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	While reading ‘Wasting Time on the Internet’, by Kenneth Goldsmith, he creates a comparison where the internet browser history and download folder can be considered the modern-day memoir: <blockquote>''“What sits in my download folder - piles of books to read, dozens of movies to be watched, and hundreds of albums to be heard - constitutes a sort of self-portrait of both who I am in this particular point in time, and who I was in earlier parts of my life.” P.20''</blockquote>The things we save, bookmark, collect and craft through quick HTML pages, are all personalised to our interests- it is indeed a self-reflection, almost an archive of our interests. Could these forgotten pieces of digital scraps be compared to the physical fabric scraps we use in quilting? Throughout our research, we also view these forgotten scraps as artefacts, be it digital or physical. The idea of the artefact presents an archaeological approach, and we look onto different possibilities of translation, specifically from the physicality of quilting to digital and vice-versa. We are representing, translating ''“work done in the spaces between old things and the stories they hold in the present - mediation”'' - ARCHAEOLOGY, The Discipline of Things, Bjornar Olsen, Michael Shanks,Timothy Webmoor, and Christopher Witmore, p. 89.		While reading ‘Wasting Time on the Internet’, by Kenneth Goldsmith, he creates a comparison where the internet browser history and download folder can be considered the modern-day memoir: <blockquote>''“What sits in my download folder - piles of books to read, dozens of movies to be watched, and hundreds of albums to be heard - constitutes a sort of self-portrait of both who I am in this particular point in time, and who I was in earlier parts of my life.” P.20''</blockquote>The things we save, bookmark, collect and craft through quick HTML pages, are all personalised to our interests- it is indeed a self-reflection, almost an archive of our interests. Could these forgotten pieces of digital scraps be compared to the physical fabric scraps we use in quilting? Throughout our research, we also view these forgotten scraps as artefacts, be it digital or physical. The idea of the artefact presents an archaeological approach, and we look onto different possibilities of translation, specifically from the physicality of quilting to digital and vice-versa. We are representing, translating ''“work done in the spaces between old things and the stories they hold in the present - mediation”'' - ARCHAEOLOGY, The Discipline of Things, Bjornar Olsen, Michael Shanks,Timothy Webmoor, and Christopher Witmore, p. 89.

	* ''A quilt is a blanket made from three layers of material, joined through dense and often visible stitching. A quilt has a decorative top, a soft filling or wool wadding and a simple back often made from recycled family clothes or discarded home textiles. The foundational fibre arts technique of quilting is embedded in a dizzying array of material histories and artistic practices throughout the world. ~~- many hands make a quilt~~''		The quilt presents many layers, a top is held together with a soft filling and a back part. I imagine these layers of the quilt to also be represented on a webpage, with its many CSS elements. As described <u>by Jess Bailey ‘Many Hands Make a Quilt: Short Histories of Radical Quilting’:</u><blockquote>''"A quilt is a blanket made from three layers of material, joined through dense and often visible stitching. A quilt has a decorative top, a soft filling or wool wadding and a simple back often made from recycled family clothes or discarded home textiles. The foundational fibre arts technique of quilting is embedded in a dizzying array of material histories and artistic practices throughout the world."''</blockquote>

	== '''Clouds/ servers, digital spaces or collecting/ connecting''' ==		== '''Clouds/ servers, digital spaces or collecting/ connecting''' ==

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Clouds/ servers, digital spaces or collecting/ connecting

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	The organisation of online links, bookmarks and scraps can also hold a communal aspect. When reflecting on the digital quilt, we thought of the idea of a webring and how can a webring be translated into a digital 'quilt'. A webring creates connections with other websites while also compiling all of these online scraps, similarly to the quilt.		The organisation of online links, bookmarks and scraps can also hold a communal aspect. When reflecting on the digital quilt, we thought of the idea of a webring and how can a webring be translated into a digital 'quilt'. A webring creates connections with other websites while also compiling all of these online scraps, similarly to the quilt.

	When researching web-quilts and webrings, we wanted to keep in mind the research XPUB2 wrote during their [[Quilting infrastructures\|SI23, Quilt Infrastructures]]. Here are a few notes from their research:		When researching web-quilts and webrings, we wanted to keep in mind the research XPUB2 wrote during their [[Quilting infrastructures\|SI23, Quilt Infrastructures]]. Here are a few notes from their research:<blockquote>

	* Through this collective project, they wanted to provide spaces for collective dreaming and create action to form understanding of big tech.		* Through this collective project, they wanted to provide spaces for collective dreaming and create action to form understanding of big tech.
	* Servers run by communities created agency.		* Servers run by communities created agency.
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	* The quilting of server connections, processes, interfaces and interventions.		* The quilting of server connections, processes, interfaces and interventions.

	* Through quilting, they could make public the innards of labour and collective processes.		* Through quilting, they could make public the innards of labour and collective processes.
	* Learning about early community servers and using actions on the keyboard as a driving force.		* Learning about early community servers and using actions on the keyboard as a driving force.
	* (map of data centres)		* (map of data centres)
	* The invisible within such infrastructures		* The invisible within such infrastructures
			</blockquote>This is a link to their quilt: <nowiki>https://issue.xpub.nl/23/quilt/quilt.html</nowiki>
	This is a link to their quilt: <nowiki>https://issue.xpub.nl/23/quilt/quilt.html</nowiki>

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	The organisation of online links, bookmarks and scraps can also hold a communal aspect. When reflecting on the digital quilt, we thought of the idea of a webring and how can a webring be translated into a digital 'quilt'. A webring creates connections with other websites while also compiling all of these online scraps, similarly to the quilt.		The organisation of online links, bookmarks and scraps can also hold a communal aspect. When reflecting on the digital quilt, we thought of the idea of a webring and how can a webring be translated into a digital 'quilt'. A webring creates connections with other websites while also compiling all of these online scraps, similarly to the quilt.

	~~These quotes can be used for~~ the ~~prompts for the workshop~~:		When researching web-quilts and webrings, we wanted to keep in mind the research XPUB2 wrote during their [[Quilting infrastructures\|SI23, Quilt Infrastructures]]. Here are a few notes from their research:

	~~''I tend~~ to ~~shift my artefacts around more than I tend to use them. - wasting time on the internet p25''~~		* Through this collective project, they wanted to provide spaces for collective dreaming and create action to form understanding of big tech.
			* Servers run by communities created agency.
	~~''Our browser history could also be seen as a scrapbook, a textual and visual travelogue. - p 77,78''~~


	~~'''Notes while reading [[Quilting infrastructures\|Quilt Infrastructures #23:]]'''~~

	* Providing spaces for collective dreaming / action to form understanding of big tech.
	* ~~servers~~ run by communities = agency
	* service, division of labour, infrastructure		* service, division of labour, infrastructure
	* notion of quilting as a methodology to understand these hidden web structures (data, radio signals, messages, etc...)		* The notion of quilting as a methodology to understand these hidden web structures (data, radio signals, messages, etc...).
	* Quilts similarly ~~are~~ multilayered in structure.		* Quilts are similarly multilayered in structure.
	* ~~seams =~~ infrastructures built in relation to each other, not from scratch		* Seams are infrastructures built in relation to each other, not from scratch.
	** quilt of: server connections \| processes \| interfaces \| interventions		* The quilting of server connections, processes, interfaces and interventions.

	* make public the innards of labour and collective ~~process~~		* Through quilting, they could make public the innards of labour and collective processes.
	* ~~learning~~ about early community servers		* Learning about early community servers and using actions on the keyboard as a driving force.
	* using actions on the keyboard as a driving force
	* (map of data centres)		* (map of data centres)
	* ~~the~~ invisible within such ~~structures~~		* The invisible within such infrastructures

	~~Link~~ to their quilt: <nowiki>https://issue.xpub.nl/23/quilt/quilt.html</nowiki>		This is a link to their quilt: <nowiki>https://issue.xpub.nl/23/quilt/quilt.html</nowiki>

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	When thinking about digital spaces and collecting scraps of information within them, I also think of the way we categorise things and how we, as individuals, collect such digital scraps. In the book, ARCHAEOLOGY, The Discipline of Things, they mention how digital media offers various modes of organisation and translation: <blockquote>''"It also takes into account the specificities of digital media, which offer different modes of manifesting things. These modes are richer, in light of particular questions, and they offer different possibilities for the translation, assembly, and stabilising of pasts not predicated upon the conventions developed for analog representation." -Bjornar Olsen, Michael Shanks,Timothy Webmoor, and Christopher Witmore, p. 103.''</blockquote>		When thinking about digital spaces and collecting scraps of information within them, I also think of the way we categorise things and how we, as individuals, collect such digital scraps. In the book, ARCHAEOLOGY, The Discipline of Things, they mention how digital media offers various modes of organisation and translation: <blockquote>''"It also takes into account the specificities of digital media, which offer different modes of manifesting things. These modes are richer, in light of particular questions, and they offer different possibilities for the translation, assembly, and stabilising of pasts not predicated upon the conventions developed for analog representation." -Bjornar Olsen, Michael Shanks,Timothy Webmoor, and Christopher Witmore, p. 103.''</blockquote>

			The organisation of online links, bookmarks and scraps can also hold a communal aspect. When reflecting on the digital quilt, we thought of the idea of a webring and how can a webring be translated into a digital 'quilt'. A webring creates connections with other websites while also compiling all of these online scraps, similarly to the quilt.
	~~NOTES:~~

	~~Webrings -~~ how connections ~~through~~ websites ~~are made~~

	~~Personal servers = archiving~~

	~~Then becoming connected~~

	~~Then webring/quilts~~

	These quotes can be used for the prompts for the workshop:		These quotes can be used for the prompts for the workshop:

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	== '''Clouds/ servers, digital spaces or collecting/ connecting''' ==		== '''Clouds/ servers, digital spaces or collecting/ connecting''' ==
	NOTES:		When thinking about digital spaces and collecting scraps of information within them, I also think of the way we categorise things and how we, as individuals, collect such digital scraps. In the book, ARCHAEOLOGY, The Discipline of Things, they mention how digital media offers various modes of organisation and translation: <blockquote>''"It also takes into account the specificities of digital media, which offer different modes of manifesting things. These modes are richer, in light of particular questions, and they offer different possibilities for the translation, assembly, and stabilising of pasts not predicated upon the conventions developed for analog representation." -Bjornar Olsen, Michael Shanks,Timothy Webmoor, and Christopher Witmore, p. 103.''</blockquote>


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	Webrings - how connections through websites are made		Webrings - how connections through websites are made
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	Then becoming connected		Then becoming connected

	Then webring/quilts		Then webring/quilts

	''It also takes into account the specificities of digital media, which offer different modes of manifesting things. These modes are richer, in light of particular ques- tions, and they offer different possibilities for the translation, assembly, and stabilizing of pasts not predicated upon the conventions developed for analog representation. To develop these points, we have divided the chapter into three parts, respectively concerning memory practices, the noise of things, and digital media.''

	~~''P103 CHAPTER 3''~~

	These quotes can be used for the prompts for the workshop:		These quotes can be used for the prompts for the workshop:

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HOW TO SPLIT UP RESEARCH OBJECT:

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	''Our browser history could also be seen as a scrapbook, a textual and visual travelogue. - p 77,78''		''Our browser history could also be seen as a scrapbook, a textual and visual travelogue. - p 77,78''


			'''Notes while reading [[Quilting infrastructures\|Quilt Infrastructures #23:]]'''

			* Providing spaces for collective dreaming / action to form understanding of big tech.
			* servers run by communities = agency
			* service, division of labour, infrastructure
			* notion of quilting as a methodology to understand these hidden web structures (data, radio signals, messages, etc...)
			* Quilts similarly are multilayered in structure.
			* seams = infrastructures built in relation to each other, not from scratch
			** quilt of: server connections \| processes \| interfaces \| interventions

			* make public the innards of labour and collective process
			* learning about early community servers
			* using actions on the keyboard as a driving force
			* (map of data centres)
			* the invisible within such structures

			Link to their quilt: <nowiki>https://issue.xpub.nl/23/quilt/quilt.html</nowiki>

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Scraps / reusing digital media/elements/artefacts

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	''“Quilts hold people and stories.… Throughout history, communities have turned to the collective intimacies of quilting in moments of need.”''		''“Quilts hold people and stories.… Throughout history, communities have turned to the collective intimacies of quilting in moments of need.”''

	Similarly to the practice of quilting, my grandmother held onto scraps of fabric, hoping to give them life in her own projects or use them in times of mending and ~~repaid~~. In regards to the communal aspect of this practice, I remember during my childhood, my grandma and mother hovering over me as I practice my basic stitching techniques on the sewing machine. I reflect on these times and realise that there was a sense of togetherness as we sewed these scraps together; it was a collective activity, where this skill was being inherited from one generation to the next. When writing this text, I thought about the introduction of <u>‘The Material Kinship Reader’ by Kris Dittel and Clementine Edwards</u>, where they discuss that:		Similarly to the practice of quilting, my grandmother held onto scraps of fabric, hoping to give them life in her own projects or use them in times of mending and repair. In regards to the communal aspect of this practice, I remember during my childhood, my grandma and mother hovering over me as I practice my basic stitching techniques on the sewing machine. I reflect on these times and realise that there was a sense of togetherness as we sewed these scraps together; it was a collective activity, where this skill was being inherited from one generation to the next. When writing this text, I thought about the introduction of <u>‘The Material Kinship Reader’ by Kris Dittel and Clementine Edwards</u>, where they discuss that:

	''“Material was made more alive through social encounter, by being passed between lives and hands and carried down the supply chain.”''		''“Material was made more alive through social encounter, by being passed between lives and hands and carried down the supply chain.”''
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	When I woke up, I remember thinking how crazy it would be to inherit such a thing from someones will. While working with Sevgi, this dream resurfaced in our conversation and we thought about inheritance and its connecting link with the project; could inheriting a quilt your grandmother gave you be the same as inheriting an online space or a discarded HTML page? </blockquote>		When I woke up, I remember thinking how crazy it would be to inherit such a thing from someones will. While working with Sevgi, this dream resurfaced in our conversation and we thought about inheritance and its connecting link with the project; could inheriting a quilt your grandmother gave you be the same as inheriting an online space or a discarded HTML page? </blockquote>

	== '''Scraps / reusing digital media/elements/artefacts''' ==		== '''Scraps and reusing digital media, elements and artefacts''' ==
	~~NOTES:~~		While reading ‘Wasting Time on the Internet’, by Kenneth Goldsmith, he creates a comparison where the internet browser history and download folder can be considered the modern-day memoir: <blockquote>''“What sits in my download folder - piles of books to read, dozens of movies to be watched, and hundreds of albums to be heard - constitutes a sort of self-portrait of both who I am in this particular point in time, and who I was in earlier parts of my life.” P.20''</blockquote>The things we save, bookmark, collect and craft through quick HTML pages, are all personalised to our interests- it is indeed a self-reflection, almost an archive of our interests. Could these forgotten pieces of digital scraps be compared to the physical fabric scraps we use in quilting? Throughout our research, we also view these forgotten scraps as artefacts, be it digital or physical. The idea of the artefact presents an archaeological approach, and we look onto different possibilities of translation, specifically from the physicality of quilting to digital and vice-versa. We are representing, translating ''“work done in the spaces between old things and the stories they hold in the present - mediation”'' - ARCHAEOLOGY, The Discipline of Things, Bjornar Olsen, Michael Shanks,Timothy Webmoor, and Christopher Witmore, p. 89.

	While reading ‘Wasting Time on the Internet’, by Kenneth Goldsmith, he creates a comparison where the internet browser history and download folder can be considered the modern-day memoir:

	''“What sits in my download folder - piles of books to read, dozens of movies to be watched, and hundreds of albums to be heard - constitutes a sort of self-portrait of both who I am in this particular point in time, and who I was in earlier parts of my life.” P.20''

	As we ~~reflect further~~ in these archaeological ~~approaches~~, we look onto different possibilities of translation, specifically from the physicality of quilting to digital and vice-versa. We are representing, translating “work done in the spaces between old things and the stories they hold in the present - mediation” - ARCHAEOLOGY, The Discipline of Things, Bjornar Olsen, Michael Shanks,Timothy Webmoor, and Christopher Witmore, p. 89.

	* ''A quilt is a blanket made from three layers of material, joined through dense and often visible stitching. A quilt has a decorative top, a soft filling or wool wadding and a simple back often made from recycled family clothes or discarded home textiles. The foundational fibre arts technique of quilting is embedded in a dizzying array of material histories and artistic practices throughout the world. - many hands make a quilt''		* ''A quilt is a blanket made from three layers of material, joined through dense and often visible stitching. A quilt has a decorative top, a soft filling or wool wadding and a simple back often made from recycled family clothes or discarded home textiles. The foundational fibre arts technique of quilting is embedded in a dizzying array of material histories and artistic practices throughout the world. - many hands make a quilt''

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INTRODUCTION

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	== '''INTRODUCTION''' ==		== '''General INTRODUCTION''' ==
	~~This~~ is the ~~logbook of : '''''Quilting <nowiki><p></nowiki>'''~~''		''A quilt is a record of time through scrapped fabrics and cloths. When they come together they make a visual archive of what has been worn and thrown out. Without the present to look back at it, it is not as meaningful. There should be an anchor in time to make a look-back insightful.''

	~~This~~ is a project inspired by the ''Reflections on Quiltmaking’s Future'' blogpost, written by Penny McMorris, posted on February 2010, published almost exactly 15 years ago. Initially, we started thinking about about making rectangular textile~~-like shapes out of HTML elements, which eventually led us~~ to ~~experiment with making web extensions patters using Scratch. In our experimental research, we also explored the use~~ of ~~iframes~~, ~~using them~~ to create ~~online patchworks~~. ~~Experimenting with these elements made us look further into patterns and traditions of quilting~~, ~~we asked ourselves; how can we digitise and translate something so handmade through many generations, into~~ a ~~web experience?~~		Quilting is a form of textile based craft that uses inherited fabrics/scraps/clothing to create a bigger piece of textile, usually bound in 3 layers to create a sort of thick cover. This cover usually is a duvet cover, a blanket or a throw.

	~~Throughout this~~ research ~~object~~, we ~~explore our theoretical research through three chapters:~~		‘Quilting <nowiki><p>’ is a project that explores the relations between physical quilting and its digital translation. Through our research, we trace back into the history of quilting, understanding its archival function of inheriting scraps and how we also, inherit and collect digital scraps through no-longer-inspected bookmarks, scrapped HTML projects and screenshots of the forgotten.</nowiki>
	~~#''Archival~~, ~~heritage and~~ inheriting scraps''
	~~#''Scraps / reusing digital media/ elements~~ and ~~artefacts''~~
	~~#''Clouds/ servers~~, digital ~~spaces or collecting~~ / ~~connecting''~~

	~~== WHAT ==~~		The physical quilt exhibits translations of websites made during our quilting workshop. We gathered together and asked participants to think of a website that they wanted to recreate with fabric scraps.
	A quilt ~~is a record~~ of ~~time through scrapped fabrics and cloths~~. ~~When they come~~ together they ~~make a visual archival of what has been worn and thrown out~~. ~~Without the present to look back at it, it~~ is ~~not as meaningful. There should be an anchor in time to make a loopback insightful~~.
			This project is by Sevgi Tan and Martina Farrugia (XPUB1).

	== '''Archiving, heritage and inheriting scraps''' ==		== '''Archiving, heritage and inheriting scraps''' ==

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			NOTES:

	While reading ‘Wasting Time on the Internet’, by Kenneth Goldsmith, he creates a comparison where the internet browser history and download folder can be considered the modern-day memoir:		While reading ‘Wasting Time on the Internet’, by Kenneth Goldsmith, he creates a comparison where the internet browser history and download folder can be considered the modern-day memoir:

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	== '''Clouds/ servers, digital spaces or collecting/ connecting''' ==		== '''Clouds/ servers, digital spaces or collecting/ connecting''' ==
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	Webrings - how connections through websites are made		Webrings - how connections through websites are made