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Files: http://cloud.constantvzw.org/index.php/s/THUGr6b86Nbv3C0 ] Reading proposals HNI: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K8u572vzcANy9FfLi08dPQki8wAt-zJEMRoAOuaBiEo/edit ] Notes HNI: http://piratepad.nl/4dsewIImLg ] 4/07/2016 http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/disco-
3/07/2016 esting out existing frameworks, to engage through making, or engaging by critiqueing. The analysis of the existing. The need to be both critical and playful. The weight of criticality. A cyclical practice. Optimism is not playfulness. Matthew does not equal the bot. Criticality before or after (or inside) S: "My Brother Works in Twitter" ttps://github.com/plummerfernandez/InstituteOf he bot is already here. (2) lbert Heijn recipes to ingest: Success in today’s global retailing market requires more than retailing knowledge – it requires a flexible technology foundation to optimize operations, innovate, serve customers and support company growth,” said [ ], vice president and general manager, Consumer and Transportation Industries, [ ] Enterprise Services. “Extending our relationship will help [ ] further improve the technology services that support its continued business success." nder the terms of the agreement, [ ] will continue to provide management and support services for [ ]’s global data center environment, which includes mainframes, servers and storage. In addition, [ ] will implement [ ] Business Service Automation to make server and storage capabilities more robust and more highly available. ttp://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-news/press-release.html?id=169437 The electronic data management solution, called SRC-PDM (Product Data Manager) Enterprise Retail Edition is Microsoft-based and built by [ ], a Dutch company specializing in EDI/B2B integration and data synchronization. [ ] managed the project to ensure a smooth implementation. he system, which replaces the previous manual source document, is used by [ ] to extract the appropriate item data from the Agentrics data pool (formerly WWRE; the hub through which data from suppliers is processed). Of particular value is the simplicity of the SRC solution, which is also used by many suppliers to deliver product and item data into the data pool. he automated system streamlines data processes by reducing manual intervention and serves as the primary interface between the data pool and the internal systems of [ ]. The primary objective of this new solution is to reduce errors. [ ] anticipates that the system will eventually reduce labor and result in fewer delays in getting new products to the store shelves." ttps://www.capgemini.com/resources/albert_heijn rts is already here. nother entity to reconnect us. not lock up ighthearted -- more human ut not because it doesn't care roblematic dscussion. dancing is interesting as a model of companionship. eep each other in check mob -- pushing each other ifferent formations; kunga-line. eading in terms of dance (it takes two to tango) [later, NA: sometimes you want to dance alone] etting it started ancefloor metaphor ot performing a dance ole of music. the spice girls istributed dj ot as a fellow dancer here are more people than you and me roup dynamic ffiliations, affinities, .. t could get a fellowship ow does it make itself part of the gang? elievability. (not really) aking sense. he friend in common qual estrangement oderating the motley crew (tricky) ead what we wrote, and make informed comment rivacy filter? socially uncomfortable ackground information ed to individuals heck who speaks ecommendations, no social interaction aking connections (between people, subjects) hecking with random individuals onversation enhancer collective research companion norting, when it would not fit in atterns, templates , prejudice wkwardness, deviation from the norm xpectations, preparation ommon ground in an interview nteraction e don't know each other? we do ... ooking for holes to poke reaking defense ituations: ot as observer (and act upon it) ension cho chamber epetition is-balance verlapping imensional: shifting scale, demanding proof, ... rammar checker good dinner party host. cracks jokes. dims the light bjecting, contrary arguments. everal bots utistic bots o: roles? oes not need to solve the situation, be part of it. bility not to get involved xcelerate andom interactions. third entity, a fifth wheel he odd one out -sociality and truth eeing how it turns out. ot placebo earch engines are already here reationism vs collage peech capture trangeness -- constructs ove and relationship entences that alluded to romance worldle but different. peaking abstractly, understanding through misunderstanding. ranscriptions, translations ollow up questions -- giving a context ttp://gentle-demo.lowerquality.com/transcriptions/5e5262b9/ ttps://lowerquality.com/gentle/ [Rob M. Ochshorn + co] F: "alien agency" F: "parametrizing a problem space" F: "an unintuitive solution" K: Pattern matchings that reinforce prejudice. Is this different for the unexpected results proposed by the alien agency that LF brings up? Z: finding a locus of control. From what standpoint are we imagining our relationship? ot-centric. Computer-people-centric. Human-centric. Z: alien agency or corporate (or both?) mpenetrable proposals, not reproducable. need to collaborate. ecommender systems that get it wrong. onetizing recommendations, a different world. Linking money to money. robing parameterspace. surprising, but not impenetrable. nstitution theory. non-logical vs logical. ngineering vs gardening ontrol, letting go (the garden of machines) ot-community and the garden metaphor. RM: cooking metaphors are useful. ear. speed. complexity. arden vs jungle; the caretaker. multiple metaphors. achine garden. machine jungle. how to accept vulnerability (redundancy) he city. a bestiary. roman circus. e-addressing the brief, the framework. confrontation. First me and RM (I back out), DZ does not let go. K "all these points are totally valid" O: "I understand all these points" ffinity groups. infinity groups. agonism. ifferent perspectives. choose one. 2/07/2016 he bot is already here. efore arriving, I receive an email from KK: "Retreat for the ARTs - Uitnodiging om samen te werken" t's a link to a Google Drive account, I cannot log in. ttps://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B-V6ZhGQ1zZ_Tk4tR0ZoTTVWSDA&usp=sharing&ts=57768630&tid=0B8LpLXLpBS3fSjN5a3hEZTA0Wk0 email the usual "I don't have a Google-account. Is there another way to share materials/collaborate?" K emails back: "Ah. Do you have a suggestion" t the end of the morning session, the group discusses how to share materials with each other. K, apologetic: "I am sorry (but) we're using a Google Drive account" he group breaks up for lunch. I hesitate to stick around because I know what is coming. I do not like myself in this situation, to disrupt convenience and also I get too worked up. I say I find it boring. Discussions usually play out more or less like this: "I so agree with you, it is so important" (turns around to check gmail). Z: "I have been trying to get off Google my accounts but it is too hard" (am I now asked to absolve? I should learn to tone down intensity. I make awkward apologies afterwards) B: "Tell us what else we should use". I hesitate to point at the Constant etherpad installation or set up accounts on http://owncloud.constantvzw.org but I say "This is not my problem, but yours", and I mean it. am perplexed. I am by now used to public institutions (academic, cultural) handing their communication and collaboration infrastructure over to commercial services without reservation, and routinely expect that everyone else is doing the same. I am even used to the way tech-aware institutions can spend a lot of intellectual energy on discussing "the politics of interfaces" and then get rather aggressive when the possibility of Killing The Account, of cutting the umbilical cord gets a bit too real [ http://www.gredits.org/interfacepolitics/en/interface-manifesto-eng/ ]. But we are discussing the design brief for a computational research entity here, that will somehow operate within a cultural organisation. How can we even begin to imagine its criticality, let alone its radicality if we are not able to think outside the all-encompassing techno-capital infrastructure of Alphabet inc.? This is not just any on-line service. Google is currently the main investor, developer and beneficar of machine learning technologies. They are "at the forefront" as they say themselves [ http://research.google.com/pubs/MachineIntelligence.html ]. Responsible for many of the algorithms and techniques that are actually in use in this area and most importantly, producing powerful imaginations around it [Ray Kurzweil propheting singularity, Eric Schmidt advising the Pentagon]. The convenient dependency on these services is not a fact of nature; their sensation of naturalness should deeply trouble us. K now cannot avoid to bring up the issue and tries to convince the group to use etherpad instead. Someone shouts: "What about dropbox?" another: "What about e-mailing it?" The discussion trails off. get out my laptop, this is also odd. LB: "What is this?!" Between all the researchers in the room, I am the only one without a MacBook. hook up with LF, he senses my distress, understands the issue and wants to help. LF tries to "fix" the problem by importing the Drive instance into his owncloud installation, but he can't share it with others. To allow the Drive to show up in his owncloud, he needs to login to the Google API with his Account. Obviously there are no unsuspected backdoors to this universe. feel somehow out of my skin. LF asks me for a pgp key, I send him my public key. He notices that the Constant owncloudserver does not have https, I feel embarrassed. ut eventually we manage to create a sort of federated sharing between our two instances of owncloud, and that feels nice. I cannot share the url with others though, so it means that only LF and me can see the files inside of the folder. F: "I have multiple personas when it comes to these things" but he does not finish his sentence. He sighs and then: "It starts to feel like work". He closes his laptop. he next morning. want to make a screenshot of the Google Drive login screen, the one I was locked out of earlier, but someone must have changed a default setting. I can now see everyones folders and documents. I cannot add a folder myself obviously. t is nice to finally be able to see materials produced by others in the group. I guess this also means the issue will be considered resolved and disappear again into the background.
Two weeks later. 

An e-mail from NA with a drop-box link. We can only access by signing up for an account. LF is the one to respond this time:

I am grateful -- staring at the dropbox login screen just minutes earlier, deciding to ignore the issue this time (and the dropbox). But then NA responds:


(we obviously did)


Can't ignore now and will need to find a way to respond [ Another chapter for "Lets first get things done" http://twentysix.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-196-lets-first-get-things-done-on-division-of-labour-and-techno-political-practices-of-delegation-in-times-of-crisis ? ].