Reader: https://cloud.constantvzw.org/apps/files/?dir=/2.%20Projects/vision-air&fileid=609523
Cloud materials: https://cloud.constantvzw.org/s/ocjeriZdNd3QPgH
Zine: https://www.books.constantvzw.org/home/viZINEair
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VISI.ON.AIR

In the research project VISI.ON.AIR, MAXLab researchers initiate a dialogue about media, art and technology at the crossroads of their different research practices. It is an opportunity to work together to deepen and sharpen the vision and orientation of the research group. For this research, MAXlab collaborates with Constant, a Brussels organization of artists, theorists and technicians. They act as screeners who will analyze and extrapolate the work of the research group.

The materialization of this project and the translation of the dialogue into artistic practice is the development of a TV channel. The researchers involved form an editorial board, devise and create the programs and invite students and external artists to contribute. This should result in an experimental eclectic overview of what is going on within MAXlab, ranging from purely aesthetic to socially critical, with an open mind to the broader field of education and research in the arts.

https://www.ap-arts.be/en/researchgroup/maxlab
https://www.ap-arts.be/en/research/visionair-vision-analysis-and-substantive-orientation-maxlab-translated-tv-channel

07/09/2020 Meeting 01: Authorship, tools, medium
Peter Westenberg, Femke Snelting

16/09/2020 Meeting 02: Network, interdependency, relationality  Speculating on networked interdependencies and relationality 
Wendy Van Wynsberghe, Elodie Mugrefya, Femke Snelting
The session invites participants to think about networked sociability online. Inspired by the Fediverse* and science-fiction, the participants will have to speculate on the mediation of online sociability by setting its conditions, configuration and actions.  

* The Fediverse (a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe") is an ensemble of federated (i.e. interconnected) servers that are used for web publishing (i.e. social networking, microblogging, blogging, or websites) and file hosting, but which, while independently hosted, can communicate with each other. On different servers (instances), users can create so-called identities. These identities are able to communicate over the boundaries of the instances because the software running on the servers supports one or more communication protocols which follow an open standard.                        

25/09/2020 Meeting 03: Protocol, platform, infrastructure
Martino Morandi, Femke Snelting