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- PDLC walk
Week 1
্ Wednesday 08.04
Introduction: a word that comes around with border. Control, colony, settlement, private, differentiation, edge, ownership, terra nullis, territory
keywords: terra-nullis, territory, gendarmerie, arpentage, enclave
Week 2
্ Monday 13.04
Putting references here for next class: https://www.daniploeger.org/our-values, https://www.polakvanbekkum.com/works/, https://www.antiatlas.net/news/, https://driesdepoorter.be/borderbirds/
Also thinking of the village of Barle-Nassau, a patchwork made up of borders.
্ Tuesday 14.04
Tutorial session with Manetta:
Mapping street names in relation to dutch-brasil
PDLC Walk
Find ways to reach out in collaboration
Week 3
্ Monday 20.04
Amphibian migration assistance, found some pages on volunteer groups close to the hague helping amphibians to cross human-made infrasctures safely (https://westlanders.nu/dieren/help-de-padden-2/). There are mentions to roads close to the zandmotor here.
Critical research into ObsIdentify, its license, identification systems, etc.
We then went outside and identified some plants in animals in the wijnhaven
Week 4
্ Monday 04.05
Making of the zine! Made a sticker for frogs to not fall into sewers
্ Wednesday 06.05 - methods
Writting exercise: writing for an open call of choice for 15 minutes. You're not allowed to use punctuation nor delete / correct words. Inspired by Am I Saramago? from Ursula K. LeGuin's 'Steering the Craft'.
where do you end and I begin is a video-installation where four decomissioned surveillance cameras look at a rotating mirror The placement of the cameras are such that each camera can observe itself and the remaining ones at a time An AI object recognition algorythm locally trained by me using thougsangds of images of surveillance cameras attemps to distinguish themselves in the video frame the audience sees the video output and where two systems interact one where a camera "sees" itself in the video but also the other the work is a reference to lacans individuation process the idea of a child and their first encounter with a mirror the child becomes and individual and separate themselves from their parents the moment they are able to identify and construct the self the work addresses the widespread usage of AI recognition systems and tries to fill in a gap: the non-existence of algorythm trained on the surveillance cameras themeselves. Who watches the controlling agents? the work explores the tension between psychological process, surveillance and the future of AI
Week 5
্ Monday 11.05
Guest lecture by Nishat Awar, showing relationships between architecture and migration. Started two notations in the personal reader about Marielle Franco and about power relationsips in mapmaking.
had some pmomms in my head: a flag and a tiny webserver.
Week 6
্ Wednesday 20.05
Referencing as a method. Reading Poetics of Relation: Open Boat
Week 7
্ Monday 01.06
Pre-references, posted at State of Surveillance.
Angelikis video reminded me of the day I was walking in the residential neighborhood of Boemenbuurt. It was a calm chill morning after I had a delicious brunch in one of my favourite bakeries in town. My keychain has been a bit flaky lately and as I was walking I hear a metallic "tiiinK" hitting the concrete bricks. I look back desperately because lately I've lost too many keys. I inspect the ground, take my sunglasses off, already thinking which key I had lost. As I am crouching and not believing my eyes because no shimmering metal object was laying there, I hear another "tiiinK", this time piercing through my head. That one completely struck me. For a second it felt like the source of the sound came from within my brain. No key was on the floor.
I stand up, and I realize I'm in front of one of those multi-floor rich dutch houses (it's the neighborhood). There's a small black device by the porch, which screamed one more time for me. I am used to finding round black boxes (dome cameras), but the circular element in this one looked more like a speaker, and it had a proximity sensor. I understood my presence was unwanted in that place, which in this case was the public sidewalk.
I felt extremely angry, as my right to be in public was taken from me. I felt like finding a brick to throw at, or to knock at these people's house. I felt like this device tricked my perception of space, making me believe things that didn't happen. And finally, it was 11am on a sunday morning. Plenty of kids, animals and just people walking by and enjoying a calm morning in an urban space which is supposed to host populations. I don't understand people that live in cities without wanting people to live nearby. Maybe become a hermit or something.
This is an example of Architecture of Fear, or Hostile Architectures. Public tools that oppress and segregate the public.
Questions to Angeliki
While watching the video, I also was very curious in knowing what kind of stance is held by public institutions (Rotterdam Municipality) and homeowners that install these devices. Any laws regulate this?
What is being depicted in the last scences? The square indent in the round sidewalk corner, and the pole?
What encounters were generated by the harmonizer in public space? How was a conceptual sound installation received by the people hanging out in these spots?