*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)*
https://darc.au.dk/blog/nyhed/artikel/on-line-teaching-as-publishing/

*Program 24/08/20
Meeting here: https://bbb.constantvzw.org/b/win-q4p-7dy

10:00 Infraductions
10:15 There is an elephant in the room (2020 update) https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/distant-elephant
10:30 Some other 'on-line' practices:

• etherbox + usages https://aprja.net//article/view/116015/164200
• infrastructural manouevres in the library https://catalogue.rietveldacademie.nl/about.html 
• Radio Implicancies + tools https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Category:Implicancies + https://issue.xpub.nl/12/

11:00 Collective mapping of teaching platforms, dependencies, economies https://www.yourworldoftext.com/teachingpublishing
informal and formal services; inside, outside and in-between.
11:50 Tool research in parallel. What tools/situations/issues to look at? (check collective mapping)
1. https://hackmd.io/_xj2-IXAQE6iYazAu42wlQ + https://framatalk.org/teaching-as-publishing
nynne, Søren, winnie, malthe
2. https://stuff2233.club/padlife/p/teaching-as-publishing + https://conf.domainepublic.net/teaching-as-publishing
martino, magda, Rosie, Theresa
3. https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/teaching-as-publishing + https://videobelpilot.surf.nl/teaching-as-publishing
geoff, tim, simon, jeannette
4. http://pads.osp.kitchen/p/teaching-as-publishing + https://vc.autistici.org/teaching-as-publishing
marloes, Christian, annet, eric, pierre

Some questions for orientation:

• What techniques are in place to regulate simultaneous presences? How does the tool create priorities between processes?
• What roles for participation are proposed, what collective conditions do they set up and what space is there to intervene, to change 'settings'?
• What particular usage/rules/habits have you developed?
• What is the model for developing, maintaining this tool (economical model, contributions, closed or open source)
• Who is taking care of the availability of the tool in this specific installation (paid licenses, technical maintenance)
• In what context did this tool emerge? If not education, can you trace residues of its other context, and what issues/possibilities there might be with this?
• ....?

12:15 Compare notes
12:30 Lunchbreak (and ssh / terminal check / install etc)
13:45 Hands-on promiscuous computing round 1

Group A https://conf.domainepublic.net/teaching-as-publishing
Femke, Winnie, paula, magda, nynne, simon, annet, eric, malthe, pierre
Group B https://vc.autistici.org/teaching-as-publishing
Martino,Rosie,Theresa, Marloes, Tim, Christian, Søren, geoff

14:20 Hands-on promiscuous computing round 2
15:00 Gather again on bbb, read each other's files
15:15 break
15:20 Discussion, questions
https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/teaching-as-publishing-notes
16:00 end

*References/resources

• Seda Guerses (2020): Rectangles R-Us https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXFslDTSy-k (part 1-4)
• Constant (2019): Dear cultural institution, there is an elephant in the room https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/elephant
• FemTechNet (2020): Feminist Pedagogy in a Time of Coronavirus Pandemic https://femtechnet.org/feminist-pedagogy-in-a-time-of-coronavirus-pandemic/
• Michael Murtaugh (2019): Eventual Consistency https://diversions.constantvzw.org/wiki/index.php?title=Eventual_Consistency
• Taskeen Adam (2019), Digital neocolonialism and massive open online courses (MOOCs): colonial pasts and neoliberal futures
• Davide Fant (2020), Re-inventing formation with distant adolescents, in C.I.R.C.E., Formation... at distance? https://stuff2233.club/~dick/no/davide_fant-reinventing_formation_with_distant_adolescents_chapter_2.pdf 
• Varia (2020), Digital Solidarity Networks https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/digital-solidarity-networks
• Radio Implicancies https://issue.xpub.nl/12/index.html + https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Category:Implicancies
• De-Googlify the Internet, campaign against the centralization of digital lives by web giants https://degooglisons-internet.org/?l=en + https://chatons.org/
• Fuck the algorithm https://novaramedia.com/2020/08/17/fuck-the-algorithm-how-a-level-students-have-shown-future-of-protest/
• Are You Being Served, notebooks (2015) https://www.books.constantvzw.org/home/are_you_being_served
• Femke Snelting (2014), Histories of the feminist servers. In: Lady Justice (New Criticals) http://www.newcriticals.com/exquisite-corpse/page-8
• Interview with an etherbox. APRJA Vol 6 No 1 (2017): Machine Research https://aprja.net//article/view/116015                                                

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*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.