# ANOOO - Experiences of set-ups and usages
## ANOOO (formerly known as Etherbox) at Transmarcations, December 2017
Transmarcations was a worksession by Constant, organised in Beurrschouwburg in Brussels from 3 till 9 December 2017. 30 artists experimented with ways to chart heres, wheres and others. This worksession situated itself at the crossing of technologies with geographies, life’s courses, bodies, terrains and deplacements.
http://constantvzw.org/site/-Transmarcations-.html
The set-up in the workspace
http://gallery.constantvzw.org/var/resizes/Transmarcations/PWFU5040.JPG?m=1512720656
Through the use of TPLinks and plugs in the serverroom in the basement of Beursschouwburg, ANOOO's network was extended from the 4th floor to the café and the Grand Hall on the gorund floor.
http://anooo.local/www/include/images/TM_serverroom_annotated.jpg
## ANOOO (formerly known as Etherbox) at the Technogalactic Software Observatory, June 2017
ANOOO (formerly known as Etherbox) has become a fantastic full-on live publishing machine, generating pdfs based on markdown and a make-file and Michael Murtaugh's install file
http://observatory.constantvzw.org/etherdump/etherboxmanual.html
http://observatory.constantvzw.org/etherdump/etherbox.hhtml
http://gallery.constantvzw.org/var/albums/Techno-Galactic-Software-Observatory/PWFU3449.JPG
## ANOOO (formerly known as Etherbox) at Transmediale, February 2017
Situated Publishing: Writing with and for machines: Michael Murtaugh, Sarah Garcin and An Mertens presented how publishing activities – collective writing, editing and lay-out – lead to a pdf or a printed brochure as a reminder that digital creation can also exist without the cloud.
http://www.constantvzw.org/site/Situated-Publishing-writing-with-and-for-Machines.html
http://gallery.constantvzw.org/var/resizes/Transmediale-2017/P1019624.JPG?m=1487506206
## Diversions worksession, December 2016
DiVersions, a worksession by Constant, took place from 4 to 11 December 2016 and was inspired by the way versions are inscribed in daily software-practice. With 35 participants we explored how parallel to their conventional narrative of collaboration and consensus, we could produce divergent histories through supporting difference. This one week session was organised by Constant and hosted by the Royal Museum of Art and History in Brussels.
It was the first time ANOOO was dressed in Lego style and was provided with a Terms of use that was agreed upon by the participants: http://etherdump.constantvzw.org/p/etherbox_termsofuse_draft.diff.html
http://gallery3.constantvzw.org/var/albums/DiVersions-Worksession/IMG_8721.JPG?m=1481104752
## Machine Research, November 2016
From 24-26 October, Constant hosted the research/Phd workshop Machine Research in wtc25 in Brussels, in collaboration with the Participatory IT Research Centre, Aarhus University and Transmediale art & digital culture, Berlin. ANOOO (formerly known as Etherbox) was used as a writing/reading space in this workshop with artists and Phd students. Interestingly, no pictures have been taken of the set-up, as it was installed on a tiny Raspberry Pi and hidden in the network box under the office floor.
A collective 'Interview with Etherbox' took place and became part of the Machine Research publication.
Interview: http://etherdump.constantvzw.org/p/machineresearch.interviewwithetherbox.diff.html
Publication: http://www.aprja.net/machine-research/
## What’s the Matter with Cooperation, April 2016
The art centre BUDA, located in the West Flemish city of Kortrijk, organised a three day festival around the question: ‘What’s the matter with cooperation’.
OSP joined the festival to create in cooperation a publication, using the Ethertoff platform. OSP had setup a working station there. They projected the ethertoff install right next to where the lectures slides were projected, to lure attention to the tool and show there was activity there. As usual with Ethertoff, they designed live while the content was still being developed.
"It’s great to have this self-contained unit, and not to be able to access the tools when you leave the space. Both for the notetakers and for us. It helps to combat a problem with the workflow: because it is a very free collaboration model, participants can always think: someone will do it later. Clear time constraints really help then. It also answers a question we always have after the event: who takes care of the website? We made it clear from the beginning that the tool would away at the end of the event with the unplugging of the Raspberry. What we did do, is create a HTML archive, next to the PDF—just like with the Relearn 2013 website."
http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/blog/news/whats-the-matter-with-cooperation
http://osp.kitchen/work/buda-wtmw-cooperation/
http://osp.kitchen/tools/ethertoff/
http://relearn.be/2013/
## Relearn, August 2015
Relearn is a summerschool with as many teachers as it has participants. It is about sharing and trying Free Culture practices, and is entirely done with Free, Libre and Open Source software. This Relearn took place in the offices of Zinneke in Brussels.
http://relearn.be/2015/
A local server was installed as a bar and allowed for a live publication straight from the Etherpads.
http://gallery3.constantvzw.org/var/resizes/Relearn-2015/P1016767.JPG?m=1454588516
## Close-reading Kenneth Goldsmith’s Uncreative Writing, June 2015
As part of the residency of artists Billy Bultheel & Enad Marouf in Brussels, Constant co-organised a close-reading session of Kenneth Goldsmith’s Uncreative Writing on 5, 6, 7th June 2015. The idea was to create a space for presentation, exchange, discussion on new ways of reading and writing. A set-up using a Raspberry Pi and TPLink allowed to extend the limited network facilty.
A first publication, with the status of a raw logbook, was done afterwards with a lot of manual work: http://www.algolit.net/uncreative_writing/LOGBOOK_def_uncreative_writing.screen.pdf
## 2084: Rise of the botnet, July 2014
The first attempt of a social reading/writing space as part of Relearn 2014.
It is a beautiful week in the summer of the year 2084. The sun still shines and the stars do still sparkle. As mr. Orwell predicted a dystopic world in 1984, a group of people in 2014 did predict another dystopia to be realized in 2084: the internet as we knew it, collapsed. But: "There is a life after Google & the Cloud!"
Welcome to the Botnet and welcome to the year 2084. We communicate through IRC, a chatting programm based on Written Speech. How are you doing? Are you already connected to the internet again? There are multiple servers around here that will bring you back in touch with your friends and the rest of the world.
https://gitlab.com/relearn/relearn2014/blob/master/botnet/README.html
http://relearn.be/2014/
http://gallery3.constantvzw.org/index.php/Relearn-2014
## Bibliotecha, November 2013
http://oyoana.com/bibliotecha
Bibliotecha proposes an alternative model of distribution of digital texts that allows specific communities to form and share their own collections.
Bilibliotecha was born during the Free Libraries for Every Soul Hackathon in studio Monnik in Utrecht, part of the Impakt Festival 2013.
http://oyoana.com/?bibliotecha.head.142463496180
## Active Archives, since 2006
Ongoing research on how to activate archives by Michael Murtaugh.
http://activearchives.org
http://activearchives.org/wiki/A_Social_Shell_%26_Mesh_Cookbooks