User:Kendal/radioimplicancies
If technological systems are implicated in the structuring of knowledge and knowledge systems are implicated in how technology operates … how do we start to think the world otherwise?!
"We understand the world better if we tremble with it" - Edouard Glissant
Background + Explorations
NB: > denotes big interest in this idea.
- We know that technology orients knowledge and constrains what world(s) can be thought, studied, imagined and critiqued. But where do we start when we want to do things differently?
- Toolset for ‘thinking the world’ by paying attention to both matter and form. >
- What other ways of calculating, validating, ordering collections of digital material could emerge? >
- Entangled forms of responsibility.
- Possibility of webs of connections. >
- Objects do not preexist their intertwined worldings. >
- Agency is not an attribute but the ongoing reconfiguring of the world.
- Particular material articulations of the world become meaningful.
- To breathe life into ever new possibilities for living justly. >
- How datafication contributes to ‘iteratively’ re-inscribing the ‘Digital Divide'. >
- Firstly, consider geo-political and body-political orientation when designing, building, researching or theorizing about computing phenomena.
RELEASE EARLY, RELEASE OFTEN
Knockdown the cathedral building style of development and switch it out to bazaar building. Float multiple distributions
Related Projects
- https://mimionuoha.com/the-library-of-missing-datasets Mimi Onuoha - The Library of Missing Datasets (2016)
- https://mimionuoha.com/what-is-missing Mimi Onouha - What is Missing Is Still There (2018)
ONLINE EXPLORATION SPACE
https://hub.xpub.nl/sandbot/~kendalb/SI15/notes.html
DIFFRACTIVE READING
- Melanie Feinberg (2014), A Story Without End: Writing the Residual into Information Infrastructure
- Ramon Amaro (2019), Artificial intelligence: Warped, colorful forms and their unclear geometries
Prototyping
First try with Liquid Soap: https://hub.xpub.nl/sandbot/SI15/radio.html
- collectivity through tools
- hacking files
- text algorithms
- wordnet
- xdexing (rethinking the format of the index)
15.1
Reinterpreting 'She Unnames Them' by Ursula K Le Guin
15.2
TF-IDF
Measuring the frequency of words within a collection of documents. Certain words are emphasised, shown as more important?
15.3
Working With Datasets
Datasets and what is left out. Clip graveyard of Mozilla Voice
15.4
Pure Data
First Test
Making Sounds
Testing patches
Broadcasts
15.1
Text in a Virtual World w/ Louisa
15.2
XPUB Department of Digital Records w/ Euna
ASCII - characters hold weight but are worthless without the white space.
ASCII Villages, manifesto village, they work in relation to each other
TF-IDF - emphasized words the contrast in a text in terms of font-size Also playing with colour to add tones of humanity
the manifesto will be flat if it is not being surrounded by others, explore how we can remove small parts of the ‘village’ to highlight the relations and differences, removing text files changes the TF-IDF result
philosophical algorithms - speaks to a wider question of the need for multiple to have weight and difference.
A space of digital records.
Relistening to the broadcast - Pad
15.3
Field Recording - Clip Graveyard
Datasets and what is left out.
15.4
The Act of Untethering.
The Word of Unbinding, adapted radio play using pure data.
15.5
Broken Phone
Exercises in Style, retelling the story through distorted voices.
15.6
Sobramesa
Collective Meditation and the critique of methods.
15.7
XPUB Cookbook
Online zine. Advert of 'The Hidden Oracle', incorporating an explanation and brief demo reading.
15.8
XPUB LAND
A live stream from the garden in Ijzerblock, A collection of previous broadcasts with the whole storyline revealed
SCREENSHOTS
Broadcast 1
Broadcast 2
Broadcast 3
Broadcast 4
Broadcast 5
Broadcast 6
Broadcast 7
Broadcast 8
