VISI.ON-AIR: https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/vision-air
Reader: https://cloud.constantvzw.org/remote.php/dav/files/peter/2.%20Projects/vision-air/reader/vision-air_reader.pdf

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*VIS.ION-AIR notes

MEETINGS

* 22/03/2021
Constant: Martino Morandi, Wendy Van Wynsberghe, Peter Westenberg
notes are here:
https://stuff2233.club/padlife/p/maxlab

*25/09/2020 meeting 03: Protocol, platform, infrastructure
Constant: Martino Morandi, Femke Snelting, Peter Westenberg
Maxlab: 
* 1st meeting

14:00 Kristof + Femke: Welcome
14:30 Introduction Martino Morandi
15:00 Reading
15:30 Collective writing exercise 
17:00 end

Notes 25/09/2020

recap of proceeding process:

this session: 
Relevant for today, (and reading some of it , see how much time we have)
see: https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/vision-air.reader
femke talks through the choosen fragments

Olga Gurionova was part of http://runme.org/

Martino: 
we'll talk about streaming,
'streaming' intersects with network, interdependency, relationalty
netstream brings time change, weight, production modes, changed tv / cinema in net environment. stremaing as entertainment. 
Strzaming in pandemic times streaming video conferences is on the way to be defaulted.
look at the technical object of streaming. it comes with different concepts attachedwe'll look into file streaming not so much into streaming as such (-flow of bytes over network (packets)) 

spectrum of concepts of streaming:
binary oppositions, but atually everything lives in the middle

file <-P----S--------- P@-0-> stream (continuous)
on demand <-S--0 ------P0-> broadcast (simultaneous) 
archive <-0--@-P------Y-----P--@-0-> live
distributed <-S------@-----0---P--> centralised

Ondemand = economical axis =individualised concumption, through this customer behaior can be monetised

mapping some experiences in the group with streaming along the above axes: 
-Radio nts.live (0) through stream and archive 
-Streamio- p2p streaming, or download (S)
-Walking around in the virtual dessert of 'burning man' (@)
-Oxdb / Pirate cinema (P): https://0xdb.org/, there's a hidden stream of all pirated content at: oxdb.org/tv. No interface possible, just put it on and enjoy (or endure)
- festivals that move online, but want to mimmick real life festivals o YouTube live (Y)

to want to be on both sides of the spectrum indicates signification of the economies attached

martino is broadcatsing using 2 protocols through gstreamer:

TCP Transport Control Protocol: (https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP/IP)
all machines go to the same ip adress via http; 192.168.1.104/0 (0 is channel)
more about consistency and data-integrity, but it blocks easily and is less about survival of the data. Like flushing a brick throught the toilet.

UDP udp://@:5000/ (https://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/definition/UDP-User-Datagram-Protocol)
packets find the way over the network, more point to point, interruptions occur, it is more about flow, glitches and promiscuity arrises, but the data does arrive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitization

Simondon, acrticle essence of technicity
https://www.academia.edu/4185570/Gilbert_Simondon_The_Essence_of_Technicity

Metaxy and Aristotelus
https://voegelinview.com/what-is-the-metaxy-diotima-and-voegelin/


*16/09/2020 meeting 02: Network, interdependency, relationality
Constant: Wendy Van Wynsberghe*, Elodie Mugrefya*, Femke Snelting, Alice Neron
Maxlab: Jeroen*, Ine Vanoeveren, Michael Segers, Philip*, Kristof, Andrea (to be confirmed)
* 1st meeting

14:00 Welcome Kristof + Femke
14:30 Wendy Van Wynsberghe, Elodie Mugrefya: Fediverse https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/Maxlab02
15:00 Reading an extract of Wild Seed, Octavia Butler
15:30 Collective writing exercise 
16:30 Discuss workshop results (3 groups, 5-10 minutes each)
17:00 end

*07/09/2020 VISI.ON-AIR meeting 01: Authorship, tools, medium
Constant: Peter Westenberg, Femke Snelting, Alice Neron
Maxlab: Kristof, Janna, Dan Mussett, Ine Vanoeveren, Michael Segers

14:00 Welcome

Constant: Association + Art + Media -> feminisms, intersectionality, collective authorship
Books with an attitude: http://books.constantvzw.org
- no final cut
https://activearchives.org/
- authors of the future + free culture
https://constantvzw.org/wefts/orientationspourcollaboration.en.html
- digital solidarity networks  + elephant in the room
https://constantvzw.org/wefts/distant-elephant.en.html

From 'filosofische' to 'diffractieve doorlichting'
- reflection vs. diffraction

"Diffraction does not produce "the same" displaced, as reflection and refraction do. Diffraction is a  mapping of interference, not of replication, reflection, or reproduction. A diffraction pattern does not map where differences appear, but rather maps where the effects of difference appear." (Haraway, The Promises ofMonsters: A Regenerative Politics for  Inappropriate/d Others)

A tour through the meetings
- Authorship, tools, medium
- Network, interdependency, relationality
- Protocol, platform, infrastructure

A tour through the reader https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/vision-air.reader

14:30 Exercise w. Peter
15:45 Break
16:00 Reading
17:00 End

*NOTES Meeting O7/09/2020

Intro Kristof / Femke
colleagues is research
how can we bring something that we do as constant brong to maxlab to spark understanding of maxlab .. 
repeat agenda: 3 meetings in september, researchweek in october
beginning of next year, a 'testing-broadcast' will be made
and then end of spring, a 'tv-guide' will be proposed as a reflective document that can be used to feed what the tv channel can be.

F. gives an overview of the three meetings
introduces the etherpad pages
Some history of constant: through looking at publications. 
Books with an attitude (see link above) are books that are designed with F/LOSS software and that are published under free licenses. 

Ine

Working with an Iranian in US, could not travel. Piece of music -- internet challenge, various versions, different versions
Related to musical drama, performance. Graphic scores. A lot going on; different levels of performance. Collaboration. Honesty in performance. Aspects of music making. Performant musician. Original creator -- composer + performer combined.
Authorship and ownership, on youtube. 

Reworking: Michael
A movie and a document. Finding patterns.
Did some text recognition -- can only do one language. Did not feel it was a good result
Move extraction

Ine: it were the elements that were not important
The patterns more important/interesting. Collaborator works with touch. Conceptually works.
It is an addition, another perspective.
It was already a graphic score but we tried to avoid geekness
Janna feels this is already like audio
uncalibrated protocol/interpretations

Dan

A document for a performance that can happen without him. Research on instructions. Different technologies, how to relate. Shift startingpoint. Address, initiation, ...
Mixing video, messages, ... and then how to distribute. Trust. How to use different techniques of distribution. Rules, body, ... What we can call television? Non-participatory participation. Post relationality

Reworking: Kristof
Narrates: There is a drone over the field in the Ardennen. It orders chalk lines drawing on the field 
Dan: still instructions but it is litterally proposing a drawing. The idea of instruction, the means.
Machine-human flip maybe? Robots?
Trust, consent, responsibility. The ability to say no?
Big groups consent more.
Kristof wanting to make visual art and not performance.
Dan thinking about choreography, space, invisible drawings.

Kristof

A head to toe map of a (female) model -- cartography, mercator; politics of maps
dimensions and the impossibility of mapping
showing installation, camera taking iages -- folding unfolding model. stitching tool part
algorithmic authorship (serendipity?)

Reworking: Janna
Janna staying in comfortzone
thinking about authorship, how can I steal it
the toes and the wide-angle
put herself in it

So what changed?
Offensive she put herself!
Ownership because she is there. She stole it.
Far from what I did -- did not recognize
aesthetics are different, more abstract, low-res high-res flip
different concept, totally different, more aesthetic less representational. Different role of the lense.
Reappropriation through insertion. Zoom-level and photographing -- who puts Janna in the image? Who authors the reflection?
What does this do for thinking broadcast?
It is not important the artist is present (Kristof). I need to be famous; showing identity?
Trademark to put 'herself' in it -- shadow in projection.
Bouncing back the broadcast
Example: taking pictures at an expo -- post them on-line; who's image?

Janna

Screen recording of life drawing on a building.
life collaborative drawing. Surroundings, collaborator. This done in only 15m
graffiti artists. Gender.
screen capture of the software not the projection
mixing digital image with 'interference' of the building
complex authorship: software, drawing/drawers, projections/projectors, music. Harpsicord!

Reworking: Ine
Performing without flute
6 parts
using the score

Janna: I am pleased, happy to be an incentive. 
Not understanding the relation, immediately

Ine explains how the incentive works. Interpreting what she saw. Code switching: notation to instruction. 
Seeing the appropriation or not.

The risk of giving something. The risk of taking something.
Talking about trust and handing over. Being mad at interpretation.
When is it a wrong reference?

Michael

Hacking old into sth new
3d printing
old-new geo-height
made the machine himself, to print the mould
adding projections
interest in augmented reality
composite or stand-in for the project? data, code, representation?

Reworking: Dan
is the weather broadcasting to the model?
narrow casting
broadcasting data