User:Chrissy/T6 Assessment

1. your individual contributions to the special issues (where relevant to your final project),
2. the development of your reading/writing practice across the 2 years,
3. the development of your prototyping practice across the 2 years,
4. your thesis (only a brief overview for context, as this has been assessed separately in depth),
5. your final work and research in the second year,
6. plans for final publication and grad show (with the understanding that you will continue to work on this after the assessment)

Special Issues

Special Issue 25

SI 25 event:

[in Narration] together with Alexandria, Claudio, Eleni and Kiara.

During this Special Issue I was honestly at first quite overwhelmed with possibilities given for the Special Issue event. During the process I more or less went with the flow of my group and couldn't contribute that much, which changed during the event. Being part of a performance felt at first very uncomfortable, but during I started to feel a kind of togetherness with my group and the installation we build. At his point I didn't know that this was the starting point of gaining an increasing interest of alternative tools during my two years of XPUB. Using the python script for speech recognition and the thermal printer for printing out these outcomes were somehow leading to my later contributions to the following Special Issues.

Performance:

Practice in continuation in learning HTML/CSS as part of the website designs for Protocols for Collective Performance and SI#25 event website

Special Issue 26

Specific Lens

Specific Lens with Kiara. Browser extension to learn and discover CSS Positions and Display on websites.

super visual hyper zine

[| super visual hyper zine] as a collective zine with screenshots of all our browser extension experiments during prototyping from our class.

The milestone for me using Jinja and paged.js I guess :)))

Special Issue 27

| Experimenting with the fabric of time𓂃⊹ ִֶָ "Time perception and reception with a sensor connected to a microcontroller through GIF sequences created with ImageMagick. There are also memes."
This project woke the interest in diving deeper into alternative design tools like ImageMagick. I had especially an interest in designing through the terminal without any GUI software and avoiding Adobe software completely. For this project I decided on working with memes around the topics labour and leisure in the form of annotation, recreating and manipulating.

Reading and Writing

Prototyping

Prototyping in general, especially in the beginning of the 2nd year was the start point for my (b)logbook. Practice of documenting, experimenting, trying out: Prototypes

Thesis

graphic design is my pa??ion

Investigating alternative design tools as counterpraxis opposed to traditional graphic design, towards a process-oriented, anti-capitalist approach.

Introduction
Design and Rejection: "Good design", Exclusion, Capitalism, Education, Tools
Anti-design as counterpraxis: Radical design movement, The new ugly aesthetic, Process-based strategies
Tools while caring: Experiments, Stop normalising the grind, Encountered challenges, Implementation
Conclusion

Final work

counter-tools.xyz

(𝒷)𝓁𝑜𝑔𝒷𝑜𝑜𝓀 𝑜𝓃 𝒶𝓁𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓃𝒶𝓉𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝒹𝑒𝓈𝒾𝑔𝓃 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝓁𝓈 𝒶𝓈 𝒸𝑜𝓊𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓅𝓇𝒶𝓍𝒾𝓈 Website based on pelican, a static site generator

meme pile

Part of the website is the online meme pile (published), which is currently published as static page. This archival of memes on the topic of graphic design, I collected during my thesis research. The (b)logbook and meme pile therefore contains both my observations on the counter-tools including the graphic design discourse through memes. With this approach I found a way to connect my praxis with my research in a low-threshold manner by including several voices. With this mode of production I re-generate and overlay these memes and incorporate my counter-tools.

meme pile (for grad fest) I wrote (mostly copied) a flash application, which allows uploading memes (or images in general) to the archive. The uploaded memes are displayed in the whole pile and as well in a designates "uploads" section.

The plan: after upload, the image gets dithered & compressed via this ImageMagick script:

magick images/practice_HK.png -resize 100x -dither FloydSteinberg -remap pattern:gray50 images/practice_HK_dith4_small.jpg

magick images/practice_HK_dith4_small.jpg -resize 600x images/practice_HK_dith4.png

After that compression the meme prints automatically from the Epson thermal printer. The meme can be stuck to the "analogue in-space meme pile" during the grad fest.

After the grad fest I want to bind all the remaining thermal prints into a publication by glue binding. (gonna have an end date; since thermal print lasts for 5-8 years)

How to publish: I went to several bath rooms in WdkA (bathrooms on the list: freelance cafès, Gerrit Rietveld Academie , HKU University of Arts Utrecht) WHY BATH ROOMS lol: ………

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