Digital Craft Research
Celestine Kronberger

15. Sept.

Review. Cybernetics (https://vimeo.com/173143604)

The video concerns itself with the explanation of Cybernetics as well as the introduction of Norbert Wiener who coined the term.
Most perspectives of the interviewes are in purpose of making clear what is talked about. They are used more as a narrative device. There is no critism made of Cybernetics itself. Rather that society has shifted its perspective away from the science.
Critism in this video is rather against big corporations like Google, Amazon etc. who do not actively make our lives better but act in their own interest.

Art Example:
Clams (Marco Barotti)

(Clams is a collection of kinetic sound sculptures which convert data from water quality sensors into sounds and movement. Each ‘clam’ is constructed from recycled waste plastic and contains a speaker. The continuously evolving microtonal soundscape gives each shell a subtle, life-like opening and closing action. Real-time readings from an industry-standard water purity sensor placed in the river, lake or sea of the cities where the artwork is presented, form the basis for the music, which is generated through a constantly shifting process based on water quality levels over time.)

https://www.marcobarotti.com/clams

6.Okt.

Marshall McLuhann

the Medium is the MASSAGE

Mediums are not something neutral. With the introduction of new mediums the old mediums content is just transferred without much care.
The writing is very flowery.
The medium is an extension of the human. Book is an extension of the eye. Phone is an extension of the brain.

Artist I like:

Artist I hate:

12. Oct.

Donna Harrawy

Tentacular thinking

Anthropence
The age of man -> Anthropos. Only marks the time influenced by humans.

Capitolecence
Globalizatio, Capitalist System. Age of capitalism

Chtulucence
Medusa. Symbiogenis

Harraway reasons that focusing on the term Anthropence is misleading. It is ignoring sciences like Symbiosis, co-creating etc. With renaming and reframing stories could be told differently



*Autopoesis
Autopetic-> generates itself.

*Sympoesis

19. Oct.

Techno-Shamanism

A.) Animism
-the belief in an animated environment
-earliest form of religion
-"psyche and nature were one"

B.) Proomting critical reflection of practices. Avoiding appropriation.
White cis man in art, glorification of the shaman

c.)sorted under headlines. critical. long complicated sentences

D.)

weekly notes

final reflection

additional reserach

Hansel & Gretel by Ai Wei Wei
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhksjQ69_IY

Installation that tracks you with the help of drones and surveillance technology and project a real time image of yourself in the space.
Artist surveillance no travel outside of china.


Camera Field of Vision , https://www.vice.com/en/article/53w35a/this-light-painting-wand-illuminates-the-gaze-of-security-cameras
Steve Mann

device that illustrates a cameras field of vision
Where are we Cam
http://wearcam.org/veilluminescence.htm


Evidence Locker, Jill Magid
https://www.vice.com/en/article/kbnv79/artist-jill-magid-turned-cctv-self-portrait
http://jillmagid.paas.webslice.eu/projects/evidence-locker-2

Digital Craft 4.1

14. Sept.23
Algorithms of Opression

A reflection of systematic racist and redlining happens also online. Especially with the appearing of AI these oppresive systems show how problematic they can be.
The author SAFIYA UMOJA NOBLE
black identities are co-opted and commercialized. Author has history in marketing and catering to BPOC people. Helping brands broaden their horizon without falling into stereotypes.
Since an incident where they googled black girl, and faced with pornographic results I think their approach became much more about structurely dismantling the systems of sorting information and how they impact minorities.

https://snattacat.itch.io/escape-velocity

symbioscene

https://networkcultures.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/TOD14-binnenwerk-def-PDF.pdf

https://networkcultures.org/longform/2019/09/24/harness-the-power-of-a-fluid-identity-with-3-simple-strategies/

21. Sept.23
Symbiogenics

Špela Petrič
In the text the imagery of the interaction of plants and AI are further solidified. Expanding beyond what the view may perceive.
The perspective is one of non-capitalism. Expanding on the concept of play having no specific aim or purpose. Given the arstist quote in the beginning it could also relate to queer bodies or marginalized bodies in general.
The tone is very philophical, bloomy alomst. Aiming rather to relate to feeling than to facts. Which concludes also maybe that the intent of this artwork to not focus on scientific specifics but to share an emotion.

Personally I really like this way of relating myself to technology. With resources being sparse and tech cooparations being untransparent tech-giants this perspective seems surprising. This could of course also be a crtitique.

21. Sept.23
Symbiogenics

Špela Petrič
In the text the imagery of the interaction of plants and AI are further solidified. Expanding beyond what the view may perceive.
The perspective is one of non-capitalism. Expanding on the concept of play having no specific aim or purpose. Given the arstist quote in the beginning it could also relate to queer bodies or marginalized bodies in general.
The tone is very philophical, bloomy alomst. Aiming rather to relate to feeling than to facts. Which concludes also maybe that the intent of this artwork to not focus on scientific specifics but to share an emotion.

Personally I really like this way of relating myself to technology. With resources being sparse and tech cooparations being untransparent tech-giants this perspective seems surprising. This could of course also be a crtitique.

References

i am reading

Donna Harraway
situated Knowledges:
https://www-jstor-org.hr.idm.oclc.org/stable/pdf/3178066.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A9393d634e52c7ca886c9edb11b316031&ab_segments=&origin=&initiator=&acceptTC=1

Carrier Bag of Fiction
https://otherfutures.nl/uploads/documents/le-guin-the-carrier-bag-theory-of-fiction.pdf

Webcomics
-https://ids-pub.bsz-bw.de/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId/7008/file/Batinic_Enhanced_Webcomics_An_Exploration_of_the_Hybrid_Form_of_Comics_on_the_Digital_Medium_2016.pdf

https://www.comic-museum.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Lukas-Wilde-Webcomics-im-deutschsprachigen-Raum-final2.pdf

https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc21/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/ICCC_2021_paper_52.pdf

Picture Theory
https://complit.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/Ricco_COL100H-MitchellPictureTheories.pdf

https://monoskop.org/images/9/90/Mitchell_WJT_Iconology_Image_Text_Ideology.pdf

file:///Users/celestinekronberger/Downloads/Comic_Image_Decomposition_for_Reading_Comics_on_Ce.pdf

file:///Users/celestinekronberger/Downloads/FQS_24_1_Offenberger_Telling-the-History-of-Social-Sciences-Performatively%20-Background-and-Genesis-o...-1.pdf

Resources

https://letrasindomitas.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/history-of-anthropology-george-w-stocking-bones-bodies-behavior_-essays-in-behavioral-anthropology-university-of-wisconsin-press-1988.pdf#page=215

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/

mapping

sci fi comics

conceputal comics

technology

storytelling

giving non human animals a voice

webcomics

Risographed on cheap non-archival, non-acid-free newsprint, Rude with its modest print run of 200 (signed) copies, contributed its minor share to the landfills. Originally disseminated in landfills with its delicate copies covered under tonnes of debris, Luoyang invited readers to search for it by practising targeted digging, and other methods at the margins of grassroots archaeology. Zou Luoyang’s project can be understood as an exercise in accelerating a book’s life cycle, displacing the reader from his comfort zone to a participatory psychogeographic exploration of suburban dumping grounds. Rude, more than a pungent comment on how human labour, (and here Luoyang will have unequivocally referred to the comics industry) always turns to waste, stratified in multiple temporal scales, waiting to be managed towards efficient disintegration, has the merit to acknowledge the energising potential of trash. Rather than defining the benign side of disintegrating matter, for example, biological waste containing macronutrients for land fertilisation, Luoyang claims for an unapologetic cultural production of toxicity.

https://monoskop.org/Conceptual_comics

how can I use the medium of webdesign and online interface to structure a webcomic

a play on interface

Cyberfeminsm

https://monoskop.org/images/c/ce/Sollfrank_Cornelia_Hg_Die_schoenen_Kriegerinnen_Technofeministische_Praxis_im_21_Jahrhundert_2018.pdf

https://etherpad.mur.at/p/tfs

cyberfeminist servers

a being of mulitplicities. specific. situated

questions while reading

How can a system help me to deconstruct my own vision. How can I build tools of seeing that teach us. That build us from the ground up. That shape us so that we will not fall into matter of losing visions that are not our own?

How can a webcomic deconstruct stories? How can I use the semantics of the internet and its culture to tell a story from a different perspective?

steps to be taken

ask the research station. make prototype of a website.

finding a focus for my story

what i wanna do kind of

photon

As described on Beauclair's website, Photon is a narrative experience where the reader enters the optical apparatus through a variety of filters and prisms. Once the end is reached, the reader flips the book only to do the reading in the other direction, and much like a photon she travels back in time. Photon is a beautifully printed visual poem that highlights time and the reading experience as relative quantities.

https://monoskop.org/images/4/4b/Beauclair_Alexis_Photon_2014.pdf

how can I use the medium of webdesign and online interface to structure speed, pace

how is this pace created

play with pace, find examples, do tests

https://monoskop.org/images/4/4b/Beauclair_Alexis_Photon_2014.pdf

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