BEST OF THE ECHOS

so now this just belongs to intro
this is a piece of text 
very meaningful
& we don't exactly know how we will deal with it. 
We just wanted to let you know that we think about it, we will probably try to sit down at some point.

Here I am recycling myself
With the whole process,
it was very organic for me.

Let me begin there
and I don't know how it is going to develop
I grew a lot 
growing with the big scale of this
bigger than body scale

Taking time to actually listen 
Defining what listening is:
Usually we think that we listen through the ears only
But 
we listen with the body,
complete.
as a complete unit
It is not just an action
There are ways of opening the understanding 
for what listening is

[Sounds: ]

• [noise of a lot of papers being handed out]
• [lots of laughter]
• [people talking at the same time]
• [looooots of laughter]

The body.
The body work
I am interested in 
It's a technology 
but it's a different type of technology
it is one that has such history
and tradition
But I don't know how to take that,
especially into a pad context.
To apply it in the context of this worksession.
It is how 
body work works too,
is that
you have to kind of 
know what your body is.
So how to take 
that technology 
and center it
into something that's really key?

The connection with the body work 
I think
some people feel discomfort 
and some people feel comfort

But I don't know if you want to navigate that tension zone?
- Well, that's what I do.

[Sound: A soft, continous static noise. 
It sounds like light rain, with a bit of hail, on a window pane.]


In connection with the care for physical and digital environment:
Realise, acknowledge and question 
the assumptions of normativity of technology that we have.
But so when we propose diversions from this normativity;
we should have patience and generousity 
while we share how things can work different 

dissolving of support networks
forms of dispossessions
mutual support
sister-organisations
bringing some praxis embodied through a suitcase

[Sound: The static noise goes on, still soft. 
It sounds like a fly stuck in a lampshade.
Or a pot on the stove with water boiling over the edges.]

The presence of devices 
is not so much tackled 

we are saying non-human agents
but we know there will be laptops, phones
and they are 
all the time there.

[Sound: The soft static noise continues.
We have received information that it is the sound of the Splinter server.]

for technologies to spread widely 
they need to be invisible in the best possible ways
not noticible

the least clicks the better an interface ... 
so 
we are doing everything bad with the splinter
that's cool
we can adress this invisibility thing 
to share later 
our chosen 'badness'

[Sounds: many laughters, murmurs of appreciation]

A steganographic audio file 
and an SSTv file,
were transmitted.
On the 
[radiophone](?)

- it is probably producing horrible recordings
we'll see

it took us 40 minutes
to be able to hear it for 5 seconds, 

but it was still super fun 
- yay! 
Yay!

[Image: Three cats are sitting behind their connected computers,chatting to each other.]

I would really like to know how confused you are?
Not really?
Yeah yeah yeah.
It depends.
A little.

[sound: laughter]

Jamming, cranking, walking while listening reading sleeping as a first aid kit
welding, soldering, 

sawing... sawing... sawing...
slogans

a good slogan to write on a wall,
printing scarfs,
a song you made, some writing, 
a drawing you did, something disobedient

[Image: Three persons are standing facing each other in a workshop. 
On a drying rack next to them lay three posters, 
the first poster reads "No, no, no", 
the second one reads "No, no, no", 
the third one reads "No, no, no".]

I'm sorry.
just wanting 
to show people.

wanting:
to express through
a permanent marker,
on the wall,
of a public space.
but then; 
feeling that I cannot come up with anything intelligent to write,
nor funny,
and I abandon.

[Sounds:]

• [dog barks]
• [someone shushes]
• [man says "Lula, aus!"]

There is no regular delete button here,
but there is a social delete button ...

it should have a switch between...
yeah maybe..
also you can activate and deactivate...
you can deactivate a screen? 
aaahhh

The question of 
degrees of access 
and degrees of visibility and safety 
of online spaces 
You have different ways to create filters
So that the people who pass through this filter 
feel safe
without necessarily having degrees of 
hierarchy or membership

I have to explain 
my messy,,,,,, 
my messy files

[sound: a snippet from an italian podcast 

• • • in which a journalist 
    • tries to discover what are, according to tradition, 
    • the typical dishes for the 15th of August menu 
    • among Barivecchia housewives, restaurateurs and gourmets. 
    • A woman mentions plates such as 'braciole', 'polpette', 'agnello, 'involtino'. 
    • Sound of oil, frying in a pan. 
    • Laughters.
    • Between all these delicacies, the interviewer is interested in the recepie of the famous 'braciolone': 
    • pepper, salt, fry the meat in the pan, and you have a 'ragu'. 
    • For the owner of a restaurant, sea foods and fish are the must. 
    • A long list of 'primi' and 'secondi piatti' follows.
    • All this in one meal of course.
    • Sound of boiling water.
    • The interviewer is worried that all this food is a bit too much.
    • The cook answers: these are only just the appetisers.]

I'm cooking a soup 
and I use the spoon to tell me the consistency of the soup
the actual sensation happens 
in the palm of the hand that it is connected to the handle of the spoon
you integrate the spoon into your body.

do my fingers know more than I do? 

[Sound: water running from a tap 

• • • and splashing in a basin]

if you want to fix it
I won't stop you

eventually it will be possible 
tomorrow
- yes 
yes
I will be here

I would love to talk about this
most of the time you can just come by
Please drop by any time


[THIS CONCLUDES THE BEST OF THE ECHOES]