User:Kim/Assessment 2 (T4)

year 1

Tracing Networks Backwards

Tracing Networks Backwards is a (browser) game based on mediawiki. Its interface displays all wiki page titles (circle) that link towards the currently open one (center). Playing the game, the user can recursively visit wiki pages and output their traced path into a graph.

Key: what happens when we render more / different information visible, than usually prescribed in user interfaces?

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  browser version

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  installation at ubik for SI25

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  graph printout after 4h of tracing networks backwards

links: browser version, project documentation, project process

Browser Extensions

Layer is a browser extension surfacing source code elements which by default are not part of a websites (or browsers) visible interface.
Annual rings is a browser extension which gets a websites age and grows a ring for each year the site is old.

Key: continuing with the question of making visible, but here leaving the 'original' interface as a starting point, deconstructing it is part of the users operation

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  annual rings browser extension

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  layer browser extension

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  layer browser extension

links: Layer (repository), annual rings (repository), project process

Terms of Servers

Terms of servers is a terminal based publication that runs on a temporary, communal server called Cerealbox. Working with the server for almost a year now evoked questions around its materiality and reliability. Together with Claudio, we discuss these questions among us, the users, but also direct them towards Cerealbox itself. Terms of servers' form is malleable, it can be read in a computer shell or as printed text.

Key: the collaborative writing process with Claudio on an etherpad that records the 'actual text' and conversation and feedback on the emerging text and navigating process at at the same time, making use of the malleability of markdown files

Technical: exercising python, bash scripting

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  terminal publication

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  printed output

links: project documentation, project process, directory on cerealbox

Personal Reader

In the first year of XPUB, every student is asked to start a personal reader. Mine is a git repository that has grown into a container for mapping reading progress, notes and outlines, planning reading and sorting read texts.

Key: (after trying out multiple forms: wiki, websites, a mix of both or more local approaches like zotero) found an interest in about mis-/ reusing the metadata for a non-technical, non-optimization purposes but rather as textual layer

Technical: git

links: repository on gitlab, previous reader on wiki

Fediverse Instance

We (Kiara, Eleni, Claudio, and I) with support of Manetta, started installing a Mastodon Fork 'Glitch Sok' on Debby, an XPUB server, in order to create our own instance.

Key: it wasn't easy. we navigated the process in a group (which is usually done by an individual) involved different protocols, documentation, discussion (written and spoken), side research. frustration with existing documentation that assumes a lot of previous knowledge and installations

technical: ... (debugging? dare to change code or settings you dont fully understand)

links: Fediverse/Installation documentation

project proposal

what

Gitpub is a tool to create a printed or web-based publication from a git repository including repository metadata. This tool is not bound to any specific environment yet, but could have different interfaces such as a website or a terminal program.