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UNDER CONSTRUCTION ;)


UNDER CONSTRUCTION ;)


= Projects =
# ISP: LAN
# PPC
# (Making It Public)


==  Internet Switching Policies: LAN ==


== Tentative Title  ==  
=== Tentative Title  ===  
* Internet Switching Policies: LAN
Internet Switching Policies: LAN
(working title)


== Introduction ==
=== Introduction ===
I have a recurring interest in the network of all networks: the internet. Right after its invention, it became this free and open playing field where people could connect to share knowledge and content. It stopped being idealistic and autonomous and is now under control and used for control. That's old news, we've known this for a while now. But what are we going to do about it. There are lot's of cool initiatives to make parts of the internet free from government and business influences, but I still long for a different web.<br/><br/>
My focus these first months is learning new technology, like Python, e-publishing and 3D techniques. And later Javascript and Processing. I'm trying to create projects that are helpful with this process.
One of the reasons to start this master was this urge to continue a part of my graduation project which was too technical for me at that time. The project was about trying to demystify the internet as a metaphysical power by showing parts of it's physical infrastructure. <br/><br/>


Part of my research for my graduation project was creating my own local file-sharing network with a little TP-link router. I was planning on visualising the traffic on the network and using the network to store parts of information I gathered. I'd like to continue on with the network, with partly a different content and focus.
The new focus will be the power play online that in my opinion uses the technological mystification of the internet to control it's users.


==What are you working on now?==
I have a recurring interest in the geopolitics and influence of the network of all networks: the internet. There a few subtopics I'm particularly interested in right now. I'm not hoping to address them all, but It's good to keep them in mind.
I am starting my self-directed research by recreating the local network and getting to know the language it responds to again. I'm planning on doing some tests with python to maybe do any kind of visualisation if that works out.  




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# Right after it's invention, it was free and open playground where people could connect to share knowledge and content. That period didn't last long though. The ideology and autonomy is gone. It became a tool for governments and corporations used for control. I'm interested in this powerplay and how I'm (not) supposed to react to it. <br/><br/>
'''Other projects:'''
# Technology progresses so fast these days that people can't keep up. One way to deal with things people can't explain is to search for it within nature, supernatural or religion. New definitions for terms like 'clouds' and 'virusses' are examples of this. Some of these technologies, like the cloud, become so massively complicated in it's structure that it takes a big amount of abstraction to grasp it. They somehow seem to have this intrinsic power, while being completely created and managed by people. I'm very interested in this mystification. How far can this separation between man and machine go. Does the internet have some form of corporate personhood? Where can we see this internet as it's own entity? How does 's/he' behave? <br/><br/>
# The development around this subject: Net neutrality will be history in Europe soon. What does that implement and how do we deal with this? And America is trying to pass laws to prohibit people from making your own wifi-hotspot or tinkering with routers.


* ''PPC: Post Pop Culture''


A small group of Arnhemmers is planning on making a new series of events which will be a combination of a digital art exposition and a dance party for the art scene. We're now brainstorming on what the term post pop culture would mean and how to involve that in the events. Until now i'm brainstorming and starting to do the graphic design. I'm also planning on vj'ing and maybe using it as a platform to exhibit some work.
I realise this is a much brought up subject though and I'm still wondering if I'm able to add anything relevant to this discussion.  


===What do you want it to be?===


* ''blablab''
Part of my research for my graduation project was creating my own local file-sharing network with a little TP-link router. I was planning on visualising the traffic on the network and using the network to store parts of information I gathered. I'd like to continue on with the network, with partly a different content and focus.


I'm planning on doing a collaboration on a book with four other graphic designers, but we've only just started discussing.
The new focus will be the power play online that in my opinion uses the technological mystification of the internet to control it's users. I want to address this within a self-contained network, which gives the users some independence from the world wide web and makes them see that power play. Maybe play themselves. Shift power, increase power, delete power.  
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==What do you want it to be?==
I would also like it to be a place where I could tinker with my new-born Python knowledge and I would be interested in the influence and potential anarchy formed by other students who can acces it.


I would like it to be a self-contained network, which gives the users some independence from the world wide web and makes them see that power play. Maybe play themselves. Shift power, increase power, delete power.


What would happen if you would see the internet as a religion? Would it be possible to register in de US?  How would that look? Like a cloud? Like a big wired tower of hard disks, shining down its infographic light of knowledge?
===What are you working on now?===


I am starting my self-directed research by recreating the local WiFi network with the router and getting to know the language it responds to again. I'm planning on doing some tests with python to maybe do any kind of visualisation if that works out.


Until now I managed to destroy the router completely... So I know now what not to do.


==How do you plan to make it?==
=== How do you plan to make it? ===


Through a combination of learning new relevant coding languages and applying them, reading relevant books/essays about network (culture) for instance and a lot of testing. I want to try a really hands-on approach, because in the past I've learned that I tend to get stuck in reading and researching so much I start doing way to late into the process.  
Through a combination of learning new relevant coding languages and applying them, reading books/essays about network (culture) for instance and a lot of testing.  




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==Why do you want to make it?==
=== Why do you want to make it? ===


For some reason I feel this urge to be more independent of the web, mainly because I feel big corporations and governments have more and more influence over it, till there is nothing left but a new control mechanism. Some 1948 telescreen. I guess I'm also searching for a way to be in total control of the network protocols and my own privacy within the network I use.
I feel this urge to be more independent of the web, mainly because I feel big corporations and governments have more and more influence over it, till there is nothing left but a new control mechanism. I see technology become some form of the telescreen George Orwell described in 1948. I guess I'm also searching for a way to be in total control of the network protocols and my own privacy within the network I use.  


==Who can help you and how?==
 
=== Who can help you and how? ===


For the coding parts I think Michael, Aymeric and André have lots of knowledge I could use to help me get started or figure out parts I'm not familiar with, but also talk about the protocols of the network. I would also really like to talk to Annet for example about the ways the network could be a library, a database or a documentation.  
For the coding parts I think Michael, Aymeric and André have lots of knowledge I could use to help me get started or figure out parts I'm not familiar with, but also talk about the protocols of the network. I would also really like to talk to Annet for example about the ways the network could be a library, a database or a documentation.  


== Relation to previous practice ==
 
=== Relation to previous practice ===


As I described before, this really is the continuation of a side-project I tried to do before and dropped. I think in a lot of my work I am constantly trying to figure out who has what power and why. And is this justified or not? Can and/or should we escape from this?
As I described before, this really is the continuation of a side-project I tried to do before and dropped. I think in a lot of my work I am constantly trying to figure out who has what power and why. And is this justified or not? Can and/or should we escape from this?


== Relation to a larger context ==
=== Relation to a larger context ===
 
=== References ===
 




== References ==
== # PPC ==


=== Tentative Title  ===
PPC (Post Pop Culture)




=== Introduction ===


===What are you working on now?===


===What do you want it to be?===


=== How do you plan to make it? ===






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UNDER CONSTRUCTION ;)


Projects

  1. ISP: LAN
  2. PPC
  3. (Making It Public)

Internet Switching Policies: LAN

Tentative Title

Internet Switching Policies: LAN (working title)

Introduction

My focus these first months is learning new technology, like Python, e-publishing and 3D techniques. And later Javascript and Processing. I'm trying to create projects that are helpful with this process.


I have a recurring interest in the geopolitics and influence of the network of all networks: the internet. There a few subtopics I'm particularly interested in right now. I'm not hoping to address them all, but It's good to keep them in mind.


  1. Right after it's invention, it was free and open playground where people could connect to share knowledge and content. That period didn't last long though. The ideology and autonomy is gone. It became a tool for governments and corporations used for control. I'm interested in this powerplay and how I'm (not) supposed to react to it.

  2. Technology progresses so fast these days that people can't keep up. One way to deal with things people can't explain is to search for it within nature, supernatural or religion. New definitions for terms like 'clouds' and 'virusses' are examples of this. Some of these technologies, like the cloud, become so massively complicated in it's structure that it takes a big amount of abstraction to grasp it. They somehow seem to have this intrinsic power, while being completely created and managed by people. I'm very interested in this mystification. How far can this separation between man and machine go. Does the internet have some form of corporate personhood? Where can we see this internet as it's own entity? How does 's/he' behave?

  3. The development around this subject: Net neutrality will be history in Europe soon. What does that implement and how do we deal with this? And America is trying to pass laws to prohibit people from making your own wifi-hotspot or tinkering with routers.


I realise this is a much brought up subject though and I'm still wondering if I'm able to add anything relevant to this discussion.

What do you want it to be?

Part of my research for my graduation project was creating my own local file-sharing network with a little TP-link router. I was planning on visualising the traffic on the network and using the network to store parts of information I gathered. I'd like to continue on with the network, with partly a different content and focus.

The new focus will be the power play online that in my opinion uses the technological mystification of the internet to control it's users. I want to address this within a self-contained network, which gives the users some independence from the world wide web and makes them see that power play. Maybe play themselves. Shift power, increase power, delete power.

I would also like it to be a place where I could tinker with my new-born Python knowledge and I would be interested in the influence and potential anarchy formed by other students who can acces it.


What are you working on now?

I am starting my self-directed research by recreating the local WiFi network with the router and getting to know the language it responds to again. I'm planning on doing some tests with python to maybe do any kind of visualisation if that works out.

Until now I managed to destroy the router completely... So I know now what not to do.

How do you plan to make it?

Through a combination of learning new relevant coding languages and applying them, reading books/essays about network (culture) for instance and a lot of testing.


Literature:
Black Transparency - Metahaven
Understanding Cyberspace Cartographies - Martin Dodge
......more


Why do you want to make it?

I feel this urge to be more independent of the web, mainly because I feel big corporations and governments have more and more influence over it, till there is nothing left but a new control mechanism. I see technology become some form of the telescreen George Orwell described in 1948. I guess I'm also searching for a way to be in total control of the network protocols and my own privacy within the network I use.


Who can help you and how?

For the coding parts I think Michael, Aymeric and André have lots of knowledge I could use to help me get started or figure out parts I'm not familiar with, but also talk about the protocols of the network. I would also really like to talk to Annet for example about the ways the network could be a library, a database or a documentation.


Relation to previous practice

As I described before, this really is the continuation of a side-project I tried to do before and dropped. I think in a lot of my work I am constantly trying to figure out who has what power and why. And is this justified or not? Can and/or should we escape from this?

Relation to a larger context

References

# PPC

Tentative Title

PPC (Post Pop Culture)


Introduction

What are you working on now?

What do you want it to be?

How do you plan to make it?

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