ALCHORISMA SUMMERCAMP 2020
24-29 August 
Beaulieu, Vercors, France


GENERAL PADS:
PRACTICAL: https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/alchorisma_practical
PLANNING WEEK - proposal: https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/alchorisma_planning_week
todo: https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/alchorisma_todo
COVID-19 contacts: https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/alchorisma_external_contacts
COVID-19 tracing: https://lite.framacalc.org/9id2-alchorisma_summercamp
Constant Collaboration Guidelines: http://media.constantvzw.org/wefts/123/
https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/alchorisma_publication
Plan publication : https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/alchorisma_publication_plan

THREADS: 
link to the documentation of Hasselt : http://media.constantvzw.org/wefts/109/
https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/alchorisma_dreampad
https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/alchorisma_desinformation
https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/alchorisma_data_trees
https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/alchorisma_369
https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/alchorisma_collectivemandala
https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/alchorisma_so-called-plants
https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/alchorisma_training-trees
https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/alchorisma_writingsession
https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/alchorisma_attunement_generator



DAILY NOTES of the WEEK:
https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/alchorisma_tuesday_25
https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/alchorisma_wednesday_26



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PREPARATORY MEETINGS

Meeting online 5-8-20
Gosia, An
- discussing the dreams
-> An is born in Turnhout!
-> Gosia has an envelop with seeds from the Biennale of Venice, not sure from which project
For next week: proposal to select a thread, make it precise, like f.ex. 'What to do during the residency'
We have 2 more sessions until we go!
- discussing material Hasselt:
some materials are ready - need a bit of polishing, f.ex. Listening to trees (needs adding a text), Spell generator, Database Anxiety, Secret Performing algorithms, I lost my training of thought, Morning practises by FoAM (depending on the publishing support)
-> if we have everything ready for print, it is easy to put it online as well ° website can be like a hub of materials for later, can be conintued later - needs connection between look of print & lay-out - Gosia will think about it as a designer: only free software? publishing with open content license?
-> discussing workflow: maybe work from wiki with automatized lay-out/extraction of pdf?
See: https://www.books.constantvzw.org/home/iterations
https://www.books.constantvzw.org/home/dataworkers Nice results, but how to do that - is there more info?
- discussing 3-6-9
reading on the low hierarchies of plants and stones in the world description:
https://www.bookspot.be/brilliant-green-9781610917315
https://www.dukeupress.edu/animacies
link between chakras & trees
esoteric meaning and properties of sounds, how people use it for spiritual purposes & relation to numbers/vowels - reading books by joscelyn godwin

Meeting online 29-7
- discussion PLANNING WEEK - proposal: https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/alchorisma_planning_week
- proposal to meet local people for picnic (?), interviews on local trees/cultivation/living there/local plants (Vesna)
- discussing dream Gosia: healing, giving/receiving attention, can go with any thread - always healing to be with like minded people enjoying ourselves
all dreams any time linked to the residency can be written down on the pad
- Ils: can you prepare an official letter from Z33 to prove the Summercamp is not a holiday? Question from Vesna, maybe necessary for others?
- think of a gift/ceremony if the week cannot happen (send postcard to everybody :-)); if this would be the case we prefer to postpone, not to do a virtual residency
- reorganising the threads, creating pads
- for next week: dream session on 4-8 + pick elements from documentation Hasselt 

Meeting online 7-7

desired output Z33: booklet, some kind of documentation
presentation of place: family house of AL father's family, cultivation of nut trees (before also goats & tobacco), not far from Vercors, for longtemps they were burning forest to make coal, used to make weapons, 70 years ago they made the forest come back
semi-forest closeby, growing chestnut as wood to burn
strongly cultivated landscape with lot of trees, but very much domesticated
family of farmers, most are still cultivating near the house, father is still cultivating garden for the family
AL goes 2 or 3 times a year, but feels very connected to the place, no fantasy/poetry but the roots are coming from there
House is quite big, places to work inside/in front of the house, protected from the rain; places to put tents in the garden
practical place

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PREPARATORY THREADS YOU WANT TO WORK ON 

- sharing & synchronising dreams in a group (I've heard about that practice at one TechnoShamanist workshop..)
See for continuation: https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/alchorisma_dreampad

- discovering trees in the neighbourhood, interested to learn with Anne-Laure, the particular history of the region in relation to trees and forests, discovering stories, legends, myths?? (Ils)
data base anxiety or anything else (Anne-Laure, Isabella): issue of domestication, forest on top of Vercors looks very old, but it is not
interesting in the tension of what we project as wild, free, green and reality behind it
Pad with more info: https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/alchorisma_data_trees

- spellcasting, possibly also biopolitics + angelic and demonic agents///disinformation (Isabella)
pad: https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/alchorisma_desinformation

- Everyday someone talks to Annie online, discusses ideas & projects & processes 

- Ils writes a letter everyday, having a versionning of the day, rephrasing of the day (recording those tranmission ? ) The format of the rephrasing can depend of the person who is making the rephrasing. 

- think of meta-project for all the projects (together with Ils & An) + Gosia

- 369 & general (An, Gosia)
Parc national du Vercors : find someone to explain us the forest history of ' les Coulmes'? https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/For%C3%AAt_domaniale_des_Coulmes
communicating with trees/stones, started to develop it as hyper text, like Twine, trying to make it into an interactive story through a website - maybe join with Ans script on generating sounds based on questions
that's the site I'm using for the story: http://twinery.org
Please more (a link) on An'sscript for generating sounds based on questions - please also something about how to make it a hypertext? images, words and sounds linked?
https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/alchorisma_369

- Queer analytics & whatever would be usefull, poetic impression of code? - finding new forms for Performing Secret Alchorithms  and yes to a multi-species opera (Annie)

- training trees or what else needs work (Femke/Adva). Also started working on 'so-called plants', somehow following from thinking about 'digitally generated plants' in the Alchorisma session and now writing on vegetal computation with Jara Rocha. The attempt is to get at the problematic conflation between symmetry, computation/math and beauty. And Fibonacci!
running into trouble with Fibonnaci, as pattern of plant growth, magical numbering series - so called proof that math is nature and nature is math, makes it difficult to think about diversities
when Mauro showed the plant generator, moment hit, would be good to have conversations about it
Recording An with math professor - to be sent
Link Vesna: http://richdecibels.com/fractal-tree/: code that explores fractals, curious to know how it is written Jan de Weille is interested in fractals and could tell something about it https://bram.org/fractals/index.php also he made https://bram.org/viral/viral-gb.html something on viral dissemination based on simple rules.

- algorithmic capitalism as magical process / whatever else we could develop together (Artyom, Gosia)
connections between how white capitalism works and magical patterns that can be retraced, it can be turned into a wider concept
will add references to this pad, 2 texts mainly
maybe by end of July he will have a publication on the topic
VESNA: I like this topic a lot, I'd like to do some research into this & add to Artyom's project... 
Elo is curious about where this is going :) 
 
- Making videos that are repetitive, through contemplation can help induce trance states
ex nocturnal image of forest transformed in infrared; the bluescreen, grainy grey image of tv distorted
-> Explore ASMR -- I just learned about that, so I'm curious! Asynchronous Sensitivity Meridian Response / Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response
  - https://blog.feedspot.com/asmr_youtube_channels/
  - https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gqww3j/asmr-the-good-feeling-no-one-can-explain 
  - https://asmruniversity.com/asmr-resources/ 
  => for Isabela's project about :trance videos" 

- revisit training trees, was detached from topic since worksession, maybe also be a butterfly or witch - trying to collect input from different processes going on and merge them into a spell that might become a performance (Adva)

- closing ceremony (?): make an "earthing spiral" together - for walking barefot on various materials, in a shape of (Fibonachi?!) spiral! (Vesna) Proposal by Ils: something combining mandala and algorithmic patterns

- practicing "witch-craft" in the form of herbs & healing plants... Elo will look at it as a curious beginner 

- NVC-mediation: being a mediator between two people or two groups; as a practical conflict-resolution or as a role-play  :)

- joined hackaton on food sustainability, we could reuse their software and add our own twist to it
developed in Finland, designing the permaculture garden showing in visual way the companion plants
ex translation of all names, where they come from, explore connections between trees & humans

Other food-related links:
* Understanding the Agricultural Pipeline
🔗https://syllabus.pirate.care/session/agriculturalpipeline/
Working on the farm during COVID-19 crisis can be both the solidarity with farmers and a way to battle unemployment

- another project: HACKING the monoculture! for the long-term benefits... and for the healing of the short-term problem of the "illness" that attacked the monoculture trees! using parmaculture "tools" : companion plants, animals that live in partnership with trees... 
* https://wiki.techinc.nl/Hackers_tribes#Trees 
* https://small-farm-permaculture-and-sustainable-living.com/planting_companion_vegetables_and_herbs/

- speculating on "modest technologies": potato phone, water computing. Trying to come up with a list of fantasized technologies (some more or less exist) with reduced impacts (ecological, psychological, political) which would also be much more modest in their capabilities (thinking about the expectations we have towards technologies) 

TODO: 
*** VESNA to add the links!!! to food-projects... 
*** VESNA to get the special paper that confirms I can return to Holland!! 
*** DREAM about the PLACE WHERE WE ARE GOING TO and ask teh dream-pad-fairy "what is needed there, for the greater good!" 
(check the google-maps of the location...) => on the next Tuesday night!!! 

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Recording Anne-Laure about the house: 

Vocabulary 
Pebbles (galet)
Moraine
Walnut tree
Chestnut tree (châtaigner)

Rammed earth (pisé)

Graft (greffer un arbre)

Ground floor

Wood stove
Running water / water tank

Dairy cow / The cow person
Goat cheese
Groomer (damer, tasser le sol)

Cliff (falaise)
Hill side (coteau)
Glacier
Clay court, bare ground (terre battue)