User:Nadiners/ Project outline

Tentative Title

Back to primitivism ??

Introduction

There is a lot of research in the occidental world that is involved with innovative technology, (which is great!) trying to make it shinier, faster, smaller, slicker, and generally to improve our lives.

If we were to take this technology to sub-saharan Africa, innovation will be necessary, not in the sense of recreating already existing technologies, but by adapting them to different realities, in order to produce useful solutions for local development. But all this is oriented toward urban areas and literate communities.

How can we apply this to rural zones and illiterate citizens?

using basics (primitive/simplified) technology

What are you working on now?

Reading about digital art in Africa, looking into african art in general, very beginning of my research.

What do you want it to be?

still not sure, but take something, simplify it, bring it to its primitive state, and make full use of it. know the inside out of this whatever it is.

How do you plan to make it?

I don’t know!

Why do you want to make it?

Luxury of the uselessness. It interests me and worries me. I like to fully take advantage what I have (material) eg. I will not buy a new phone or computer till they die. I will always finish my plate. but I can’t always apply my own rule, not sure it's always necessary...

Who can help you and how?

Everyone around me!

Relation to previous practice

I took the idea of hyperlinks to its very primitive state, to get a better understanding with reference to Vannevar Bush

PHYL what - PHYL (Personal Hyper Linker) is a personal reference library in the form of a mechanical machine. The user must select the data he would like to store in it, based on his interests. The data is stored on microfilm which is then inserted into a roll underneath one of the four screens and can be interchangeable. The information is linked from one screen to another in numerical order. how - Influenced from Vannevar Bush’s Memmex, one of the first ideas of accessing links with code (hyperlinks) and seeing them through screens. I built the machine from wood, plexiglass and vinyl for the screens, a bit of 3D printing for the rolling mechanism and LED lights. why - Contrary to the internet, where data gateways are open to all, this machine allows data to be input solely by the user, to be able to control and select ones content. It becomes a personal library rather than a collective one. It explores the evolution of reading printed material, taking the idea of hyperlinks back to basics.

Relation to a larger context

?

References

INNOVATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

http://www.digitalmcd.com/mcd71-digitale-afrique-les-versions-francaise-et-anglaise-au-format-e-book-sont-disponibles/