User:Thijshijsijsjss/Notes from Up There

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Contents
1 Week 1
2 Week 2
3 Week 3
3.1 Thesis Mapping

Week 1Monday: grad show meeting, collective publication meeting, discussing pen plotted 3d movie with Joseph
Tuesday: skipped collective publication meeting
Thursday: grad show meeting online, grad supervision meeting
Saturday: oh my, I didn't realize there's only a week's time between my thesis deadline and the grad show
Week 2wait no, there is a month extra after all!
Kamo exhibition opening, xpub1 SI26 launch event


Recognition!?

A glimpse of what might be

How I've been feeling
Week 3Currently, my focus continues to be demanded on live outside of xpub. While unfortunate in some ways -- for example having to miss the legendary grad show mock-up meeting -- I do believe it is for the best in the long run. Luckily, I feel a little more mental bandwidth for reaquinting myself with the thesis (which, naturally, has taken over the project a bit at the moment).
Thesis MappingFor a while now, the bottleneck for my thesis has been the format. Not the physical presentation, but rather the matter in which the (nonlinear) contents are presented to the reader. While the wiki is dear to me, and this format has been encouraged by Michael and Marloes, I haven't been able to accept this as final form. There are 2 main reasons: (1) to justify the wiki, I would want to make full use of it. As this text is a documentation of my project's development, I think that many of the wiki's artifacts, while intersting, do not contribute meaningfully to the story I want to present. Not in it's current state at least, and rewriting to allow for a deep and inspired use would be a lot of work. Also, (2) I persist on wanting a physical version of the thesis. This is a ambition I've had since the start of the year, one I'm apparantly not willing to let go of, and one that puts constraints on the way a user would navigate the text. In particular: exuberent use of hyperlinking tends to not work as well on paper. Instead, I've been thinking about a 'wrapper' to address the reader with, which would be a sort of CYOA / TA game on top of the thesis's main text, through and with which the reader would navigate.


Attempt 1

Attempt 2

Attempt 3

Attempt 4

In this week's grad supervision meeting, Michael seemed receptive to this idea. In my final map sketch, I included a little drawing of what a physical version could look like, with the faint subtitle 'A counter manual'. This was mainly there as filler, but when Michael asked about it, I said something along the lines of 'this text does not try to instruct or dictate. Quite the opposite: it hopes to invite something personal, and trusts that you can navigate that by yourself'. This led us to talk about how we can lean into that manual format. In particular, Michael suggested the above mapping as a manual-style flowchart. The edges could be abstract ways of navigating, like 'feeling perplexed? Go here.': something the reader parses (themselves). I think this has potential. I will have to see if and how to combine this with the wrapper: a flowchart can work without 'narrative game'. Some things to play with: in physical form, page order need not be grouped by contents, but another order can be instilled here (like chronology of writing). Also, flowchart can allow for different node shapes for another layer of information. Finally, LaTeX might be used for (for a million reasons).

Attempt 1	Attempt 2	Attempt 3
Attempt 4	In this week's grad supervision meeting, Michael seemed receptive to this idea. In my final map sketch, I included a little drawing of what a physical version could look like, with the faint subtitle 'A counter manual'. This was mainly there as filler, but when Michael asked about it, I said something along the lines of 'this text does not try to instruct or dictate. Quite the opposite: it hopes to invite something personal, and trusts that you can navigate that by yourself'. This led us to talk about how we can lean into that manual format. In particular, Michael suggested the above mapping as a manual-style flowchart. The edges could be abstract ways of navigating, like 'feeling perplexed? Go here.': something the reader parses (themselves). I think this has potential. I will have to see if and how to combine this with the wrapper: a flowchart can work without 'narrative game'. Some things to play with: in physical form, page order need not be grouped by contents, but another order can be instilled here (like chronology of writing). Also, flowchart can allow for different node shapes for another layer of information. Finally, LaTeX might be used for (for a million reasons).