*public page here: https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/teaching-as-publishing

*On-line teaching as publishing
A day of discussion and hands-on thinking on the politics of infrastructure and tools with Constant (Martino Morandi and Femke Snelting)

In this one day workshop, we would like to share resources and ideas that were developed and tested in the recent turn to on-line teaching, to try and provide detours from the default path of GAFAM-fueled 'solutions' put in place by most educational institutions.
 
In the on-line course Radio Implicancies we met the urgent need for such attempts with a trans*feminist take on the classic mantra of Free Software production: 'Release early, Release often'. Re-interpreted out of the context of agile software development, this means to engage with modes of ongoing publishing that foreground the sharing of resources, to experiment with collective forms of response-ability and to weave together technological and editorial processes.

Radio Implicancies was a 9-week 'special issue' commissioned by XPUB (experimental publishing) in Rotterdam. The course was organised this spring as a weekly broadcast of recorded and live matter in which participants where asked to engage with the way technologies are worlding the world. Using a mix of independent and self-built infrastructures, the on-line course turned into a platform for collective audio publications. During the workshop we will discuss and try out some of the methods and tools that were used.

The workshop will be relevant for those who are interested in on-line teaching, software studies, experimental publishing, collaborative editing, open source culture and beyond.

Martino Morandi is an independent researcher working in the liminal spaces between art and academia. His current practice consists in investigating the many ways of functioning of internetworked communication technology and sharing the methodologies and experiments developed.

Femke Snelting develops projects at the intersection of design, feminisms, and free software. In various constellations she explores how digital tools and practices might co-construct each other. She teaches at XPUB (experimental publishing master, Rotterdam) and a.pass (advanced performance and scenography studies, Brussels).

They are both working with and for Constant, association for art and media based in Brussels. Since 1997, Constant generates performative publishing, curatorial processes, poetic software, experimental research and educational prototypes in local and international contexts.


*Draft program

10:00 Introductions

11:00 Collective tool research
12:00 Check-in
12:30 Lunchbreak
13:30 Promiscuous computing (hands-on)
15:30 Discussion
16:00 end

*Release often, release early and listen to your customers?
"Linus seems to me to be a genius of engineering and implementation, with a sixth sense for avoiding bugs and development dead-ends and a true knack for finding the minimum-effort path from point A to point B."
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ar01s04.html

Constant + FLOSS as a trans*feminist manifesto. Technologies for complex collectivities: Response-ability, Collective authorship, Caretaking

From 'a tight feedback loop between developers and testers or users' (agile computing) to loosening up and letting go of production based modes. Getting things done first vs. generous care-based anti deadline design. 
Experimental publishing + release: being prepared to let go (control, resources) and to receive back (critique, remakes, ...). 
Time and timing (how is this transformation done: Rotation, discussion ...)


*Radio Implicancies

Radio Implicancies was a weekly broadcast of recorded and live matter by Piet Zwart Institute's Experimental Publishing programme. To start in the middle and to engage with the way technologies are worlding the world. Take a deep breath and jump in on other ways of calculating, validating, ordering and framing collections of digital material. Let’s not wait for tomorrow to pay attention to the colonial conditionings of contemporary techno-cultures!

Many radio initiatives (why). Wanting to listen together.


*Tools
Hybrid set of (Open Source) tools used. Infrastructures @ PZI.
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+ implicants' using Signal amongst them


*References/resources
Seda Gurses (2020): Rectangles R-Us https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXFslDTSy-k (part 1-4)
FemTechNet (2020): Feminist Pedagogy in a Time of Coronavirus Pandemic https://femtechnet.org/feminist-pedagogy-in-a-time-of-coronavirus-pandemic/
Taskeen Adam (2019), Digital neocolonialism and massive open online courses (MOOCs): colonial pasts and neoliberal futures

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INVITATION WINNIE SOON


a workshop regarding the practice of networked/hybrid publishing in teaching, especially in this pandemic time when things need to move online. (I take the idea of publishing in a very broad sense from online posting to making zines, technical manuals, writing on pads and other forms of publication or using the networks) What are the open source tools/infrastructure that you have used to maintain the connection within a ‘classroom’ setting with everybody.
 
I envision the workshop is both sharing your experience in terms of teaching and working practice, as well as how you execute those practice with some hands-on experience that might help us to rethink our teaching/practice otherwise. We have invited OSP before and they gave a workshop on using Git and web technologies (with a specific focus on Git): https://events.au.dk/makinghybridpublications.  This time the primary audience will be researchers from Aarhus University and London South Bank as Geoff and I have a long term project on Networked Publishing (together with PZ and University of Amsterdam).