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Why XPUB?

Before XPUB, I worked as a brand and visual designer for premium grocery delivery platform. It was one of the domains that I wanted to work for because I loved browsing through the feed of delicious foods. However, working in the company made me realize that behind the endless feed there are group of people constantly producing content. I was making a lot of things public but at the same time nothing, as they are repetitive and have less time for reflection.

I liked the idea of working on a domain making something interactive through the internet. Below are the things that I wanted to gain from XPUB:

Make interactive projects using code

Learn how to make things collectively
Gain critical perspectives towards technology

Overview

At XPUB, I made...

4 websites
2 interactive installation
3 zines
1 workshop

What did you make?

Overview

During the 2 trimesters, I made...


Type	Count	Name
Website	3	Cooking Spam e-mails, A mazing machines, Our Digital Home
Interactive Installation	2	A story in a story in a story, Poetry Generater at CCU
Zine	3	A mazing machines, Tangled Thoughts, Practice and Scalability
Workshop	1	Our Digital Home

A story in a story in a story

Interactive narrative that lets you explore, gather and plot. Wander around in the virtual environment, pick up what you resonate with and that is what you take with you at the end of the day and becomes a tiny part of you.

Event at UBIK

Work in Progress

Cooking Spam Emails Website

Using the email from advertisement email ABN AMRO, split into phrases and randomized the letter to make a different context. Inspired by Nick Montfort's poetry this website runs the python code everytime to make a new output.

SI28: A mazing machines Website & Zine template

Landing page design for Special Issue 29 website. I used LeaderLine to make the diagram interactive. Still a bit of glitches to fix but was my first time collaborative developing something including merge conflicts.

Our Digital Home

Collective workshop on the materiality of the cloud. We used ftp file systemns and jinja & python to generate html pages. My role was to develop the website and graphics using ascii art.

Poetry Generator

Extension from the fermenting the earth workshop I participated at iMAL with Leal. Part of the participants gathered to make a collective growing poetry and participated in the exhibition held at CCU Utrecht.

Tangled Thoughts

To integrate my illustration practice with what we learn at XPUB. I used paged.js to make an illustration zine. Whenever I overthink, I start drawing tangled shapes and this helps me ventilate my thoughts. I compiled the collection of drawings and showcased them during the extraterrestrial zine fair.

What did you learn?

Improve coding skills
critical approach and open attitudes

What is/will be your practice?

Crafting within digital medium
play
p5js -> visual coding
servers and act of publishing things online rather than relying on existing platforms -> then how do we gain audience?
platforms
illustrations

Research Interests

Unsolved Questions

why not proprietary software?

https://www.reddit.com/r/foss/comments/110hw5r/what_is_the_argument_for_proprietary_software/

use of ai

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 * Learn how to make things collectively
 * Gain critical perspectives towards technology
+== Overview ==
+At XPUB, I made...
+* 4 websites
+* 2 interactive installation
+* 3 zines
+* 1 workshop
 == What did you make? ==
+=== Overview ===
+During the 2 trimesters, I made...
+{| class="wikitable"
+|+
+!Type
+!Count
+!Name
+|-
+|Website
+|3
+|Cooking Spam e-mails, A mazing machines, Our Digital Home
+|-
+|Interactive Installation
+|2
+|A story in a story in a story, Poetry Generater at CCU
+|-
+|Zine
+|3
+|A mazing machines, Tangled Thoughts, Practice and Scalability
+|-
+|Workshop
+|1
+|Our Digital Home
+|}
 === [[Projects SI 28/A story in a story in a story|A story in a story in a story]] ===
+Interactive narrative that lets you explore, gather and plot. Wander around in the virtual environment, pick up what you resonate with and that is what you take with you at the end of the day and becomes a tiny part of you.
 Event at UBIK
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 === [https://hub.xpub.nl/sergio/youjung/spam-email-recipe/index.html Cooking Spam Emails Website] ===
+Using the email from advertisement email ABN AMRO, split into phrases and randomized the letter to make a different context. Inspired by Nick Montfort's poetry this website runs the python code everytime to make a new output.
 [[File:Screenshot 2026-03-21 at 16.28.10.png|frameless]]
 === [https://hub.xpub.nl/sergio/SI28/ SI28: A mazing machines Website & Zine template] ===
+Landing page design for Special Issue 29 website. I used [https://anseki.github.io/leader-line/ LeaderLine] to make the diagram interactive. Still a bit of glitches to fix but was my first time collaborative developing something including merge conflicts.
 [[File:A mazing machines website.png|frameless]]
 === [[SI29/Our Digital Home|Our Digital Home]] ===
+Collective workshop on the materiality of the cloud. We used ftp file systemns and jinja & python to generate html pages. My role was to develop the website and graphics using ascii art.
 [[File:Mobile screen.jpg|frameless]][[File:EF1EBCE5-28E1-417D-93D0-CAC8A7AC0083 1 105 c.jpg|frameless]][[File:Our Digital Home.png|frameless|225x225px]]
 === [[Writing Machine Directory/poetrygenerator|Poetry Generator]] ===
+Extension from the fermenting the earth workshop I participated at iMAL with Leal. Part of the participants gathered to make a collective growing poetry and participated in the exhibition held at CCU Utrecht.
 [[File:Poetry Generator.jpg|frameless]][[File:Fermented poetry.jpg|frameless]][[File:Workshop day2.jpg|frameless]]
 === [[User:Youjung/paged.js|Tangled Thoughts]] ===
+To integrate my illustration practice with what we learn at XPUB. I used paged.js to make an illustration zine. Whenever I overthink, I start drawing tangled shapes and this helps me ventilate my thoughts. I compiled the collection of drawings and showcased them during the extraterrestrial zine fair.
 [[File:Tangled thoughts-ezgif.com-resize(1).gif|frameless]]