User:Alessia/Final presentation
Special Issues
SI XXII
This was my confused special issue, here the link to the main wiki page I used for its trimester: special issue xxii
⋆. ݁₊ D E S T R O Y - P R O T O C O L S radio show with Zuzu and Michel
pad 2(protocol 2): https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Radio_Worm_10_Oct
- exploring if we need a protocol to D E S T R O Y PROTOCOLS?? what is even a PROTOCOL??
- Leslie, Nami, Erica interviewed by me for our radio show
⋆. ݁₊ Echoes of the wasteland
Installation object prompts participants to contemplate the fragility of communication and human connection in the face of the Catastrophe. It's a collection of decay, relics from a lost era, tangled wires, vinyls, adorned with symbols reminiscent of a bygone civilisation. At its core lies a mysterious time capsule, a vessel of fading messages left by the wanderers that sought comfort inside our shelter
installation notes https://pad.xpub.nl/p/SI22-installation-notes
⋆. ݁₊ Manual for Post-apocalyptic Radio Making
I helped printing Maria's manual
SI XXIII
This was my writing special issue, here the link to the main wiki page I used for its trimester: special issue xxiii
⋆. ݁₊ / Loading: feminist server.../ card/browser game
I worked with the table ┳━┳ group.
Draw a card, type the command in a browser, and receive its function, with a related feminist concept, and instructions on how to act. By playing online or in person you are serving and being served, becoming a feminist server yourself.
Rooted in feminist methods and literature, the game invites players to rethink computational terms. As they engage with the commands, new connections emerge.
https://hub.xpub.nl/chopchop/si-23-website-table/
Data centers on fire
Your data is burning. Data centers like to autocombust
Don’t put all your internet infrastructure in one basket. The internet infrastructure is fragile
Data center sector is shockingly bad at reporting transparently
There is no black box for data centers. If your data didn’t burn it will drown
Data centers don’t like people! >:( things always happen when people are around
People actually die during fires >:(
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here the link to the test: https://hub.xpub.nl/chopchop/~aleevadh/
and the dedicated wiki page: data center on fire
⋆. ݁₊ Pen plotting party and PPP
SI XXIV
This was again a writing special issue, here the link to the main wiki page I used for its trimester: special issue xxiv
Reading/writing practice
What I was most focused on during the whole xpub experience was reading and writing.
I did everything I could to keep up with what we were doing in our meetings, I did start a diary (Alessia/Diary/xpubone + Alessia/Logbook). Maybe the point of making this diary was indeed aknowledge that I couldn’t always keep up with the documentation side of my XPUB journey, and to forgive myself for that.
From the SI 23 onward I began writing more, both online and offline.
“Humanisation of technology,” “games,” and “ecology” were the key themes of the second trimester. “Space/place,” “liminality,” and “countermapping” for the third.
I started collecting material on liminality (User:Alessia/liminal), which has always been a central focus of my research. Outside of the wiki, I continued to explore the topic, for example, in this piece: <https://www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poems/archive-tours/archive-tour/105-30505_Between-Worlds>.
Xpub helped me opening up a bit. I’m not as anxious about joining conversations as I used to be. Now I’m more interested in collective reading and writing (something I quite missed in the second year), and in collaborative writing environments like the pads or the wiki.
Thijs and I worked on the https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/WikiBabble, a revolutionary social wiki media