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* interrogation heart <3/?
(reminds me of: https://www.autismresources.co.za/products/my-social-battery) _ link does not work, perhaps this one? https://www.autismresources.co.za/products/my-social-battery-necklace

not in the same condition as the artists who authored the material, still want to highlight it.
the question is: can I use this material that I like? if I do not, i'm risking to only reproduce the same as I am

chkana thinker Gloria anzaldua
Chicana feminist, cultural theory, and queer theory.
She loosely based her best-known book, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

* Exclamation heart       <3/!

Legitimatation of the people/their bodies who you're working with

* Itch mark  zz/!

A form of exclamation mark signaling an "itch", for example being uncomfortable with the title
"feminist publishing tools" as a title of a project, felt very big to loraine, there was some discomfort
tool: guided mediation through political questions - gives anker points through a landscape where you can have agency
staying with the itch (cf wih the trouble from harraway) assume the itch that you feel while affirming smthg
cosmic tight pants, socks with watermelons, all of this helps me to go into a parallel universe. and i am sitting on the 'generous' constant cussion.
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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 accesible 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 ?

++messy technologies++
++messier collective AI++
++interdependencies++
is the question like --> how to choose your own dependencies and is that possible?
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++storytelling++
++alternative exhibition narrative++
intense day, quite hard to digest.. can we have some parallel narratives to the tour we had?
parallel narratives to the guided tour of the guided tour of the exhibition
certain artists or intellectuals, personal narratives, ..
feeling the othering after the tour as a person with a diagnosis so i would like to focus a bit more on this and some relational narratives and other ways of discussing it and finding ways to digest the exhibition is smaller scales
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Ava
Likes that idea about the alternative narrative of the museum
pieces that correspond to specific moment in EU;
developments of statistics, classification, and previously related pseudosicences like phrenology
Also connects to AI, building statistic models about everything, around '++averages++'
connects to colonial contexts,
Interesting is the room where there is works of artists / patients / their writing the ledgers and books , medical descriptions, ...
In the room there is a tension between the subjects and whoever designs them (?)
objects of subjective expression (art works, texts) and the objects from the museum (ledgers, medical logs)
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one related to AI, consider the labour around ++AI invisiblized labour++
lot of manual labour is invisible + localised in Global South; like labelling work for training
and captioning system, and so many things ofset to other people.
one way to consider and to make decision
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during the meditation, find myself thinking i could totally imagine a website hidden in alt-text?; some places that only some person are using; it's also about power relations
different tracks to access

++inverting by design++
++inverting what is a hidden space++

instead of the space of the alt text being the "hidden place" in the website, can it be the opposite
it is the space for everyone
example of bergamo where the connection is so bad that images never load so that's how you also discover this alt-text system there's also a question of access there

Imane
encountered this situation of images; artists wanting to upload gigabytes of images and do not realise what it means.
gigabites of data
then what do we do? take the time to explain that to the artists? do we pay a service that optimises images? do we do it ourselves?
to whom are we shoveling the responsablity and the labour ?
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++inverting by design++
Ren
++innacessiblibility menu++ - by default the most easily accessible one, then you can add features: colours, flah stuffs, heavy images, etc
brainstorming context; created index accessibility menu with the Critical Media Lab (https://criticalmedialab.ch/)
example of critical design lab website rather than adding an accesibility menu like many websites do we start from the index accessibility meny, making the most accessible website possible then you add what you want on top as 'add-on'
inverting the responsibility
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What gets upheld as technologies and by whom and why

What gets talked about technologies
a paper box that gets turned into a fridge for medicine

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shift who's the expert based on that.
techno-vernacular-technologies: improvisational, community-specific, tech being a site responding to direct needsTechnovernacular creativitytechno vernacular creativity
++technovernacular creativity++

Nettrice Gaskins -> https://direct.mit.edu/books/monograph/5141/Techno-Vernacular-Creativity-and (I regrettibly don't have a .pdf or e-book - can someone find it online?)
https://libgen.li/ads.php?md5=44af8050d578fdc142ba7ecdc6c40b9c
also uploaded on the Splinter server in 'reader' folder

"TVC challenges commonplace assumptions about who is a maker and what constitutes a maker practice, and it addresses ways to effectively teach culturally relevant making through TVC reappropriation that creates an opening for differentiated instruction (see Santamaria 2009) that includes a range of different avenues for understanding habits otherwise known as the maker mind-set (Martin 2015). This mind-set includes values, beliefs, and dispositions that are common in the mainstream maker community."
Nettrice Gaskins

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Peter reformulating Kamo's input from yesterday
image description through AI being useless; talking about colors for instance
there's possible shift from descriptive language to transcript to 'emotional' reading;
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++institutional attempts++
Doing ramadan friendly performances, where one could bring drinks and food, we decided to keep this a rule for the rest of the year as well
try to learn from the parties they work with, they have all these things on paper, they have CW - try to keep this, they have stroboscope warnings - a lot of things - reaching new publics

challenges with reaching new publics, to challenge institutional habits,

willing to work on a lexicon; using a lot of words that are typical from their field a

byebyebinary - working in English, Dutch & French (?) byebyebinary is researching the use of symbols & icons to make them more inclusive & accessible - to implement these icons too - they only have a black & white function
- they are still struggling with screenreader accessibility
bye bye binary
https://typotheque.genderfluid.space/fr

mediation: complex field of navigating between pedagogical approach and not paternalising; a lot of resistance towards this field?

wanting to develop a program with people who don't speak from position of experts;
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telling the story of people who have experience being in psychiatry but mostly the voice of the doctors for instance. Working on it; making podcasts made by/with people with mental health issues

wanting to involve people from the beginning to make exhibit more accessible instead of asking someone to give feedback once the exhibit is mostly done

different terms used in the museum that are related to specific historical contexts: mad, cure, etc

two different projects:
• a prototype designed with thomas moore school students who made a mini museum with infobook, comics in easy language
• kristine working with community health center close to the museum; in the center they see that a lot of patients have problems with mental well being but the doctors don't really have time to care for it. People started to make groups in relation to what they were struggling with, single-parenthood for instance. These groups meet in the museum and they do different types of workshops. Object handling; it's a method to get people talking; if we start talking about loneliness or illness it gets very hard to talk but if we have those object they make us talk about heritage,art and we do we talk also about loneliness through it at some point
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