User:Vitrinekast/Final presentation

If i would sum up XPUB in terms of Y1 and Y2, it would be that Y1 has been a lot about exploring the technologies and methodologies that revolve around XPUB (that resonated) and alternative ways of prototyping trough collaboration . This, at times, created resentment from my side, as I feel like I've been prototyping the last 30 years. At times, to me, prototyping is a method of making without committing, an excuse to leave the lorem ipsum.*

Hence the excitement during Y2. Sometimes still resentment (PMOMM's), but overall challenging and very insightful. Being able to, and sometimes having to, commit to a long term research using the methods & technologies introduced in Y1. And also looking forward/moving outside of the academy, where collaboration turned into *community*.

Y1 Prototypes & contributions to the special issue

Year 1's special issues and things that did not make it to a special issue

Servers, Games, Workshops, Printers, Smaller experiments

Exploring servers trough their logs

Experiments with the pen plotters and server logs. This script draws a rectangle (almost) every time a GET request is done to the server.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to an Active Archive

Choose-Your-Own-Adventure style radio program with Anita and Thijs, performed live at Radio worm. Complete with audience participation and infinite loops. Amazing to see how much we could create in such a short time.

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  Visual promo for the show

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  Instances of Performer, Navigator and Protocoller about to get WORMHOLEd

SI23(?) TL'DR with Senka and Thijs

Continuation of the deep dive into server logs: How to change the reading experience. In TL'DR a server maintainer can read annotated logs via an E-reader. Which users were created? What packages are outdated?

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  TL;DR Special Issue launch. Photo by Thijs.

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  The shelf infrastructure with chopchop and the e-reader. Photo taken by Thijs.

Hosting and attending many many workshops

Hosted and participated in workshops around permacomputing, circuit bending and soldering. What initially started as a fantastic format, now leaves me with questions. How to get rid of the tutor-student hierarchy in a workshop? How to trigger meaningfull conversation? How to deal with the waste?

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  Workshop at GR

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  Hacked printer during the fiber workshop

TODO: include operator post

De Bakfiets in SI24

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Printer Jam

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Y2: Narrowing things down

Y2 was all about the research project discussed in my thesis: A field guide to salvaging sound devices. Within this umbrella, multiple topics & themes come up.

The field guide

As you've all read this thesis, I will not dive too much into it ;) The field guide gives a reader the tools to make their own sound devices using trash, whilst discussing (some off) the issues that created the waste in the first place.

Reading & writing

Trough the research for the thesis, I tried to expand/develop my reading/writing workflow. All references are collected in Zotero, annotated, and then (if relevant) I'll write a short note/description. Using pandoc/markdown, references can be tagged in the thesis, and then automagically be compiled into a reference list. While this did work really well for reading/gathering information, it wasn't an ideal method to formulate your own text.

Near the end I started writing shorter pieces of text (similar to the wordhole we made in Y1) about the theme's and topics of the thesis. If I had to do the whole process again, I would start with this earlier on.

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Web2print

I had a lot of fun using web2print for this thesis. The repository can be found on Klankschool's git.

• Thesis & long term project
• More workshops,

but change the format

• paged.js
• (un)repair cafe
• sneak preview grad show