http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/observatory.participants
http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/observatory.reader

I. WHAT IS SOFTWARE
The first two days of The Techno-Galactic Software Observatory will be  developed in collaboration with the NAM-IP in Namur and will take place  in the surrounding of their collection of historical ’numerical  artefacts’. Viewing software in this long-term context offers the  occasion to reflect on the conditions of its appearance, and allows us  to take on current-day questions from a genealogical perspective. What  is software? How did it appear as a concept, in what industrial and  governmental circumstances? What happens to the material conditions of  its production (minerals, factory labor, hardware) when it evaporates into a cloud?

*Wednesday 7 June: NAM-IP
*08:45 Find us in Midi/South station, main hall
*09:03 Train to Namur from Midi/South -- Introduction WHAT IS SOFTWARE + who is who + reader
*10:45 Arrival Nam-IP
*11:00 Start 1st guided tour + demo for francophones w/ Clara
*11:30 Start 2nd guided tour + demo w/ Amal for anglophones
*12:30 Lunch
*13:30 Intro guide/etherbox
*14:00 What is a stored program (and meta)? - Anita / Martino
*16:00 ... + [Techno-galactic guide to software observing]
*18:00 Leave the museum, walk to the station
*18:45 > 19:57: Namur - Brussels
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*Thursday 8 June: Department of electrical engineering, KULeuven room B91.100 and B91.200
*09:00 Find us in Midi/South station, main hall
*09:14 Train to Heverlee from Midi/South Brussels
*10:00 ... + [Techno-galactic guide to software observing]
*13:00 Lunch
*14:00 Contribution t.b.c.*16:00 ... + [Techno-galactic guide to software observing]
*17:00 Leave KULeuven
*17:32 Train to Brussels from Heverlee
*18:30 Opening Constant_V Quantify Wholeheartedly (Natacha Roussel + Samedies) http://constantvzw.org/site/QUANTIFY-WHOLEHEARTEDLY.html

II. WHEN AND WHERE IS SOFTWARE
The second two days will focus on the space-time dimension of IT  development. The way computer programs and operating systems are  manufactured changed tremendously through time, so its production times  and places changed too. From military labs via the mega-corporation  cubicles to the open-space freelancer utopia, what ruptures and  continuities can be traced? From time-sharing to user-space partitions  and containerization, what separations were and are at work? Where and  when is software made today?

*Friday 9 June: WTC25
*10:00 Introduction WHEN AND WHERE IS SOFTWARE + reader + guide/etherbox
*11:00 Contribution Silvio Lorusso: Entreprecariat
*13:00 Push and Pop lunch / see https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/stack_computers/sec1_2.html + https://cdn.ckitchen.com/pmidimages/piper-products-pt-1520mo2-mobile-tray-dispenser.png + http://english.hupfer.de/images/large/0162777.jpg
*14:00 ... + [Techno-galactic guide to software observing]
*18:00 End
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*Saturday 10: WTC25
*10:00 Start
*13:00 Lunch
*14:00 ... + [Techno-galactic guide to software observing]
*18:00 End

III. OBSERVATION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
The last two days at the Techno-galactic software observatory will be  dedicated to observation and its consequences. The development of  software encompasses a series of practices whose evocative names are  increasingly familiar: feedback, report, probe, audit, inspect, scan,  diagnose, explore ... What are the systems of knowledge and power within  which these activities take place, and what other types of observation  are possible? As a practical set for our investigations, we will  together set up a walk-in clinic in the basement of the World Trade Center, where users and developers can arrive on Monday with  software-questions of all kinds

*Sunday 11: WTC25
*10:00 Introduction OBSERVATION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES + reader + guide/etherbox
*11:00 Observing exercise
*13:00 Lunch
*14:00 Preparations walk-in clinic
*18:00 End
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*Monday 12: WTC25
*10:00 Preparations walk-in clinic
*13:00 Lunch
*14:00 Walk-in Clinic Opens
*17:00 Closing the clinic, drinks
*19:00 End

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