User:Kim/Projects That May or May Not Be Made

Protocol

What is it?
Why make it?
Workflow
Timetable
Rapid prototypes (scratches)
1. Write one sentence instruction for a work.
2. Make it.
Previous practice
Relation to a wider context (personal reader?)
Choice made

General

formats: Workshop (series); Tool (?); Browser Extension; Website; Collection/ Archive; Reading, Performance; Newsletter; Book

interests: paratext (footnotes, comments, links, page numbers, postscripts, index); server (side); manuals, handbooks, encyclopedia; use, user, hacking, piracy

1

1. What

A collection of (fabulated, imaginary, fictional) interfaces. Not focussing on, but including websites.

2. Why

To counter tendencies of over simplification of interfaces and make space for agency and exploration. To Question 'use'.

3. Workflow

collect One sentence Interfaces
small rapid prototype like realisation
1. versioning over perfection

4. Timetable

Over a fixed Period (4 Weeks) realize one Interface a day.

5. Rapid Prototypes

rapid prototype: uncertain interface (sensitive compass needle)

One Sentence Interface

An Interface that gets worn down with use.
An unconfident (uncertain) interface that needs a lot of reassurance, frequently changes its opinion and is generally viewless.
An Interface that has no boundaries - You loose yourself in it
no - exit interface
An Interface that tells you something about itself.
An ineffective Interface.
Text as interface.
An Interface that situates its user.
A very active Interface that is made of verbs only.
An Interface that sabotages itself.
An urgent Interface.
a recycled interface like an old, used canvas.

7. Context

User:Kim/reading/N. Katherine Hayles: Writing Machines
User:Kim/reading/Johanna Drucker: Performative Materiality
DATA browser 06 EXECUTING PRACTICES, 2018 User:Kim/reading/Executing Micro-Temporality

2

1. What

The same content in different back ends.

2. Why

To study how th organisation of information impacts its front end presentation and possibilities for interaction/ use. And meanwhile explore what (low tech) options exist besides proprietary platforms or template builders.

3. Workflow

come up with a content
put it into aspired back end format
open question of styling + presentation

5. Rapid Prototypes

A back end that is

a single txt file
Table / CSV
pdfs
a wiki
a library (of physical books)
another website
a nested List
a notes app
a chat
an etherpad

I made this website entirely based on are.na channels: https://network-matters.xyz/ or this one based on a wiki page: https://hub.xpub.nl/cerealbox/~kim/assessment-frontend/

7. Context

User:Kim/reading/Dividing and Sharing

3 collective pmom with wyn and feline

1 what

performance that uses different keyboards

1. 'bread' (qwerty) is standard? (remember the keys)

then use the keys on different keyboards in the end read out loud what words emerge

2. broken telephone (stille post)

sit in a circle, one starts with typing a word, their neighbour has to repeat the typing gesture by using the exact same keys (difference of keyboards is welcome) without looking at the screen, once the word has made the circle, it is read out loud

3. write code on different keyboards

one person writes some code/ function, the other persons use the same keys, no matter if the code stays the same or not -- this is interesting because special characters differ a lot in different keyboards

2 why

different in keyboards is usually seen as a barrier or annoying, while it could also be fruitful to look at language mistakes, misinterpretation and "wrong" gestures, also the moment when a tool we use often breaks attunes us more to how it works and brings back our attention to how we type, a motion, a gesture, a letter, a word, performing it because we usually want to hide mistakes, although they dont have to be bad! and differences in keyboards only become apparent as soon as we compare ours/ are forced to type on one which we are not used to

inquires/ criticizes standardization with english language, especially in programming

3 workflow

get different keyboards get a bunch of people/ participants iterative do it often then compare, discuss different outcomes

5 prototype

wyn and feline agree on a word "Experimental Publishing" wyn types the word on QWerty, feline watches closely and presses the same keys as wyn is:

experimental publishing eyperimentaö puböishing

its interesting but will be more fun with more different keyboard

6 previous practice

feline: is insterested in the meaing of words and what they mean to us specificly compared to the dictionary kim: likes to think about gestures involved in interacting with computers or text, gets excited about moments when something (tool, software, language...) breaks, works differently than expected and makes itself and its own way of working present wyn: is insterested in thinking different rules and systems in a alternative way

7 wider context

Mezangelle is a poetic coding language by mez breeze: https://rhizome.org/editorial/2016/dec/15/mezangelle-an-online-language-for-codework-and-poetry/ coding language is centered on english language, here is a thesis about this topic: https://thesis.digitale-grafik.com/media/pages/unlearning-of-a-web-code/20e15e024e-1745966631/fernanda_braun_santos_ma_thesis_20240403_combined.pdf (german language)