User:Chrissy/T6 Assessment - Revision history

Chrissy: /* Reading and Writing */

2026-06-23T07:35:47Z

Reading and Writing

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	<div style="background-color:#c7f72b; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 50px; padding-right: 50px; font-weight: bold;">To use the last sentence of my thesis to apply it to the two years in XPUB of practice and theory: ''"[…]constantly questioning norms, tools and established practices. I found a contrast to the exclusive interested in finished outcomes and productivity, which are typically characterising in conventional design and capitalist systems. Hence, I shifted my focus more towards actively engaging in the making process, rather than the product and embracing the unknown and unproductive detours for unusual gestures."''</div>		<div style="background-color:#c7f72b; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 50px; padding-right: 50px; font-weight: bold;">To use the last sentence of my thesis to apply it to the two years in XPUB of practice and theory: ''"[…]constantly questioning norms, tools and established practices. I found a contrast to the exclusive interested in finished outcomes and productivity, which are typically characterising in conventional design and capitalist systems. Hence, I shifted my focus more towards actively engaging in the making process, rather than the product and embracing the unknown and unproductive detours for unusual gestures."''</div>

	My reading list started in the first year of XPUB mostly with topics around visual internet aesthetics and their psychology around. I was still quite anchored in visual graphic design theory and trying to find ways to reject these. I found myself in a friction between going a complete opposite way of graphic design, since I worked and studied in that field for years, gaining increasingly disenchantment and feeling strange to it. At the same time having experience in several fields in it (work and education) and still feeling somehow attached to it. This friction lead me to ask myself questions of not just aesthetics (and later anti-design) as mode of production but also the interconnected production means of graphic designers. Although this theory of internet aesthetics ~~lead~~ me eventually to internet memes, their aestheticisation, circulation and community/belonging making.		My reading list started in the first year of XPUB mostly with topics around visual internet aesthetics and their psychology around. I was still quite anchored in visual graphic design theory and trying to find ways to reject these. I found myself in a friction between going a complete opposite way of graphic design, since I worked and studied in that field for years, gaining increasingly disenchantment and feeling strange to it. At the same time having experience in several fields in it (work and education) and still feeling somehow attached to it. This friction lead me to ask myself questions of not just aesthetics (and later anti-design) as mode of production but also the interconnected production means of graphic designers. Although this theory of internet aesthetics reminded me eventually of internet memes, their aestheticisation, circulation and community/belonging making.

	My previous art academy had a predominantly focus on practice and very(!) little on writing. This realisation I had even more while starting my first thesis draft or even already the outline and project proposal. The process was followed with lots of frustration but also reminding myself constantly about the fact of my experience and realistically accepting my possibilities. And here I am, '''writing''' a (b)logbook as my graduation. However, I want to emphasise that the process of "thought-writing" for idea-forming as in my (b)logbook helped me incredibly in documenting my practice and "discoveries" and learning what my practice actually is, where I want to go and how my perception generally changed.		My previous art academy had a predominantly focus on practice and very(!) little on writing. This realisation I had even more while starting my first thesis draft or even already the outline and project proposal. The process was followed with lots of frustration but also reminding myself constantly about the fact of my experience and realistically accepting my possibilities. And here I am, '''writing''' a (b)logbook as my graduation. However, I want to emphasise that the process of "thought-writing" for idea-forming as in my (b)logbook helped me incredibly in documenting my practice and "discoveries" and learning what my practice actually is, where I want to go and how my perception generally changed.

Chrissy: /* Experimenting with the fabric of time𓂃⊹ ִֶָ */

2026-06-23T07:32:55Z

Experimenting with the fabric of time𓂃⊹ ִֶָ

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	Additionally to the work around ImageMagick scripts and the creation of animations I also wanted to connect the visuals with an installation in the space to create an embodied experience with interaction. By changing the distance of the animation/microcontroller (meaning closer and farther away) the animation changed accordingly its speed. This interest of transmitting an only observation to an action to the space which allows to participate and engage in the project.		Additionally to the work around ImageMagick scripts and the creation of animations I also wanted to connect the visuals with an installation in the space to create an embodied experience with interaction. By changing the distance of the animation/microcontroller (meaning closer and farther away) the animation changed accordingly its speed. This interest of transmitting an only observation to an action to the space which allows to participate and engage in the project.

	I plan to continue with this general approach of offering ~~engaging~~ in the project for the Grad Fest; see below.		I plan to continue with this general approach of offering participation in the project for the Grad Fest; see below.

	=<span style="color:#c7f72b; font-size: 50px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px;-webkit-text-stroke-color: #a225be; text-shadow: 0 0 10px #a263ff;>Reading and Writing</span>=		=<span style="color:#c7f72b; font-size: 50px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px;-webkit-text-stroke-color: #a225be; text-shadow: 0 0 10px #a263ff;>Reading and Writing</span>=

Chrissy: /* Plans for Grad Fest */

2026-06-22T19:24:41Z

Plans for Grad Fest

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	[[File:submit_print.png\|frameless\|center\|200px]]		[[File:submit_print.png\|frameless\|center\|200px]]
	[[File:pagedjs.jpg \|frameless\|left\|~~200px~~]][[File:memezine02.jpg \|frameless\|right\|~~200px~~]]		[[File:pagedjs.jpg \|frameless\|left\|350px]][[File:memezine02.jpg \|frameless\|right\|350px]]

	After the Grad Fest I want to compile and bind all the remaining thermal prints into a simple publication. Like internet memes, this publication will have an expiration date, since thermal prints last for about 5–8 years.		After the Grad Fest I want to compile and bind all the remaining thermal prints into a simple publication. Like internet memes, this publication will have an expiration date, since thermal prints last for about 5–8 years.

Chrissy: /* Plans for Grad Fest */

2026-06-22T19:24:19Z

Plans for Grad Fest

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	[[File:submit_print.png\|frameless\|center\|200px]]		[[File:submit_print.png\|frameless\|center\|200px]]
			[[File:pagedjs.jpg \|frameless\|left\|200px]][[File:memezine02.jpg \|frameless\|right\|200px]]

	After the Grad Fest I want to compile and bind all the remaining thermal prints into a simple publication. Like internet memes, this publication will have an expiration date, since thermal prints last for about 5–8 years.		After the Grad Fest I want to compile and bind all the remaining thermal prints into a simple publication. Like internet memes, this publication will have an expiration date, since thermal prints last for about 5–8 years.

Chrissy: /* Plans for Grad Fest */

2026-06-22T18:19:40Z

Plans for Grad Fest

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	For the [https://hub.xpub.nl/sergio/meme-pile/ grad fest meme pile] I created (with lots of help!) a flask application which allows uploading memes (or images in general) to the meme collection. The uploaded memes are displayed in the whole pile and as well in a designated "uploads" section.		For the [https://hub.xpub.nl/sergio/meme-pile/ grad fest meme pile] I created (with lots of help!) a flask application which allows uploading memes (or images in general) to the meme collection. The uploaded memes are displayed in the whole pile and as well in a designated "uploads" section.

	After an image is submitted to the meme stack, it is dithered and compressed using an ImageMagick script so that it can be printed on the thermal printer. The printed meme can be stuck in-space somewhere at the space at Agnes during the Grad Fest or spread somewhere else. I had an interest in spreading the medium internet meme in the offline public space, in opposite to its usual circulation mode. This method allows easy circulation, since the memes are getting fast and simple printed on a receipt. I disseminate therefore my (b)logbook, the meme collection as well as the used open source and F/LOSS counter-tools.		After an image is submitted to the meme stack, it is dithered and compressed using an ImageMagick script so that it can be printed on the thermal printer. The printed meme can be stuck in-space somewhere at the space at Agnes during the Grad Fest or spread somewhere else. I had an interest in spreading the medium internet meme in the offline public space, in opposite to its usual circulation mode. This method allows easy circulation and reproduction, since the memes are getting fast and simple printed on a receipt. I disseminate therefore my (b)logbook, the meme collection as well as the used open source and F/LOSS counter-tools.

	Additionally I wrote a script, which allows to print one meme of the collection randomly, which could be executed by a button pressing connected to an Arduino board.		Additionally I wrote a script, which allows to print one meme of the collection randomly, which could be executed by a button pressing connected to an Arduino board.

Chrissy: /* Final work */

2026-06-22T17:46:36Z

Final work

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	<div style="background-color:#c7f72b; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 50px; padding-right: 50px; font-weight: bold;">counter-tools.xyz is a (b)logbook on alternative graphic design tools as counterpraxis opposed to proprietary software, towards a process-oriented, anti-capitalist approach. It is fed by memes generated using these counter-tools in response to heartbroken practices in graphic design.</div>		<div style="background-color:#c7f72b; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 50px; padding-right: 50px; font-weight: bold;">counter-tools.xyz is a (b)logbook on alternative graphic design tools as counterpraxis opposed to proprietary software, towards a process-oriented, anti-capitalist approach. It is fed by memes generated using these counter-tools in response to heartbroken practices in graphic design.</div>

	Almost every week I worked on another rapid prototype in the hope it would lead me to an idea of the graduation project. Therefor I started a [[User:Chrissy/Prototypes \| Prototype wiki page]] with my try-outs and used it as a base for documenting experiments. Since I worked with ImageMagick in the previous Special Issue I wanted to play around with other alternative tools as well. I discovered and utilised several generative/algorithmic tools, software and engines for generating graphics, design, layouts and paged publications. I knew that the counter-tools I am looking for have to be non-proprietary and relatively accessible due my very little experience in programming. During this documenting process through my wiki page I made friends with the idea of using this very documentation practice on different tools and engines as my graduation project. Quite early my intention was not to learn a specific tool deeply, rather overview several in different areas and gain an overall understanding of possibilities and approachability and make comparisons.		Almost every week I worked on another rapid prototype in the hope it would lead me to an idea of the graduation project. Therefor I started a [[User:Chrissy/Prototypes \| Prototype wiki page]] with my try-outs and used it as a base for documenting/logging experiments. Since I worked with ImageMagick in the previous Special Issue I wanted to play around with other alternative tools as well. I discovered and utilised several generative/algorithmic tools, software and engines for generating graphics, design, layouts and paged publications. I knew that the counter-tools I am looking for have to be non-proprietary and relatively accessible due my very little experience in programming. During this documenting process through my wiki page I made friends with the idea of using this very documentation practice on different tools and engines as my graduation project. Quite early my intention was not to learn a specific tool deeply, rather overview several in different areas and gain an overall understanding of possibilities and approachability and make comparisons.

	During the thesis writing I discovered the radical design movement and their ideas about anti-design, which started in the 1960s in post-war Italy also known as controdesign or counter-design. Counter described as something with an opposing reaction, opinion or action (Cambridge Dictionary, 2022) or towards a different direction, result or effect (Merriam-Webster). Out of this research I referred to these alternative tools as counter-tools, given that they stand in contradictory to usual graphic design production means, which today are generally limited to proprietary software like Adobe.		During the thesis writing I discovered the radical design movement and their ideas about anti-design, which started in the 1960s in post-war Italy also known as controdesign or counter-design. Counter described as something with an opposing reaction, opinion or action (Cambridge Dictionary, 2022) or towards a different direction, result or effect (Merriam-Webster). Out of this research I referred to these alternative tools as counter-tools, given that they stand in contradictory to usual graphic design production means, which today are generally limited to proprietary software like Adobe.

			A logbook is for me a loose container of different forms of documenting or logging processes. The entries could reach from ideas, notes, observations, frustrations to summaries and more in-depth explanations (also for myself to come back to it later). It is also often used to record states, events, or conditions. Nevertheless, it needed to be looser and I wanted to avoid a feeling of (linear) "tracking" and determine somehow "productivity" between time spans of entries. It shouldn't show any records of "getting better", rather unfold a journey. Additionally, blogging in general can have a big political and social impact, providing information and opinions by real people. It also helps me personally with handling every entry more "on the spot" as a process-based approach.

	The (b)logbook currently contains ~32 entries distributed in the categories "hydra", "ImageMagick", "NumPy", "p5.js", "paged.js", "runal", "rune", "weasyprint" and "Other". I decided to sort my experiments to their worked with engine for easier location. The website also contains an "about" section and a [https://counter-tools.xyz/archives.html list] of all the entries, as well a [https://counter-tools.xyz/tags.html tags] list.		The (b)logbook currently contains ~32 entries distributed in the categories "hydra", "ImageMagick", "NumPy", "p5.js", "paged.js", "runal", "rune", "weasyprint" and "Other". I decided to sort my experiments to their worked with engine for easier location. The website also contains an "about" section and a [https://counter-tools.xyz/archives.html list] of all the entries, as well a [https://counter-tools.xyz/tags.html tags] list.

Chrissy: /* Prototyping */

2026-06-22T17:33:27Z

Prototyping

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	In the first year the [https://hub.xpub.nl/cerealbox/~chrissy/poems/ write poetry generator] (wiki: [[User:Chrissy/projects/write_poetry\|write_poetry]]) lead to a to a continuation as a prototype to my logbook for generating automated Unicode patterns in the terminal. (wiki: [[User:Chrissy/Prototypes#%F0%9D%93%85%F0%9D%93%87%F0%9D%91%9C%F0%9D%93%89%F0%9D%91%9C%F0%9D%93%89%F0%9D%93%8E%F0%9D%93%85%F0%9D%91%92_%E2%91%B7_automated_Unicode_with_python\|automated_Unicode_with_python]])<br>		In the first year the [https://hub.xpub.nl/cerealbox/~chrissy/poems/ write poetry generator] (wiki: [[User:Chrissy/projects/write_poetry\|write_poetry]]) lead to a to a continuation as a prototype to my (b)logbook for generating automated Unicode patterns in the terminal. (wiki: [[User:Chrissy/Prototypes#%F0%9D%93%85%F0%9D%93%87%F0%9D%91%9C%F0%9D%93%89%F0%9D%91%9C%F0%9D%93%89%F0%9D%93%8E%F0%9D%93%85%F0%9D%91%92_%E2%91%B7_automated_Unicode_with_python\|automated_Unicode_with_python]])<br>
	[[File:AutomatedPoetrys screenshots.png\|frameless\| 400px]]		[[File:AutomatedPoetrys screenshots.png\|frameless\| 400px]]

Chrissy: /* graphic design is my pa??ion */

2026-06-22T16:34:52Z

graphic design is my pa??ion

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	'''4.0 Conclusion'''		'''4.0 Conclusion'''
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			'''I refer to the term “praxis” instead “practice” to emphasize the combination between theory and practice as process. In doing so, I also distinguish myself from the term practices, which is used to refer to “the repetition and improvement of skills or procedures.”'''

	These chapters include “Design and rejection”, where I give an		These chapters include “Design and rejection”, where I give an
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	The last chapter “Tools while caring” reflects on my selected counter-tools which give alternative approaches to proprietary software in their utilisation, appropriation, ethos and limits.		The last chapter “Tools while caring” reflects on my selected counter-tools which give alternative approaches to proprietary software in their utilisation, appropriation, ethos and limits.

	I refer to the term “praxis” instead “practice” to emphasize the combination between theory and practice as process. In doing so, I also distinguish myself from the term practices, which is used to refer to “the repetition and improvement of skills or procedures.”

	=<span style="color:#c7f72b; font-size: 50px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px;-webkit-text-stroke-color: #a225be; text-shadow: 0 0 10px #a263ff;>Final work</span>=		=<span style="color:#c7f72b; font-size: 50px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px;-webkit-text-stroke-color: #a225be; text-shadow: 0 0 10px #a263ff;>Final work</span>=

Chrissy: /* graphic design is my pa??ion */

2026-06-22T16:34:22Z

graphic design is my pa??ion

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	The last chapter “Tools while caring” reflects on my selected counter-tools which give alternative approaches to proprietary software in their utilisation, appropriation, ethos and limits.		The last chapter “Tools while caring” reflects on my selected counter-tools which give alternative approaches to proprietary software in their utilisation, appropriation, ethos and limits.

			I refer to the term “praxis” instead “practice” to emphasize the combination between theory and practice as process. In doing so, I also distinguish myself from the term practices, which is used to refer to “the repetition and improvement of skills or procedures.”

	=<span style="color:#c7f72b; font-size: 50px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px;-webkit-text-stroke-color: #a225be; text-shadow: 0 0 10px #a263ff;>Final work</span>=		=<span style="color:#c7f72b; font-size: 50px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px;-webkit-text-stroke-color: #a225be; text-shadow: 0 0 10px #a263ff;>Final work</span>=

Chrissy: /* Plans for Grad Fest */

2026-06-22T14:10:59Z

Plans for Grad Fest

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	For the [https://hub.xpub.nl/sergio/meme-pile/ grad fest meme pile] I created (with lots of help!) a flask application which allows uploading memes (or images in general) to the meme collection. The uploaded memes are displayed in the whole pile and as well in a designated "uploads" section.		For the [https://hub.xpub.nl/sergio/meme-pile/ grad fest meme pile] I created (with lots of help!) a flask application which allows uploading memes (or images in general) to the meme collection. The uploaded memes are displayed in the whole pile and as well in a designated "uploads" section.

	After an image is submitted to the meme stack, it is dithered and compressed using ~~this~~ ImageMagick script so that it can be printed on the thermal printer. The printed meme can be stuck in-space somewhere at the space at Agnes during the Grad Fest or spread somewhere else. I had an interest in spreading the medium internet meme in the offline public space, in opposite to its usual circulation mode. This method allows easy circulation, since the memes are getting fast and simple printed on a receipt. I disseminate therefore my (b)logbook, the meme collection as well as the used open source and F/LOSS counter-tools.		After an image is submitted to the meme stack, it is dithered and compressed using an ImageMagick script so that it can be printed on the thermal printer. The printed meme can be stuck in-space somewhere at the space at Agnes during the Grad Fest or spread somewhere else. I had an interest in spreading the medium internet meme in the offline public space, in opposite to its usual circulation mode. This method allows easy circulation, since the memes are getting fast and simple printed on a receipt. I disseminate therefore my (b)logbook, the meme collection as well as the used open source and F/LOSS counter-tools.

	Additionally I wrote a script, which allows to print one meme of the collection randomly, which could be executed by a button pressing connected to an Arduino board.		Additionally I wrote a script, which allows to print one meme of the collection randomly, which could be executed by a button pressing connected to an Arduino board.