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1. your individual contributions to the special issues (where relevant to your final project)

Special Issue #25

⇔ Bureaucratic Review Committee (Press #1 for)

Playing with and modifying a rotary phone to perform a different function helped remove the intimidation I felt around exploring hardware. I discovered the value of tinkering, taking devices apart and understanding how they work. This curiosity has remained a central part of my practice and became a key aspect of my graduation project. Looking back, I think that without this early introduction to basic circuitry, I would not have developed the confidence that eventually led me to create my low-tech radio wave receivers.

⇔ Quilting p

Key reflection: imagining that altered webpages looked like weaving patterns.
Physical quilting and its digital translation.
Applying physical mediums like quilting, to the web.
Using my previous practice in traditional mediums (textiles) and exploring ways to translate them into the digital. This was the first project where I allowed myself to re-introduce previous making methods into XPUB. This project was a start to the exploration of what I call in my graduation research 'the bending of the material' - finding different materials to print on to enhance the translationg or merging of material worlds.

The visit to the Telecom museum was extremely inspiring, especially looking at the massive cabling infrastructure they had set up in the basement. What also intrigued me was the chronology of the communication narrative and see it change in materiality (cabling methods, using paper, tin can methods, telcom services, telephones, mobile phones). Apart from my personal interest, seeing all of these devices and ways of telling the buildings history somehow finds itself in my own research (in how I tell my own story).

the development of your reading/writing practice across the 2 years talk about the process of writing the thesis, realising a new-found love for writing, feeling more comfortable talking introspectively about my work the first year was interesting, especially since i was introduced to a lot of new texts/things I was not at all familiar with
the development of your prototyping practice across the 2 years, - the first year allowed me to explore many different techniques and mediums, those that stuck through were basic coding elements and sound making devices (mention the workshops about the sound board and the residency at BWDUA) -
your thesis (only a brief overview for context, as this has been assessed separately in depth),
your final work and research in the second year,
plans for final publication and grad show (with the understanding that you will continue to work on this after the assessment)