User:Kiara/Personal Reader
Resources from the classes
Methods Sessions
SI25 - Protocols for Collective Performance
- All Problems of Notation Will be Solved by the Masses: Free Open Form Performance, Free/Libre Open Source Software, and Distributive Practice, Simon Yuill, 2008 (11/09/2024)
- The Tyranny of Structurelessness, Jo Freeman, 1970-72 (09/10/2024)
- The Tyranny of Tyranny, Cathy Levine, 1979 (16/10/2024)
- Mainframe Experimentalism, Hannah B. Higgins & Douglas Kahn, 2012 (21/10/2024)
- Die Maschine, Georges Perec, 1972 (21/10/2024)
- The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling, Ted Chiang, 2013 (05/11/2024)
SI26 - Declarations
- Tactical Design, Nolwenn Maudet, 2022 (15/01/2025)
- Handmade Web, J.R. Carpenter, 2015 (05/02/2025)
- Indie Web | Nostalgia
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- Summary
- This talk/text is Carpenter's spell upon the webuser/webmakers to EVOKE HANDMADE WEB. She casts this spell by redefining web as a medium from her own experience and perspective.
- She explains web as a medium has unique properties of archiving, publishing and customization. Drifting through years of changes of web, the design and handmade properties keep getting lost in earlier versions. This is her suggestion for calling them back. She doesn't necessarily draw a strict line, but instead she makes us remember there was a way, and it is still out there for us to use. Opposite to Jo Freeman stating "this is the only way" she offers options to raise awareness rather than imposing her own way of thinking.
- She criticizes social web platforms or web-builders as a de-personalized version of previously colourful ("bright, rich, personal, slow and under construction") nature of the web.
- She creates a cookbook of body-presence breathed back into web design. She mentions appropriation and the links between physical and virtual (body, print) which are also topics addressed by (cyber)witches projects, which is why we use the word "spell" to refer to this text. It also has a magical structure → "I evoke the term 'handmade web' in order to..." as if she's calling an entity or a spirit of the web.
- Importance
- The text is tied to hand-coding websites. It takes a stance against delegation as a form of automation and AI, without even mentioning the topics. It is a good reference for everything tied to small web, indie web and the growing regain of interest for personal websites as a means of fighting the Big Tech. Even if I don't agree with everything and in my opinion it could dig deeper into the mentioned themes, it acts as a good starting point and reference for talking about those matters.
- Notes
- The part about physical body: I wish it to dig deeper into the metaphor, the examples she gives are interesting but seem like they could be more developed or questioned. Some projects go in this direction like cyberwitches, to reunite body and virtual. It was written in 2015, the cyberpunk and dystopian tech future stories were there, even in the 1990s actually so why not address the subject more???
- The correlation between print and DIY web culture: "when people got to the end they stopped reading because that’s the way books work"
- Connection to SI26: OWN YOUR WEB PRESENCE – be aware of the tools you use, the communities you're a part of, what you show (display) and how (position)
To read
- Basic HTML Competency is the New Punk-Folk Explosion, Zach Mandeville, 2016
- My Website is a Shifting House Next to a River of Knowledge. What could yours be?, Laurel Schwust, 2018
- A Vernacular Web, Olia Lialina, 2005
- A Dao of Web Design, John Allsopp, 2000
Recommendations
Lídia
Manetta
- Post-Print, N. Katherine Hayles
Research & Learning
Resources linked to the thesis research will be highlighted in honeydew
Texts
Community, collective and collaboration
Codes of conduct, conditions, rules
Working collectively?
Archiving
- DIY Web Archiving (maybe archiving can be a tool for communities?) – (from this Mastodon post)
Accessiblity and web ethics
A women's perspective
Programming & Websites: Making
Accessibility
- Building the most inaccessible site possible with a perfect lighthouse score, Manuel Matuzović, 2019
To read
- Subtitles, Closed Captions, and Open Captions: What's the Difference?, Ben Myers, 2024
- Not so short note on aria-label usage – Big Table Edition, stevef, 2024
- Accessible <section> in HTML
- Accessibility essentials, Martijn Hols
- Formations et ressources en accessibilité web et numérique, Timothée Goguely
Handmade Website Making
To read
- How to make a website, Henry Desroches, 2024
- Backing up websites
- How to make a damn website
CSS
- Old CSS, New CSS, eevee (Evelyn Woods), 2024
To read
- How to use SASS with CSS, Adalbert Pungu, 2022
- Relearn CSS Layout
- CSS Layout (Grid/Flex)
- Organizing with CSS cascade layers
Programming & Websites: Research
(re)Building the web
To read
- Fighting for our web, Molly White, 2024
- We need to rewild the Internet, Maria Farrell and Robin Berjon, 2024
- Cognition et design : Quand tout est biais, plus rien n'est biais, Baptiste Roullin, 2024
- Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound, Lori Emerson, 2014
- Ruined by design
- The revolution will be decentralized
Folk interfaces, Maggie Appleton
About Code
To read
AI
- Code is Law – On Liberty in Cyberspace, Lawrence Lessig, 2000
- Web 3 and AI, Jeremy Keith, 2023
- AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born, James Vincent, 2023
- AI is tearing Wikipedia apart, Claire Woodcock, 2023
- Du Web sémantique au Web synthétique, Olivier Ertzscheid, 2023 (FR)
- Penser et créer avec les IA génératives, Stéphane Botzmeyer, 2023
- Un modeste avis sur ChatGPT, Stéphane Bortmeyer, 2023
- Utiliser ChatGPT peut nous rendre plus performants, mais aussi plus idiots, Marine Protais, 2023
- About graphic design and automation, Tancrède Ottiger, 2021
- Automated Graphic Design, Fransisco Laranjo, 2016
- Automation threatens to make graphic designers obsolete, Rob Peart, 2016
- Réflexions provisoires liées aux intelligences artificielles, Étienne Mineur, 2022
- Intelligences artificielles et design dans les écoles en 2022, Étienne Mineur, 2022
- Artists say AI image generators are copying their style to make thousands of new images – and it’s completely out of their control, Beatrice Nolan, 2022
- Les limites de l'IA, travaux pratiques, Bertrand Rouzies, 2023
To read
- Pourquoi je n'utilise pas ChatGPT, Florence Maraninchi
Tools & Hardware
- Rage Against the Machine, Alva Noë, 2024
To read
- Adapter la revue Curseurs à paged.js, Delyo/dobody
- Ergo-L, Fabien Cazenave, 2024
Le statut d'entrepreneur salarié au sein d'une CAE, Timothée Goguely
Video Media
- PixelPalooza 2024
- Death of the follower & the future of creativity on the web
- For-Profit (creative) Software, EndVertex, 16-03-2025 (watched: 28-03-2025)
- Creative Software | Business | Big Tech | Tools
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- Summary
- EndVertex is a 3D artist making videos on YouTube (I didn't know them before this video).
- In this +1 hour video, they describe and detail their journey and struggles around 3D-creation software. The video is about monopolies, the switch to subscription-based plans and the importance to find the right tool and support it however you can/want to. The video is quite pessimistic but a good overview of the state of the design tool marketplace...
- Importance
- Subscriptions are annoying, Free/Libre Open Source Software are a good alternative, we should donate them the money we don't put in subscriptions to keep them alive
- Notes
- How different websites looked in the 90s, "the problem with uniqueness is it can confuse people" so now we have design "rules", like templates and everything looks the same – design patterns (23:03)
Talks
- What it Means to be Open, Lu Wilson, 10-10-2024 (listened: 03-2025)
- Programming | Open Source | Workflow | Community
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- Summary
- Lu Wilson works at tl;draw and gave a talk at Clojure in 2024 about their journey into programming and open licensing. In this 40mn talk, they explain how they got into programming and their adventure with the forums and open source community. They emphasize the need to cut the self-censoring because yes, there will always be someone out there to code-shame you (as in "your code is shit you should be ashamed") but it shouldn't prevent you from finding a job and creating a community of your own.
- Importance
- The way Lu built a whole community by publishing their work daily, then weekly on social media is very inspiring. Being open is above all being open minded and self-caring. This community building was not even intended, the first intention was to push themselves to create, experiment and keep a habit to work and go further in learning and skills. In the end it drew people towards their work and people starting interacting and adding to it. Everything they create is open source.
- Notes
- 404 NOT FOUND
- Un web moins nul est-il possible ?, Internet Exploreuses, 25-12-2024 (listened: 02-06-2025)
- Programming | Open Source | Workflow | Community
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- Summary
- Internet Exploreuses is a monthly show broadcast on Twitch and uploaded to Youtube and as a podcast. It is created and led by Lucie Ronfaut and Héloïse Linossier. With this show, they question various sides and topics tied to Internet and its culture. In this episode, they focus on one question: "Is a less lame web possible?" and invited Pauline Ferrari as a guest to discuss the topic.
- Importance
- Notes
- Téléréalité et réseaux sociaux : un duo gagnant ?, Internet Exploreuses, 19-02-2024 (listened: 03-06-2025)
- Web | Internet | Social Media | Community
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- Summary
- Importance
- Notes
- "La dernière" du 25 mai 2025, Radio Nova, 25-05-2025 (listened: 01-06-2025)
- Languages | Sarcasm | Critical views | Community
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- Summary
- Importance
- Notes
Outside Bibliography
Texts
- Résister à la culpabilisation, Mona Chollet, 2024
- House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski, 2001
- Give it to me!, La Rata, 2024
To read
- The house without windows, Barbara Newhall Follett
- The seven dials mystery, Agatha Christie
- A mirror for witches, Esther Forbes
Video Media
Videos
TV Shows
- The Office, 2005
- Daria, 1997
- Gotham, 2015
- Mr. Robot, 2015
- Pose, 2018
- Queen's Gambit, 2020
- Charmed, 1998
- The I.T. Crowd, 2006
- Las Chicas del Cable, 2017
- The Haunting, 2018
- Sherlock, 2010
- Six Feet Under, 2001
- The X-Files, 1993
- Sense8, 2015
- Dexter, 2006
- Murder, she Wrote
- And then there were none, 2015
- The reboots of Pretty Little Liars (nostalgia hitting here)
To watch
...
Movies
- Woman of the Hour, 2024
- Respect, 2021
- L'amour Ouf, 2024
- Suspiria, 1977
- Enola Holmes, 2020
- Pretty much anything from the Alice in Wonderland universe
- Nosferatu, 1922
- The Guilty, 2021
- Snowden, 2016
- All the Batman movies with Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, Christian Bale and Robert Pattinson
- Sherlock Holmes, 2010
- Asteroid City, 2023
- Wonka, 2023
- Da Vinci Code, 2006
- Death on the Nile, 2022
- Split, 2017
- Suzume, 2023
- Donnie Darko, 2004
- Murder on the Orient Express, 2017
- Constantine, 2005
- The Masque of the Red Death, 1964
To watch
- Scorpion
- Emilia Pérez
- Anora
Listen
- Death of the Follower & the Future of Creativity on the Web, Jack Conte at SXSW 2024
- Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation, Cory Doctorow at DEF CON 32, 2024
- The mazy web, Stuart Langridge at State of the Browser 2024
- Que peut-on institutionnaliser dans la langue française ?, France Culture, 21-11-2024
- CSS est un langage graphique, Graphic Matter & Julie Blanc
Other
- A stereo extractor, Yann van der Cruyssen, 2024
- The Pervasive Labor Union, Lídia Pereira, 2015
Some leads on research topics?
About community
- On social media -- Is wikipedia a social media? is it the only one still alive through the earthquakes of internet? brought by the discussion here
- FLOSS, getting away from GAFAM and proprietary software, active participation to ethical design circles → building and maintaining a server on a RaspberryPi; dual-booting
- About documenting, sharing as a practice and way of working / Building community around practices -- Linking back to Lu Wilson's talk "What it means to be open" and the T2 Assessment feedback | Practices shape community shape practices (ref to Doriane's sticker)
- The same issue is raised at every PPP meeting: the publishing workflow is hard to change to turn it into single-source publishing because of habits. Nobody has an answer to get that to work. Snippets of conversation at PPPirates (04-2025):
- "We need more examples, toolkits and projects to show those people the benefits of it" (Timothée)
- "The question about power and who holds it in a project" (Quentin)
- "It is a really present issue and we need to talk about it, what are the tools to talk about it? Do we need to write together about it? Medor manages for years now, the tools we have are so ready, we can set up workflows but it needs a change of tools but also of thinking. Maybe we need to publish about it? How can we be in solidarity with each other?" (Manetta)
- "The people are aware of the tools they use but they're used to it and it can be violent to tell them they're working the wrong way. Another approach is using InDesign with the pandoc plugin then you can control the output and make websites, e-pubs or whatever you want" (Yann)
- "But the people using this InDd workflow also work physically together and share the same habits about layout and design practices so that's why it works!" (Quentin)
- The way art schools teach only proprietary software –even in WdKA, while hosting XPUB and so many DIY workshops– (idea brought by this mastodon post)
- Patience | Learning. Making puzzles. Coding and debugging (links to the Handmade Web text by JR Carpenter and her praising of smallness and slowness as key points of the handmade web). Designing. Writing. Reading. Relationships. Activism. Making a change. Taking part/Taking action. Maintaining. It is all around us. Zoning out. Attention deficit. Daydreaming. How they communicate, intertwine, fail. Automation. Tricks. Hacks. Getting around the issues?
- About slowness - discussion on Executing Micro-Temporality: if the throbber appears I'm just closing the page, I'm not going to wait for that! and our relationship towards instantaneity against patience/taking the time
A day with Pippin Barr & Jaret Vadera
Questions to answer
- How do you currently document your design/artistic practice? Could you bring or describe a specific example in class? How do you feel about the way you do it right now logistically?
- I don't really document per se, I do have my own website and try to write in this wiki as much as I can but most of the time I don't think about doing it or am a bit lazy of doing it. So I tend to take a few hours a month to implement new content. I feel like I should document more actively but at the same time it's not much of a reflex or rooted practice for me... So I also don't have any precise example besides the website and wiki :)
- What is your approach to reflecting on your design/artistic practice? Could you bring an example of how you have made a specific design decision?"
- ...?
Ideas and concepts
- Use git's version control for writing → a nice way of tracking progress and having a clear overview
- Write in Markdown which can also allow for online publication via a static site generator like hugo :)
- Branching as trials and errors → learn more how to use it
- Does documentation need to be very plain and to the point or is it relevant to include emotions in it? In the end, it is part of the process...