User:Michel W/Trimester II Assessment

Special Issue22🥀

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As an artist, you have to do it yourself, not let the industry doing for you.

At the outset of Special Issue 22, we gathered at Worm, engaging with various artists as they shared their thoughts. This particular sentence resonated powerfully with me as it aligns closely with one of my core beliefs as an artist.

Throughout Special Issue 22: Radio Worm: Protocols for an Active Archive, I had the opportunity to explore and participate in various forms of "publishing." For instance, I gained insights into creating experimental radio shows within small groups. On October 10th, Alessia, Zuzu, and I broadcasted a radio show titled "Destroy Protocol" at Worm. Additionally, I organized a ⊹Protocol Meditation⊹ online event, guiding participants on achieving peace of mind while contemplating the true essence of archives through therapeutic methods. Furthermore, we incorporated the sharing of a beautiful poem by Marissa Micah Schut titled "My Body is an Archive" into our program.

At the Zinecamp event, I learned about negotiating collaborations. We discussed how to integrate collaborative practices with others, sharing our best and worst experiences, personal preferences, and feelings regarding collaboration. We also delved into the challenges of collaborating within a large group and explored the distinctions between collaborative and distributive works.

In addition to these experiences, I identified two intriguing topics that I am eager to explore further: cyberfeminism and visual poetry.

⭑Destroy Protocool ⊹ Radio show

❥ October 10th 10:00~12:00 AM, which is also the Taiwan national day!

⭑Zine camp! (Nov 4 + 5)

Negotiate collaborations

We discuss how to collaborate practices with others, sharing the best/worst experiences, personal preferences and feelings about it. Also talk about the difficulties of collaborations in a large group, the different between collaborative and distributive works.

(a) collaborative: moving towards a more unified outcome

(b) distributive: sharing of methods, people are free to produce individual outcomes

⊹ Small group collaboration practice in Radio Worm. Learn how to do the team work and make an experimental radio show.

⊹ Zine camp group distribution: Zine/ Radio/ Presentation/ Marketing/ Retails team

⭑Signal Lost: Archive Unzipped

Radio makers, listeners and electromagnetic wave enthusiasts, do you copy? In the middle of an on-going apocalypse what should be preserved, and what forgotten?

This installation object prompts participants to contemplate the fragility of communication and human connection in the face of the Catastrophe. It's a collection of decay, relics from a lost era, tangled wires, vinyls, adorned with symbols reminiscent of a bygone civilisation. At its core lies a mysterious time capsule, a vessel of fading messages left by the wanderers that sought comfort inside our shelter.

Materials for the installation

This installation is not following a particular design or shapes, it is loose and improvisatory, as the apocalypse found us, so not at all ready. It is made with recycling and second-hand materials (ex. tape, wire, earphones, DVD, microphone…etc.).There are different contents of notes on this hybrid creatures which related to apocalypse theme of the Special Issue 22. Audience could read those paper notes and take away if they resonate with the story. Also, if they want to leave a message it's available to write a text and put on the installation as well :) The main colors would be black, grey and neo-green/yellow, similar to the tone of Worm’s website. Hanging on the ceiling if possible.

sketch of theinstallation

⊹ Apocalypse for me would be a poetic, and positive atmosphere which reminds people what do they want to archive and also, letting go with the unnecessary ones. Keep what is wanted and dismiss useless aspects. The concept is similar to the“Decluttering”. Minimize to create a happier and mindful life with meanings. It’s the process(protocol) you decide whether the items(archive) in your mental and physical space are actually clutter and if not, decide where they belong, and action(active) that decision.

Like the graveyard metaphor, it’s time to say goodbye to the files and set a data memorial site. We always have anxiety for preserving everything. Let’s perform a ceremony rituals for decluttering in the digital world.

Special Issue23🕸️

A feature of technology would like to added is that it could makes a therapeutic magic to oneself⭑~

⭑A FEMINIST SERVER MANIFESTO 0.01⭑

A feminist server…

Why quilt?

• to move from the abstract to the concrete - stitches, patches, seams, quilt
• gives an opportunity to visualise the work done collectively
• gives an opportunity to practice decision making protocols
• can be a method of publishing and storytelling
• a form of kinesthetic learning
• gives everyone something to be engaged in while making collective decisions

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I'm interested in the concepts of "quilting". For example, weaving, sewing, networking, combination of different projects/topics...etc. I like the ideas about creating a parallel between the patterns of quilting and codes/networks, also it's a good point to explore the seams, in both digital and physical ways.

About my ideas of the game is that last Tuesday me and Senka made a quilting game, using Ascii art (or emojis) to create a digital quilt. We can also add quotes/information we found inspiring or want to share with public, so it became a quilt of both visual and textual info. Personally I'm fascinated with how to combine digital and physical methods to a project. It would be nice if we could print these digital quilt into paper/fabric etc in the end.

(Not sure if possible but) I'm also thinking of the sounds quilting. Last Special Issue we have many recording/sounds archives, could it be a part of our "quilting"? Maybe we could bring several forms of quilting together into our final launch at Varia? :0 (Sounds like another way to active an archive)protocols for a quilting archive

Quilting also reminds me of the craftivism and feminist methods. How to play games with feminist methods?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craftivism

• Format: physical (objects, fabric etc) + digital (terminal game, webpage)

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❥Digital Quilting

The original version, made with Senka

Ascii-art fired heart version, edited by me

❥A terminal game, you weave a digital quilt with ASCII art characters and emojis. You can use fabric and scissors, fabric creates the patterns and that become a quilt, while scissors cut it in half. The digital quilting game was a first step in thinking how all of this different information, elements of texts that have had an influence on us, can start to unravel a narrative together.

After a discussion with Senka, we decide to make a "digital quilting game" using python. I've always interested in how to combine physical and digital formats to an art projects so the idea is that when you finish a quilt in the terminal, you could print it out and get a physical outcome, a patchwork of quotes, decorations and cut outs.

I've tried to use ascii art with a fireheart, but I found that I have difficulties with python scripts. Thijs was kindly helping me to deal with these scripts. I realized the white space of ascii art is the main problem for this python quilting game :( Although I'm happy we finally managed to do it.

⭑The greasy chip

The intro/start page of var/kitchen

File system printing game + Cooking game (python)

✨Start cooking here!✨

The var kitchen"The Greasy Chip," a pop-up restaurant where you can experience our delectable recipes. We strive to interrogate the terms of serving and service through acts of hospitality. Feel free to take a zine and started to explore the adventure! If you are starving, we have our speicial dish - chickpea curry.

⭑Team Chef: Wang, Riviera, Michel

⭑Pad: Var Kitchen

⭑Wiki: The Greasy Chip

Our lovely table with delicious chickpea curry box

Chef Wang and Riviera at Varia

Three colors of our cooking zine, designed and printed by me, 30 copies :)

((in)ter)dependence

To be inextricably linked, in a way that is impossible to disentangle. Because the term care has it difficult and violent history, interdependence arose as a term in the disability justice community to signal not just that they need to depend on (a social body, network of support, individual people) but that there are "structural conditions that shape gendered, racialized, and globalized care work."[1]

((in)ter)dependency tree

             interdependence
     inter ──┘             └── independence
in ──┘-------------------------┘          └── dependence

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    ─┴─           ─────────┴─────────        
( ( i n ) t e r ) d e p e n d e n c e
 ───────┬───────  ─────────┬─────────
        └──────────────────┘