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== WEEK 1 ==
== [[User:Berna Bereit SI22|Special Issue '22]]==
Title: '''Radio Worm: Protocols for an Active Archive'''


=== Monday 18 September ===
''Time: Sep 2023 - Dec 2023''


* meeting at [https://worm.org/projects/radio-worm/ Radio WORM] — visiting the studio, learning about the history of WORM, closer look at the film-lab
"Students from the Piet Zwart Institute's Experimental Publishing Master (XPUB) explore and create techno-social protocols for potential active archives of Radio WORM while making radio themselves." [<nowiki/>[[Radio Worm: Protocols for an Active Archive]]]
* introduction to project " Radio Worm: Protocols for an Active Archive"
* experimenting with cassett recorder — listening to old tapes; rewrite tapes; record live radio, experiment with it
* introduction to [https://aporee.org/maps/ Radio Aporee] and small task: find a field recording of a place you've been before (schrammsteine.mp3); record the metadata (metadata-berna-bereit.mp3) and connect a memory with this place (memory-berna-bereit.mp3); ''result:'' [[/week 1: field recording]]
* finding the first 3 caretakers for first radio show — Maria, Victor and me


=== Tuesday 19 September ===
As part of archiving I documented my process and thoughts on SI22.
== [[User:Berna Bereit SI23|Special Issue '23]]==
Title: '''Quilting Infrastructures'''


* kick-start into first radio show — [https://pad.xpub.nl/p/SI22-shownotes-week1 shownotes]
''Time: Jan 2024 - March 2024''


[[File:P9190420.jpg|thumb|405x405px|Maria, Victor and Bernadette @ Radio WORM; photo: Florian Cramer]]
"In this special issue, we will look at trans*feminist, art and community servers from different perspectives, highlighting the seamful processes that run through them and bring patches, tools and practices together. Together we will be working with the notion of quilting as methodology and conceptual framework, considering quilts as multi-layered structures that are built from a patchwork of different fabrics and have visible seams which bring together a variety of textures and materials.
<blockquote>''"For the purposes of promoting the radio slot we will be using. Ash asked for a title, description, and image for promotion. These can be adapted and changed over the weeks! [[User:Michael Murtaugh|Michael Murtaugh]] ([[User talk:Michael Murtaugh|talk]]) 19:25, 14 September 2023 (CEST)''


''Title: '''Radio Worm: Protocols for an Active Archive'''''
The focus on seams reminds us that infrastructures are often built in relation to each other, and rarely from scratch. They "often collide: their seams are visible in their many edges, endings, and exclusions. [...] As a guiding metaphor, seams draw our attention to those places where multiple infrastructures are stitched together to achieve fleeting, nonstable, even ephemeral moments of alignment." (Vertesi, 268)


''Description: Students from the Piet Zwart Institute's Experimental Publishing Master (XPUB) explore and create techno-social protocols for potential active archives of Radio WORM while making radio themselves.''
Together, we will take stock of the servers we surround ourselves with, or are surrounded by, and we will stitch a collective quilt of server connections, processes, interfaces and interventions. In this process, we will make public the innards of the labour, collective processes and decisions that are integral to community-run servers through various interventions, while reflecting on the implications of opening up these shared spaces to a public. We will dedicate time to learning from the early developments of community servers all the way to more recent work, each with their own specific contexts, scales, motivations and politics. In this process, we will also pay close attention to the reasons why some of these projects end, and the traces that continue to exist beyond the limits of promises, labour capacities and budgets." [<nowiki/>[[Quilting infrastructures]]]


XPUB is the Master of Arts in Fine Art and Design: Experimental Publishing of the Piet Zwart Institute. XPUB focuses on the acts of making things public and [[creating publics]] in the age of [[post-digital]] networks.
As part of this trimesters topic we are induvidually and collectively working on web pages. Each week we will add a new page to the web quilt. So as part of the archiving process, I will document each web page viusally with comments rather then solely writing text/notes.


XPUB’s interests in publishing are therefore twofold: first, publishing as the inquiry and participation into the technological frameworks, political context and cultural processes through which things are made public; and second, how these are, or can be, used to create publics. Source: [[XPUB]]''" ([[Radio Worm: Protocols for an Active Archive (Week 1)|read whole page]])''</blockquote>
== Formative Integrated Assessment ==
At the end of the second trimester each student is asked to give a 15 minute presentation about their contributions to the special issue 22 & 23 as well as personal projects that happend simulateousely to the course.


I choose to make a pdf allowing me to include images and screenshots and to apply my personal visual style. As part of this documentation you can download the pdf here: https://hub.xpub.nl/chopchop/~bernabereit/assessment.html
== [[User:Berna Bereit SI24|Special Issue '24]]==
Title: '''ON LOITERING and other forms of in-situ computation'''


Collection of words describing my experience (not sorted):
''Time: April 2024 - June 2024''


''familiar // experimental // tape // volume // mixer // ai jingle // reading // explaining // structured structurlessness // memo of memories // youtube cats''
"A proposal to observe and engage with the city in its shifting technological and social contexts, by spending time in public and semi-private spaces, finding ways to execute digital and performative scripts, encountering inhabitants and other forms of life, interacting with ubiquitous computing in the wild." [<nowiki/>[[ON LOITERING and other forms of in-situ computation|ON LOITERING]]]
[[File:230919 xpub-user-created.png|thumb|679x679px|created my own user on our server]]
 
* setting up first server
* but our server needs a name '''tba.'''
 
=== Wednesday 20 September ===
 
* talking about methods of annotating and reflecting on our own way of annotating
* collective reading of "'''[https://pad.xpub.nl/p/PostscriptControlSocieties Postscript on the Societies of Control]"''' by Gilles Deleuze (1992) — taking notes and discussing them
* after that split into four groups; in my group we read '''"[https://pad.xpub.nl/p/AnnotateDataset'sRuins On the data set’s ruins]"''' by Nicolas Malevé (2020)
* afterwards reflecting on different methods of annotating
 
 
Further links: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY ''The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)'']''// [https://diversions.constantvzw.org/wiki/index.php?title=Eventual_Consistency Eventual Consistency by Michael Murtaugh] // [https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo3773600.html From Counterculture to Cyberculture by Fred Turner (2006)]''
 
== WEEK 2 ==
 
=== Monday 25 September ===
 
* meeting at Radio WORM — technical introduction on how to use the studio for everyone; in the meantime Michael tried to copy the digital archive but it crashed; with some help they managed to leave no damage and Michael could save some of the files for our project — the archive is massive and messed-up
* back in the studio we decided on a name for our server with a method introduced by Manetta: [https://pad.xpub.nl/p/naming-the-pi collecting names in pad]; split in groups of 2; couple up with another group and at the end all groups meet again to present their decision — the server name is '''''[https://hub.xpub.nl/chopchop/ CHOPCHOP]'''''
* afterwards we further set up the server; everyone has their own folder and webpage no; we learned more commands for the terminal and made ourselves familiar with the environment
* in the evening I did the Barthes prerecording for the second radio show; everyone read one part of the text '''"[[BarthesRadio|The Death of the Author]]"''' by Roland Barthes (1967)
 
=== Tuesday 26 September ===
 
* we listended to the show and took notes — [https://pad.xpub.nl/p/SI22-shownotes-week2 shownotes] [[https://pad.xpub.nl/p/worm_reflections here are now all the collected feedbacks]]
* we then started to set up our coding environment and connected the server so we are able to upload files and started with html/css
* the group was split in 2; one half got an introduction on html and the other half which I was part of tried to brainstorm about a possible soundboard using the WORM archive
* Thijs and Riviera were already working on a set-up so they can work at the same time in one html file — we then tried to work with 7 people in one file but it didn't work out :D
 
 
Further links: [https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/2528/ProtocolHow-Control-Exists-after-Decentralization ''Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization by Alexander R. Galloway (2004)''] ''// [https://monoskop.org/images/5/58/Franklin_Ursula_The_Real_World_of_Technology_1990.pdf The Real World of Technology by Ursula Franklin (1989)] // [https://www.wnyc.org/story/hearing-subway-1/?utm_source=pocket_saves Hearing the Subway] // [https://vvvvvvaria.org/curriculum/In-the-Beginning-...-Was-the-Commandline/READER.html?utm_source=pocket_saves In The Beginning ... Was The Command Line by Varia]'' // [https://constantvzw.org/site/-Collective-Conditions,220-.html?lang=en?w=https://constantvzw.org/wefts/ccreader.en.html Collective Conditions by Constant] // [https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C118930 Radiotext(e) by Neil Strauss and Dave Mandl (1993)]
 
== WEEK 3 ==
 
=== Monday 2 October ===
''<small>me being 30min late</small>''
*catch up and introduction to upcoming events: Zine Camp @ Worm 4th-5th November
*the caretakers for tomorrows show are asking the rest of the group for contributions ''<small><sup>my homework for today</sup></small>''
*small discussion about the 3 text and sharing our thoughts
*afterwards input on transmission and streaming
*experimenting in different groups: radio, stream, podcast
*it was harder to broadcast than expected
 
=== Tuesday 3 October ===
 
*I listened to the radio show from home and tried to enter the jitsi call but my microphone didn't work :( this happens quite often ''<sup>my homework for somewhen</sup>''
*in the afternoon we experimented with speakers, microphones, mixers, piazza modules, ventilators — we recorded some piece
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=== Wednesday 4 October ===
 
*we took the time to finish the texts that we started 2 weeks ago
*my evaluation
**it took us longer than expected - that's because we read each section silently and then took the time to talk about it
**it was good to fully understand the text at the same time it takes way longer then reading it first and then discussing the whole text
**luckily there was an abstract and a conclusion - so at the end we were still able to collect the most important informations and connect them to our SI22
*afterwards we started a big mindmap on which we are collecting all the topics that we talked about so far in the past 4 weeks - it is meant to give us an overview and connect everything
*at the end the goal is to create a glossary
*the mindmap is now part of our studio
 
=== Friday 6 October ===
*today I went to the studio and met Thijs and later Riviera and Alessia
*we spontaneously took the time to rearrange the studio space so everyone has a workplace, maybe some space in one of the shelves to leave stuff and a space where we can meet and work together
*later on Victor joined as well and Michel was there too
*now we want to collect plants and small things to make the space more cozy and less like a callcenter

Latest revision as of 10:54, 9 April 2024

ABOUT

Bernadette Geiger explores in her design practice the impact of technologies on society, in particular artificial intelligence, automation, and labor. Here, the focus is on exploring possibilities outside of current paradigms - whether they are paradigms of aesthetics, usage, technology, or economic boundaries. Her work results from the combination of sound, image and text, digital and analog.

More informations here

Special Issue '22

Title: Radio Worm: Protocols for an Active Archive

Time: Sep 2023 - Dec 2023

"Students from the Piet Zwart Institute's Experimental Publishing Master (XPUB) explore and create techno-social protocols for potential active archives of Radio WORM while making radio themselves." [Radio Worm: Protocols for an Active Archive]

As part of archiving I documented my process and thoughts on SI22.

Special Issue '23

Title: Quilting Infrastructures

Time: Jan 2024 - March 2024

"In this special issue, we will look at trans*feminist, art and community servers from different perspectives, highlighting the seamful processes that run through them and bring patches, tools and practices together. Together we will be working with the notion of quilting as methodology and conceptual framework, considering quilts as multi-layered structures that are built from a patchwork of different fabrics and have visible seams which bring together a variety of textures and materials.

The focus on seams reminds us that infrastructures are often built in relation to each other, and rarely from scratch. They "often collide: their seams are visible in their many edges, endings, and exclusions. [...] As a guiding metaphor, seams draw our attention to those places where multiple infrastructures are stitched together to achieve fleeting, nonstable, even ephemeral moments of alignment." (Vertesi, 268)

Together, we will take stock of the servers we surround ourselves with, or are surrounded by, and we will stitch a collective quilt of server connections, processes, interfaces and interventions. In this process, we will make public the innards of the labour, collective processes and decisions that are integral to community-run servers through various interventions, while reflecting on the implications of opening up these shared spaces to a public. We will dedicate time to learning from the early developments of community servers all the way to more recent work, each with their own specific contexts, scales, motivations and politics. In this process, we will also pay close attention to the reasons why some of these projects end, and the traces that continue to exist beyond the limits of promises, labour capacities and budgets." [Quilting infrastructures]

As part of this trimesters topic we are induvidually and collectively working on web pages. Each week we will add a new page to the web quilt. So as part of the archiving process, I will document each web page viusally with comments rather then solely writing text/notes.

Formative Integrated Assessment

At the end of the second trimester each student is asked to give a 15 minute presentation about their contributions to the special issue 22 & 23 as well as personal projects that happend simulateousely to the course.

I choose to make a pdf allowing me to include images and screenshots and to apply my personal visual style. As part of this documentation you can download the pdf here: https://hub.xpub.nl/chopchop/~bernabereit/assessment.html

Special Issue '24

Title: ON LOITERING and other forms of in-situ computation

Time: April 2024 - June 2024

"A proposal to observe and engage with the city in its shifting technological and social contexts, by spending time in public and semi-private spaces, finding ways to execute digital and performative scripts, encountering inhabitants and other forms of life, interacting with ubiquitous computing in the wild." [ON LOITERING]