- Emilia Pérez
- Anora
- Why can't we make simple software? by Peter van Hardenberg
- The neww HTML API that allows to trigger events without JavaScript
- Internet Exploreuses S02E04, Lucie Ronfaut
Listen
- Death of the Follower & the Future of Creativity on the Web, Jack Conte at SXSW 2024
- Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation, Cory Doctorow at DEF CON 32, 2024
- The mazy web, Stuart Langridge at State of the Browser 2024
- Que peut-on institutionnaliser dans la langue française ?, France Culture, 21/11/2024
- CSS est un langage graphique, Graphic Matter & Julie Blanc
Other
Some leads on research topics?
- The way art schools teach only proprietary software –even in WdKA, while hosting XPUB and so many DIY workshops– (idea brought by this mastodon post)
- On social media -- Is wikipedia a social media? is it the only one still alive through the earthquakes of internet? brought by the discussion here
- FLOSS, getting away from GAFAM and proprietary software, active participation to ethical design circles → building and maintaining a server on a RaspberryPi; dual-booting
- Patience | Learning. Making puzzles. Coding and debugging (links to the Handmade Web text by JR Carpenter and her praising of smallness and slowness as key points of the handmade web). Designing. Writing. Reading. Relationships. Activism. Making a change. Taking part/Taking action. Maintaining. It is all around us. Zoning out. Attention deficit. Daydreaming. How they communicate, intertwine, fail. Automation. Tricks. Hacks. Getting around the issues?
Notes
- About For-Profit (creative) Software
- How different websites looked in the 90s, "the problem with uniqueness is it can confuse people" so now we have design "rules", like templates and everything looks the same -- design patterns
A day with Pippin Barr & Jaret Vadera
Questions to answer
- How do you currently document your design/artistic practice? Could you bring or describe a specific example in class? How do you feel about the way you do it right now logistically?
- I don't really document per se, I do have my own website and try to write in this wiki as much as I can but most of the time I don't think about doing it or am a bit lazy of doing it. So I tend to take a few hours a month to implement new content. I feel like I should document more actively but at the same time it's not much of a reflex or rooted practice for me... So I also don't have any precise example besides the website and wiki :)
- What is your approach to reflecting on your design/artistic practice? Could you bring an example of how you have made a specific design decision?"
- ...?
Ideas and concepts
- Use git's version control for writing → a nice way of tracking progress and having a clear overview
- Write in Markdown which can also allow for online publication via a static site generator like hugo :)
- Branching as trials and errors → learn more how to use it
- Does documentation need to be very plain and to the point or is it relevant to include emotions in it? In the end, it is part of the process...
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Currently reading
To read soon
Résister
Salomé Saqué
Payot, 2024
144 pages
French only
Genre: Essay
Summary (in french obv): L'extrême droite est aux portes du pouvoir. Dans les urnes comme dans les esprits, ses thèmes, son narratif et son vocabulaire s'imposent. Il est encore temps d'inverser cette tendance, à condition de comprendre les rouages de cette progression et de réagir rapidement.
#essay #politics #resistance
À la poursuite du livre rêvé par Jean Giono & Maximilien Vox
Nicole Chosson, Maurice Darmon, Jean Garcia, Jean Giono, Frédéric Martin, Jacques Mény, Pierre Mréjen, Olivier Nineuil, Paule Palacios-Dalens, Alice Savoie, Emmanuël Souchier, Nicolas Taffin, Yoann Thommerel, Martin Violette, Maximilien Vox
Centre Jean Giono & Les Rencontres de Lure, 2021
238 pages
French only
Genre: Archive, Research
Summary (in french obv): En 1954, l'écrivain Jean Giono et le typographe et éditeur Maximilien Vox rêvaient de fusionner toutes les potentialités expressives de la littérature et de la typographie dans un livre dont le titre aurait été Mort de Gutenberg.
Aujourd'hui les pistes de recherche ouvertes par ce projet non abouti, devenu texte d'archive, se prolongent à travers la parole de chercheurs, d'auteurs, de créateurs de caractères et d'éditeurs.
Qu'est-ce que l'image d'un texte ? Quelle est la place de la lettre dans le processus de lecture ? Quelle part revient à la création graphique en littérature ? Le numérique permet-il d'autres formes de collaborations créatives ?
Un livre qui en éclaire un autre. Un livre qui s'adresse tant aux amateurs de littérature qu'aux professionnels de l'édition. Un livre qui s'attache aux possibles de la typographie dans le champ littéraire.
#graphicDesign #typography #fonts
Copy this book
Author·s: Eric Schrijver
Published by: Onomatopee, 2018
Pages: 192
Language·s: English, French (maybe more...)
Genre: Guide
Summary: This book is an artist’s guide to copyright, written for makers. Both practical and critical, this book will guide you through the concepts underlying copyright and how they apply in your practice.
How do you get copyright? For what work? And for how long? How does copyright move across mediums, and how can you go about integrating the work of others? Because they get copyright too!
Copy this Book will detail the concepts of authorship and original creation that underlie our legal system. This way, it will equip you with the conceptual keys to participate in the debate on intellectual property today. (source)
#copyright #F/LOSS #art #design
<talismans pour celles qui ne savent pas de quoi ils parlent
Author·s: Lucile Olympe Haute
Published by: Self-published, 2023
Pages: 42
Language·s: French
Genre: Guide, Zine
Summary: It has to do with talismans (will give more info when I've read it). It is deeply linked to Lucile's art practice that revolves around witchcraft, tech, esoterism and magic in the cyberspace.
See her Cyberwitches Manifesto.
#witchcraft #magic #art #tech #code
Cyberwitches (d*sign week 2023)
Author·s: Lucile Olympe Haute
Published by: Self-published, 2023
Pages: 20
Language·s: English
Genre: Zine
Summary: One of the many Cyberwitches zine published by Lucile. She regularly does workshop in different places, about CSS-Print and the workshop material is linked with cyberwitches and feminism in tech. The result of these workshops are the various zines produced.
She writes it this way: This workshop proposes to circulate texts, words and images according to a slow temporality and materiality, and to a limited audience. The chosen vehicle is micro-edition. Participants produce the graphic layout of one of the texts gathered for the workshop (manifesto, open letter, short essay, fiction...) The corpus hinges on the triple intersection of political awareness, technological emancipation and spirituality. Participants also contribute with proposals. The method used to bring the texts together is appropriation through graphic design using open-source tools. Together we produce the new volume of the mini-anthology called 'Cybersorcières'. This workshop is an introduction to web-to-print, i;e graphic design for print using web tools and languages.
#witchcraft #magic #art #tech #CSS-Print #writing #manifesto
Read - with review
Résister à la Culpabilisation - Sur quelques empêchements d'exister
Mona Chollet
Zones éd., 2024
264 pages
French only
Genre: Essay
Summary (in french obv): Harcèlement, humiliations, insultes : nous sommes bien averti.es de ces fléaux de la vie en société et nous nous efforçons de lutter contre eux. Mais il y a un cas de figure que nous négligeons : celui où l'agresseur, c'est... nous-même. Bien souvent résonne dans notre tête une voix malveillante qui nous attaque, qui nous sermonne, qui nous rabaisse ; qui nous dit que, quoi que nous fassions, nous avons tort ; que nous ne méritons rien de bon, que nous présentons un défaut fondamental. Cette voix parle particulièrement fort quand nous appartenons à une catégorie dominée : femmes, enfants, minorités sexuelles ou raciales...
Ce livre se propose de braquer le projecteur, pour une fois, sur l'ennemi intérieur. Quels sont ces pouvoirs qui s'insinuent jusque dans l'intimité de nos consciences ? Comment se sont-ils forgés ?
Nous étudierons quelques-unes de leurs manifestations : la disqualification millénaire des femmes et, notamment, aujourd'hui, des victimes de violences sexuelles ; la diabolisation des enfants, qui persiste bien plus qu'on ne le croit ; la culpabilisation des mères, qui lui est symétrique ; le culte du travail, qui indexe notre valeur sur notre productivité ; et enfin la résurgence de logiques punitives jusque dans nos combats contre l'oppression et nos désirs de changer le monde. (source)
Review:
★★★★
It is simply AMAZING. I can only recommend it if you read French.
#essay #sociology #feminism
La Maison des Feuilles (House of Leaves)
Mark Z. Danielewski
Monsieur Toussaint Louverture éd., 2023 (first published in 2000)
736 pages
Originally written in English, available in French
Genre: Novel, Metafiction
Summary: The novel begins with the introduction of Johnny Truant, a young man who discovers a manuscript written by a deceased elderly man named Zampanò. The manuscript, titled “The Navidson Record”, recounts the experiences of the Navidson family, who move into a seemingly ordinary house that starts to exhibit bizarre and supernatural phenomena. As they explore the house’s mysteries, they uncover a seemingly endless and constantly changing labyrinth within its walls. (source)
Additional info:
- Trigger warnings: unconventional writing and layout (mindfucking, see pictures), mention of dementia, (sexual) assault, death
- There is a person who developed a Doom II mod in 2022 to depict the house, its maze and organic structure, the video is 1h42 of pure madness and amazement. If the book seems too much, I definitely recommend this video (TW: closed spaces, fire, dark spaces -- there is a disclaimer at the beginning of the video)
Review:
★★★★
It is up to its reputation: sometimes terrifying, sometimes confusing, but mostly breathtaking, impressive and mind blowing in all the meanings possible. This is not just a book, it's a whole experience. I can only recommend it.
#thriller #mystery #triggering #terrifying
Give it to me!
La Rata
Flammarion, 2024
256 pages
Originally written in Spanish, available in French, don't know if it's already been translated to English
Genre: Essay, History, Culture
Summary: This is a counter history of popular music that gives pride of place to female artists.
For women in the music industry, the usual narrative highlights loneliness, vulnerability, misfortune, and erotic power, leaving aside their courage, strength, and success. Time to rewrite their stories with a book focusing exclusively on female artists from blues legend Billie Holiday to Beyoncé, Riot Girls to gender-fluid artists. (source)
Review:
★★★☆
- Read the entire book in one day (a few hours), it's really interesting and fascinating.
- The whole book is really nice, with also personal insight from the author and really strong takes. A really good dose of feminine shot that I really needed to get -BUT- I feel like the end of the book seems a bit rushed to me, or at least would benefit a bit more of nuance and critical opinion. Would love to talk about it if you read it!
#music #feminist #punkCulture #avantgarde #counterCulture #underground
Random recommendations
Culture Numérique
Dominique Cardon, Les Presses de Sciences Po, 2022
432 pages, French
Genre: Essay
Summary (in french): L’entrée du numérique dans nos sociétés est souvent comparée aux grandes ruptures technologiques des révolutions industrielles. En réalité, c’est avec l’invention de l’imprimerie que la comparaison s’impose, car la révolution digitale est avant tout d’ordre cognitif. Elle est venue insérer des connaissances et des informations dans tous les aspects de nos vies. Jusqu’aux machines, qu’elle est en train de rendre intelligentes. Si nous fabriquons le numérique, il nous fabrique aussi. Voilà pourquoi il est indispensable que nous nous forgions une culture numérique. (source)
#tech #internet #digitalCulture
Une longue route
Fumiyo Kouno, Kana, 2001
220 pages, French, Japanese, probably English too
Genre: Manga
Summary: 54 short stories, each 3 pages-long about a (hetero)couple, their love life marked by softness and sometimes a bit of spite.
Additional info: I received it as a gift by my best friend when I left France and read it between two trains, it's very sweet and funny.
#manga #love #realistic
Ask the dust
John Fante, 1939
220 pages, English, French
Genre: Novel
Summary: Arturo Dominic Bandini is a struggling writer living in a residential hotel in Bunker Hill, a rundown section of Downtown Los Angeles. Living off oranges, he unconsciously creates a picture of Los Angeles as a modern dystopia during the Great Depression era. His published short story "The Little Dog Laughed" impresses no one in his seedy boarding house except for one 14-year-old girl, Judy. Destitute, he wanders into the Columbia Buffet where he meets Camilla Lopez, a waitress.
Additional info: Apparently there's a movie adaptation, haven't seen it.
#semiAutobiography #italian-american #identity #poverty
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TV Time handle: spaceCaTerminal
Currently watching
- The Office
Watched recently (+rating)
- La Fête est Finie ★☆☆☆
- Bird Box ★★★★
- Greta ★★☆☆
- Carbone ★☆☆☆
- I Origins ★★☆☆
- Gifted ★★★☆
- Frequencies ★★★★
- Daria ★★★☆
- Gotham ★★★☆
- Mr. Robot ★★★☆
- Maxxxine ★★★★
- Suspiria (1977) ★★★★
- The Darjeeling Limited ★★★★
- Paranoia Agent (anime) ★★★★
- Fuli Culi (anime) ★★☆☆
- Knives Out ★★★★
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery ★★☆☆
- Me and Earl and the Dying Girl ★★★★
- The Dreamers ☆☆☆☆
- I Kill Giants ★★☆☆
- Eiffel ★★★☆
- Professor Marston and the Wonder Women ★★☆☆
- Moonrise Kingdom ★★☆☆
- The Matrix ★★★★
- The Matrix Revolutions ★☆☆☆
- The Matrix Reloaded ★★★★
- The Matrix Resurrections ★☆☆☆
- House of Gucci ★☆☆☆
- Goosebumps 2 ★☆☆☆
- Bird People ☆☆☆☆
- Before Midnight ★★★★