User:Golubjevaite/iwishicouldafford

about

• are you planning for an individual work or a collaboration (as in with another XPUB2)?
• what are the theories, concepts, frameworks you would like to engage with during the second years? (less is more)
• what are the practices, techniques you would like to focus on? (same)
• how do the last two relate to, inform, complement, or conflict with each other in a meaningful way?
• what is the issue you want to deal with (and/or damage, check again the queering damage questions, try answering them)
• what is the preferred medium or the media you are inclined to use next year?
• what kind of public do you intend to create?
• why is it relevant? (maybe overlapping, duplicate with the queering damage questions)

PROTOTYPING - project

starting point

READING & LISTENING & WATCHING

starting point

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• Technological Sovereignty vol.2 / link

" We need to continue weaving knowledge among hackers and peoples in order to decolonise the idea of technological sovereignty and exercise it from a position of autonomy. " (A seed sprouts when it is sown in fertile soil)

"Such trails become like paved roads in our brains, and it takes truckloads of dopamine to feel pleasure. At each step, the necessary dose has to be increased. This explains why drill is so effective, and why it generates addiction. The desire for pleasure related to an automatism, which amounts to compulsive behaviour, makes us enter into a repetitive loop getting out of which becomes increasingly difficult because the neural pathways that are always excited, will not be able to do anything else but get more and more powerful with the passage of time: beat-rhythm-repetition." (Digital governance)

• Erich Fromm - Escape from freedom

PROTOTYPING - xpub2

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IRC with Michael @ https://webchat.freenode.net/
> ##xpub channel
> pad / link

> Infobot

 git clone https://git.xpub.nl/XPUB/infobot.git 

to see the config file
ident > bot name > xpubbot
join_channels > ##xpub

cd info bot
cat conf/infobot.config
nano conf/infobot.config

run the script

 ./infobot 

> reading and copy-pasting "Infobots and Purl" by Kevin Lenzo

> GIT / python-irc-bots

GRS SEMINAR

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>>> pad: / link

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Project proposal outline:

1. What do you want to make?
a book, film, what duration, audience, specifics, clear specifics, shape , topic

2. How do you plan to make it?
how you will go about conducting your research, reading, making, writing.
how your project will come together

3. What is your timetable?
timeline
to show you know which steps to take

4. Why do you want to make it?
motivation, what drives you

5. Who can help you and how?
maybe your tutors, fellow students also ppl outside xpub

6. Relation to previous practice.

7. Relation to a larger context.
pieces of art, literature, practices that link to your work, how it connect to you.

8. References
according to the Harvard method.

- thesis as a parallel activity to the project
- medium as a reflection and production
- integral part of your practice
- project proposal 1500w - thesis 7000-8000w

forms:

• report on your research and practice - continuation of project proposal, doesn’t have to be theoretical

• an analythical essay exploring the rallied, artistic theoretical historical issues and practices that inform your practice.

• text as a body of creative written work, need to show research.

Homework: Hackpact : a mini prototype, sketch, gesture in relation to your project proposal
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Session with Marloes
>>> pad / link

> Show & Tell hackpact
my hackpact - navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia / Javascript dummie
webcam stream with filters and "take photo" function

> Proposal guidelines explanation
text for indoors for the assessment
short practical proposal

> Writing a draft proposal:

• What do you want to make?
  

- interactive web-based tool
- a performing website
- A/V/T&M (audio/ video/ text & more) poem
- external module/s that is connected to the website and can modify the web content

• How do you plan to make it?
  

- first to explore the existing options and get familiar with them from strictly technical side (what code it uses, how it is build up/created). To get some transpernacy about the field (JS , Python, web scrapping etc.)
- making fast-basic prototypes, that focuses on one aspect( video, audio, text, data, stream etc.)
- rethink the examples, fantasize, merge the single prototypes & get creative.
- let the making of the new tools direct the story for the project & vice versa.
- get to coding
- observe & write
- remix

• What is your timetable?
  

- oct -nov = research & first simple prototypes & write the project proposal
- dec = merge experiments
- jan - feb = get to coding & story
- march - april = remix
- may = finish

• Why do you want to make it?
  

- experiment with the concept of web-based artwork
- Technological autonomy x Artist autonomy
- regain autonomy over making & habits of technology
- have a better understanding about technology

• Who can help you and how?
  

- don’t know yet, all the teachers at the XPUB

• Relation to previous practice
  

- Special Issue 10 / module [SEVEN]
- ONLINE & IRL performance www.webleedlikeg.com

• Relation to a larger context
  

- Technological Sovereignty
- AI x Literature
- hackers as artists & artists as hackers
- software art

• References/bibliography
  

tbc

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homework:

annotated bibliography
homework next session (annotated bibliography: synopsis of 5 key works (literature, film, art) related to practice/research)

PY.RATE.CHNIC

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>>> pad: / link

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- coding together, online learning-together session, very basic prototypes as outcome (DOTADIW -- do one thing and do it well)
- specific, personalised tools making/ python / html