My Le:
Hi there,
I would like to register to the Relearn 2015 edition.
Practising HTML, CSS (+ initiation to Java, Javascript, Python, Arduino, and I hope Inskape this summer) > can bring that + artistic and graphic design background
Interested in open source field, sharing knowlegde and skills (I have given and will give free HTML/CSS workshops > Ubuntu Party 2015 and Cofestival 2015), and always looking for collaborative coding workshops (hacking a sewing machine, paper/electronic/arduino).
I have followed the work of OSP and Constant.
I may be hosted by friends in Brussels, in other way I would need hosting.
Looking forward to hearing from you,
My Lê
Natacha Roussel:
Hello,
I am very glad that relearn happens again this summer. I can join with
the stuff we have been doing at pysamedies for the last few monthes
and bring a whole set of questions that I am trying to approach
through interrogating the way we create new communities through
sharing personal and quantified self data platforms.
www.lesoiseaux.io
http://www.walker.domainepublic.net/hotglue/?quantifiedgaming
Phil Langley:
Hi,
My name is Phil Langley, I am and Architect and PhD researcher based in London & Sheffield. I am interested in both the problematic ways in which 3D software [particularly parametric modelling] is used to create virtual simulations of our world/ bodies and what the possibilities for other types of software might be.
At last year's relearn, I was part of the 'different kind of design' track and this year I am very excited to be involved with 'New visuals for quantified self data '.
(Also, I will need hosting!)
Paulan:
Hi there,
With this mail I would like to apply for the Summer School.
I would love to participate in the Summer School because of its interdisciplinary (not meant as popularity word here) take on technology which acknowledges (or at least it seems to do so) the social co-shaping influences of technologies. Meeting people from different backgrounds and disciplines who think creatively about technology would allow me to learn from them, discuss and construct new ideas which I would simply not encounter in my regular work setting – and maybe some ideas for new projects will see the light (I would love to work on some projects outside of my regular ‘job’).
What can I bring? I got a background in the art academy (theatre design), philosophy (meta-ethics used to be my main focus, but not anymore) and public law (human rights) – and I used to be a semi-addicted gamer. I currently work as a PhD-researcher at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society on the “Right to Be Forgotten” (this right supposedly addresses “the” problems with regard to the “memory” of the Web), which I approach from an applied philosophy of technology perspective – with a bit of law occasionally. In short, I can bring an eclectic critical view which comes with a lot of “buts...”, but is always aimed on being constructive in the end (although construction often requires some destruction on the way there, which I also enjoy) – and a lot of enthusiasm (once coffee is added).
Looking forward to your response and best wishes,
Paulan
An Mertens
I would love to participate!
My interest goes towards the proposal of Hans/?Femke & Dennis.
Their ideas are related to the worksession Cqrrelations I organised with Martino in January, and to the activities of Algolit - a work group around code & literature that is actually in transformation and hopefully will emerge fully in Brussels from September onwards. The last activity was a critical reading session on Kenneth Goldsmith's Uncreative Writing in which automatic writing machines & the language they create were also a topic of discussion.
As I imagine most of you know who I am, I propose to those who don't know me to mail me questions. I'll answer them faithfully!
An
Femke Snelting
Dear Relearn,
Yes, I do want to join Relearn this year!
There are only so many occasions to learn together, across experience and perspective, with FLOSS as a context and attention for its own conditions. I would not want to miss it for the world.
To be able to work with fellow-?Relearners on the way language forms through text-?mining is a special opportunity too. I am hopefully going to be able to take care of the track, and join other initiatives as well.
x F
Freyja Vandenbom
Hello Everyone,
I checked the program and it looks great ! (love the dodo!?)
As always I have option anxiety since so many proposals get me excited !!!
I hope to get selected because I really love the opportunity you have created to spend almost a whole week on learning,discussing,trying,failing,loving the process and results !
As I am working on WEAREAUTONOMOUS which is a research project that challenges human and artificial intelligence and questions equal rights (between man-woman-animal-organism-machine... and why not extra-terrestrial :-)
Its a big project including setting up and performing political acts, so the two strands on text generation and common sense are super interesting and useful. ( my upcoming performance at NEWMAN festival includes appropriation of political speeches and the ownership of copyright when made by machine/algorithms also for this I am gathering a lot of info about AI, how they learn and see etc really great stuff !)
Obviously the QS strands would be great too to force myself to improve my QS-Sextoys and turn it into an application :-)
*sigh* where is my clone when you need her
anyway i really hope I can be part again !
Oh and I found this http://tandemexchange.eu/about-tandem/tandem-europe/
Looks like a great opportunity for Constant maybe ? let me know if I can help in any way with this cuz it looks interesting.
x
Freyja
Sinziana Paltineanu:
Hello,
I'm writing to signal my interest in participating in Relearn 2015! Having recently browsed through the proposals for August, I find myself primarily intrigued by the experimental nature of the project as a whole and the intersecting tracks that emerged so far. The joyful openness of Relearn prompts me to formulate my thoughts/suggested contributions in the following stream-of-brief-questions way:
re: Data-/Network-/Film-City: If stepping into Brussels, with whatever technology at hand or in the pockets, is bound to collect (thematic) stacks of present layers of Brussels, how can then one add to them more temporal dimensions? What if one navigated Brussels by employing a wide range of historical city maps (say, from military maps to interwar maps, etc.)? Would this be misguidance -- and to what effect? What kind of enstrangement, straying, "erring" could happen? Would parts of the city become an obstacle, at first? How to think of this sort of induced, but playful displacement?
What sites of still-standing-anachronisms can one identify on a dérive? (from the news, I sadly see that telephone booths are being removed from Belgium...)
If along these paths in the city of Brussels, relearners picked up on fragmented conversations, written words, recorded sentences, couldn't this all (all in between languages) be considered a poetic sample/an echo of the words that the 177.478 registered inhabitants of Brussels (as of 31 December 2014) + 12345 tourists, migrants, and nomads uttered one rainy afternoon, between 3 and 4 pm? And how could this meaningfully feed into the text-generation track?
How do blissful errors/bugs/mistakes/failures actually shape Relearn2015 and retrospectively how did they undo or redo previously imagined scenarios for Relearn2013 & 2014?
Hope levels: finding/discovering affinities + experiments of all kinds.
Thanks for reading,
+ temporary greetings from Prague,
Sinziana
practical ps: accommodation would be needed. :)
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Ganesh:
Hello,
Im interested in participating in the Relearn 2015 meetup. Im part of
the collective "Laboratorio_de_interconectividades" which addresses the
intersections between transfeminisms, hacktivisms, art (especially
netart/performance/embodied art/etc), politics (decentralized forms),
activisms, public science, amongst other issues.
Im also part of HackLab Barracas (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and involved
in transhackfeminist networks.
In the past years I have been living in Chile, Argentina, Brasil and
Mexico which have stimulated me in grasping a more decolonial
perspective which I think is something that I can offer in the Relearn
meetup.
This prism encourages me to question myself how to think and articulate
the proposals of this year in a Latinamerican context. How can we
cultivate creativity, how can we open ourselves in geopolitical contexts
where there is so much violence at such a structural level without
falling into victimism?
Aswell, public space, data-mining, surveillance, amongst other issues,
unfold in particular ways in the south.
Im visiting my family in Spain during the summer and coming back to
Mexico from Brussels ends of August. I thought that it would be great
opportunity to participate in Relearn. I would need hosting as I dont
know anyone in Brussels and am on a tight budget. In exchange, I have
many things to offer, such as cooking enthusiasm, offerings from the
mediterranean cost, spanish classes, a mexican treat, conversations and
compañía.
Hope to be part of the group,
Saludos
Ganesh
https://hackcoop.com.ar/
http://tallerhackfeminista
http://laboratoriodeinterconectividades.tk
http://nad-ege.net
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Louise
Hi relearn,
My name is Louise Drulhe, I am graduating from Ensad Paris in June. I am currently working on my master diploma: I am mapping out Internet and organizing those researches through the atlas of Internet.
I participated to relearn last year and really enjoyed the experience, I'd like to be part of relearn again this summer to go deeper in the F/LOSS experiment and knowledge.
I wrote a master thesis on Internet, open source and libre issues. In practice, I gave myself the challenge to use alternative layout tools. I built my thesis with css-print and this year for my diploma I am designing an Atlas with css-print as well.
The F/LOSS represents for me the possibility to maintain Internet as a free space and a democratic area. And, on another hand I consider now that free software as design tools could be a good way to reinvent our practice.
Anyway, last year I really enjoyed the atmosphere, the quality of the work, the organisation and the connection between everyone that I would really enjoyed starting again the experience this summer!
Look forward to hearing news from you,
Louise
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Raphaël
My name is Raphaël Bastide, I am a FLOSS lover and graphic design hacker. I am part of Libre Objet, Velvetyne Type Foundry and Outils Libre Alternatifs. I enjoy to work in collaborations with friends and strangers. I love to learn, work and experiment. It will be my first Relearn experience and I heard a lot of good thing about this event. (My partner Louise was a Relearn 2014 participant). My art art practice is really influenced by Free / Libre culture and I am sure that I enjoy Realean. By participating to Relearn, I would like to discover new people and new approach to creation. I also want to exchange about the topics: FLOSS, the myth of collaboration, spontaneous creation, and FLOSS in contemporary art. I have a lot of different skills that can help other participants: Graphic design (theory and applied Inkscape, Scribus, web technologies, typography), Linux (Install, solving basic issues), music and sound (theory, practice), and net.art (history, practice...).
I really hope I have a chance to be part of the Relearn 2015 experience!
See you in august,
Raphael
http://raphaelbastide.com/