User:Sevgi/Grad Notes

notes and such

Piblitheque notes

tuktuk->lib server->connect and download pdf locally.

colportage

/:8080 is the file sharing #, change it for less trouble

myth of XPPL

https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web > supports mp3, video as well

taxonomy vs folksonomy vs fauxonomy

we used the tags for the Code of Conduct of 404.xpub

User:Sevgi/Bookmaking Guide

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Fediverse_Moderation

https://calibre.constantvzw.org/

how do you modify the titres of makers: contributors vs authors, etc.

https://index.simonbrowne.biz/

.csv : title, category, category, category,

https://inventaire.io/welcome

https://neutrinet.be/en/brique

http://whoosh.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.html

Datamosh workshop notes

Lexie showed us how to use Audacity as a file type converter basically. It is so interesting to listen to the files imo.

Didn't work really well in my case but this python script worked very well:

import random

for y in range(60): #range = number of files
    with open('1.jpg', "rb") as f:
        b = bytearray(f.read())

    for x in range(20): #range = number of bytes shuffled
        b[random.randint(0,len(b)-1)] = random.randint(0,255)

    with open(f'filename2{y+1}.jpg', "wb") as f:
        f.write(bytes(b))

gif doesn't work...

23-09

I opened up the push button dial of the t65, utter and complete confusion. I need to just stay with it for a second to understand what pin does what. Also seems to be a lot of different parts connected together? I could have just did the Sassie thing and adjusted the Hertz settings to match the buttons instead of the rotary dial.

Next up is the thread wiring.

I need:

solder, third hands

microcontroller

adapter

cables

exacto knife

I am going to write proper PMOMMs and record my process there. This should be only note taking

pmomm notes

postpartum depression from releasing a project.

subscription models

why do we want to own things

what if you had a baby - you nurture the baby not shape it - your input is valued - copyright comes in the house and yells at the baby -

what if it changes me as a person through time and space

birth certf-

Git workshop notes

"at the expense of simplicity"

software with an attitude?

Git is the software, git-lab-hub-ea is the platform

https://git.xpub.nl/XPUB/git_workshop/src/branch/main/NOTES.md - workshop link

Dr Git wrote the git code.

"social media of code"

this is the man who made git Linus Torvalds

Important for git:

-> you can work and decide on whats public

-> offline access

-> push means publish

-> p2p "for me trust is just knowing the person im taking the code from." - torvalds/mm

-> decentralised, federated, etc.

are we recreating something we wanted to eliminate at first

my git workshop:

https://handmade-web.net/exercises/class-site.html

GitHub is Microsoft booo

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choose license

README defailt

✅initialise repo

Default Branch -> main (used to be master)

No blank spaces in the title

example:

https://diversions.constantvzw.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

here is me:

https://git.xpub.nl/

copy SSH link and got o terminal

cd into folder:

git clone https://git.xpub.nl/sevgi/MY_FIRST_GIT.git

now its in a folder on your laptop

edit the file -- > subl/nano READ.md

its fucking vim : <esc> :wq <enter> to save and exit

change code editor: https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/git-basics/associating-text-editors-with-git

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Appendix-C:-Git-Commands-Setup-and-Config

important git subcommands:

git clone URL

git log

git status

git add

git commit

git push

git pull

TODO:

put some projects on git

Michael feedback

copyright copyleft copylife copydeath

how do you get out of the formal bureucratic rules and regulations. life and messiness of the real world.

finding sustainable ways for things to be available and not be available

https://pirate.care/pages/concept/

acts of criminalising solidarity

targets tradition of state->market->family

care gets politicised->women should stay home and take care of family.

Destroy formulations of care.

deconstruction of saying care should be thought differently.

https://hackersanddesigners.nl/connecting-through-seams-workshop.html

whats missing from the copyleft, what is a market friendly way of saying things are Creative Commons and that solves everything.

digital death,

inheritance - declares something death, something is being passed on and forward, digitally and otherwise.

care-> what you are doing and who is it for.

where Marloes is coming from in her research, environmental cost of technology, being more conscious of all the different - > using computing, aware of the costs of things.

to say the bootleg library could be just a computer. we could save the energy of it if it was completely physical.

> > > low tech mag < < <

what are the choices and the reasons.

keeping up the illusion of everything working. big scam of singularity AI stuff.

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im stuck with the prototyping1!!!1!!!!

bootleg lib - making things more part of your lived life. Something that could be very how to rewrite the narrative of inconvenience, what if it wasn't discomfort but a part of a morning routine.

embedding the values into the gesture so that it isn't necessarily stay conceptual.

pibliotheque!!

they reached out to manetta to talk.

counter tourist information?

https://www.memoryoftheworld.org/blog/tag/library/

maintainers over the work

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Cards - Michael thought obsolete cards remake was a strong nostalgia sector.

Kendalls thesis-> reflective vs restorative nostalgia. https://project.xpub.nl/virtualgarden/XPUB-Cyberhotels-KB.pdf

"old days were better"

looking at the future through old machines that are obsoletiish?

whats ingesting in pirate care-> not anti digital but isn't there a way to have community based libs instead of the digital ones.

I wanna feel like a librarian.

I wanna connect to historical librarian.

the fact that why dewey decimal system is successful was that it had practical applications. it helped reshelving. real physical work that went into it. even building shelves.

thesis outline draft

Charlie: not very formal, storytelling for mode of access, not fond of academic writing, no suspense allowed on academic writing

topic wise: debating between, esoteric, occult related, illustrations, critical analysis of superstition exoteric beliefs, functions in society, magical thinking, conspiracy theory OR interested in art is magic, magic systems, certain structures, ritualised practices, TWO CAN MERGE.

magic system: actively suspend your disbelief, magic is a trickery that you create through paradoxes, two premises have to exist at the same time. logic is trying to find a solution, suspending disbelief that you have into the idea of superstition/ conspiracy theories.

Sevgi:

myth of income for the artists, give a part of yourself to create a space and vibe, transference of creativity, skill sharing

workshops make the artist lose the essence of actually creating, optimisation of creative processes and forceful legalisations, like declaring copyright/copyleft/copyright/copyleft

zuhui+Tessa: three different topics, they all sound really ambitious and putting interpretation back into bureacratic belonging

thought experiment like treating matters as organic things

organic matter, degrade,

belonging -> abstract idea based 2 chapter universe -> chapter 3 is super grounded zuhui likes it ---> maybe you can make it smaller later

ground some more "belonging"s, it is a word of feeling but what is it applied to. when it explained it makes sense.

you don't have to ever explain anything, you can jus have a speculation though experiment of all topics.

copy: interpretive belonging experiments with da law

how can we bend the protocols of belonging bureaucratically to our(artists) time, practice, land, creation.

but then how can we create systems that require maintainers with services available when they are available; i.e. libraries, ?

Prototyping 06.10.2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/01/arts/design/suzanne-treister-hexen-2-0.html

reflective nostalgia

where do the cards go

https://varia.zone/en/broilerplates-for-fictionality-part-iv.html

<img src="" width="500px"> <img src="" width="500px">

Lexies Int Fiction Workshop

keynote story making hehe

https://www.vipercard.net/

http://www.getlamp.com/

<img src='https://images.ft.com/v3/image/raw/ftcms%3A219f470f-29d7-49e5-82f8-4215c12e8de3?source=next-article&fit=scale-down&quality=highest&width=1440&dpr=1' width='500px'>

gloves by meret oppenheim

<img src='https://images.ft.com/v3/image/raw/ftcms%3Ab29c98ff-74da-4e88-8f0a-a48c50c7d9f7?source=next-article&fit=scale-down&quality=highest&width=700&dpr=2' width='500px'>

Meret Oppenheim ‘Suicides’ Institute’ (1931) © The Museum of Modern Art, New York

GRS

for tina:

protocols for making manuals

I think you should rest prototypes read manuals

I think tool-makers would be nice to talk to

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'Restructure your expectations towards'

Claudio: “But its soooo nice to give context”

C3: im interviewing myself right now(referring to what we did last year)

tools and shelves are really interesting

Melvil dewey as an archival tool maker.

for c3:

“techno-optimism and technological refusal (ironically, a strong binary)”

trust? It is interesting to me how nowadays trust is the main currency,

Why do we expect things to work perfectly?

Do we need to save the world with every project?

what if -> maintenance as a part of play

Graphviz great idea

No game making?

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methods: how to approach is more important

making of sth -> economical value VS experience is disregarded

he finds it interesting to trust a software/tool/etc.

the elistims on both sides -> how do you start on your own and for yourself? and how do yi form. it for the others?

Huizinga homo ludens - > from lidia

"I'm okay with making individual things but I don't know if I want to put that kinda pressure on myself to connect all the aspects as well"

maker, outsider, uncategorizable( who are they )

for me:

feeling of value instead of laws or rights of it.

now: are the bodies of different forms of genealogy -> different families effect the inheritance

martina:

care->institutional practices->archival pov(cataloguing certifications)-> how does the aspect of humanity is connecting to other things.

vast subjects tie into together

https://www.felixgonzalez-torresfoundation.org/works/untitled-blue-mirror2

they gave the instructions for printing-> just a jpg with color->paper thickness up to the curators->people can take it home with them-> bending this idea of an 'artwork' -> freestyling with the authorship of art -> 'you can only take one piece of paper' -> 'too accessible'

curious to see: what device will you pick up? could a cataloguing system be implemented in this device you want to fix?

archival-> cleaning up -> death -> archival care

idea of having this device being like a baby-> taking care of a baby!! -> schedule of thinking about something all the time

'care in itself can be so tiring'

potential being could be the schedule of care being of habit you 'oh my god I have to take care of this now'

something physical can put you in a state of care-psychosis. that can work for you, then you can't ry to make the object come to life again.

cryptic catalogue that can only serve the carer.

Claudio:

device care-also went through it last year. this element of physically relating to sth, makes you more relational as a person

whats interesting to my thesis: what do you use and what do you need?

he thinks this is interesting- >"- making inventories of tools of maintenance, etc. like a general guide or a glossary like Rosa?"

'copy life copy death is amazing'

how do you see the process?

how do you plan to the exploration?

what im doing with xml-> no way you can't understand what is in front of you

questions of curation and care? investing time and emotion

how to continue it? cataloguing pads project, how do we maintain it.

from Lidia:

problems with defining,

what would help both-> define it more clearly

this is 3 different theses maybe even 9

narrow your scope (what financial systems whats the value whats the worth, at the end is more clear)

in one sentence tell me

This is the itch Lidia found-> I leaned on the fact that there is a silence in translation that fails to be voiced with words and wanted to create a method through maintenance.

choose one area of focus

hierarchies!!

make it applicable to something

what are the secondary issues that arise from there

just choose one and stick to it

what is it that what I'm trying to say or do, commit to something right now

look into existing projects schools of thoughts also into alternative economies/games/systems

I am interested in the value that is created between a person and things that belong to them and how is this value goes undocumented and uncatalogued in a monetary way. How can we transport this values into the future(archiving them)?

Manetta feedback -03/11/2025

Interesting project:

https://project.xpub.nl/when-you-might-go-astray/

https://www.yourworldoftext.com/home/

bitsy? twine?

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https://parsejournal.com/theme-page/ecologiesofdissemination/

thinking about copyright through copyright

licenses(liability)-> conditions(responsibility)->commitments(solidarity)

https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/cc2r/v1.0

https://parsejournal.com/article/conversation-transcripts/#subverting

continue reader! -> play with ideas of owning and remixing others works

non present presence can be experienced visually/concrete ways

https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/2839/chapter-abstract/2275076/Footnotes-Books-and-Papers-Scattered-about-the?redirectedFrom=fulltext

https://parsejournal.com/event/reading-group_kathrine_mckittrick_aymeric_mansoux/

keep it close to yourself

how can I speak about belonging without thinking about me

mock assessment

eleni:

all fandoms? what about political sports related(could also be queer and female as you say) fandoms that you're not interested in yourself?

why not allow everybody on the radio?

https://dialradio.live/

is there going to be a code of the space, code of conduct, privacy statement,

"fans producing ANY data"?

fans making art-> why do you want to support them?

whats your personal connection to them(fandoms)?

clarity on the modes of expression this fanatic desire?

I feel like this is missing from the proposal in general

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claudio:

cheatsheet->old devices->wiki dot matrix maintenance

dreaming of a non binary future of tech

cheatsheet-> who is the crowd of it? people cutting corners? why is a cheatsheet different than a guide/manual-> Is the crowd the people with a niche interest, beginners to a specific tool?

making cheatsheets public,

cheating as the defining quality of cheatsheets->meaning there is a rule that can be broken

->handwritten cheatsheets

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wyn:

You should tell us about your radio shows so we can listen to them!!!

outside of attention and labor? what happens to the body?

live performance- repetitive labor-

https://howkexin.com/project/future-dance-of-nostalgia_new.html

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sevgi:

death design data

squatting technology

adverse posession

resurrection->body parts-> why are you seeing everything as a body part

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Chrissy:

tools of chaos/dither/distress

glitch art?

> http://www.xxx-clairewilliams-xxx.com/projets/glitch-knit/

image manipulation>social engineering?

community design tools, whats free and easy, etc.

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zuhui:

you want to form a really good joke?

CURSE

how is it imitated -> A cursing B example

analysing structures of CURSEing

plotting-> its in the title

performative CURSEing

does a curse need to be made in secret? is that what makes it a curse?

using plotter as a plotting buddy to place a CURSE - love this

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Lexie:

ART TOYS

electric zine

https://alienmelon.itch.io/electric-zine-maker

TOOLS AS GAMES

how did you make this presentation its cool af IS THIS A WEBSITE???

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3718056

eavesdrop poetry https://fuzul.itch.io/

https://fuzul.itch.io/50-ways-to-play-with-rules

engine: maybe zines, protocols of making as an ART TOY

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Tessa:

Knitting machine

http://www.xxx-clairewilliams-xxx.com/

-> labor + slow tech + punchcard + data visualisation

data portrait

time as a commodity

women's time VS mens time -> binary structure?

domestic time? homemaker?

data about knitters in general? What data?

How I spend my time is what I am -> What does that say about your practice hence you, maybe this is what the data is going to be about?

pain chart- could this then be tied to slow making practices of like rest is resistance etc. Johanna Hedva : How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom

I feel like there is a disconnection for you mainly, where data connects to knitting, I think this could be more inspected by looking into how to hack the knitting machine: what are the possiblities of it, what are the affordances of it, whats the age of it, how long of a knitting could it make in 1 hour, in 2 , 3, etc.

13-11-2025 Marloes

assessment -> define your audience better, tentative strategy to engage your audience, you dont have to know it 'im gonna invite this and this' maybe not that but at least something.

strong-> poetic with the critique, giving a strong ctiwiue of consumer capitalist, phrasing motivation->legal frameworks how you consider yourself within the system. occult w tech-> Frankenstein point of departure makes it more speculative and gives more freedom

how do you activate your objesxtc, do you have a series of objects resurrected?, it can be performative gesture, it can be a workshop, it can be anything, but you need to have some clue, something you enjoy. what would you like to do? joy will come back

poetic experiments, source of joy,

looking at waste from apholisphycal and systemic way, you can't avoid waste, how is wasting and discarding happen in tech societies

the point of me anthropomorhphises -> this does creates an e-waste that has effect, so the loneliness and despair is the state of the Earth and the objects in question. makes the urgency of the project more tangible.

voicing the warranty -> buy something dont own it repair it and its suddenly not the responsibility of the company that created it. extra legal framework I can work with.

phrase your role and your objects and their embodiment clearer, what will you do? what kind of body will it be, what kind of role will it play?

reformulate the project as an experiment of resrrecting, research several different ways of resurrection. develop methods, do tryouts, define the steps, the outcome can be a series of experiments

for each resurrection a memoriam, eulogy, birth certificate, past intentions and the futures of the dead objects, then I send it back to the world with its new embodiment, obituaries website

this will solve the timetable

borderlands-> following rules from different communities,

name everything! birth certificate has to have name

what kind of the resurrections are happening, discard studies, borderlands

add images to relation to prev practice

I can relate to theory in larger context -> gothic horror, Mary Shelley, Lori Emerson,

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thesis: you have it

manetta 17.11.2025

cheatsheet for xml: to use or to organise XML?

"cheatify": -> workaround <-

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something from the workshop? > to reflect on?

go to the telecom museum 10000%

on the way maybe you encounter something, come up with the prompt whenever you can

invite the telecom museum to our try out night

media 'archeology'

performative artist in a cage > highly paid residency

maybe in the process there is an interesting thing that comes up that needs to be on the try out

landline hacks examples,-> simplicity of it, showing people on the spot. what is really interesting to me?

whats important to try out?

is that interesting to bring the YouTube videos?

is it about the hacks and customisation? can you make a hack thats specifically for the try out

Claudio suggest -> Nicholas collins hardware hacking

how important is the telecom museum?

-> cross generational knowledge - PTT, kpn -> cross industrial knowledge

landline art instead of net art

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Marloes 21.11.2025

project proposal:

images good,

my audience description is not good, be more concrete, how would you reach this people for testing ideas and stuff?

is solid thought about a lot of things

external advisor: yours is not so technical so you're fine

presentation structure -> do as the wiki says(with as many things I can bring into the room as I can) make it concrete in the room

thesis outline

next time: 08.01.26 could be online

in this >1 month:

the chapter deadline is not a strict deadline? more suggestion? - > more concrete deadline 5.01.2026

no expected size or work count, minimum: detailed outline, short descriptions for each chapter, inspired? write a chapter

thesis 2.chapter ---- ? project Why chapter

there is no software according to kittler- all these are inside a hardware

warranty voiding

legal frameworks -> the material isn't born - or it isn't dead

Creative Commons-> for the remixer

CC 4 R / CC 2 R -> for the creator

resurrection 1st chapter,

remixing bodies, creating life, contractualities of it 2nd chapter

formulate a sub q for every chapter

if there is new material thats not a conclusion

For Try not to cry out nights

party line is a set of telephones connected via a circuit system that allows them to call each other, without any connection to landline telephone systems. This method was created to encourage communities to connect via the most recent technologies without having to pay for an outside connection.

etc.

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data center

Flask Day

flask is the glue that puts the pieces together. uses jinja.

its a -> web application framework

php and js can also do some of these things

more fragile then js and php > doesn't work if the server is not maintained regularly

because flask is connected to the server it also makes the server vulnerable. if there is a security breach it can lead to sensitive information becoming public.

we install (in the folder)

pip install uv
uv venv 
uv install flask

to exit:

deactivate

we make hello. py

from flask import Flask
app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route("/")
def hello():
    return"Hello XPUB!!!"

run:

flask --app observations run --debug

make:

observations.py

make:templates folder

make in this folder -> observations.html

GET , POST

observations.py:

from flask import Flask, render_template, request
app = Flask(__name__)

# if you name this file app then you dont have to --app to run. it

    #we will use GET and POST, http methods and web requests
    # POST are sent to the flask application
    # GET is getting the info from flask
    
@app.route("/", methods=["GET","POST"])
def main():
    if request.method == "POST":
        return "post!"
    
    return render_template("observations.html")

observations.html:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>Observations</title>
</head>

<body>
    <h1>i see</h1>
    <form method="POST">
        <textarea></textarea>
        <input type="submit" value="Save">
    </form>

</body>

</html>

sending requests and appending them

from flask import Flask, render_template, request
app = Flask(__name__)

database = []

# if you name this file app then you dont have to --app to run. it

    #we will use GET and POST, http methods and web requests
    # POST are sent to the flask application
    # GET is getting the info from flask
    
@app.route("/", methods=["GET","POST"])
def main():
    if request.method == "POST":
        # we use the NAME we give to the textarea -> observation
        observation = request.form["observation"]
        database.append(observation)
        # return database
        # return observation

        # return "post!"

    return render_template("observations.html", database=database)
    #database=database is from jinja

luke says instead of nginx:

https://caddyserver.com/ is simpler.

and the observations.html looks like this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>I spy...</title>
</head>

<body>
    <h1>👁️L👁️</h1>
    <!-- default templates in flask are jinja -->
     {%for observation in database %}
     <div> {{ observation }} </div>
    {% endfor %}
    <form method="POST">
        <textarea name="observation"></textarea>
        <input type="submit" value="Save" >
    </form>

</body>

</html>

moved to: Flask

Gitpub workshop with Kim

diverge x converge

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etherpad handles merge conflict -> with an operational transformation algorithm

merge strategies of git: https://git-scm.com/docs/merge-strategies includes strategies like 'patience' , 'octopus', 'ours, 'theirs'... v interesting stuff

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git pull -> update git

git add-> add your changes

git commit -am "something" -> record changes

git push -> update remote

git log- > shows all the metadata and commit msgs etc. with the Short hash codes...

git slowerdowner -> gitpub

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looked into invitation with zuhui and feline using gitea website instead of command line tools