User:Eleni/T6 Assessment

Year 0

I am fascinated by the nuances of fan-made creation, such as collaborative fanzines, fanfiction, and fanart. Despite being sometimes dismissed, I recognize the significant role these communities play in aiding self-expression and fostering connections through shared passions. I am interested in understanding the dynamics of such communities and how their creative practices intersect with broader cultural narratives.

Fili, E. (2024). Motivation Letter. XPUB Application.

Special Issue Contributions

SI25 Protocols for Collective Performance My first experience with radio! It allowed me to demystify the medium and brought me closer to my peers <3 I overcame my fear of broadcasting in a foreign language.
	SI25 Urban Small Talk (page) Together with Imre and Sevgi we worked on a cartography of the sounds of Rotterdam; the noise of construction, the song of church bells, the dripping of raindrops on pavement. Piet Zwart Wiki editors could submit their recordings to be added in this archive. weaving an audio tapestry of the city and the people's feelings towards it. I took up the coding part of the project. LINK TO DATABASE | ⇲ LINK TO MAP
SI25 Lost In Narration (page) A project I worked on with Charlie, Chrissy, Claudio, Lexie and Zuhui. My contribuiton was the voice to noise aspect, using VCV Rack. The mic input passed through different modular synth configurations, consequently being turned into unintelligible sounds.
	SI26 3DS Zine (page) A
SI27 404.xpub.nl Instance My first proper server building dive! I felt out of depth most of the time, but as a group we still managed to get it to run using (questionable) documentaton and Manettas advice!
	SI27 Machine Time Time Machine sdsd

Prototyping

Extraterrestrial Zine Fair

I was one of the fair organizers, alongside Charlie , Chrissy, Sevgi and Wyn.

fan archive of the pre-collapse society

radio show premise: After the inevitable Collapse of big-tech, the corporate servers have melted down and all surviving pieces of media are the ones previously stored in pirate / fan archives. The only way to share what remains (artworks, movies, photography, sculptures) is to describe and narrate them on pirate radio. The fandom artifacts broadcasted have survived the Collapse by being carefully curated, stored and maintained with love in self-hosted servers— in the bedrooms of nerds from the past!

Show 1		pre-rec	30/09
Show 3		w/ Barbs (xpub1)	03/02
Show 4		w/ Angel	21/04

fan archives webpage of references

Self-Hosting Zine

A printed publication where I document my research and process on how I set up my server, and the steps I took to make it public. Made by wiki-to-print-ing the page Setting up a public server into a printable pdf, using paged.js version 1.0

version 2.0 printable pdf

mpo experiment

Writing Documentation

• documenting the under- (or badly-) documented
• documenting my descent into rabitholes
• Collective documentation
• Documenting experiments

Research: FAN/SERVICE

Research focus: reanimating fandom online practices by embodying feminist server approaches

Chapter 1

• the roots of media fandom as the predecessor of the newer term “transformative fandom”
• the predominantly queer/fem demographic of transformative fandom does not fit the image of what constitutes a “true fan"
• queer/fem fans are constantly belittled, scrutinized and pathologized

Chapter 2

• focus on networking technologies, looking into the myth of virtual disembodiment through two different lenses; Megan Boler’s new virtual cartesianism and Donna Haraway’s cyborg theory
• I introduce the argument that queer/fem people, and in extension transformative fandom, expose their identities online in hopes of finding each other

Chapter 3

• This vulnerability greatly influences their online experience, since virtual societies re-establish existing societal biases
• Many platforms have seemed like safe spaces for transformative fandoms, but after multiple platform “purges” and “deaths”, it seems like no space is sufficient to truly facilitate fandom practices

Chapter 4

• critique the brotherhood of the FLOSS community
• introduce feminist servers
• look for inspiration in their ways of building community around their own infrastructures and networks

Chapter 5

• I present how the feminist teachings I compiled have influenced my own project— an online fandom radio station
  

Project: FanonRadio

Fanon is any element that is widely accepted among fans, but has little or no basis in canon. (...) A variation of fanon is "personal canon" or "headcanon," which is a set of "fanon"-like facts that are accepted as canon by an individual fan or a smaller group of fans, sometimes in the making of a shared universe. (Fanlore)

FanonRadio Wiki

Grad Fest

12hr Radio Marathon

To launch Fanon Radio with a grand celebration, I am hosting a 12hour Radio Marathon on the 4th of July. The schedule consists of pre-recorded shows, live remote and in-person broadcasts. The hosts will be individual fans and fan projects that responded to the Open Call with their proposal.

A variety of fandom performances (audio dramas, a TTRPG session), meta analysis of fan practices, fan project presentations and fan interviews! I have booked a slot for Barbs (xpub1) to interview me on how the radio was made. It will be a good opportunity to make my process a bit more transparent and hopefully start a conversation!

Schedule draft done!

Broadcast Setup

Trial Sprint (not Marathon)

Performance

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Next Steps