Themsen/PD2

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+ = mischief managed


2015-04-15

+ Write "short" text on background of personal motivation which lead me to Piet Zwart

+ Organize & add content to user wiki page according to frame of RWRM module

+Write description of most recent work

  • What
  • How
  • Why

+Write research strands, add links to related content

+Write description of future work

  • What
  • How
  • Why

+ Screen record session in Conway's Game of Life

+ Use 'Cookbook' on PZI Wiki to learn about Image using Python

+ Organize presentation about chosen media objects according to notes in sketchbook

  • +Extend on/type interpretation of Heidegger into .txt document ( I made a recording of + + Conway's Game of Life as I typed into it)
  • +Visit and document at www.electricsheep.org

2015-04-16

+ Present work on (media) object according to illuminations of Heidegger

+ Use 'Cookbook' on PZI Wiki to learn about Image using Python

+ Read the appropriate paragraphs in chapters 5-7 of the Handbook for protocol and criteria.

+ Use 'Cookbook' on PZI Wiki to learn about Image using Python (root & imagemagick, installing pip)


2015-04-17

10:00-11:00


  • + Check on cultivation of mushroom colony (still nothing... recolonize?)
  • + Check on plant cultivation (1 plant survived the germination period)

11:00-13:00


  • + Extend on daily short aims list
  • + Add daily short aims list to PZI wiki

13:00-15:00 (16:19 - took longer than 2 hours)


  • Buy for current practice:
Sterilized injection needle
Liquid latex
+Glue gun
Spray can (white)
Arduino/Raspberry Pi for video/audio installation
Metal thread (iron/steel)for shell
+Plastic boxes, rectangular translucent
+Sealant spray
+Working gloves
+Protective glasses

15:00-18:00


  • +Upload photographed mushroom sketches, link PDF in WIKI
  • +Scan mushroom sketches in PZI scanner, send to email
  • +Edit photographed mushroom sketches in Photoshop (contrast/light, levels, desaturate)
  • +Upload scanned sketches to PZI Wiki page, name it "Monumental Mushroom Sketches"

18:00-19:30


  • +Ask Joseph/Julie/Manetta about montage python script (Joseph helping @ circa 20:00)

19:30-21:00


*Outside event: 20:00 - 22:00 Printroom - On Pixels and Cathedrals: http://www.printroom.org/

21:00-00:00


Relax, buddy.


2015-04-18

13:00 - 15:00

  • Buy for current practice:
Sterilized injection needle
Liquid latex
Spray can (white)
Arduino/Raspberry Pi for video/audio installation
Metal thread (iron/steel)for shell

  • Print former PZI projects

  • Use 'Cookbook' on PZI Wiki to learn about Image using Python
  • +Download and setup python module Montage

Relax, buddy.

2015-04-19

  • See video on appliance of liquid latex to plastic/metal surfaces
  • Build static dummy (got no metal wire - delayed)

  • Tie former PZI projects to current practice
  • Analyze former practice's relation to current practice and future practice
What
How
Why
  • Extend on current practice: mushroom junk sculpture's description
What
How
Why
  • Extend on current practice: mushroom sketches' description
What
How
Why
  • Relate mushroom sketch practice to sculpture practice
What
How
Why
  • Relate current practice to future practice.
  • Extend on future practice: media fungi's description
What
How
Why


Unassigned

  • Borrow videocamera, perhaps tripod
  • Record mushroom sketch session on camera
  • Upload and link electricsheep.org & conway's game of life-video to An Encyclopdia of Media Objects, as 'Anti-Heideggerian'
  • Print texts Latour & Garcia
  • Read texts for An Encyclopedia of Media Objects, Latour & Garcia [[1]]

  • Study Solange's practice on her WIKI page for interview at RWRM next week
What
How
Why
  • Study Allyson's practice on her WIKI page for interview at RWRM next week
What
How
Why
  • Reread Annette's tips on interviewing
  • Write questions (double the amount you'll need)

  • Use 'Cookbook' on PZI Wiki to learn about Image using Python
  • Download and setup python module Montage (20150417-19:18 = can't install Montage for some reason)
  • Ask Joseph/Julie/Manetta about montage python script

  • Upload everything necessary to last day's work on my student Wiki
  • Continue working on adding further links to outlines of RWRM text
  • Extend on current practice's relation to past practice and vice versa