Aggregations
Continuous space for an ongoing collective process of capturing/collecting materials, with open ended editing/publishing possibilities throughout the year. Allowing multiple moments of editing, to grow a stream of published materials around techno-disobedient practices, based on RSS feeds.
Currently aggregating:- http://circulations.constantvzw.org/2023/disobedient1/etherdump/snowpoles.rss
- http://circulations.constantvzw.org/2023/disobedient2/etherdump/snowpoles.rss
- http://circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/drempel/etherdump/snowpoles.rss
- http://circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/cane-note-anotherbody/etherdump/snowpoles.rss
- https://vvvvvvaria.org/logs/dislog/feed.rss.xml
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thursday-notes
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Most readers read line by line and do not take composition into account, a lot of design iinformation is lost
Screenreaders and keyboard navigation:
Reimagining the web trhough soundes
Ex Museum artwork: For example museum can provide images and captions but there could be soundtrack creations. Rather than relying on Museum information there could be customizable information
With New: cocktail party effect. different regions could be signified with different voices
Directions can be sonified
When the team worked together on a prototype, they included the following features:
spatial audio for navigation
customazable voice features
customiable alt text
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- There is no way with google maps guidance to make decisions based on the overall map. the person might not be able to figure out that there is a shortcut, Google makes the decisions which are sometimes not best
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kaai-team-notes
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Today was kind and confusing, a day filled with encounters and questions. Coming in and feeling the ghosts, but being touched by the beauty of the building nevertheless. Then sitting and feeling comfortable with a group who knows how to hold space gently. Feeling unsure of what this is all about, trying to piece it together. Bit by bit, wandering in the space, supervised or not, awestruck by all that’s there. Also feeling yourself being more comfortable expressing and being present with your own divergence, in a space that allows it. At times, feeling bored or upset, because of the hazy frame. At times, feeling warmth and flexibility that are too absent from this world. Many spaces are there, waiting to be explored.
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"By endorsing accessible futures, we refuse to treat access as an issue of technical compliance or rehabilitation, as a simple technilocigal fix, or a checklist. instead we define access as collective, messy, experimental, frictional and generative. Accessible future requieres our interdependance."
Crip technoscience Manifesto, 2019
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friday-notes
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I would love it if some of you would come to me to speak about something about or from the exhibition. Can be anything. No need for a storyline or coherence. Thank you. Gülce.
To elaborate a bit more:
Any experience or feeling or fact
General experience
Certain thing that struck you
An emotion that was present
A combination of above
None of the above
What I actually mean is
Anything
That is relevant to you to tell
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natural realities of the planet that exist beyond our comprehension capacity
we are using terms and organising specific ways where ecology and technology or war fit.
framework : how do we think about the world and how this informs how we think about tech and other topics in general.
If we are thinking about small and vernacular tech, it's like different perspectivs than what has been discussed here. How does tech fits different environments and contexts. Using technology in terms of different contexts.
thought eperiment:
not thinking about software or abstraction or encoding of features but also to think of infrastructures, the actual networks connecting places around Earth. Thinking of different ways to be connected to places which would not have been brought up by colonialism and imperialism
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concerns
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- Martino starts:
Free software what is the role of.. we have a sort of shift in constant how to think about licenses, openness, free software .. (shared) authorship management and sharing has changed since the massive adoption of platformisation and the cloud.
AI ... assistive technologies / automated interpretation and production of meaningful content ...
for us its something that creates a set of new situations; we notice the type of tech has quite some problem, we don't have a space for the moment in our (Constant) toolkit; problems bc it pushes towards climate destruction, problematic techno political with usual slides towards military industry and also mostly not open source, so not accessible to the ways we're used to work with/on technology
in the same time there's a lot of project that use AI with level of computation that are not available (for now) in free software. But also wanting to leave to the individuals their choice for assistive technologies
practical:
* How can closed captions be included in activities ? The possibility of captions by Zoom; we wanted to stay away from zoom so that stayed a question for a while which we activated when it became completely necessary. Now use Big Blue Button offers captions, we could look into captioning.
-> this is one of the points brought on from the internal worksession
Maybe there are people who would like to join this thinking in the coming days ?
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storytelling
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This track came to be through the many applications mentioning the question of narratives and agency
Two possible ideas:
- written words, collection of narratives around the theme
- inspired by the work of critical design lab's remote access archive to create an archive of experiences. Could we find a way to tell the stories of what happened during the session to people who couldn't attend?
Context: how can we be together online/make online contexts more accessible,
The cane is a tool
Sticky notes are a memory aid / a strategy
An other body is a living body supporting / helping
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Questions: why so analogue?
- to avoid technosolutionist attitudes
- to depart from people's needs rather than technological constrains
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vernacular-technologies
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1977
504 sit in
black panther and disability justice came together and the
One of the 504 Sit-in participants Corbett Joan O’Toole shared, “At that time in history, there was simply no access—no right to an education, no public transit. You couldn’t get into a library or city hall, much less a courtroom.” Disabled people wanted to see the government committed to disability inclusion and access. The disabled activists warned that if Joseph A. Califano Jr., who served as the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare during President Jimmy Carter's administration, didn’t take action by April 4th, nationwide protests would ensue.
Most of the protests happening across the country ended that day. However, the story in San Francisco was different. Following the San Francisco rally, nearly 150 people with disabilities streamed into the Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) Federal Building. They began climbing to the fourth floor where the HEW regional offices were located. Over 120 activists occupied the building, and they refused to leave the federal building until their demands were met, even when threatened with arrest and eviction.
The disabled protesters worked closely with and received support from a wide range of organizations and individuals, including labor unions, religious groups, and civil rights activists. Groups that supported the 504 protesters included the Black Panther Party, Glide Memorial Church, Gay Men’s Butterfly Brigade, Delancey Street, the United Farm Workers, the Gray Panthers, Salvation Army, and more. Because of this, the 504 Sit-in is considered an important moment for cross-movement organizing.
https://disabilityrightsflorida.org/blog/entry/504-sit-in-history
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vernacular object design from Cuba: technological disobedience
https://www.ernestooroza.com/category/technological-disobedience-project/
-- improvising furniture - Ernesto (?)
what facilitates this need
DIY or DIT accessible to accessibility
anarchism and accessiiblity - what would accessibility look like from an anarchist perspective
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anarchism - alternative cultures - during Covid, a lot of people who had more of an anarchist or socalist brain - regulations became 'ableist' -
autonomous freedom vs. 'health'
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"Freedom and friendship used to mean the same thing: intimate, interdependent relationships and the commitment to face the world together. At its root, relational freedom isn’t about being unrestricted: it might mean the capacity for interconnectedness and attachment. Or mutual support and care. Or shared gratitude and openness to an uncertain world. Or a new capacity to fight alongside others. But this is not what freedom has come to mean under Empire. "
“Friend” and “free” in English … come from the same Indo-European root, which conveys the idea of a shared power that grows. Being free and having ties was one and the same thing. I am free because I have ties, because I am linked to a reality greater than me.”[49]
A few centuries later, freedom became untied from connectedness. The seventeenth-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes imagined freedom as nothing more than an “absence of opposition” possessed by isolated, selfish individuals. For Hobbes, the free man is constantly armed and on guard: “When going to sleep, he locks his doors; when even in his house he locks his chests.”[50] The free individual lives in fear, and can only feel secure when he knows there are laws and police to protect him and his possessions. He is definitely he, because this individual is also founded on patriarchal male supremacy and its associated divisions of mind/body, aggression/submission, rationality/emotion, and so on. His so-called autonomy is inseparable from his exploitation of others.
When peasants were “freed,” during this period, it often meant that they had been forced from their lands and their means of subsistence, leaving them “free” to sell their labor for a wage in the factories, or starve. It is no coincidence that these lonely conceptions of freedom arose at the same time as the European witch trials, the enclosure of common lands, the rise of the transatlantic slave trade, and the colonization and genocide of the Americas. At the same time as the meaning of freedom was divorced from friendship and connection, the lived connections between people and places were being dismembered.
From Joyful Militancy — Chapter 2 : Friendship, Freedom, Ethics, Affinity
thought things would be more social - this is not the anarchism that I need
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how can you do open source medicine? -- access to medicine and the DIY aspect of it --
imperialism & empiricism --> not the same things
empires and how people - the power structures you are in, an academic look into it
how big farma holds patents
Helminthic therapy wiki:
"Solid scientific evidence shows that millions of years of co-evolution have created a symbiotic relationship between humans and helminths that provides us with essential immune regulation. "
"This site presents the extensive research supporting this practice, along with more than a thousand personal stories demonstrating it's effects, plus tips to help manage the therapy and optimise its benefits.
This is a collaborative, crowd-sourced site administered by volunteers with no commercial interest in the therapy. "
bodies getting sick from the lack of exchanges with the environment
improving health through such paradigm cannot be accomplished through a capitalist economy
solidarity and alternative networks are necessary to support people's healing outside a capitalist framework
https://www.helminthictherapywiki.org
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need for exclusion and invisibility
non fitting within standards (standards enforce normalcy)
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against inclusion as a paradigm
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++Care work++ - leah lakhsmi piepzna samarashina
What does it mean to shift our ideas of access and care (whether it’s disability, childcare, economic access, or many more) from an individual chore, an unfortunate cost of having an unfortunate body, to a collective responsibility that’s maybe even deeply joyful? What does it mean for our movements? Our communities/fam?
Ourselves and our own lived experience of disability and chronic illness? What does it mean to wrestle with these ideas of softness and strength, vulnerability, pride, asking for help, and not—all of which are so deeply raced and classed and gendered? If collective access is revolutionary love without charity, how do we learn to love each other? How do we learn to do this love work of collective care that lifts us instead of abandons us, that grapples with all the deep ways in which care is complicated.
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
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procedures and regulations that block mobility needs
applying for travelling (takes weeks)
'social taxi' needs to do rounds, takes more time becuase they need to pick up more people on the round
absence of means & urgencies of NOW - a really close to how you would
-- the prototpype that gives you the way to think about it NOW to then improve on the prototype --
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Tecnology feels very far
Accessibility and performance
far from the mangage used
couldn't access a space body breaking down
needed rst and something right now
- digital residency; did a simple website
using cargo
took a year to realise and making the site
be somewhere even when you can not be there
we're in the soft space now
art and technology and access ??
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impossible to teach students in such a short period of time, what is the internet, what is the technology, what is the military complex, how does the internet connect to the cables etc.
making a book not equal a website
contrast, alt text, font sizes, image sizing etc
the assignment is not fair
hot glue, cargo - template engines
you can't assume that everyone has a computer, its not the case
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Who becomes an expert
community oriented prototypes
I'm making it work very much not from an institution
Just get stated because we need it now is not in par with what institutions usually want.
if your work is around access, then it gets seen as an 'access consulting' moment and not the artstic performance that it actuallu is.
Some refs:
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part 2
vernacular technologies that we want to look at
or speculative technologies we could think of (repurposing for example)
what do we need, how to do that with the stuff that is available?
what does vernacular tehnologies mean in terms of closer
question to look into vernacular word
"vernacular" coming from being native, "home-born slve, native", native speech or language of a place in relation to language.
Vernacular anything means that something is much related to the place/context in which it is deployed
from my notes from the book:
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this one? (yes) https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262542661/techno-vernacular-creativity-and-innovation/
How do you deal with negativity or bad feelings/discomfort/resistance/conflict etc
when there is no space for it.
As a need that we could make a technology for
--> proposal: everyone embroiders something as a way to create a mental space to follow the thinking
harvesting practice from Lumbung
indicating feeling and frustration is one thing, the second is doing something. How do we flip things collectively
literally saying bye bye to the problem
wish tree of Yoko Ono
if there's something wrong - you make a ticket
complaint by Sara Ahmed
you become the problem when you name the problem
instead of resolving the problem,
how to bury the complaint and discourage the complainer
---> a technology that allows you to make a complaint without becoming visible
collective responsibilities - committees that work on different things, power dynamics and access issues
now about technoenabling - rather like technical sabotage to provoke change
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Frankie - virtual persona - embodied all the problems of the classroom
making things concrete, making the exercise about the worksession, but this would be quite vulnerable
two needs:
- complaining but not ending up being gaslighted as being the problem
- dealing with negative feelings when there is no space for them
when organising something and you are a facilitator having to handle these situations
ranting frustration - reception of negativity
obstructing technologies from doing something rather than technology that is always in your favor
Very far away from experience and culture:
stories of community success, or when things have worked out well and everyone has access. These are not very common
tired with rehearsal of ableism around disabled people
from success stories you get ideas on how to tackle situations
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"We're very culturally ingrained early on to move in certain ways, to walk in certain ways. And for me it's very interesting to think about what it means to be born in a body that can't physically move in the culturally accepted ways, and you have to design your own movements. I would say that many culturally accepted movements are also restrictive on some level"
Sunaura Taylor in conversation with Judith Butler (Interdependence)
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"It seems to me that we're all supported in our movements by various kinds of things that are external to us. We all need certain kind of surfaces, we need certain kinds of shoes, certain kinds of weather, and even internally we need to be ambulatory in certain ways that may or may not be fully operative in all of us. And I'm just thinking that a walk always requires a certain kind of technique, a ertain support. Nobody takes a walk without something that supports that walk, something outside of ourselves. And maybe we have a false idea that the ble-bodied person is somehow radically self sufficient."
Judith Butler in conversation with Sunaura Taylor (Interdependance)
"I think that idea translates also into so many other, different fields, this idea of independence. That an able-bodied person can take a walk independently without anything else is sort of a myth. They do always need certain groundm they do need shoes, as you said, they need social support. And I think that's something rhat definitely affects the image of disabled people. That somehow disabled people are perceived as more dependent, or that they are the ones that are dependent, when in actuality we are all interdependent, that is, dependent on different structures and on each other."
Sunaura Taylor in conversation with Judith Butler (Interdependence)
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" INTERDEPENDENCE. Before the massive colonial project of Western European expansion, we understood the nature of interdependence within our communities. We see the liberation of all living systems and the land as integral to the liberation of our own communities, as we all share one planet. We attempt to meet each other’s needs as we build towards liberation, without always reaching for state solutions that inevitably then extend its control further over our lives."
Care work - leah lakhsmi piepzna samarashina
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" TVC reappropriation acknowledges underrepresented ethnic groups’ ability to adapt new technologies, modifying artifacts on the basis of their political and social circumstances. In Chicano culture, rasquachismo signifies the “view of the underdog,” which combines inventiveness with a survivalist attitude (M. Anderson 2017). Rasquache practitioners make the most from the least, using discarded and recycled materials, even fragments, to create an aesthetic that is both defiant and inventive. Chicano American lowrider culture demonstrates rasquachismo as a practical application of TVC reappropriation. The technical methods, skills, processes, techniques, tools, and raw materials used in lowrider culture establish an individual or group identity, develop an aesthetic, and fulfill community needs (Chappell 2014)."
Nettrice Gaskins Techno Vernacular Creativity
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"Like dancing, making is a situated action, always in flux and sometimes unplanned, around technologies that
engage creativity. Doing and sensing actions (see Knight 2015) support embodied creativity through human interactivity and how bodies are situated in environments. Technology extends improvisation through the creation of interactive, tangible objects like controllers and sensors for musical performances, for example. These objects push the boundaries of what is real, especially when they represent interactive physical systems that can sense and respond to performers and the world."
Nettrice Gaskins Techno Vernacular Creativity
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"We are also orientating ourselves toward some objects more than others, including physical objects (the different kinds of tables), but also objects of thought, feeling, and judgment, and objects in the sense of aims, aspirations, and objectives. I might orient myself around writing, for instance, not simply as a certain kind of work (although it is that, and it requires certain objects for it to be possible) but also as a goal: writing becomes something that I aspire to, even as an identity (becoming a writer). So the object we aim for, which we have in our view, also comes into our view, through being held in place as that which we seek to be: the action searches for identity as the mark of attainment (the writer becomes a writer through writing). We can ask what kinds
of objects bodies tend toward in their tendencies, as well as how such tendencies shape what bodies tend toward."
Sara Ahmed Orientations : Towards a queer phenomenology
becoming disabled through orientation in a world where the relationship between the body and objects is a relationship marked by friction?
"Bodies hence acquire orientation by repeating some actions over others, as actions that have certain objects in view, whether they are the physical objects required to do the work (the writing table, the pen, the keyboard) or the ideal objects that one identifies with. The nearness of such objects, their availability within my bodily horizon, is not casual: it is not just that I find them there, like that. Bodies tend toward some objects more than others, given their tendencies. These tendencies are not originary; they are effects of the repetition of “tending
toward.”"
Sara Ahmed Orientations : Towards a queer phenomenology
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"First, it’s a false divide to make a we/them: either able-minded, able-bodied, or disabled. After all, how cultures define, think about, and treat those who currently have marked disabilities is how all its future citizens may well be perceived if and when those who are able-bodied become less abled than they are now: by age, degeneration, or some sudden — or gradual — change in physical or mental capacities. All people, over the course of their lives, traffic between times of relative independence and dependence. So the questions cultures ask, the technologies they invent, and how those technologies broadcast a message about their users — weakness and strength, agency and passivity — are critical ones. And they’re not just questions for scientists and policy-makers; they’re aesthetic questions too.
Second, in many cultures — and certainly in the US — a pervasive, near-obsession with averages and statistical norms about bodies and capacities has become a naturalized form of describing both individuals and populations. But this way of measuring people and populations is historically very recent, and worth reconsidering."
"Well — it’s worth saying again: All technology is assistive technology. Honestly — what technology are you using that’s not assistive? Your smartphone? Your eyeglasses? Headphones? And those three examples alone are assisting you in multiple registers: They’re enabling or augmenting a sensory experience, say, or providing navigational information. But they’re also allowing you to decide whether to be available for approach in public, or not; to check out or in on a conversation or meeting in a bunch of subtle ways; to identify, by your choice of brand or look, with one culture group and not another.
Making a persistent, overt distinction about “assistive tech” embodies the second-tier do-gooderism and banality that still dominate design work targeted toward “special needs.” “Assistive technology” implies a separate species of tools designed exclusively for those people with a rather narrow set of diagnostic “impairments” — impairments, in other words, that have been culturally designated as needing special attention, as being particularly, grossly abnormal. But are you sure your phone isn’t a crutch, as it were, for a whole lot of unexamined needs?"
All Technology Is Assistive Sara Hendren
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“. . . before the nineteenth century in Western culture, the concept of the ‘ideal’ was the regnant paradigm in relation to all bodies, so all bodies were less than ideal. The introduction of the concept of normality, however, created an imperative to be normal, as the eugenics movement proved by enshrining the bell curve (also known as the ‘normal curve’) as the umbrella under whose demanding peak we should all stand. With the introduction of the bell curve came the notion of ‘abnormal’ bodies. And the rest is history.” Bending Over Backwards: Disability, Dismodernism, and other Difficult Positions Lennard Davis
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"Autistic modes of being are so internal to the self’s relationship to the body that nothing short of total freedom—bodily, psychological, and social—is required for a full autistic liberation. The very conditions of living are of immediate concern to autistic folks, whose currents of thought run along a number of different pathways and are fundamentally resistant to generalization and typologization.
The urgency of understanding the spatial experiences of autistic people, then, stems from the root of sociopolitical anxieties imposed by urban modernity. The trajectory of autistic spatiality in an increasingly urbanized, territorialized Europe throughout the twentieth century has had fundamental implications for how liberatory autistic spaces might be reconceived as communities that exist at—and, therefore, challenge—the societal limits of care."
Patrick Jaojoco - Autistic Spatiality and the Limits of Care
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Take a deep breath in through your nose, and a deep breath out through your mouth. Feel the air circulate in your body — your nostrils, your tubes, your lungs, your belly, but also all your cells and tissues, until the end of your body parts, the top of your head, your hair…
Let the air fill your belly, this breathing brain of ours that we sometimes forget about when we are too concentrated or stressed. Make space for gut feelings.
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As you are navigating the space, you feel a deep sense of access intimacy, that feeling that you access needs are understood, and that you don't need to struggle orientating and getting the contents. “That kind of eerie comfort that your disabled self feels with something on a purely access level” says Mia Mingus. What concrete elements are helping that feeling?
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Because “you don't need to be fixed, my queens — it's the world that needs the fixing” sings Johanna Hedva.
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As Caroline Lazard says “Access has this capacity to break through medium. Contents might exist as a description, as sign language, as a transcript, or as a tactile object.” How do you feel about the coexistence of different medium? Do they add to each other? Do they interfere with your understanding?
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A voice, maybe just in your head, invites you: “Write with your eyes like painters, with your ears like musicians, with your feet like dancers. [write with your mouth stick, your voice recorder, blink, blow...] You are the truthsayer with quill and torch. Write with your tongue on fire.”
Gloria Anzaldùa walks with you in this space too.
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The contents, the interface, the tools and you are existing in interdependence. “Weaving relational circuits between bodies, environments, and tools to create non-innocent, frictional access. [...] A collective political experience of world-building and dismantling. [...] Material-discursive entanglements that take shape through struggle, negociation and creativity”
What does these thoughts by Aimie Hamraie inspire you? How can it take shape?
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crowdingcrowds
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There is a stage with a stand-up comedian that tells a lame joke
"Why is everyone friends with mushrooms?
(oh no I forgot why)
Because they are fungis."
and everyone in the public look at the stage awkwardly,
a guy cough
*cough *cough
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unhinged-choreo
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* Unhinged
At its core, “unhinged” refers to a state of being mentally unstable or irrational. The word derives from the literal meaning of “hinge,” which is a movable joint that allows a door or gate to swing open or shut. When something is unhinged, it implies that it is no longer functioning properly, much like a door that has come off its hinges. In psychological terms, it often describes individuals who exhibit behavior that seems disconnected from reality or is excessively volatile. In popular culture, “unhinged” often refers to someone who is overly emotional, erratic, or uncontrollable
Ref. https://acehvoice.net/education/unhinged-definition-and-meaning/
The Museum says: "Madness deranges, it throws us off balance, and makes us lose our footing. It leads us to the edge of normality. But where does the norm end and chaos begin? And who decides where to draw the line?"
- Déséquilibré
Absence d'équilibre ou perte de l'équilibre, d'une position stable. Example: Une armoire en déséquilibre.
Manque de proportions, d'harmonie, de concordance. Example: Le déséquilibre entre les prix et les salaires.
Modification de l'équilibre physiologique existant au sein de divers systèmes de l'organisme. Example: Une personne qui a perdu son equilibre physique ou mental.
Ref. https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/d%C3%A9s%C3%A9quilibre/24382
Le Musée dit: "La folie perturbe, nous déstabilise et supprime nos ancrages. Cela nous mène vers la frontière du normal. Mais où la norme finit-elle et où commence le chaos ? Et qui détermine où se trouve cette frontière ?"
- Op losse schroeven
iets op losse schroeven zetten (= iets wankel en onzeker maken)
iets staat op losse schroeven (= het is onzeker, er valt niet op te bouwen)
Ref. https://www.woorden.org/spreekwoord.php?woord=op%20losse%20schroeven
Het museum zegt:: "Waanzin ontregelt, slaat ons uit ons lood en neemt onze houvast weg. Het brengt ons bij de grens van het normale. Maar waar eindigt de norm en begint de chaos? En wie bepaalt waar die grens ligt?"
- Avere qualche rotella fuori posto
which literally means "to miss some screws"
Essere un po' strambi, originali, bizzarri o stravaganti nel comportamento o nel modo di pensare, come un meccanismo che funziona in modo leggermente anomalo a causa della mancanza di qualche rotella degli ingranaggi. In a word: weird!
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"By endorsing accessible futures, we refuse to treat access as an issue of technical compliance or rehabilitation, as a simple technological fix, or a checklist"
Aimi Hamrarie and Kelly Fritsch, Cript Technoscience manifesto, 2019
Title refers to multiple dimensions of accessibility
the cane: the physical object, bodily aid
sticky notes: ways to support the memory; a form of support strategies
another body: refering to the collective form of care that connect people
"we connect these dimensions to the use of technology, not to aim for solutions and efficiency, but to develop technologic experiment that is interesting for disabled people
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what about positing disabilities within "more" or less frameworks, is that how we wanna think about this?
what about the fact that we're asked to make work regularly about disability? neurodivergence? this kind of forcing or legitimizing into a boxed certain context, waht about that?
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Inclusivity cannot be tackled via a list of bullet points.
How can we remain aware of disability and coloniality in the Belgian context?
Belgium amputated congolese people if they did not comply with unrealistic production goals.
Currently, coloniality is creating this again as we can see the gazawi population's bodies getting also amputated and disabled. The Gaza sunbirds, is a Team of cyclists from Gaza brought attention to the fact that coloniality and Genocide creates disability
https://gazasunbirds.org/
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Scenarios excercise
//Imane and dona
Scenario:
When starting an event everyone speaks about how they visited their family for a recent holiday. You are estranged from your family and spent the day alone.
* Equal rights
We advocate to the city and different funding bodies to provide the means so different spaces can be kept open during different holiday moments.
Moreover, inside our institution, when the is a public holiday that inloves some familial gatherings, we look out for events (public or not, things to do together or not) that are happening in the city to share them during meeting or via a specific email. Not target one specific individual but to share it as general information in solidarity with those who might not have good family ties and might end up spending the day alone or isolated.
* REVOLUTIONARY
We find a comunal way of living together ( like a farm ..)
We share all the means of care. We open the boundaries of our families in which care becomes a collectivized practice. There is no such things as nuclear family where you have parents and kids and such but we can all take different roles depending on needs and wishes.
We can throw out the (western) calendar structure, no more mothers day or christmas (controversial haha) and we invent our own calendar of festivities. [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar we are on the 26th of the Windy month ]
* SUPREMACY
We organise collective readings around the book " Abolish family" by Sophie Lewis.
We critisize the privilege that is inherent in the classical family nucleus which provides a lot of benefits and 'glory' in current society. It is still very romanticised as the safe dreamy thing that people strive for, it is seen as a positive achievement. People with no kids always have to justify why for example.
* SEPARATISM
We decide to add in our working rules a new point: we cannot speak about families during collective meetings and events.
* DIFFERENTIAL
We decide to get in touch with other organisations and insitutions and see if we can built a network of hosting peers. We look into how the city could provide more welcoming events and spaces for people who are alone. We also try to be more aware on everybody family situations and to adjust certain modes of working when needed.
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What follows is taken from the Alt-text as poetry workbook that you can find here >
https://alt-text-as-poetry.net/.
We have made few changes for it to fit without the session.
the alt-texts can be collected here:
https://circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/drempel/etherdump/pad/p/alt-text-as-poetry-texts
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hallohelloooo
hello again oef difficult to type on a mobile :)
ciaooo
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bonjour!
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\What are screen readers?
content in speech through a synthetiser (text, images, menu, symbols)
modifier keys can trigger specific commands
some device can output speech and braille simultaneously
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pdfs if not ocrd they are just undreaable..
image is read in the editor as "google shape" (not having alt-text)
"Generate alt-text for me" button
creates a general description (through ai image recognition)
adding "automatically generated description"
through tab, shift+tab
through H (go to headings)
use up and down arrows will jump through different tags (p, img, a ...)
if you are in a form you will go into focus mode.
lot of time in spent in learning the short cuts of your keyboards because you are navigating without mouse
on a linux system there is ORCA [not sure how diffused how usable]
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(imaginging navigating a window at 4x navigation)
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"a person with arms raised above their head"
"a woman dancing"
when on kaai site... dance IS the context (often), so what is the function of the image on a specific page
why is the image there / what is the function of the image how do we address it correctly
is the function to hold the interest of the visitor... (imagine the same function being satisfied in alt-text form)
can one think through a description-first ( or alt-text -first) image selection?
"it's not that the visual doesn't matter" (assumption of a blind reader exclusively using a screen reader misses the frequent case of combination of screen-reader + magnification)
\\\Case study: personal website of Alyssa
https://www.alyssagersony.com/
built on squarespace using mostly wcag guidelines
WCAG guidlines : https://w3c.github.io/wcag/guidelines/22/
she designed it and implemented individually and asked for comments and tests
What do you include in an image description?
Worked with a variety of inputs, mainly friends asked, with different points of view...
There's no "right way", some have a preference for more detailed information about clothing, others more interested in compositioni (her body is centered in the frame). There's of course a layer of subjectivity.
test public is one way of course, can be friends at a small scale, institutions can put resources into it..
What's at the top of the screen is read (by a screen reader) first.
Place to put a "disclaimer" of what is coming up on the page,
menu / navigation
short description of what's coming in the page
horizontal lines can help separate areas
video has next of each other two version:
one with closed captions
another with audio description
artists often dont have time for this.
- how we create spaces and resources to make their work accessible
alt-text/image description
can they be combined? is it a shotcut, what are the limitations?
image description give a visiiblity to the choice of not being only-visual, and offer more space to elaborate and give more rich descriptions, but you need to develop layouts and templates to accomodate and build around them.
alt-text is built into the HTML (attribute of an image tag)
image description needs to be added to the content of a page (or CMS).
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is there plugins that add descriptions?
providing alt-text is labour intesive
"Reframing expectations around the visual excitement of artist websites and influencing other artists to reconsider their design priorities."
Multilingual?
alt-text is generally put in english.. what are alternative approaches?
\\\Current issues: audio description
Audio description and performance is a critical topic today, and has been for the last 20 years.
COVID-19 brought more awareness, (as performance was experienced more broadly online)
CC/SL Interpretation and AD protocols for audiences with disabilityies
Audio description resources to consider:
* Art Spark Texas, presenter playlist on youtube
* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw_YbnDP_sLboN8RAijLVrphKne04BBvO
* Description Victoria list of resources
? https://descriptionvictoria.com.au/
\\\\Practical implications
- Learning screen readers
- access tools and working in community
- hiring audiiting services to test for you
can come in the way of JAWS and other software, if you use it be mindful of how to integrate it..
who is it there for, what is it there to do
Add-ons (Ai-powered)
https://userway.org/
Question of for who are such modifications for (doesn't really include audience that's already using screen readers)
Structural protocols to implement predictability so people know what to expect on your platform
* Standard practice for amassing descriptions, alt text, hiring practice for outsourcing CC for video trailers / descriptions.
What can you do now to integrate this information into your website plan?
Work with specific communities / local.
"Nothing about us without us" - James I. Charlton
Would writing alt-text be an interesting job for a dramaturg?
Or is this a bad idea, ... who should you hire (if you would hire)?
Depends on cultural context / specific necessity...
Start from a position of Disability Justice.
Some organisations (wihin disability justice) may have already integrated a sense of dramaturgy, for instance.
For others it might be new.
References & Resources
https://www.rnib.org.uk/living-with-sight-loss/assistive-aids-and-technology/computers/screen-reading-software/
https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey9/#proficiency
https://www.nvaccess.org/
https://support.apple.com/guide/voiceover-guide/welcome/web
https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/
https://www.perkins.org/resource/how-write-alt-text-and-image-descriptions-visually-impaired
haptic tours would allow other senses than description access some of the material of the performance before the performance > https://www.jesscurtisgravity.org/access
example of feeling certain dance combinations (that are hard to describe / experience)
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software side
orca reader for linux, nvda is floss but for windows
can this software skip ADS?
might be that popups and other elements are skipped by the reader
iOs for the phone also has built-in voice over
Voice customization: Choose voice, speed, and verbosity
tunings:
> voice tone
> voice speed
> verbosity
Lynxs, browser for the command line
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)
wondering if this approach is also used by the community, would be good to get in touch and find out :)
(might be very relevant considering the constant publics!)
what happens when we use screen reader on the command line??
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14:30: things that we can do in the afternoon
we split in groups of three to look at constant's website
- interest in seeing difference using built in screen readers (mac/windows/linux) vs other things work on constant page
- aria labels tags that can hide certain elements from the reader
- accessibility inspector / tree
- improve / rewrite the access page of constant, consider guides we listed in the reader
https://constantvzw.org/site/Accessibility.html
https://kaaitheater.be/en/practical#accessibility
- more alt-text/description writing
- trying audio description
- a screen reader tour through the web pages of either constant, kaai, guislain
- pass the sites through different tools around accessibility (wcag,...)
- curious about the linux screenreader (orca)
- would be cool to make an audio description for an event ^^
- animated text generation tools, happy to explore (ahnjili)
- kaai website's access issues
- compare different websites, learn to some extent how to audit
-language and translation questions, also in relation to voiceover
website run!
>> https://circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/drempel/etherdump/pad/p/day_4-website-run
its really listy -----
15:00 : screenreading of Constant and Kaaitheater website through voice over
15:00:
- 1 group: alt-text and/or audio description and/or animated text generation tools
- 2 group: exploring free software screenreaders
- 3 group: aria labels, further screenreading
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/Attributes/aria-label
https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/accessibility_inspector/index.html
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Accessibility
https://w3c.github.io/wcag/guidelines/22/
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the aria creates a parallel tree form the dom that can be modified
the accessibility function in the browser gives access to this tree
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Ritual from (Loren Britton & Isabel Paehr)CON(FUSE)ING AND RE(FUSING) BARRIERS
Ritual for bad listening: Take a piece of paper or your smartphone and for 5 minutes, write down every sound that you hear and/or sense (the humming of the heater, the chirping of a bird, the temperature in the room, the brightness of the light). Repeat this ritual in different settings if possible. When and where are you comfortable with listening/sensing? Do you listen/sense deeper with time? Are any of the things you hear/sense an access barrier for you or for someone you know? You can use this ritual as a way of checking in with a new space. This ritual is based on a text by Jonathan Smilges.
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https://observatory.db.erau.edu/generators/signs/
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DR. GUISLAIN about psychological wellbeing. they are not thinking about exlusion. they are thinking about safe spaces but they keep them open.
we organise things for youngsters, single parents, we can organise the same thing for every one.
setting up a safe space is making sure you avoid violent situations.
safe space and open space
agnes; its not that problematic to talk about exlusion.
from safe space to a shared space, then agnes looses it haha
as a big institution you have to be very strategic when staying under the radar.
access is deliberaty restricted for some in order to create community for others.
accessibility as a continuous discussion. sometimes you need experts to come in and explain some thigns but at a certain point the experts have to withdraw as to make space for the community to grow and flourish.
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Access intimacy is that elusive, hard to describe feeling when someone else "gets" your access needs. The kind of eerie comfort that your disabled self feels with someone on a purely access level."
Access intimacy: Mia Mingus, Access intimacy: The Missing Link, 2011
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"Write with your eyes like painters, with your ears like musicians, with your feet like dancers,. You are the truthsayer with quill and torch. Write with your tongues on fire."
Gloria Anzaldua, 'Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to Third World Women Writers', 1980
from WORDS IN OUR POCKETS , Celeste West, Editor
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Caroline Lazard, Frieze 225, 2022
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"Crip technoscience is committed to interdependence as political technology. We position the crip politics of interdependence as a technoscientific phenomenon, the weaving of relational circuits between bodies, environments, and tools to create non-innocent, frictional access. Mainstream disability technoscience presumes disability as an individual experience of impairment rather than a collective policial experience of world-building and dismantling. This perception has two primary consequences. First, disabled people are perceived to encourage independence. Second, disability and technology are both perceived as apolitical and stable phenomena, rather than material-discursive entanglements that take shape through struggle, negotiation, and creativity."
Aimi Hamraie, Kelly Fritsch, Crip Technoscience Manifesto, 2019
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https://crashroom.ooo/
working with translation, overcoming the english-language barrier, they do that in french
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Alt-text = written description of an image (an excercise will follow in the afternoon)
Alt-text is built into the standard of HTML code (the programming language in which web-pages are written):
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(f)oulipo
oulipo=ouvroir de literature potentielle (literary movement that came from France 1960s, mostly male)
foulipo: an attempt to bring feminism to the heritage of oulipo
worked with texts under constraint: write a text without letter m or write on the metro only when it's running
interesting the potential of it is nice, feminst response to it
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https://www.accesstoolkit.art/
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de drempel zelfst.naamw. (m.) Uitspraak: [ ˈdrɛmpəl ] Afbreekpatroon: drem·pel Verbuigingen: drempels (meerv.) 1) verhoging op de vloer onder een deur Voorbeeld: 'Val niet over de drempel!' 2) Voorbeeld: 'op de drempel van een nieuwe tijd staan'
EN: threshold self-styled noun (m.) Pronunciation: [ ˈdrɛmpəl ] Abbreviation: drem-pel Inflections: thresholds (plural) 1) elevation on the floor below a door Example: 'Don't fall over the threshold!' 2) Example: 'standing on the threshold of a new age'
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"Collective Engagment" A3 poster Charter / Dutch language
Qr code:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsu5XCLnmj8jEA89A_1AO6Q
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https://www.karinadukalska.com/creatives-with-unseen-disabilities/
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an attempt to rewrite the introduction to a constant activity:
https://constantvzw.org/site/Workshop-Now-think-of-a-question-that-is-at-stake-for-you,3705.html
old text:
rosa (they, them) is a feminist server that travels between different locations, providing a mobile infrastructure for learning, documentation, and experiments for the meetings that happened during the A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers project. rosa is not only its constituting hardware or software, but also the multitude of relations which are created around the making, maintaining and passing on of this infrastructure: the processes that are performed, the affective charge of their actioning, the communities around them.
the text rewritten today:
rosa (they, them) is a feminist travelling server. Rosa provided a digital space for learning, documentation and experiments for the meetings of the project called A traversal network of feminist servers. rosa is not only a technological device it is also a community with practices of making, maintaining and sharing.
The text rewritten by https://capito.eu
Rosa is a project that travels to different places.
It offers a space for meetings, learning, and trying new things.
The project is part of the A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers.
The space has chocolates, candies, and a soft toy for celebrations.
Rosa is more than just its hardware and software.
It is also about the people who use it and the relationships they create.
These relationships include the processes, emotions, and communities involved.
The users are an important part of Rosa's infrastructure.
They perform actions that affect the technology and the people around them.
Sharing Rosa involves passing it on to others.
These relationships are important for understanding how Rosa works and how it can be improved.
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Two different descriptions were distant but also complementary
one was more on the description of details / on the side of 'objectivity'
the other one was using interpretation by for instance reading the body language...
Important to try to keep a balance between the picture and the text
normally an image will be next to a text that gives the context, there is no point in blowing up the role of the image with full details.. but rather to catch what it is important for that picture in that place..
To support the function of the image in being there.
Still, the reader can skip between elements, so they can choose if they want to hear the whole description of peter's conference setup sitting next to him?
Consider if you have never seen in your life, what could you assume is relevant?
When trying the alt-text, I have the feeling of a need to be "objective"
hangups to write in a contrained way (sense of being inhibiting)
searching a middle-point seems indicative of the kind of work you should aim for.
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not wanting to describe someone in a way that gendering is assumed and enforced.
categorization, representation, interpretation of pictures presents a multiplicity of questions..
at the same time, in the picture of children training, it can be relevant to describe that it is 'white young boys', for the historical normative socialization of training and sport, the separation of genders in schools, etc.
Children vs. boys... importance to signify a culturally specific concept.
When you describe someone you don't know, use -presenting... ie "white-presenting", or "young -presenting", as a means of making (more) clear that it's an interpretation.
you can say 'for my point of view she presents as white'
alt-text as place for "bonus" (a funny question, a little surprise).
I: when the image repeats what is already around in text format, such for example posting flyer, you can also instead add a 'bonus' a joke.
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Beautiful excerpt of a podcast we were too late to listen
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/713/made-to-be-broken/act-one-11
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feeding back
keeping a balance between picture and text
normally an image will be next to a text that gives the context, there is no point in blowing up the role of the image with full details.. rather catch what it is important for that picture in that place..
function for image being there.
still, the reader can skip between elements, so they can choose if they want to hear the whole description of peter's conference setup sitting next to him?
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not wanting to describe someone in a way that gendering is assumed and enforced.
you can say 'for my point of view she presents as white'
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Compiled in occasion of the "Drempel, drempel, drempel" worksession
March 12-16 2024 @ Kaaistudios
In solidarity, Constant
- General takes on access, disability justice, ableism
- Keywords for radicals by Kelly Fritsch, Clare O’Connor, A. K. Thompson, Joy James, Silvia Federici, "Accessible":
https://circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/drempel/reader/1-access-disability-justice-ableism/01-keywords_for_radicals-fritsch-accessible-nf.pdf - Feminist Queer Crip, "Defining Disability: A political/relational model", pp4-9
https://circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/drempel/reader/1-access-disability-justice-ableism/alison-kafer-defining-disability-nf.pdf - Feminist Queer Crip "Time for Disability Studies and a Future for Crips" pp25-40
https://circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/drempel/reader/1-access-disability-justice-ableism/alison-kafer-time-for-disability-nf.pdf - 10 principles of disability justice:
https://www.sinsinvalid.org/blog/10-principles-of-disability-justice - Care work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, “THE CRIP ART OF FAILURE: BASED ON REAL-LIFE EVENTS, pp106-108
https://circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/drempel/reader/1-access-disability-justice-ableism/Samarasinha-Care-Work-nf.pdf - Con(fuse)ing and Re(fusing) Barriers by MELT (Ren Loren Britton & Iz Paehr)
https://aprja.net//article/view/128188/174368 - Disease is not a metaphor by Cyree Jarelle Johnson
http://www.bgdblog.org/2013/07/2013729disease-is-not-a-metaphor/ - Making access documents (Leah Clements, Alice Hattrick and Lizzy Rose)
https://www.accessdocsforartists.com/what-is-an-access-doc-text-only
https://www.accessdocsforartists.com/guide-to-making-an-access-doc-text-only -
Disability Access Requirement Documents (Lizzy Rose)
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bd09de4704680345edb75aa/t/5c9de8a971c10b45cbb28146/1553852586088/Lizzy+Rose+access+doc+FINAL+%281%29.pdf -
About physical spaces, building access
- An Icon as a verb:
https://accessibleicon.org/#an-icon-is-a-verb - Accessible spaces: a fragrance-free toolkit:
https://csw.ucla.edu/toolkit - The Funambulist magazine, The space of Ableism #19 "Introduction: Abstract Normative Bodies vs. Anti-Ableist Architectures"
https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/space-of-ableism/introduction-abstract-normative-bodies-vs-anti-ableist-architectures - The Funambulist magazine, The space of Ableism #19 "Starting From “New Normal(s)”: Non-Normative Design Methodologies in Architecture Education"
https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/space-of-ableism/starting-new-normals-non-normative-design-methodologies-architecture-education-sarah-gunawan - The Funambulist magazine, The space of Ableism #19 "The Disordinary Architecture Project: A Handy Guide for Doing Disability Differently in Architecture and Urban Design"
https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/space-of-ableism/disordinary-architecture-project-handy-guide-disability-differently-architecture-urban-design-jos-boys - Template for access audit made by the radical access mapping project
https://circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/drempel/reader/2-physical-spaces-building-access/Access_Audit_template.pdf - Protocols for unfinished technoscience by Aimi Hamraie
https://www.mapping-access.com/blog-1/2018/3/1/protocols-for-unfinished-technoscience - Building access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability by Aimi Hamraie : Access knowledge - LEGIBLE USERS p.30-39
https://circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/drempel/reader/2-physical-spaces-building-access/new-normates-nf.pdf -
Wearable workarounds for "defensive architecture" by Sarah Ross
https://sarahendren.com/2014/03/20/wearable-workarounds-for-defensive-architecture/ -
Readability, language
- Access guides on making sure text content is easy to read and understand by Alex Chen:
https://www.accessguide.io/tags/writing - It’s Raining Cats and Dogs: An Autism Spectrum Guide to the Confusing World of Idioms, Metaphors and Everyday Expressions
https://circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/drempel/reader/3-readability-and-language/raining-cats-and-dogs-nf.pdf - Ableist language by Lydia X. Z. Brown
https://www.autistichoya.com/p/ableist-words-and-terms-to-avoid.html -
Metaphorically Speaking: Ableist Metaphors in Feminist Writing, "Introduction" + "Theories of Metaphor: Limits and Possibilities" by Sami Schalk
https://dsq-sds.org/index.php/dsq/article/view/3874/3410 -
Website, online access, tech
- Making Websites Inclusive pp.21-34
https://project.xpub.nl/makeinclusivewebsites/pdf/MaxLehmann_Thesis_compressed.pdf - Crip Technoscience Manifesto by Aimi Hamraie & Kelly Fritsch pp7-23
https://circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/drempel/reader/4-websites-online-access-tech/HamrieandFritsch-crip_technoscience_manifesto.pdf - A friendly introduction to accessibility on the web
https://www.accessguide.io/ - ACCESS SERVER: Dreaming, practicing and making access by MELT (Ren Loren Britton & Iz Paehr)
https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/12908/10801 - Artificial intelligence and disability: too much promise, yet too little substance? by Peter Smith, Laura Smith
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s43681-020-00004-5.pdf -
Remote Access: a crip nightlife gathering:
https://www.mapping-access.com/remote-access -
Guides, manuals (only the list will be printed)
- Casco Art Institute (Utrecht), Commoning accessibility
https://titipi.org/files/Commoning%20Accessibility.pdf - A primer on working with disabled group members for feminist / activist groups and organisations by Romily Alice Walden
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/574dd51d62cd942085f12091/t/5c353ab5b8a045b02aaae0ee/1546992309159/Romily_Alice_Walden_Primer.pdf - Alt text as poetry workbook By Bojana Coklyat & Shannon Finnegan
https://alt-text-as-poetry.net/assets/Alt-Text-as-Poetry-Workbook-PDF-2020-12-01.pdf - Access Guide for Cripping the space symposium by Cripping the arts
https://tangledarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/cta-access-guide-spreads-digital-1.pdf - Building consentful tech by The Consentful Tech Project
http://www.consentfultech.io/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Building-Consentful-Tech.pdf - Access suggestions for public events by Sins invalid
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bed3674f8370ad8c02efd9a/t/607fbb335c0b8d38a082c3b0/1618983732089/Access_Suggestions-Events.pdf - Access guide for an event organised by Arts Everywhere
https://festival.artseverywhere.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/AEF20_Access_Web.pdf - En accès limité ? Accessibilité des milieux culturels, associatifs et militants by Le poisson sans bicyclette (FR)
https://lepoissonsansbicyclette.be/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/En_Acces_Limite_Un_livret_pour_approfondir_Version_longue.pdf - Accessibiliser un événement pour le public porteur de handicap by Les Dévalideuses (FR)
http://lesdevalideuses.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Guide_accessibiliser-un-evenement.pdf - Working with Neurodivergent Artists by NEUK Scotland
https://neukcollective.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Working-With-Neurodivergent-Artists-Online-Version-17.11.21.pdf
I. Illustrations
"Talking stairs" by Sunaura Taylor
https://circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/drempel/reader/i-illustrations/sunaura_taylor-thinking-stairs-nf.pdf
Medical Industrial Complex by Mia Mingus
https://circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/drempel/reader/i-illustrations/medical_industrial_complex-Mia_Mingus.pdf
* Picture of a Singaporian elderly person beeping for time priviledge in Sara Hendren's book
https://circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/drempel/reader/i-illustrations/access_time.pdf
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cyphersex.org
DRAFT excerpt: https://circulations.constantvzw.org/2023/disobedient2/reader/Cyper_Sex_Manual_excerpt_%5BDRAFT_-_do_not_share%5D.pdf
the project is about localising guides - working with very specific groups of people that are also very heterogenous
A Focus on digital self defense
Questions :
- If you could think about all the devices that you have; what devices you have to connect to the internet ?
- What do you do online ? list out 10 or 20 different things that u do online. (social media, finances, e-mailing, things as in Practices + Apps + Accounts + Functions.. )
-Give some thought about the level of certain closeness and the relation between service/account/identity - using official name, work account and private account on social media (same for email), in terms of the level of trust that you give to those groups
Each of these kind of "arenas" is what we call a social domain (family, work, friends)
if you personally has experience issues around the mix of those social domains. some content that circulate in one social domain should not pass into another.
do you any example from personal life or friends when they had issues with these kind of information being shared ? what is the worst case scenario you'd want to avoid
ref
What is queer privacy - Sarah Jamie Lewis
https://leanpub.com/queerprivacy
rephrases the question of privacy in terms of a question of consent
"Privacy is the right to consent"
right to give consent but also right to withdraw consent
background
SEE: https://genderit.org/feminist-talk/localising-digital-self-defence-guides-sex-workers
working as a webdevelopers for people doing sex work online
recent law passed in 2018 in the US called FOSTA/SESTA. supposedly agains sex trafficking.
it created an exception to the net neutrality law, where the provider is not responsible for the use that one makes of an online service ( facebook is not responsible for what you post, the user is responsible ).
this law made an exception, saying that law enforcement could go after companies if it was cases of child or sex trafficking.
a podcast about section 230 : https://open.spotify.com/episode/1i1aaKrJj9JsaAfUq32yuT
https://radiolab.org/podcast/internet-dilemma
this means that if there's a service provider online and someone uses it for sex trafficking, that company becomes responsible for that (even retrospectively). This law is so badly written that the companies don't understand how to interpret it.
the law is so badly written that the conmpanies do not know how to interpret it. panic after law means that the companies calculated the risk of their users, taking a blanket banning approach all over prohibiting adult material in general.
in 2018 créaiglist shut down all its missed connections channel because they were afraid that it could be used in the case of sex trafficking. Then the definition of adult content became broader with sex education, erotica, vibrators etc. So all the provide started to ban these content
a lot of queer content sexualised as adult content also started falling into the generalized ban approach..
domino effect that anything that would qualified as adult would be banned and all queer content was qualified as adult so banned.
a lot of people wanted to move their websites outside of the states, trying to understand how to navigate all the bans and obstacles..
two guides (cyphersex.org)
- one for dominatrix in the states; how this community of people is using the internet, how they already strategy in place
- one for the berlin context resulting from workshops and discussions with sex workers in berlin/germany
request to translate those guides in french, spanish ect but didn't make a lot of sense because each context is very different. So they came up with the idea of the manual, to help making a guide that applies to the local context.
Fosta/sesta impact everyone but not many people actually know about it.
Intersectional discussion around online work for the rest of the week
Five parts
1. Self-defense?: instead of digital security, security/safety used by government to control people. Wanting to focus on how people could empower themselves in their practices online, in their choices of tools etc. Needing to be a holistic approach, sharing with people articulations of fear in relation to particular activities online. Thinking about harm reduction, it's not about using or not a tool. "We are guide for sexworker community but we write it in such a way that it can be broadly referenced used by other types of comminity"
Solidary network and community building text, commissioned to talk about the importance of network care for such work
2. Methods: participatory threat modeling and person-based design,, separating life domains
3. Interview and workshop templates, questionnaire for workshop, focus group questions, sample digital defense workshop agenda
4. Digital defense guides: necessary modules; how to choose tools, terms of use, identity management,
5. Digital self degense guides context specific modules
A lot of research made, a lot of guides online already that take the approach of dealing with different types of community but none speciffically oriented towards sex workers
https://www.accessnow.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/A-first-look-at-digital-security-OCT2020.pdf
refs..
https://genderit.org/feminist-talk/localising-digital-self-defence-guides-sex-workers
https://www.inventati.org/cyphersex/
https://0xacab.org/reginazabo/cyphersex-website
https://www.accessnow.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/A-first-look-at-digital-security-OCT2020.pdf
https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Other_Weapons
Also see:
Gendersec Guide to Multiple Identity Management https://gendersec.tacticaltech.org/wiki/index.php/Step_1
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How might we measure peace in a way that takes into account the contributions of seemingly more peaceful countries to the peace-lessness in others?
Text artist Jenny Holzer's artwork: "None of us can be liberated if other groups are not" could apply in this way? If none of us is at peace until all are at peace, what are 'first aid kits' needed globally and interactively (between groups both on a personal and more global scale)?
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https://www.economicsandpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/GPI-2023-Web.pdf
"The Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP) is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit think tank dedicated
to shifting the world’s focus to peace as a positive, achievable, and tangible measure of human well-being
and progress.
IEP achieves its goals by developing new conceptual frameworks to define peacefulness; providing
metrics for measuring peace; and uncovering the relationships between business, peace and prosperity as
well as promoting a better understanding of the cultural, economic and political factors that create peace"
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https://project.xpub.nl/img/xpub_logo_2020.svg
Now, Think Of A Question That Is At Stake For You
olimex as an oracle
To log into olimex
What is ssh
SSH is a command that gives you access to another computer from the terminal.
Open your terminal and run:
$ssh olimex@disobedient
or go to https://circulations.constantvzw.org/2023/disobedient2/lab/lab
Ask the key holders at the table for the password.
For this section, we take inspiration from Alexis Pauline Gumbs, who says:
Alexis Pauline Gumbs introduces her book, Dub: Finding Ceremony, as an Oracle
[in a lecture called Future of Praxis _ Meridians - feminism, race, transnationalism, found on youtube]
"Sylvia Wynter says what we need is a socio-poetics, poetics for the society, we need poetics of a possible relation. The situation we have, she explains, is one of separation. The dominant story and the languages in which we reproduce it say that we are not related. Our relationships with people and environment are mediated by capital and violence. Sylvia Wynter says we need a poetic practice that finds a way to center our relationships, to displace the unnatural violence that the whole definition of what it is to be human and racist, hetero, patriarchal, colonial, capitalist, and says this is the only way; to be dominated or dominant with resources or without hope.
She says, Can we describe it?
That attempt should be our work, the point of all our art, the great creative act.
There has not been a day since where I have not mentioned Sylvia Wynter, and now I have this book where on every page, I cite a moment of Sylvia Wynter making a version of this argument in different contexts and in different ways. She is still making that argument right now, insisting that in this moment, when we can actually communicate as a species, all of us in real time, we are better poised than ever, to reject the false universalism that was used to justify colonialism and slavery. That continues to destroy our life chances on this planet.
This for me is also the question of meridians connecting points through lines, boundaries, transnationalism, feminism, race. The work of finding and redefining our relation across all of this, the nuanced poetic activity of reclaiming relation as praxis.
Sylvia Wynter says the ceremony must be found to create what she calls a we that needs no other. And so I'm offering an Oracle.
It requires our relationship and your participation."
Oracle Score
[these actions are borrowed from a lecture by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, they are edited from a transcript]
"This Oracle requires your relation.
Think of, and activate, a resonant relationship in your own life, maybe part of the reason that you're here, but not a person who's actually here in the room, because that's what's poetic about it. The borders of this university, the limits of capitalist access, even the boundary between life and death cannot eradicate your relations. So we're going to dedicate this space to and for and with our relations.
Did you find them? Okay.
Write down the name and a little bit about why and who you dedicated to.
Take about four minutes to do that right now.
Now, think of a question that is at stake for you. In this time in your life.
It may have to do with why you prioritise being at this school. It may be related to the person that you dedicated to, or something else that is urgently on your heart.
Push away the fear of asking questions we don't already know the answer to. This is not that not to say that that doesn't do anything, just this is not that.
Draw on your relation for the power to be poetic in this moment.
When you have your question, think of a number between 1 and 49.
It could be just the number that comes to you. It could be a number related to your question.
Find your number in the book.
Photograph the words.
Write a reflection on how this relates to your person, your question, and how you can engage with writing.
The way this socio-poetic Oracle works is that there are 49 different passages in Dub, that specifically refer to moments of emphasis in Sylvia Wynter's essays, they are ethno or socio-poetics that I referred to, and those are the 49."
When logging in, you will see a randomly selected Message Of The Day (MOTD). At the moment, these are excerpts from the quotes of the Constant Splint Game.
We invite you to look in the physical space of esc, the book shop, or your own references to add to the oracle.
Add your own texts
To add more texts to this add text files in /home/oracle:
Copy paste within a terminal is CTRL+SHIFT+C & CTRL+SHIFT+V
$ nano /home/olimex/oracle/text-name.txt
To save the file:
CTRL/COMMAND+X, press Y, press Enter
Formulate questions to ask the oracle
in groups of 2. In turn, log out of the server (CTRL +D) and repeat the steps above to log back in, while you ask your questions to the oracle. The oracle wil answer back.
Read the questions and answers out loud.
other workshop:
From guest to host
Hosting is, among other things, a practice of creating conditions for collectivity. The shell of rosa is a space of encountering each other for example through wall messages, mails, seeing each other's files, traces left in the gestures of naming processes. In the Trans*Feminist Server Wishlist^tfs, a trans★feminist server "radically question[s] the conditions for serving and service" and "experiment[s] with changing client-server, user-device and guest-host-ghost relations where they can." Starting from the space that is created around and through rosa, what kind of message could be shared with someone logging in for the first time?
Take some time to write this message.
Write it as a mail to the people who will join rosa in the future.
$ mail -t
fotd
(ctrl-d on an empty line to finish the email)
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in the spectra shelter in esc, xm showed me how to use the SDR to go through the frequencies with different de-modelling methods, also with different antenne positions, we were trying to look through the spectrum of the radio frequencies and reseaching what certain unrecognizable channels could be. Later, Al provided a transmitter, we tried to transmit a long Limbo from Jassie Lanza, and listen to it via radio. it took us around 40 minutes to be able to hear it for about 5 seconds, but it's still super fun yayayayayayayayayayayayayay. i also leared that i might be able to use salted water (for example, the sea itself) as a nice ground, also there's a possibility to build a listening device via mullberry and kombucha, maybe ;))))))
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ECHO OF THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, 26th and 27th of October
Re-packing the suitcases
We are asked not to stay.
Going to ESC with our suitcases
and see:
if we can unpack,
go through the frequencies,
different de-modelling methods,
different antenna positions.
I am here and everything,
but I am
like oooh
I don't know how to make it apply.
But:
that
was the thing I could make apply.
[Sound: A loud, scratchy, ripping sound
repeats several times,
while a very soft choir sings in the background.]
and....action!
what was the highlight of your day?
How do you create spaces,
that,
you know,
not everyone has access to,
But the people that need it
can find it?
I think that is the question.
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
Maybe some mapping?
of different techniques
where this could be achieved,
or comparing previous experiences
or desires for future things?
I have to explain
my messy,,,,,,
my messy files
i might be able to use salted water
(for example, the sea itself)
as a ground,
also there's a possibility
to build a listening device
via mullberry and kombucha,
maybe.
What the hell is water?
I have to watch out that I don't put water on the machine
[Image: A basin is placed directly upon a toilet.
On the toilet it is written 'Trinkwasser'.
A book is resting on the toilet flush.
The bricks of the walls are painted in white, black and red.]
8 pilars:
* well functioning governement.
* equitable distribution of resources.
* free flow of information.
* good relations with neighbors.
* high levels of human capital.
* rights of others acceptance.
* good anti corruption index.
* sound business environment.
attitudes,
structures creating sustaining peaceful societies
Oh!
This kind of ...
Damn!
There are a lot of vulnerabilities
and how responsible do we become?
Or,
how much can we spread the responsabilties
through the group entirely.
-yeah.
YEAH.
free flow of information improved,
but the quality is not measured
....doing coding...
which is a bit depressing?..
you just want a goulash in the place
[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.]
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.
Seems very crucial
[Image: a work station in a workshop,
crowded with hand tools,
power tools,
and support structures.
It looks very dusty.]
researching what
certain unrecognizable channels could be
Later, a transmitter,
we tried to transmit
a long Limbo
from Jassie Lanza,
and listen to it via radio.
it took us 40 minutes
to be able to hear it for 5 seconds,
but it was still super fun
yay
yay
yay
[Image: two people are leaning intently on a table while looking at some circuits through a big magnifying glass.]
[Sound: A soft, continous static noise.
It sounds like light rain, with a bit of hail, on a window pane.]
What I'm saying now,
just as a disclaimer,
I don't want to invite anyone to do anything illegal.
Please first check your local laws
advertisement
and what you can do about it
Modifying advertisement content
subvertise & advertise at the same time
develop methods, examples
critique of the system
billboard hacking
Brandalism
Capitalism has always been very good
at also selling the criticism of itself
toolkit for survival
Stamping of feet,
clapping of hands,
gyration of upper bodies,
swirling of hips
were all ways that holy ghosts
were either awakened,
or other spirits were welcomed or chased away.
[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.]
one messed up layer:
How the economy of the internet
is fuelled by
targeted advertisment and profiling.
It is something about how advertisement got to the base
of how the current internet works
even intervowen with infrastructures
and the dependencies we have.
More of a fundamental critique
that I don't know yet
how to formulate.
[Sound: The soft static noise continues.
We have received information that it is the sound of the Splinter server.]
We talked about thinking of communicating through using a:
Concentric circle…
En ja, je ziet het, eh?
Wij zijn helemaal vermengd
met de privé sfeer
van anderen
you can become "friends" with the animal villagers
by giving them gifts
and they often give you something in return.
Der liggen nog apparaten
rondt ons
maar ook vooral
veel mensen
en jah!
smakelijk!
- Danku.
Clapping
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ECHO OF WEDNESDAY, 25th of October
suitcases are in ESC
not even opened.
the programme changed,
unzipped,
zipped
under the table.
...
Arrived.
unpacking the suitcases
Installed a preliminary setup.
Please share
about togetherness/exclusion
how to extend forms of solidarity
dealing with conflict
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".]
you have to be in proximity to each other
and on the same network
no rent
all your friends in walking distance
community space
public living room
Yeah,
damn,
I like this.
I haven't done this in years.
We will just accept this.
There will always be something,
really off.
[Image: a plaque on which it is written:
in 1981 the artist Wolfgang Temmel
erected a 17-metre-long rusty ramp
at night and without permission
as an access to the Kunsthalle for people with disabilities.
In 1983 -
and again at night -,
the protest installation was removed by the authorities.]
welding
soldering
sawing
sawing
sawing
we had wooden things, metal things,
but they broke recently
so we expect to go
frestyling again
when we want to print something bigger
raumwerk
a room to work
but then a T kind of emerged from somewhere
you can try to find the phrasing
- what?
If you remember the occasion
you can try to find the phrasing
It is possible,
but I've rarely done it
because
you can work on your dream, make them come true
- that's a good quote for the echostation
[sound: laughters]
[Image: A brutalist concrete building towers above.
High up, under a window,
someone has painted onto the building
"Scheisse Repressoren"
or "Fucking repressors".]
I think she was talking to you actually
There is a hook above your head.
I wonder about the security challanges:
I would like to find ways
for the authors of the site,
(me),
not to be in risk,
but also,
maybe,
the participants.
[Image: On the corner of a white table
A cardboard box
is installed with a metallic plate,
connected to a tiny circuit board,
connected to two small speakers,
connected to a smartphone.
With three laser points
hitting different surfaces.]
banana???
yes
banana plugs
they are called banana plugs
cool
wow
nice
impressive
I personally never used it
because I'm not good with electronic stuff
it's ok,
it's ok.
[Sound: A wooden pressure roller churns,
occasionally squeeking,
like a mouse,
from the pressure it is excerting.]
A steganographic audio file
and an SSTv file,
were transmitted.
On the
radiophone
- it is probably producing horrible recordings
we'll see
You can either work with a mirror
but
I just
I taped it,
it was very very botchy,
we taped the screen to the glass,
and then we just walked out with it
into the sun.
One time it worked
another time it didn't work,
because there was one cloud.
it is hard to estimate
Like ...
it
can work.
[Image: a computer screen
in which you see a picture of two women with megaphones
standing on the pedestal of a statue
of the emperor Francisco the 1st of Austria.
The women are wearing black, orange and red clothes.
The picture is taken during a protest demonstration.]
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.
[Sound: a mechanic, metallic machine vibration
is heard across the room,
whilst soft piano music plays in the background.)
so, this one is a bit hidden
it is not really fabric but from trucks
why do you cover it?
for dust
it is sensitive to dust
it is going to be smelly
you know
smelly and dusty
I grew up with that
it is a bit starwars
it should have a switch between...
yeah maybe..
also you can activate and deactivate...
you can deactivate a screen?
aaahhh
it is dusty
yeah
it is selfmade,
you know
it's the age of dust
[sound: soft music of guitar playing in the background]
[a drum joins the guitar]
[somebody start singing too]
...
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
[sound: birds chirping in the garden]
whisper: They're chirping!
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ECHO OF TUESDAY 24rd of October:
Do you wanna
do you wanna
come in?
Sure.
Ok. So...welcome!
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
Two fish speak to each other,
one mentions water,
the other one goes: - what the hell is water
Details,
that you only see if you go
close, close,
like this
[Sound: drops of rain falling on a roof and dripping to the ground.]
it is an image of a large animal
a sort of austrian cliché animal
can you see it now?
[Image: An illustration made by a multitude of neon lines,
depicting
a cyborg with a balaklava
and a spiked halo
who is holding a plackard
that reads "We are but one bitch".
Above their head, a sign says
"how to cypher sex:
A manual for collective, digital, self-defence guides".]
The justifications
Somehow if it is
"we are protecting women and children"
then no-one can disagree
But the result is so widespread
that there is no way
it is going to be able
to do the thing
that it says it is going to do.
I did not know
I did not know
about
this
section 2.30.E
[Sound: a chair scrapes on the floor.]
separating identities
and when possible
also separating devices
but there are strategies
to do
when you can not have
multiple devices
Do you have messaging apps?
Do you use certain messaging apps for work?
Do you use certain messaging apps for friends?
Think of the level of
personal closeness.
[Sounds:]
[dog barks]
[someone shushes]
[man says "Lula, aus!"]
Earlier this year
I was in a protest movement
against the chinese government
and I posted an anonymous email address online
and then
a journalist contacted me
and wanted to do an interview on Signal
But I did not want to use
my real phone number
in relation to this anonymous email account.
The level of closeness
and relation between service/accounts/identity:
using your official name,
work accounts,
private accounts,
in terms of the level of trust
that you give
[Sound: shuffling feet]
if we are making good tools we are making tools nobody is aware of
it makes it more accessible, it makes it easier to use,
but it's not necessarely good in an ethical sense.
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]
in terms of power
when you are making things easier for people,
it means you are taking away certain difficulties
in some cases, people don't have to think on their own anymore
so they don't learn how it's done.
If you then don't provide the service
and people suddenly have to do it by themselves
they are kind of lost
it is one of the most controversial effects of caring for somebody
[Image: a grey creature, looking like something between a goat and a dragon,
is perched on a branch,
while a yellow-squared duck
is carrying a blue salamander on its back]
- I love the way the direction this conversation is taking!
- These are the things what we, designers, should worry about.
... it is very tricky to normalise the use of things. - How can you make a keyboard invisible?
when in reality everybody uses them in so many different ways,
you can not make one invisible keyboard, it is impossible. - I could not agreed more.
[Sound: drops of rain keep on falling on the plastic table in the garden]
I don't know
I don't know what I want to do
They say
it is too much business
other people
say it is too much art
it is hard
they do not know
how to handle us here
Everybody likes this project
Everybody wants this project
but nobody wants to pay for it
a whole network
all connected
allez, it's smooth
[Sound: somebody pealing a banana]
Should we slowly start walking towards lunch?
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?
the challenge would be
not to imagine
why someone would put a cup somewhere
but instead:
why is it a cup or a plate; could it be possible for a cup
to be in another material
What would you consider as a material?
what we take for granted
is constantly changing
[Sound: somebody blowing their nose]
It is interesting to think about how you do, what you do,..
It took me a while
It took me two months
It would have probably taken me less, if the weather conditions where different
...
but it was fun
[Sound: awful loud sound of metal, being dragged on the ground, by a machine]
This concludes the Echo
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++ECHO++
ECHO OF MONDAY 23rd of October:
"somebody wants to speak?.. if anybody wants to start?"
"do you want to start?"
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.
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
Speaking for others and othering
The we and the non-we
The human not-human
It is unresolved
We
We ...
We have now tried with the We,
– it's a strange collective construction.
We have also tried with the You,
– it is terrible.
And the imperative?
– ...
The We is where we ended up,
Even if we're not completely convinced by We.
They?
– Then it doesn't include you too much?
It is unresolved
It is a question mark
[Sounds: ]
[noise of a lot of papers being handed out]
[lots of laughter]
[people talking at the same time]
[looooots of laughter]
keeping silent meant matching pace as an act of togetherness
not imposing your rhythms on others means the other needs to find confidence to alter or break their own pace
Allow the differences
collaboration and synchronicity
group dynamic can be overwhelming
gives silent voices more space and time
The act of being aware,
We take part with different backgrounds,
Not assume another person will understand exactly what you are talking about
Not make someone afraid to ask what is going on.
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
and allow different speeds to engage with it.
[Sound: shuffled steps]
- walking -- puts you in a different situation on the base of different bodies
body activity to source
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.
How to make them present in an affective way?
The phone is ringing
normally that is interruptive
is it interruptive?
Maybe it is not interruptive?
dissolving of support networks
forms of dispossessions
mutual support
sister-organisations
bringing some praxis embodied through a suitcase
feeling chained to big network (instagram, etc) to share work, liking this idea of sharing
would like to have a way to share, maybe less internet connected, physical,
intimacy
A need for digital self defense
Not valuing only the technological discourse
in this space
but also the emotional discourse
To speak about imaginations
[Image: Three cats are sitting behind their connected computers,chatting to each other.]
There is no regular delete button here,
but there is a social delete button ...
disobedient behavior as an enrichment of use of public space.
disobedient behavior as an enrichment of use of public space:
Jamming, cranking, walking while listening reading sleeping as a first aid kit
A system of listeners.
Is it maybe something to come back to at the end of the day?
Is it maybe something to put in a first aid kit?
[Sound: many murmuring voices]
I would really like to know how confused you are?
Not really?
Yeah yeah yeah.
It depends.
A little.
This concludes the Echo.
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++monday++
so now this just belongs to monday and also intro
this is a piece of text very meaningful that we want to keep and cherish
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this is a piece of text very meaningful that we want to keep and cherish
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Critique on the system has been there since its inception, but a more generalized critique on consumerism and advertisement came with 70s and 80s general diffusion of critical views of capitalism in western / european societies (and ot only?)
Movie from John Carpenter: They Live (1988); critique on consumption and capitalism
Influenced the popular culture
https://www1.freemoviesfull.com/watch-movie/watch-they-live-16655.5302594
(use an adblocker / uBlock :-)
Branding critique, such as andre the giant, OBEY that started as critique inspired by subvertising, taking the image from the They Live movie, spreading massively, then becoming a brand itself, then OBEY sold to Adidas
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++SYNTAXSTRATEGY++
The glossary is here to deconstruct terms that are binary (linked to technology), the glossary itself as a medium (like it's not beginning from A and end to Z) but also terms that are linked, fluid with our thematic of this week.
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how-to-teleport!
agency tools
blockchain
stone-thrown
hardware
biometrics
para-communications
interactions
recognizing the pattern
bling!
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++Permaculture++
PERMACULTURE/GARDENING/SOIL/NATURE
how do we hack the earth
moss
lima bean
how to become a farmer ?
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Repair together!
Someone brings you a broken device, what do you do?
PRE-DIAGNOSTIC
1. Listen to the owner; check for:
suspcious smell
physical obvious shock
water damage - SHAMEFUL
BUT Vacuum cleaners -> 80% of the time it's the plug because people often snatch it out of the socket instead of gently pulling it out.
When you struggle, please check tube because there's always someone who fixed the same device before you
Ifixit is good, but tube is nicer
OPENING TOOLS; what you need:
- screwdriver + flexible screwdriver
- Tweezers
- prying tools
Some screws should be crime - for some you have to manufacter your own screwdriver.
Sometimes there's no screws at all, which is worse - some cofeemachines are just glued together --> damage becomes inevitable
Interesting to check the right to repair movement: https://repair.eu/
check for mechanical failure - After you dealt with screws:
* is it spinning/moving? should it be doing that?
As people replace metal gears with plastic ones its becoming harder to fix/check
* Look for debris
* ...
* Tools
* Lubricant grease
* glue
* citric acid (beware of WD40) -> it's useful to get something moving, but is quite aggressive to plastic or rubber
* Optical lens cleaner - CD players that do not detect the CD, usually its just a small lens that is dirty
* https://www.intogadgets.nl/contactspray-waarvoor-gebruik-je-het-niet/
* Most of the time you would use isopropyl alchohol for battery damage
* Do not descale your coffee machine with vinegar. Use citric acid instead
check for electrical failure
Fuse: electrical component designed for safety. if too much current, then it opens the loop as prevention.
Check the fuse and if current passes through.
Check the switch
MULTIMETER CONVO:
* ;;;;;;; FILL IN ;;;;;;
* How to use a multimeter :::::: https://repairtogether.be/guidance-tool/
* Prove that u can stroke through the cable?? to check continuity without breaking anything
* ---- YOU can DIY ONE? ~~~~~~~ https://hackaday.com/2020/07/13/build-an-everlasting-continuity-tester/
ELECTRONICS COMPONENTS
FUSES
* The hardest part is to find them.
* Sometimes the word "fuse" is written, sometimes just F
* Sometimes a blown out fuse is not the cause
* When you replace a fuse its IMPORTANT to use one with the same rating
CAPACITORS
Types: https://www.powerelectronicstalks.com/2020/04/types-of-capacitor.html
Mac capacitors: if you see the inflated dome, it's already failing.
Electrolytic chemicals or something?: https://www.britannica.com/science/electrolysis
Basicsssssss:
* MULTIMETER
* COMPONENT TESTER (for SMD comps you have tweazers)
* SOLDERING IRON
CAREFUL
Microwaves can be dangerous
The size can matter - huge washing machines = preferably say no
Senseo machines are very popular so there's a specific workshop on that :-D --- https://repairtogether.be/video-reparation-dune-senseo/
THROWING OUT - NO WAY! / JETER - PAS QUESTION !
[[[[[[ nice sidetrack, see: Tim Hunkin - Secret Life of Machines
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuUyt9RG7pk
many machines taken apart.
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++Resilience++
"Contextualisation :
We are a consortium of associations testing the potential of imagination in the face of crises. From our different positions and focus, we observe a variety of crises unfolding in Brussels -and elswhere-. We wonder about the impact of these crises on people's imagination for the future. We're researching how/if imagination and speculation could be devices taht help in dealing with the interrealted crises to avoid feelings of resignation, cynicism and instead stimulate collective action."
"When I'm imaginating the future of the city I live in, how much agency do I picture myself having ?"
-> Things I could have a need for doing so to enjoy the level of agency I'd want ?
-> Things I could have a need to avoid doing so to enjoy the level of agency i'd want ?
"How much significance would i want disobedience to have in the future?"
-> Things I could have a need for doing for disobedience to get where I'd want it to be
-> Things I could have a need to avoid doing for disobedience to get where I'd want it to be
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++Permaculture++
We're visiting Oscar Casamajor in the garden of Toestand, on the place Mirroir in Jette. They are looking after the plants, planting seeds, and they are a point of reference for people visiting the garden. Oscar is interested in permaculture, its practices, vision and ethics. We are spending time think about this in relation to technology and (dis)obedience. Oscar starts with an intro about their work, and proposes exercises to the group to think about what perma-culture means to everyone .
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++NOT Permaculture++
NOT Permaculture
- artificial
- chemical pesticides
- modified
- layering
- h2o
- spiral
- eco system
- collaborate
"work with elements that were already there, before us"
- sustain
- food
- local
- over production
- competition
Choosing what you want to eat
12? principles :
- observing + interacting
- smallest changes + biggest impacts
- work with not work against
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++Care++
3 ethics of permaculture:
* Care for earth
* care for people
* fair share
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TACTICS OF SCALE IN PROTESTS
The starting point was an idea about protests and maps happening in the context of frequent, huge protests happening in France in 2023 against retirement new laws.
During one of those big proteste we could se spontaneous riots happening everywhere in paris, right after the protest, till midnight. The police was overwhelmed, stressed, riding crazily around Paris whenever they thought they had an information. The protesters where thrilled, small groups of people usually not leading any movement suddenly creating mini riots and making a mess in the street. Everywhere
The idea was to have a map of the city printed every protest days on a sheet of paper, cheap, and gave away for free inside the protest. The name of places on the map would have been mixed randomnly. Place de l'Opera is now Place de la concorde, Rue des francs bourgeois was infact boulevard Beaumarchais...
Every protest the map woul dbe mixed. So from now protester could meet somewhere without having to be discrete about the location. They could maybe even yell it, since it was encrypted. Of course not everyone would have the information, some would meet at the right place, other at the named one (code name). At some point, eventually policemen would get the trick and try to get hands on maps. then it would be a good moment, to print fake fake maps, with another mix of names, different than the actual one, that could be dropped near the police truck, in order to give them fake clues.
Of course this would input more chaos, but as said earlier, the chaos fits the protesters, not the police.
Another input was a talk had with another member about protest happening in Bruxelles to ask justice for someone of color that died in a college integration week end, during a bullying raciste game.
Using social medias to gather people to honour the person brought out a lot of hatred from supporters of the white teenager responsible for the death. Sometimes social media is not needed for small intimate gathering, but we have no alternative means of getting together nowadays. How could we use media and technology to make small scall organisation tools available
How come printing, and static web can be a way to fix information in time in order to make it more persistant.
This was a mean to speak about the efficiency of smaller groups and how chaos would fit spontaneous groups of protesters but would not meet the polices ways of operate. Dispersion could sometime benefit the protesters.
On an other hand, massiveness is sometime something we need in protest.
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Also dispersion should not be "being alone" as in panic, authorities might start doing dangerous stuff. If Disperse, disperse in groups, with care and with strategy.
There was an interesting performance that hinted interesting ideas.
A protest was declared every day of a week, starting in front of a house, declaring 200 persons, but there would only be two protesters. 15 policemans were there on the first day. "Dont start the walk, where are all the other 198 people" "I dont know, they didnt come". And the two protester walk started, with akward policemens around the duo. Next day, 200 people were gathered,
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The analogy comes from agriculture and arrives into radio. But we should understood it critically not to mean "from one to many", instead as throwing seeds, and hoping each seed will grow and become a new producer of seeds, as you want as many as possible to become new emitters as well.
(Anna Friz)
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At this point it's not civil disobedience any more, but it is still a conflict of norms.
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what is inside the data?
data should be described but .....
answer: standardize the data flow
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there is poetry in good nomenclature
describing every physical movement or object..
what is a house, is a one door room from a two doored? description is poetic and activist
tentation is to immobiliereality
you need to normalize the process of normalization.. looping
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people will leak data if they feel something is wrong
if they agree with for example tracking migrants they will not leak information out
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Sun (hidden) message through
From photophone - when source becomes matter, low power transmissions
apparatus
Multiple inputs (language, morse, gyroscope+tinsy, microphone
FEEDBACK
Multiples outputs (active+passive amplifiers, speakers, dance,...)
Steganalysis - / test - spectrumanlaysis
Stego encoder online
Image to audio spectrogram converter
Spectralshelter
Techno-disobedience one
Sonicvisualizer
Quantum entanglement - electromagnetic/photon
Optogenetics - accoustomology - solar movement
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This is not a message meant for the stars, the outer space. We don’t need to communicate with the cosmos when we can’t even empathize with one of our own.
This is a message for the biosphere. The community which occupies this Earth, this land, this very garden. The beings whose life is intrinsically bound by the sun and everything that precedes them. The beings who are exploiting what came before while cursing their descendants with loss and despair.
The idea of abundance is not a myth. Humanity is just looking at the wrong place/from the wrong place. The sun is generous and shall prevail in a timescale that escapes us. We are in need of a new Copernican revolution, one that refuses the centrality of Man and welcomes an always encompassing light as the engine of reality.
Solastalgia is the symptom of the century, an ontological epidemy.
Even if we destroy our home, the sun will still shine on its ruins, impassible yet resplendent. And when everything is gone, it will be one of the last to
Dim And rest
Just another cold, dead body
On an empty universe.
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++archiving as collective work++
What the people need vs. what i want to do - Who is "I" and who is "We" and how do write from these perspectives
Talk about needs
(obedience to needs , legitimates disobedience to authoritty ?)
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because everyone has the same objects, we learn together
orbital ventilator
spare parts market grows
churro printing
revisit the same places
guerilla object - mambi
fan and telefone connected
jamming materials together
metrics recognition because you are in the practice
for people in need, standards are good
but it is flattening everything
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Ernesto is talking about his interest in that the topic of recombining used materials is also contaminating his practice, for example the documentation of work. He is showing a series of slides that are cut in 2 and recombined. This produces less standard images, not what one would expect of a designer documenting their work, but something more adventurous and experimental.
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I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 2nd of June 2023. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it I can sing it for you.
Testing again.
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Snowfields are a system developed during this very worksession to edit together!
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| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/cane-note-anotherbody/etherdump/ | monday-notes | link | ++anti-ablist-soundscapes++ | 2025-02-01 23:01:32+00:00 | 2 months ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/cane-note-anotherbody/etherdump/ | thursday-notes | link | ++alt-text++ ++anti-ablist-soundscapes++ | 2025-02-01 22:48:11+00:00 | 2 months ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/cane-note-anotherbody/etherdump/ | kaai_team_notes | link | ++ableist-questioning-framework++ | 2025-02-01 22:37:26+00:00 | 2 months ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/cane-note-anotherbody/etherdump/ | friday-notes | link | ++storytelling++ ++alternative-exhibition-narrative++ ++ableist-questioning-framework++ | 2025-02-01 21:49:17+00:00 | 2 months ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/cane-note-anotherbody/etherdump/ | wednesday-notes | link | ++emotional-punctuation++ ++messy-technologies++ ++messier-collective-ai++ ++interdependencies++ ++storytelling++ ++alternative-exhibition-narrative++ ++averages++ ++ai-invisiblized-labour++ ++inverting-by-design++ ++inverting-what-is-a-hidden-space++ ++innacessiblibility-menu++ ++technovernacular-creativity++ ++closed-captions++ ++institutional-attempts++ | 2025-02-01 21:23:51+00:00 | 2 months ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/cane-note-anotherbody/etherdump/ | concerns | link | ++messy-technologies++ ++messier-collective-ai++ ++alternative-exhibition-narrative++ ++averages++ ++ai-invisiblized-labour++ ++inverting-what-is-a-hidden-space++ ++closed-captions++ | 2025-02-01 21:22:37+00:00 | 2 months ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/cane-note-anotherbody/etherdump/ | storytelling | link | ++storytelling++ ++ableist-questioning-framework++ | 2025-02-01 21:21:29+00:00 | 2 months ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/cane-note-anotherbody/etherdump/ | Saturday-sharing | link | ++technovernacular-creativity++ ++tactile-maps++ ++storytelling++ ++w.i.p-thingy-dingy++ ++butt-on++ ++unhinged++ ++unhinged-choreography++ ++alternative-exhibition-narrative++ ++alternative-narratives-meet-alternative-buttons++ ++personal-trigger-warning-kit++ ++cute-lcd-screens++ | 2025-02-01 21:20:11+00:00 | 2 months ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/cane-note-anotherbody/etherdump/ | vernacular-technologies | link | ++friendship-as-freedom++ ++interdependencies++ ++technovernacular-creativity++ ++epistemicide++ ++anti-assilimationism++ ++care-work++ ++diffusion-of-responsibility++ ++eugenecist-organising++ ++playlists++ ++bingo++ | 2025-01-31 19:51:05+00:00 | 3 months ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/cane-note-anotherbody/etherdump/ | references | link | ++ableist-questioning-framework++ ++unhinged++ ++friendship-as-freedom++ ++interdependencies++ ++coloniality-and-ability++ ++technovernacular-creativity++ ++orientations++ ++averages++ ++eugenecist-organising++ | 2025-01-31 19:42:52+00:00 | 3 months ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/cane-note-anotherbody/etherdump/ | Loraine_Guided_Futuro | link | ++orientations++ ++inverting-by-design++ ++interdependencies++ ++technovernacular-creativity++ | 2025-01-31 19:02:23+00:00 | 3 months ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/cane-note-anotherbody/etherdump/ | crowdingcrowds | link | ++textoscope++ ++technovernacular-creativity++ | 2025-01-31 18:30:22+00:00 | 3 months ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/cane-note-anotherbody/etherdump/ | unhinged_choreo | link | ++unhinged++ | 2025-01-31 17:28:20+00:00 | 3 months ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/cane-note-anotherbody/etherdump/ | tuesday-notes | link | ++ableist-questioning-framework++ ++coloniality-and-ability++ | 2025-01-31 14:22:05+00:00 | 3 months ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/drempel/etherdump/ | day_5 | link | ++ren-britton-towards-life-thriving-relations++ ++resources-to-think-on-and-with-access++ | 2024-07-12 15:11:00+00:00 | 9 months ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/drempel/etherdump/ | alt-text-as-poetry | link | ++resources-to-think-on-and-with-access++ | 2024-07-12 15:09:09+00:00 | 9 months ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/drempel/etherdump/ | hello | link | ++welcome++ | 2024-07-12 15:08:04+00:00 | 9 months ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/drempel/etherdump/ | day_4 | link | ++about-screenreaders++ ++floss-screen-readers++ | 2024-07-12 15:07:50+00:00 | 9 months ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/drempel/etherdump/ | guidelinesaccess | link | ++guidelines-remarks++ | 2024-07-12 15:03:47+00:00 | 9 months ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/drempel/etherdump/ | day_2_spaces | link | ++ren++ ++resources-to-think-on-and-with-access++ | 2024-07-12 14:59:46+00:00 | 9 months ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/drempel/etherdump/ | intro-day-1 | link | ++safe-or-braves-paces++ | 2024-07-12 14:57:31+00:00 | 9 months ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/drempel/etherdump/ | day_3_language | link | ++resources-to-think-on-and-with-access++ ++never-trust-an-ai++ ++notes-from-alt-text-exercise++ ++bonus-listening++ | 2024-07-12 14:51:23+00:00 | 9 months ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/drempel/etherdump/ | mapping | link | ++mapping++ | 2024-07-12 14:44:13+00:00 | 9 months ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/drempel/etherdump/ | alt-text-as-poetry-texts | link | ++notes-from-alt-text-exercise++ | 2024-07-12 13:58:50+00:00 | 9 months ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2024/drempel/etherdump/ | resources | link | ++drempel-reader++ | 2024-03-11 15:51:29+00:00 | a year ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2023/disobedient2/etherdump/ | CypherSex | link | ++digital-self-defense++ ++cyphersex++ | 2023-12-06 11:40:34+00:00 | a year ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2023/disobedient2/etherdump/ | Peace | link | ++peaceness++ | 2023-12-06 07:18:59+00:00 | a year ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2023/disobedient2/etherdump/ | october23 | link | ++oracle++ | 2023-12-06 07:17:07+00:00 | a year ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2023/disobedient2/etherdump/ | spectra_shelter | link | ++technofeminist++ ++spectra-shelter++ | 2023-12-06 07:15:29+00:00 | a year ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2023/disobedient2/etherdump/ | Echo_of_Thursday_and_Friday | link | ++echo++ | 2023-11-28 15:21:11+00:00 | a year ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2023/disobedient2/etherdump/ | Echo_of_Wednesday | link | ++echo++ | 2023-10-28 11:36:39+00:00 | a year ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2023/disobedient2/etherdump/ | Echo_of_Tuesday | link | ++echo++ | 2023-10-28 11:36:16+00:00 | a year ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2023/disobedient2/etherdump/ | Echo_of_Monday | link | ++echo++ | 2023-10-28 11:35:55+00:00 | a year ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2023/disobedient2/etherdump/ | olivia's_first_aid_kit | link | ++three.js++ ++file-sharing++ ++godot++ | 2023-10-28 11:29:57+00:00 | a year ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2023/disobedient2/etherdump/ | Body_technologies | link | ++body-technologies++ ++concentric-circles-communications++ | 2023-10-28 11:29:33+00:00 | a year ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2023/disobedient2/etherdump/ | Monday | link | ++worksession++ ++monday++ ++echo++ ++it-is-ok-to-leak++ | 2023-10-28 11:22:35+00:00 | a year ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2023/disobedient2/etherdump/ | Friday | link | ++embodyment-vs-incorporation++ | 2023-10-27 17:45:57+00:00 | a year ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2023/disobedient2/etherdump/ | Thursday | link | ++peacewashing++ | 2023-10-27 10:41:34+00:00 | a year ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/vvvvvvaria.org/logs/dislog/ | dislog@muc.vvvvvvaria.org #30 | link | 2023-10-25 00:14:04+00:00 | a year ago | LogBot | [send-to-pad] | |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2023/disobedient2/etherdump/ | walk | link | ++x-as-a-political-act++ ++listening++ | 2023-10-23 23:03:03+00:00 | a year ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/vvvvvvaria.org/logs/dislog/ | dislog@muc.vvvvvvaria.org #29 | link | 2023-10-19 13:34:56+00:00 | a year ago | LogBot | [send-to-pad] | |
| feed-materials/vvvvvvaria.org/logs/dislog/ | dislog@muc.vvvvvvaria.org #28 | link | 2023-10-19 13:26:42+00:00 | a year ago | LogBot | [send-to-pad] | |
| feed-materials/vvvvvvaria.org/logs/dislog/ | dislog@muc.vvvvvvaria.org #27 | link | 2023-10-18 22:00:57+00:00 | a year ago | LogBot | [send-to-pad] | |
| feed-materials/vvvvvvaria.org/logs/dislog/ | dislog@muc.vvvvvvaria.org #26 | link | 2023-10-18 17:04:37+00:00 | a year ago | LogBot | [send-to-pad] | |
| feed-materials/vvvvvvaria.org/logs/dislog/ | dislog@muc.vvvvvvaria.org #25 | link | 2023-10-18 17:04:32+00:00 | a year ago | LogBot | [send-to-pad] | |
| feed-materials/vvvvvvaria.org/logs/dislog/ | dislog@muc.vvvvvvaria.org #24 | link | 2023-10-18 16:34:32+00:00 | a year ago | LogBot | [send-to-pad] | |
| feed-materials/vvvvvvaria.org/logs/dislog/ | dislog@muc.vvvvvvaria.org #23 | link | 2023-10-18 15:52:57+00:00 | a year ago | LogBot | [send-to-pad] | |
| feed-materials/vvvvvvaria.org/logs/dislog/ | dislog@muc.vvvvvvaria.org #22 | link | 2023-10-17 11:07:35+00:00 | a year ago | LogBot | [send-to-pad] | |
| feed-materials/vvvvvvaria.org/logs/dislog/ | dislog@muc.vvvvvvaria.org #21 | link | 2023-10-17 10:12:03+00:00 | a year ago | LogBot | [send-to-pad] | |
| feed-materials/vvvvvvaria.org/logs/dislog/ | dislog@muc.vvvvvvaria.org #20 | link | 2023-10-17 10:11:03+00:00 | a year ago | LogBot | [send-to-pad] | |
| feed-materials/vvvvvvaria.org/logs/dislog/ | dislog@muc.vvvvvvaria.org #19 | link | 2023-10-13 18:39:25+00:00 | a year ago | LogBot | [send-to-pad] | |
| feed-materials/vvvvvvaria.org/logs/dislog/ | dislog@muc.vvvvvvaria.org #18 | link | 2023-10-13 16:52:12+00:00 | a year ago | LogBot | [send-to-pad] | |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2023/disobedient1/etherdump/ | glossary | link | ++syntaxstrategy++ ++tactics++ ++permaculture++ ++repair++ | 2023-07-12 16:21:13+00:00 | a year ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2023/disobedient1/etherdump/ | repairtogether | link | ++disobedience++ | 2023-07-12 16:20:41+00:00 | a year ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2023/disobedient1/etherdump/ | second-day | link | ++resilience++ ++permaculture++ ++not-permaculture++ ++care++ ++circles-of-education++ | 2023-07-12 16:17:00+00:00 | a year ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2023/disobedient1/etherdump/ | tactics_of_scale_in_protest | link | ++disobedience++ ++tactics-of-scale++ ++mass-vs-dispersion++ | 2023-07-12 16:14:06+00:00 | a year ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2023/disobedient1/etherdump/ | wednesday | link | ++broadcasting++ | 2023-07-12 16:11:22+00:00 | a year ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2023/disobedient1/etherdump/ | first-sharing | link | ++civil-disobedience++ ++conflict-of-norms++ ++archiving-as-collective-work++ ++complience-is-work++ ++standardization++ | 2023-07-12 16:06:16+00:00 | a year ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2023/disobedient1/etherdump/ | spectrashelter | link | ++disobedience++ | 2023-07-12 16:02:34+00:00 | a year ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2023/disobedient1/etherdump/ | ernesto-oroza | link | ++archiving-as-collective-work++ ++repair++ | 2023-07-12 15:58:20+00:00 | a year ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2023/disobedient1/etherdump/ | test | link | ++disobedience++ ++testing++ | 2023-07-12 15:57:35+00:00 | a year ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2023/disobedient1/etherdump/ | snowpoles | link | ++conflict-of-norms++ ++archiving-as-collective-work++ ++complience-is-work++ ++broadcasting++ ++syntaxstrategy++ ++disobedience++ | 2023-07-12 15:51:58+00:00 | a year ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
| feed-materials/circulations.constantvzw.org/2023/disobedient1/etherdump/ | meta | link | ++syntaxstrategy++ | 2023-07-12 15:50:17+00:00 | a year ago | etherdump | [send-to-pad] |
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