Dear all,

Promiscuous Pipelines will start in two weeks time, on Monday August 31 at 16:00 at FoAM;  We will open up the session with a tour amongst the various PP-related projects that you are involved in, presented in an informal bazzar setting along with food and drinks. For this we ask you to bring some physical artefacts that can help explain your work, this may include manuals, images, websites etc.. 

We will have basic materials available including projectors, sound, network, local digital documentation set-up, basic soldering station and a collection of books, manuals and articles. Attached you can find a preliminary bibliography and current list of participants.

You can find the program below. We will serve vegetarian lunches (every day) and two evening meals (on Monday and Thursday) in the FoAM studio. Donatella will contact you shortly about lodging, travel arrangements and any food issues we should take into account.

On Wednesday afternoon we will take you on a circuitous walk, so please bring comfortable shoes!

All the best and looking forward,

Femke, Wendy, Rasa, Maja, Nik.


Address:
30-34 Quai des Charbonnages / Koolmijnenkaai
 B-1080 Brussels
 Go through the garage door, once in the courtyard, go to your left, find the staircase/elevator, go up 4 floors to FoAM
 
http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2389275239
metro 1, 5: Comte de Flandre / Graaf van Vlaanderen
tram 51: Porte de Flandre / Vlaamsepoort

Contacts:FoAM: +32 2 5135928
Donatella Portoghese +32 485144226
Femke Snelting +32 495125526
Wendy Van Wynsberghe +32 476 890658

Program

Monday 31 August
16:00 Arrivals at FoAM. Set up in space, introduction to PP and it's infrastructure followed by guided tour with cocktails + food

Tuesday 1 September
10:00 ~ 12:00 Promiscuous Pipelines conversations
13:30 ~ 14:30 Talk: Eleanor Saitta
15:00  ~ 18:00 Following projects and questions, find things participants would like to work on together

Wednesday 2 September
10:00 ~ 12:00 Promiscuous Pipelines conversations
13:30 ~ 18:00 Zenne walk

Thursday 3 September
10:00 ~ 12:00 Promiscuous Pipelines conversations
13:30 ~ 14:30 Simon Yuill: Some thoughts on modularity in regard to problems of scale and composition in production as politics
15:00 ~ 18:00 Development & devolution
19:00 Dinner at FoAM

Friday 4 September
10:00 ~ 17:00 Development & devolution
17:00 FoAM Open Lab, Apero, presentations, discussions

Saturday 5 September
10:00 - 18:00 Reflection, documentation, discussion, digression


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wvw
- check electricity
- check printer
- make workstation 
- soldering iron
- sewing stuff (why not)
- stuff to write on/with

specia box
- one arduino

Monday
- material
- network with Michael (local etherpads)

LISTLISTLIST
- Bring plugs from relearn to Fo.AM
- tube in the cellar of Constant
- network cables and switches

- get straws, pipecleaner, cardboard, all kinds of adapters

- drinks for the walk - keep in mind
- breakfast = diy for those staying at fo.Am, stay out of the fridge!
- Rasa would like to know who arives and leaves when
- FoAm printer is a problem!
- does Michael bring a standalone subnet?
(there is already a wireless subnet)



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Promiscuous Pipe(line)s
31 August – 6 September 2015

'Universalism is not rejected but particularized; what is needed is a new kind of articulation between the universal and the particular' [Chantal Mouffe in: The Return of the political (1993)]

In computation, a 'pipe' is a method to enable various software modules to connect to each other, where the output of one program is treated as the input for the next program. 'Pipes' form the basis of The Unix philosophy, a perspective on software production where multiple task-oriented tools can be chained together to make seemingly endless software combinations possible. While interchangeable and flexible, the assumption that each element should be optimised to 'Do One Thing and Do It Well' leads to a rather predictable and ultimately normative set. If each tool is designed to be used in any context by anyone at any time, what about situated knowledge? How can we imagine modularity, knowing that software processes are inherently leaky and contextual?

To think modular systems beyond received ideas about efficiency and optimisation, we propose to first of all pay attention to the plumbing itself, to what exactly happens between 'standard out' and 'standard in'. Beautiful accidents, unpredictable U-turns, lopsided loops, porous borders between inside and outside and the pleasure of spaghetti code ... imperfect software systems stretching out their tentacles to make connections between what does not yet belong together.

At Promiscuous Pipelines we'll experiment with the principle of 'pipes' to inspire uncommon junctions and perhaps achieve the opposite of a productivity-oriented system. It is an occasion to discuss, re-work and develop tool-sets, methods or systems that generate hybrid practices, contaminate standardized working methods, and are ready to incorporate unintended results.

In parallel, we write and edit the Promiscuous Pipelines A-Manual, an impossible e-publication that will be the missing anti-manual for how the systems and proposals present in the worksession can (not) be linked up.

Promiscuous Pipelines continues and deepens various software experiments that artists and developers around FoAM and Constant and have undertaken in recent years and links them to new initiatives.

Images

*Claire Williams: Uncanny Creatures (2012)
*Libre Graphics Research Unit: The Piksels And Lines Orchestra (2013)
*Marthe Van Dessel: Home is a server (2013)
*Dave Griffith: Fluxus
*Christoph Haag: Etherpash (2015)
*Atelier Cartographique: Wænd (2015)

Practical

Participants interested in this worksession might be artists and/or thinkers and/or developers. They are invited to bring projects that care about connections between social, technical and physical worlds. Participation is free; maximum 20 places available.

The worksession starts on Monday 31 August in the afternoon and ends on Sunday 6 September, early afternoon. The session is organised by Constant in collaboration with FoAM and hosted in their Brussels studio.

Constant and FoAM will provide lodging and vegetarian lunch. A basic hardware workshop, plus a library of related materials will be made available. If you need anything particular, let us know and we'll try to facilitate it.

We’ll primarily use Free, Libre and Open Source software because we would like to focus on tools that invite us to speak back to their social and technological construction.

Program

Monday 31 August
16:00 Arrivals
Set up in space, point things out; talk about it with cocktails + dinner

Tuesday 1 September
10:00 ~ 12:00 Promiscuous Pipelines conversations
13:30 ~ 18:00 development: Following the projects that participants would like to work on together within the framework of the session, we'll form groups.

Wednesday 2 September
10:00 ~ 12:00 Promiscuous Pipelines conversations
13:30 ~ 18:00 development: Following the projects that participants would like to work on together within the framework of the session, we'll form groups.

Thursday 3 September
10:00 ~ 12:00 Promiscuous Pipelines conversations
13:30 ~ 18:00 development
19:00 Dinner

Friday 4 September
10:00 Excursion to the sewer museum
17:00 foAM Open Lab / Apero / presentation of documentation

Saturday 5 September
10:00 - 13:00 Breakfast talks: [Simon Yuill / Aymeric Mansoux / Eleanor Saitta]
10:00 - 18:00 Reflection, documenting

Participants

Hosts

Nik Gaffney, Maja Kuzmanovic – FoAM (Brussels) FoAM is a network of transdisciplinary labs for speculative culture. It is inhabited by people with diverse skills and interests – from arts, science, technology, entrepreneurship, cooking, design and gardening. It is a generalists’ community of practice working at the interstices of contrasting disciplines and worldviews. Guided by our motto “grow your own worlds,” we study and prototype possible futures, while remaining firmly rooted in cultural traditions. We speculate about the future by modelling it in artistic experiments that allow alternative perspectives to emerge. By conducting these experiments in the public sphere, we invite conversations and participation of people from diverse walks of life.

Femke Snelting, Wendy Van Wynsberghe – Constant (Brussels) Constant is a non-profit association, an interdisciplinary arts-lab based and active in Brussels since 1997. Constant works in-between media and art and is interested in the culture and ethics of the World Wide Web. The artistic practice of Constant is inspired by the way that technological infrastructures, data-exchange and software determine our daily life. Free software, copyright alternatives and (cyber)feminism are important threads running through the activities of Constant. Constant organizes workshops, print-parties, walks and ‘Verbindingen/Jonctions’-meetings on a regular basis for a public that’s into experiments, discussions and all kinds of exchanges.

Confirmed participants

pippin / Øyvind Kolås – Microraptor/GEGL (Oslo, NO) Microraptor gui, a framework/approach for creating graphical user interfaces, that interleaves registering event callbacks with procedural drawing code backed by CSS. This gives some efficiency and flexibility not found in traditional scene-graph/widget hierarchy approaches; flexibility useful for custom canvases/controls in graphical applications. Live coding of UIs with C, cairo and CSS. Øyvind Kolås has experimented with writing digital media tools and UIs for a couple of decades, some of his results have found use in different libre graphics libraries and applications. He is investigating new approaches to model, combine and interact with digital media.

Marthe Van Dessel – bolwerK (Antwerp) is a non-exclusive and temporal constellation that has been initiating, mediating, facilitating, curating and appropriating local and international projects since 1998. Its 'open' network is the basis for collaborations and for inspiring internal and external group dynamics concerning relevant issues. bolwerK believes that art is the ideal context for thoughts and reflection. Art creates a meta-layer, a framework for questioning social, economical, cultural and political issues and values. Social environments are created, not for streamlining ideas, but in order to formulate shared/common questions and hence feed a sense of communality. The idea is to each time again create a toolkit in collaboration in order to externalize these questions and by doing so to reinforce the group and the individual. 'Open source' is a philosophy not a pragmatic methodology to externalize these questions. www.ooooo.be

Željko Blace – QueerOS (Zagreb, HR) Est un artiste et activiste qui travaille avec les tensions entre les normes sportives et les expressions queer. Il a lancé le QueerSport comme un concept permettant du travail critique, expérimental, durable et émancipatoire. He also initiated QueerOS, an investigative effort in technical and cultural re-conceptualizing of desktop operating systems. It serves both as de-normalized technological environment and daily toolset/accesoire for queers and queer curious.

[Roel Roscam Abbing], Martino Morandi – Unitary Networking (NL/BE) Unitary Networking is a speculative approach to communications  infrastructure, trying to establish a link between urban technology and  communication technology and reflecting on the way they form networks of  power. In practice, the starting point of the project is an electronic  messaging system running on a wireless mesh network, composed of both  fixed and moving nodes. The messages propagate through the network when the devices come in contact with each other. It is a non-hierarchical network, where every node receives, relays and broadcasts messages. The  users of the network can send or receive messages by using the  webbrowser of their smartphone or computer. The messages can be received  and sent at any time, but are only synchronized when other fixed or  moving nodes are encountered.

Michael Murtaugh, An Mertens, Gijs de Heij, Anne Laforet – The Botopera (Brussels/Strassbourg, FR) In the context of the 2015 Public Domain Day, The Botopera featured Fats Waller, Nikola Tesla, Beatrix Potter and Sergei Rachmaninov; four artists who died in 1943, and whose works entered the public domain on 1st January 2014. These authors were reanimated in the form of a "chatbot": a small software program that automatically intervenes in a chat conversation pretending to be human. The bots enter in dialogue with each other and with visitors who join them in their online room. The bots produce images, sound and text. http://botopera.activearchives.org

Christoph Haag – Etherpash (Augsburg, DE) graphiste et programmeur, il développe des interfaces entre les logiciels, les données, les informations et les utilisateurs. Depuis 2001, il travaille ensemble avec Benjamin Stephan comme LAFKON, un laboratoire de recherche et d'expérimentation appliquées au graphisme. Leur conviction est que la conception graphique ne peut pas être réduite à un style de surface, mais doit conduire à une recherche continue sur l'application de nouvelles technologies qui donnent accès à une forme visuelle. http://www.lafkon.net

Claire Williams (Bruxelles) Née en 1986 a Abu Dhabi et d'origine bretonne, Claire Williams vit a Bruxelles. Diplômée d'un master en Design Textile a l'ENSAV La Cambre, elle travaille actuellement sur des projets de recherche personnelle et collaborations avec d'autres artistes, bidouilleurs, hackers, bricoleurs, et associations locales. En gravitant autour du textile open source, outils numériques, des machines a tricoter hacké, du textile électronique et des histoires sur des techniques textiles analogues. http://xxx-clairewilliams-xxx.hotglue.me

Pierre Marchand – Wænd (Bruxelles). Wænd is a platform for subjective and collaborative spatial publication. With Wænd you can create your map from scratch, publish a territorial representation from your very personal point of view, and collaborate on existing maps. Pierre lives and works in Brussels as an artist and software developer. He is experienced in the graphics free software community as co-developer packages as Scribus and Fontmatrix. As a member of the Open Source Publishing team experiments with new languages and forms. He also designs maps, websites and various custom-based software for artists. Initiator of Lazy Landscape, self initiated research on web development taking shape as an online coding platform. http://www.atelier-cartographique.be/june18.html

Eleanor Saitta – Dymaxion [Lecture] Is a hacker, designer, artist, writer, and barbarian. She makes a living and a vocation of understanding how complex systems operate and redesigning them to work, or at least fail, better.  Her work is transdisciplinary, using everything from electronics, software, and paint to social rules and words as media with which to explore and shape our interactions with the world.  Her focuses include the seamless integration of technology into the lived experience, the humanity of objects and the built environment, and systemic resilience and conviviality. http://dymaxion.org

Simon Yuill [Lecture] is an artist, writer and programmer based in Glasgow. His work includes  the use of interview and research processes, film, publishing, and  custom software systems. He was the inaugural winner of the Vilém Flusser Theory Award  (Berlin, 2008), has been a Research Resident at the Piet Zwart  Institute (Rotterdam, 2005), an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow with  the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Warwick (2013), and is currently an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow with the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College (London).

Invited

WW e-mail + reminder -> Dave Griffiths – Fluxus (Falmouth, UK) graphiste et programmeur qui a travaillé pendant 10 ans dans les industries des jeux informatiques et du cinéma, il a ensuite continué sa recherche en robotique, langage de programmation et performance d'encodage en direct. http://www.pawfal.org/dave

FS e-mail -> Stéphanie Villayphiou + Alexandre Leray – STDIN + Olga (Bruxelles) est une artiste et designer qui interroge la manière dont les logiciels (développés avec transparence) peuvent mettre en question la fixité de la page imprimée ainsi que l’ensemble du système défensif de droits mis en place depuis des siècles.

Maybe

August Black – The Underweb (US) Development of new features and improvements to the WWW come by way of a precarious competition between browser vendors and ad-hoc interactions among the semi-closed boards of standards committees. Because all browser vendors provide their browsers to users at zero financial cost, and the growing majority of browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari) are free software, the kind of competition amongst vendors can now safely be viewed as artificial and antithetical to the inherent ideals of a universal framework for networked communication. The creative and critical research presented in this paper examines the problem space this contention creates and offers partial solutions in the form of a new free software browser prototype, called the Underweb. The Underweb provides developers and users with potentially more user-elegant technologies, including the ability to not only read, but also to write, edit and publish in a global communication system without private third-party involvement.

Aymeric Mansoux (FR/NL) is a senior lecturer whose research deals with the defining, constraining and confining of cultural freedom in the context of network based practices. His past and current collaborations spawn across the creation of festivals and conferences (Le Placard, make art, FREE?!), music and sound works (0xA, Raid Over Moscow, stmsq1), installations (Go Forth & *, Hello Process, Meshy), software (Puredyne GNU/Linux) as well as collectives and communities (GOTO10, La Société Anonyme, 80c), books (FLOSS+Art, Elastic Versailles) and all sorts of workshops related to media, net, generative, software art and culture. http://bleu255.com/

Peter Westenberg, Pascale Barret – The Tech Oracle (Brussels) Where internet companies don’t want to burn their fingers on the suggestive, the inefficient, the absurd and mythical, The Techno Oracle TTO opens up the spectrum of search query technology to the realm of uncertainty, intuition and even magic. The Techno Oracle (TTO) finally acknowledges the metaphysical depths of our worshipping of the internet as the solver of all our lives’ problems.

WW e-mail -> Martin Howse  – Micro Research (UK) micro_research is a mobile research platform exploring psychogeophysics and asking the question of where precisely the plague known as software executes. micro_research is active in London, Berlin, and Peenemünde and is funded by workshops, performances, exhibitions and the sales of detektors and the divinatory noise module series, aka. The Dark Interpreter. http://www.1010.co.uk/org

Robert Ochshorn (New York, USA) - artiste et programmeur, il a travaillé comme assistant de recherche de Krysztof Wodiczko dans le Interrogative Design Group au MIT et à Harvard. Son expérience inclut les nouveaux médias, le journalisme, génie électrique, et l'activisme. En 2012, il a effectué un stage à la Jan van Eyck Academie à Maastricht, NL, où il a développé le logiciel open-source InterLace qui a été utilisé en collaboration avec Eyal Sivan pour créer le documentaire « Montage Interdit ». http://rmozone.co

Matthew Fuller (Londres, UK) Directeur du département Creative Programmes au Centre for Cultural Studies de la Goldsmith University, enseigne Softwares Studies et supervise les chercheurs de doctorat en nouveaux médias, études de logiciels, écologie culturelle, théorie culturelle et d'en d'autres domaines connexes. Il est l'auteur, entre autres, de Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture. http://www.spc.org/fuller

FS e-mail -> Madeleine Aktypi S'intéresse à la double pratique de la lecture & de l'écriture ; aux "nouvelles" aussi bien qu'aux "anciennes" technologies ; à l'art comme pratique émancipatrice aussi bien qu'à la science-fiction comme attitude spéculative ; enfin, au devenir des villes comme question politique.
Elle enseigne l’histoire de l’art à l'ère de la culture numérique à l’Ecole de Recherche Graphique à Bruxelles et à l’Ecole Média Art, e|m|a|fructidor, à Chalon-sur-Saône. Depuis 2010, elle expérimente la poésie en réseau, travaillant  sur diverses plateformes et formats qui ne sont pas destinés à la  poésie. Elle écrit et publie en ligne des ensembles de poèmes qui sont  autant des processus ouverts : http://televisualpoems (2014), aradobopoems (2013), surrounded poetry (2012), Pycnides (2011). En juin 2014, elle a participé au« Journal Bleu » de Frédéric Khodja. Pour l'exposition « Black Coffee » de Camila Oliveira Fairclough, elle a publié un livre-poème, Tables, 2014.

Nicolas Frespech (FR) est un artiste français né en 1971. Il travaille avec le Web depuis 1996, et a enseigné l'Art en ligne à l’Université Paul-Valéry de 2002 à 2005. Il enseigne depuis 2009 les pratiques numériques à l'École nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon. Ses différents projets dessinent une œuvre qui touche autant à l'identité et sa standardisation virtuelle et mercantile, que l'intimité, le phénomène des Webcams et de la télésurveillance, les médias, les jeux, ou bien encore la fiction. Sa création en ligne la plus connue est "Je suis ton ami(e) … tu peux me dire tes secrets", première œuvre de Net Art à faire l'objet d'une acquisition publique (Frac Languedoc-Roussillon) en 1998. http://www.frespech.com

François Zajéga (Bruxelles) Est un artiste numérique vivant et travaillant en Belgique. Il est actuellement chercheur à l'Institut pour les technologies dans les nouveaux médias Numédiart, où il travaille dans le domaine de la vision par ordinateur. Il enseigne à l'École supérieure des Arts "Arts au Carré" et est impliqué dans plusieurs projets artistiques soutenus par la Commission des Arts Numériques de la Communauté française. Il organise aussi des workshops autour de l'API python de Blender en collaboration avec F/LAT.

Jon Nordby – NoFlow + TheGrid.io (Oslo, NO) Software engineer at The Grid, responsible for the image processing capabilities of their AI web publishing tool. Since 2010 he has worked on several libre graphics projects, including MyPaint, OpenRaster and GEGL. In his spare time, Jon currently researches digital fabrication technologies at the Bitraf hackerspace in Oslo.

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W A L K S  A N D  V I S I T S 

- Walk along the Senne in Anderlecht
http://www.coordinationsenne.be/fr/activites/programme2015/programme2015-bis.php#act5
Coördinatie Zenne / Coordination Senne: 
TEL: 02 206 12 03 - E-mail  <http://www.coordinationsenne.be/fr/contact.php> -  www.coordinationsenne.be <http://www.coordinationsenne.be>

En septembre 2015: 
 
Profitez-en pour découvrir les cours d’eau bruxellois, à pied! (retour)

Bruxelles compte de nombreux cours d'eau peu connus qui méritent d'être (re)découverts. En matinée, partez à la découverte de la Senne à Anderlecht  dans un des derniers endroits où elle coule encore à ciel ouvert en  Région bruxelloise. Nous parlerons des liens entre Senne et 'canal de la  Senne', leur histoire, leurs multiples fonctions et les perspectives  d'avenir pour ces deux cours d'eau. 

L’après-midi, laissez-vous surprendre par les noms de rue, anciens bâtiments et monuments, sur les traces de l'ancien port et de la Senne au cœur de Bruxelles  avant d'aboutir au canal. Avec le voûtement de la Senne, c'est le  'canal de la Senne' qui est devenu LE cours d'eau de Bruxelles. Nous ne  manquerons pas d'évoquer les multiples fonctions qu'il joue aujourd'hui.  


Les promenades se font *tout au long de l'année sur réservation* pour  des groupes de 25 personnes par guide. 

Vous pouvez également partir à la découverte de ces promenades par  vous-même à l'aide des guides de promenades 'En quête de nos cours  d'eau' édités par Coordination Senne. Ces guides sont en vente au  prix de 0,50 €/pièce au centre de documentation et d'information sur  l'eau et la vallée de la Senne (quai des Péniches 2bis - 1000  Bruxelles) ou téléchargeables ici  <http://www.coordinationsenne.be/fr/documentation/guidesdepromenade.php>  en format pdf. 

- Visit water purification centre
http://www.aquiris.be/contacts.php
only on Tuesday & Thursday
Very much school trip - but great images..

- via via
hydro department at  the vub --> friend of Donatella


Musée des Egouts
Pavillon de l’Octroi
Porte d’Anderlecht 
1000 Bruxelles
Périodes de fermeture : le musée est actuellement fermé pour une durée indéterminée

Tél. : 02 279 60 39
Fax : 02 279 60 62
 
museedesegouts@brucity.be

Visites guidées pour les groupes : sur réservation
Tarifs 3 € par personne, 2 € pour les moins de 15 ans et les groupes
UNE PROMENADE INSOLITE DANS LES EGOUTS Musée des Egouts Activités pour groupes (enfants / adultes)                          
Une  cinquantaine de mètres dans un des pertuis de la Senne, puis dans un  collecteur invite le visiteur à constater de visu et en vraie grandeur  une petite partie des 350 km d’égouts qui forment le réseau de la Ville.
Les aménagements ont été prévus pour visiter les égouts de manière  autonome et en toute sécurité, à condition bien sûr d’en respecter les  consignes.
Une visite au Musée des Egouts ne nécessite aucun équipement particulier.
Informations et réservations : Ville de Bruxelles Tél. : 02 279  60 10Fax : 02 279 60 62 E mail : museedesegouts@brucity.be Site Web :  www.brucity.be
http://www.brusselsmuseums.be/fr/musee/112-mus%C3%A9e-des-egouts
Le  public ne connaît généralement du réseau des égouts bruxellois que les  avaloirs et les margelles, c’est à dire les seules parties visibles  d’une gigantesque ramification souterraine. Il convient d’ajouter à ce  vaste ouvrage les nombreuses installations connexes indispensables à une  évacuation efficace des eaux usées et à la lutte contre les  inondations. Pour  remplir cette mission inhabituelle d'information, le Service des Egouts  de la Ville de Bruxelles s'est doté d'un outil de vulgarisation  exceptionnel à plus d'un titre: 'Le Musée Des Egouts'. Le Musée est également l’occasion de rendre hommage aux égoutiers pour  leur travail difficile et dangereux mais combien indispensable. 

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Meeting with FoAM 28/05/2015

Presentations in the morning. A space for developing ideas. 

Second day ... projects, questions. Descriptive protocol

Meeting with FoAM 01/12/2015

Foam: In-kind support (space, accomodation, kitchen, etc+  No financial support available)
Constant 12.880 (including support FWB)

Most costly: hotels

Couples can go to Foam! 9 in total
2 x 2 tower
2 top (shared room)
2 bottom (shared room)
2 mezzanine (open, shared)

Timing: 31 August - 6 September 2015

Some kind of Public Archive? A human librarian
Open Lab at the end?

A moment for interested visitors ... make appointments

20 people max

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Promiscuous pipelines description in Constant actieplan:

“Universalism is not rejected but particularized; what is needed is a new kind of articulation between the universal and the particular” Chantal Mouffe in: The Return of the political (1993)

Een pipe is een manier om verschillende software-modules aan elkaar te schakelen. De output van het éne programma wordt zo de input van het volgende programma. Het is de basis van de Unix-filosofie, een idee over software gereedschappen waarbij taak gerichte elementen worden ontwikkeld die uitwisselbaar, flexibel, doelgericht maar ook uiterst voorspelbaar en normerend zijn. Het idee is dat die tools kunnen worden ingezet door iedereen op elk willekeurig moment, alsof gesitueerde kennis en een specifieke context er niet toe doen. In deze werksessie zullen we het principe van de 'pipe' inzetten om misschien wel het tegendeel te bereiken:

*Hoe bouwen we gereedschappen die bastaardpraktijken bevorderen, die disciplines perverteren, werkmethodes besmetten en leiden tot onbedoelde resultaten?
*Hoe kunnen we modulaire systemen bedenken waarvan ook de koppelstukken veranderlijk zijn?

Prachtige ongelukken, en onvoorstelbare kruisingen, U-turns, loops, onmogelijke variabelen, tentakel- en spaghetti-code ... Lekkende software-leidingen die verbinden wat niet verbonden kan of mag worden, die taboes doorbreken en vooral onze ogen openen voor nieuwe creatieve en artistieke mogelijkheden.

Promiscuous Pipelines vervolgt en verdiept diverse software experimenten die kunstenaars en ontwikkelaars rond Constant and Foam de afgelopen jaren zijn aangegaan: Etherpash (een publicatiesysteem dat het archaische LaTeX en Bash-scripting verbindt met de veranderlijkheid van Etherpad), The Piksels and Lines Orchestra (een poging om de ontwerkpraktijk te sonificeren door grafische paketten met elkaar te verbinden), Active Archives (een langlopend experiment dat algorithmische tentakels loslaat op on-line video en beeldarchieven), Fluxus (livecoding systeem in een 3D-ruimte) en The Screenless Office (een amalgaam van met elkaar verbonden methodes om de droom van een papierloze werkomgeving te realiseren). Het programma wordt gemaakt in samenwerking met FoAM en vindt ook plaats in de ruimte van FoAM.

Met onder andere: Anne Goldenberg, Dave Griffiths, Matthew Fuller, Adva Zakai, Franscesca Sargent, Michael Murtaugh, Nik Gaffney, Christoph Haag, Brendan Howell, Dick Reckard, Zeljko Blace, Robert M. Ochshorn, Martin Howse, ...
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Canadian embassy
French speaking participants?

Eleanor Saitta aka @dymaxion - computer security person; surveillance/security 
Meredith L. Patterson - langsec

Leak, circumvent
BITCOIN, bitpay

people engaged with software - algorithmic literacy
designing a group

making sure that each person has two connections to others

ask people beforehand to prepare something or let it happen?

Specific questions for the week ...
Put a lot on the table, than see how to work on it together

Excursion to sewer museum!

Facilitators: Maja + Femke

Related projects, shared references

*QueerOS
*BUT-gate
*Etherpash
*The Piksels and Lines Orchestra
*Fluxus
*The Screenless Office
*ap02 http://www.1010.co.uk/ap02.html 
*PromiscuOS http://www.1010.co.uk/promiscuOS.html
*leaks http://www.1010.co.uk/leaks.el

PLANNING

Before 16th december: invite crucial people, placeholder mail
April: next meeting, details. Sewer museum!
April 20th Deadline FWB
Early may: send out call for participants
Before summer: final list

misc.

"For example, if you defined a global alias called | (which is possible), zsh would begin to act very strangely; every pipe symbol would be replaced with the text of your alias." http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Intro/intro_8.html

MIND  GAP: it seems that the human brain is too slow to grasp the universe,  or everything happens in the world at the same time, for that matter; or  too fast to stick to one particular practical problem: it spills over,  then, and bad thought drives out the good.

Robert Filliou  'Letters to Allan Kaprow', in Kristine Stiles, Peter Selz (eds.), Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art. A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings (University of California Press : Berkeley etc. 1996) 732-736.