User:Barbs/SI29

[💬] Gossiping at the Intersection of Crafts and Resistances

Links

General

⟢ SI29 page
⟢ Grapevine

Glossary Entries

⟢ Pedagogy
⟢ Elitist

Prototypes

⟢ Intimate P2P

Workshop

⟢ Our Digital Home

Log

Week -1: winter break

Goals I want to keep in mind this trimester:

⟢ Keep taking notes. Halfway through SI28 I got so busy I forgot to update my wiki and I think a lot of my detailed thoughts were lost because of that.. So I want to stay on track during this SI.
⟢ Be intentional with my time and create balance. Don't overfill my schedule. Create intentional spaces for self-care + being social.
⟢ Find the joy in my practice. Have fun and don't put too much pressure on myself. I feel a bit lost in what I enjoy doing/making exactly. I'd like to return to drawing again.

Week 0: snow!!!

Snow at Utrecht Overvecht station in the early morning!

Pads & Links

⟢ 05/01/2026 - SI26 kick-off!
⟢ Everybody's "introduction" sites on Sergio
⟢ 07/01/2026 - Methods

Websites

Doriane showed us her personal website which made me reflect a lot on my own neocities website which I put so much effort in setting up but hasn't been updated for like.. a year.
Her philosophy behind website-making as not a finished product but a constant growing and creating process feels like exactly the way of thinking I was missing. I focus so much on making a website look pretty that adding more content that doesn't fit the structure would mean having to redesign it all over again.
I feel very inspired by her website structure where she can keep adding anything she wants without having to fit it into a set of categories. I think something like that would work a lot better for me too.

HowSpots

I loooove everything about HowSpots! What an amazing idea. It immediately made me want to host something like this for my friends.. I wish I had the space for it myself, but maybe I can ask around if someone else could host. Doriane's motivations behind creating the HowSpots reminded me a lot of a recent People Make Games video about the Microsoft/XBOX boycott. Should rewatch that especially in prep for the datacenter topic in a few weeks.

P2P and SoulSeek

After getting a detailed explanation of how P2P works and what SoulSeek is I spent the evening exploring the application for some music!! It reminded me a lot of how I used to download music from YouTube to my first smartphone's SD card. My iPod library feels a little more fleshed out now with my fav music I couldn't find through CD/bandcamp :) and I uploaded some of my ripped CD's in return!

Week 1

Pads

⟢ 13-01-2026 - Prototyping
⟢ 13-01-2026 - SI28 File sharing mapping
⟢ 14-01-2026 - Code of Conduct session with Michael

Self-employment and self-hosting

I registered my self-employment at the Kamer van Koophandel on Tuesday!! I've been putting it off due to life-reasons for like a year, and the weekend after new years I decided to make an appointment and it felt really good to take that initiative. Starting a business also triggered a deep dive into self-hosting as I became interested in hosting my own website, and owning my own domain and e-mail. I've been very torn on if I want to rent a VPS or buy a raspberry pi and homebrew the server.. I'm leaning towards the former but I don't like having to pay ANOTHER subscription. To be continued..

Week 2

Pads

⟢ 19-01-2026 - Serving gossips
⟢ 20-01-2026 - Prototyping
⟢ 21-01-2026 - Methods

Intimate P2P Prototype

Working on this with Sibyl and Lea!

Laptop SSD Maintenance & Dual Booting Linux

I finally dual booted Linux onto my laptop :) it was quite nervewracking but everything went super smoothly (mostly) in the end! You can read my detailed process on the wiki page linked above.

Week 3

Pads

⟢ 26-01-2026 - Datacenter visit

Global Game Jam 2026

During the weekend I participated in GGJ2026 together with Dion and Max! The theme was "mask" and we made Suncatcher, a little interactive narrative game set in a cyberpunk city. You have to use objects to create a mask that will trick facial detection software from an evil AI company to ultimately go on a mission to set fire to their datacenter. This was inspired by Remco's tour and how much he emphasized the fire detection system was the most important in the entire facility (lol) and also by the concept of Computer Vision Dazzle.

Week 4

Pads

⟢ 02-02-2026 Class with Doriane
⟢ 03-02-2026 Prototyping
⟢ 04-02-2026 Methods

Lots of talking about what we're doing/planning on doing :)

Radio Show w/ Eleni

Eleni invited me onto her radio show at Radio Worm! You can listen to it here.
During SI28 I always felt really nervous and stressed during each radio show, and found it difficult to talk naturally. I didn't have this struggle at all during this show, I felt so at ease and had a lot of fun!
I'm still thinking a lot about the future of fandom spaces while social media platforms are growing increasingly hostile towards building communities.. especially now that I'm becoming more active on Mastodon, I wonder why there is so little fandom activity on there!

Week 5

Changing the phone's wallpaper through SSH! I felt like a hacker haha

Pads

⟢ 09-02-2026 - Webhosting on old smartphones
⟢ 10-02-2026 - Prototyping

Comp(h)osting (with) our phones

I unearthed my very first smartphone, a Samsung Galaxy Gio from ~2013. It stored a lot of old memories, mostly bad ones. I backed up some photos and music from the SD card and then wiped it, which felt very cathartic. If life ever feels hard, at least you're not in early high school anymore!
Sadly, the phone was too old to install Termux onto, so I couldn't use it to host a server.. Instead, Youjung, Lea and I used an old phone from Marie, Lea's phone, and my iPhone 11.

Workshopping the workshop

Together with Tommi and Youjung I am making plans for our workshop..

Games!

I finished playing Animal Well! I documented it in my personal reader.

Aaand I started learning Godot :) to be continued..

SPRING BREAK

Pads

⟢ x

Week 6

Pads

⟢ 25-02-2026 - Methods

I was sick :)

Week 7

Pads

⟢ x

06-03-2026 - Direct observations at Griftpark, Utrecht

After last week's methods class, we got assigned to do observational research outside to enjoy the nice weather. I did it during another sunny day this week. Instead of taking photographs, I decided to do some doodling! All my observations feel kind of mundane.. I also didn't go into this with a specific research question which might've made it more insightful.

Week 8

Pads

⟢ 09-03-2026 - DIWO
⟢ 11-03-2026 - Methods

Methods: Auto-ethnography

Exercise 1: Ask each of the members of your editorial group with which 3 keywords they would describe your practice, then do the same but about your own practice.

Tommi's keywords	Kiki's keywords	My own keywords
⟢ Playfulness	⟢ Softy	⟢ Visionary
⟢ Queer	⟢ Feminism	⟢ Ecologies
⟢ Cyborg	⟢ Structure	⟢ Interactive

Exercise 2: Write a short text based on these keywords (found before the break) about your (current) practice, include images, recordings or other media. Include:

• What you have been making
  • Games (mostly narrative adventure games)
  • Concept art
  • Illustrations
  • Websites
• How you did it (method),
  • Drawing
  • Coding (html/css/javascript/python)
  • 3D modeling
  • Writing, narrative design, worldbuilding
• Why you do this (motivation)
  • I want to visualize what does not (yet) exist but serves as inspiration for what could be
  • I am drawn to interactive media as it allows for the viewer to literally put themselves in someone else's shoes, a sense of immersion, empathy and responsibility that rivals all other forms of media.
• What other artists/writers/makers/etc. you feel your work relates to.
  • Gareth Damian Martin !!
  • Nathalie Lawhead
  • Linnea Sterte
  • Becky Chambers
  • Ursula K. Le Guin

Workshop!!!!

On Saturday we hosted our workshop at Tommi's place. You can read my thoughts about it in the reflection section of the wiki page.

Week 9

Pads

⟢ x

Week 10

Pads

⟢ x