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Selected Projects

re-coding everyday technology

The working group for unusual input and output media has invited 12 artists, researchers and designers to create contributions and perspectives for a publication under the theme »re-coding everyday technology«. Alongside the web-based publication, the diverse interdisciplinary works reflecting, interrogating and reinterpreting the digital technologies we use every day will be exhibited in the LUX Pavilion. New perspectives that pose questions while also providing food for thought are offered on commonplace technologies like Google Maps, printers, RFID chips, emails, websites, fax machines and other black boxes. The exhibition was on display from the 11th till the 31st of October 2023 in the LUX-Pavillon of the University of Applied Sciences Mainz.

The publication can be viewed online: re-coding.technology

The publication features contributions by:
Benno Brucksch, Joana Chicau, Paul Eßer, Jian Haake, Lars Hembach, Naoto Hieda, Nami Kim, Verena Kuni, Guilherme Maggessi, Diego Trujillo Pisanty, Mario Santamaría, Francesco Scheffczyk, Yifeng Wei

Contrast

Contrast is a regular event by »annabel« in Rotterdam. The ongoing series of posters that present the event is printed with contrasting CMYK only colors. It picks up the topics of contrast and rhythm. The basis of the design is a grid that is inspired by a step sequencer. This allows for playful positioning of the elements. All the posters exist in an animated version for online use. The logo is generative and differs for each poster. The posters were on display all over Rotterdam.

Rietveld Graduation Portal 2022

graduation2022.dogtime.org

Rietveld Academy asked us to build a portal for the graduation work of their students. Together with Alex Zakkas I built a website showing all the work done by graduation students. The site is using files as a backend, the structure of folders and files reflects in the front-end.

The website exhibits works by graduates of the 2022 DOGTIME program. DOGTIME is the bachelor evening education of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, consisting of two departments: Expanded Painting (EP) and Unstable Media (UM).

The Dogtime graduation website design allows graduates to have direct access to their content on the website, adding, deleting or changing files. The subtle but powerful website-framework unites the diversity of the students' works, attitudes and media and serves it in the context of a wider world.

XPPL

XPPL is a space for potential pirate librarianship. It is both an experiment and a working prototype for a distributed network catalogue and library that you can run and install on several machines and share/synchronise with the same bibliographical database. It starts at XPUB, but can go anywhere we want it to. Initially developed as a in-house tool for the XPUB course, XPPL is a project aimed at people who are studying within and outside formal education, or as we like to call them: knowledge comrades. XPPL provides a web interface and hosts a curated catalogue of books and articles. Its distributed architecture is open to instances of uploading and downloading, and allows for the collective editing of its content. In XPPL, librarians can add, and modify small collections of books that are connected by threads of thought, or follow a certain thematic or study path. We call these selections ‘stacks’. Rather than a bookshelf in a library, where books are lined up and often forgotten, the stacks on your table/nightstand/bathroom floor consist of books prone to be opened and reopened at any time. The stacks in XPPL are visible for others in the network to browse, annotate, update or shuffle. Next to the stacks, XPPL exists as a distributed bibliographical database upon which various modes of reading and writing interfaces can be created. In its current version, the XPPL search interface allows for serendipity, while playful bots point to the invisible labour of librarianship and gaps in the collection are made visible, turning dormancy into potential. Furthermore, collective annotations turn the digital library into a social space; and visualizations of the collection in 3D forms allow users to sense the materiality of their books. The XPPL is also a project of urgency. Today, the gradual loss of public libraries, the rise of corporate academia, and the systemic use of digital rights management, make access to knowledge increasingly difficult. As a result, and despite significant efforts from free culture supporters and open access initiatives, media piracy has became an unspoken practice that cannot be decoupled from the acts of researching, reading and studying. However, this practice is often fragmented, and splintered by way of legal and economic barriers. We recommend books in person, jot down reading lists on paper, then send unsteady links via email or download already known items from the haystack of existing repositories. Most importantly, under these circumstances, such practice is reduced to the act of file sharing, and fails to highlight the discursive nature of these exchanges, their ability to form new resources, to nurture collective forms of learning and an active research culture. In response, XPPL is a platform and network that offers another way to think about, aggregate and intervene in these processes.

Website
lib.xpub.nl

Rietveld Graduation Portal 2020

graduation2020.dogtime.org

Rietveld Academy asked us to build a portal for the graduation work of their students. Together with Alex Zakkas I built a website showing all the work done by graduation students. The site is using files as a backend, the structure of folders and files reflects in the front-end.

The website exhibits works by graduates of the 2020 DOGTIME program. DOGTIME is the bachelor evening education of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, consisting of two departments: Expanded Painting (EP) and Unstable Media (UM).

The Dogtime graduation website design allows graduates to have direct access to their content on the website, adding, deleting or changing files. The subtle but powerful website-framework unites the diversity of the students' works, attitudes and media and serves it in the context of a wider world.

A Bed, a Chair and a Table

A Bed, a Chair and a Table is a publication about the Poortgebouw, a former squat and vibrant living community located in the South of Rotterdam. In this book, oral histories from inside and outside the Poortgebouw are interlaced with material from various institutional and personal archives. By bringing together these tales of resilience, political struggle, frustration and friendship with historical documents, this book brings forward new perspectives about the Poortgebouw's unique history and its importance in the contemporary city. The starting point of the book was the Autonomous Archive, a local archiving machine built from parts of different computers by the inhabitants of the Poortgebouw and a group of students from XPUB.
This publication is brought to you by Delphine Bedel, Natasha Berting, André Castro, Elisa Chaudet, Angeliki Diakrousi, Max Franklin, Giulia de Giovanelli, Francisco González, Joca van der Horst, Aymeric Mansoux, Michael Murtaugh, Alexander Roidl, Steve Rushton, Alice Strete, Zalán Szakács and the Autonomous Archive. XPUB is a two-year Media Design Master course that prepares students to critically engage with societal issues within the fast changing field of art, design and cultural production. The project was developed in the context of Architecture of Appropriation, a research project at Het Nieuwe Instituut, that examines how squatters have appropriated urban spaces using radical improvisation techniques, and how this has influenced the way we think about the contemporary city.

Book, 140 × 210mm
200 pages
Dec, 2017

Rietveld Graduation Portal 2021

graduation2021.dogtime.org

Rietveld Academy asked us to build a portal for the graduation work of their students. Together with Alex Zakkas I built a website showing all the work done by graduation students. The site is using files as a backend, the structure of folders and files reflects in the front-end.

The website exhibits works by graduates of the 2021 DOGTIME program. DOGTIME is the bachelor evening education of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, consisting of two departments: Expanded Painting (EP) and Unstable Media (UM).

The Dogtime graduation website design allows graduates to have direct access to their content on the website, adding, deleting or changing files. The subtle but powerful website-framework unites the diversity of the students' works, attitudes and media and serves it in the context of a wider world.