User:Jacopo/final-presentation

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  • your individual contributions to the special issues,
  • the development of your reading/writing practice across the 2 years,
  • the development of your prototyping practice across the 2 years,
  • your thesis (only a brief overview for context, as this has been assessed separately in depth),
  • your final work and research in the second year,
  • plans for final publication and grad show (with the understanding that you will continue to work on this after the assessment)




Year 1

Wor(l)ds for the Future

SPECIAL ISSUE 13

Facing Licensing for the first time. First time approaching re-publishing issues. How to preserve – expand – publish external resources/contributions? > Otherness by Daniel L. Everett.

Extract from You, the others – Wor(l)ds for the Future

Individual contribution

Using black <input> form to delete nouns and places from the narration, and at the same time making the room for subjectivising the given essay.

1 person -> 1 interpretation of the reality
∞ people -> ∞ interpretations of the reality
The reality is the cohexistence of all perspectives
Otherness= individual1+individual2+.. = Oneness
Embracing the Otherness

Embracing the Otherness means understanding our part in the given system of the world.

I created 3 web pages using Python. Pandoc has been used to translate markdown files into .HTML pages, but also to layout the printed version of the same pages.

  • Demystifying HTML, .css
  • Getting used to Python
  • Web2print, Markdown, Pandoc

Woa!I didn't know I can make a printed publication out of a webpage!

Collective

Contextual Team + Design Team

I Don't Know Where We're Going, But..

SPECIAL ISSUE 14
I Don’t Know Where We’re Going But…"is a local networked city quest based in The Hague.
Playing with cities' elements and infrastructures.
* The City as a Playground

The publishing process become a means for distributing (not-only) knowledge and the constitution of a public space of deliberation, where different points of social intersection could come across. Pleasure, intrigue and playfulness together in a "beautiful distribution" which embraces site-specificness as a method to re-approach the possibilities for sharing and assimilating contents.

Individual Contribution

  • Python, Open CV.
  • Warming up with Raspberry Pi
  • Getting used to the Terminal
  • Create a Local Area Network
  • Making a server out of the Raspberry Pi

Contingent networks as a space for publishing.

Collective

Radio Implicancies

SPECIAL ISSUE 15

Year 2

"Living itself exists in forms that must be questioned, rearranged, mobilized, and undone."
N. Thompson, Living as a Form, 2012

Artistic practice can no longer revolve around the construction of objects to be consumed by a passive bystander. Instead, there must be an an art of action, interfacing with reality, taking steps-however small-to repair the social bond.
N. Thompson, Living as a Form

from object-oriented design to collective tools. > addressing issues > ways of co-operating and translate the local boundaries > addressing earthly coexistence based on cult-rural, community life.