SI23 /table/ Loading: Feminist Server...

A card-browser game!

Get a card, type the command in the browser. Receive an interpretation of its function, a connected feminist concept and instructions to execute. Serve and be served as you turn into a feminist server yourself by playing and interacting with the cards both online or one-on-one in the space.

Central to the project is the analogy between software and the material world. This allows for an exploration of the interaction between online and offline environments, and making conscious how this interaction shapes us.
The performative and educational elements are the means of this exploration, as the game invites actions in the physical space.

Through self-reflective and relational qualities, it calls upon the feminist method and literature. A reconsideration of words with a set meaning will occur while playing. The player(s) will get acquainted with important computational terms and commands, which enable associations extending beyond the terminal, into the social and eventually the personal spheres.

Interact with the browser part of the game:
Check: https://hub.xpub.nl/chopchop/si-23-website-table/

Our project

physical space:
Card decks
Thermal printer
Screen with browser game (+ mouse + keyboard)

technical space:
Browser game on chopchop (xpub1 server)
Chopchop connected to printer

content space:
Cards with command and description
Browser command line and players receiving commands
Text adding informational layer behind cards (in browser? printed?)
Instructions/documentation on how to play

Meeting - Feedback:
How much guidance do people need?
How long do they have to play/ make sure what the goal of the station is?
Where is the explaination/introduction to the station, how is it displayed?



Texts explored

Star, S.L. (1994) 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)
Feminist Server Manifesto https://areyoubeingserved.constantvzw.org/Summit_afterlife.xhtml

[ k i l l ] ━━━━━━━━━━━ The necessity of the end

[ z o m b i e ] ━━━━━━━━ An empty, wandering hull

[ d e m o n ] ━━━━━━━━━━ Invisible and invincible

[ s e r v e r ] ━━━━━━━ A wish is no one's command

[ p a r e n t ] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Every creator

[ c l i e n t ] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Asking is an art

[ n i c e ] ━━━━━━━ Sometimes you just shouldn't be

[ g h o s t ] ━━━━━ In case the real thing goes missing

[ i n t e r r u p t ] ━ Sometimes you can't avoid being rude

[ e c h o ] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Just checking

[ a l i a s ] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Making it short

[ l e s s ] ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Sometimes it's more

[ t a i l ] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The latest gossip

[ t o u c h ] ━━━━━ Changing time and making space

[ h i s t o r y ] ━━━━━━━━━━━ It is often repeated

[ u n a m e ] ━━━━━ Sometimes you just have to know

[ w h i c h ] ━━━ The right question leads to the right path

[ s h r e d ] ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Like it never existed

[ k i l l ] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Define a negative thought and ask it to stop

[ z o m b i e ] ━━━━━━━━ Think of a past event that still takes up space in your mind

[ d e m o n ] ━━━━━━━━━ Think of all the unconscious processes that run your body

[ s e r v e r ] ━━━━━━ Give what someone asks for only when they use the right words

[ g h o s t ] ━━━━━━ Give something that represents you to someone you care about

[ p a r e n t ] ━ Formulate an idea and let it spread. Congratulations, you are a parent now

[ i n t e r r u p t ] ━ Distract someone for a second and notice how this affects their actions

[ c l i e n t ] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Go to the kitchen and ask for food

[ n i c e ] ━━━━ When you're asked to do something, first do something more important

[ e c h o ] ━━━━━━━━━━━ Choose a sentence you hear in the room and repeat it

[ a l i a s ] ━━━━━━━ Choose one of your complex thoughts and give it a simple name

[ l e s s ] ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Take a snack, break it in smaller bites and eat it slowly

[ t a i l ] ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Ask a friend what they were doing just a moment ago

[ t o u c h ] ━━━━━━━━━ Go to the shelves. Don't touch anything but mark the time

[ h i s t o r y ] ━━ Go to the kitchen and make a (mental) list of the latest clients' requests

[ u n a m e ] ━━━━━━━━━━━ Ask someone to describe themselves in a few words

[ w h i ch ] ━━ Take a look at the info you received at the entrance and locate the shelves

[ s h r e d ] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Rip this paper until no one can read it

Loading: Feminist Server... is part of Special Issue 23 within the framework of Xpub1 projects for the academic year 2023/24.
Alessia, Anita, Bernadette and Maria worked on this, yes! ৻( •̀ ᗜ •́ ৻)

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