WdKA Hacking P2 2019
ASSIGNMENT During these weeks we ask you to participate in a series of exercises, and in the end, we ask you to inspect (in groups) part of a dynamic system, intervene, document and reflect on this. We'll introduce you to a toolbox of concepts, skills and methods to work with to be able to do this, as well as critically examining these tools.
In WEEK 4 you will have to deliver a Read Me File and upload it to this GitHub repository inside the folder "Read_Me_Files". You can create a simple text file or a Markdown.
Check list for the Read_Me file:
- select a list of keywords/ glossary about what Hacking is/ can be (tip: re-read the manifesto);
- write down a reflection paragraph on the observational tool exercises (tip: you can link to images/ drawings);
- grow the keywords/ glossary about what Hacking (tip: add your own references);
- gather documentation on the two sessions with Shailoh and Joana;
- write a summary on the Hacking lecture by Florian Cramer;
- write a summary on the exercise you developed at Varia;
- revise all the topics above and reflect on the possible meaning of 'Hacking' (Respond to the questions: What is the context in which you operated? What phygical systems did you investigate? What did you find? What is your hacking method? If your method is a tool set, how would you explain to someone else how to use it? In what way are these tools limited/biased?);
Hacker: n. originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe
To hack: to cut with heavy blows in an irregular or random fashion; to embarrass, annoy; to disconcert, confuse; to cope with, manage, accomplish; to tolerate, accept; to comprehend; to hesitate in speech; to stammer; to break into a computer system by hacking; to make a hack of, to put to indiscriminate or promiscuous use; to make common, vulgar, or stale, by such treatment; to cut or chop up or into pieces, to chop off; to make a clever, benign, and ethical prank or practical joke. Hacking Feminism
"Hack, hacker or hacking? These concepts can be imagined as expansive, limiting and/or controversial depending on the socio-cultural forces at play." TransHackFeminist Manifesto!
“Hacking is a tactical skill with a limited half-life (…); hacker’s indispensable virtuosity is tied to a rapidly changing technological environment, that it explores and in which it intervenes.” Claus Pias — Source: Dominik Landwehr (Hg.): Hacking; Edition Digital Culture 2; Migros-Kulturprozent, Christoph Merian Verlag; Oktober 2014, Deutsch/Englisch, ISBN
"Our lot is cast with technoscience, where nothing is so sacred that it cannot be re-engineered and transformed so as to widen our aperture of freedom, extending to gender and the human. To say that nothing is sacred, that nothing is transcendent or protected from the will to know, to tinker and to hack, is to say that nothing is supernatural." THE XENOFEMINIST MANIFESTO: A POLITICS FOR ALIENATION, LABORIA CUBONIKS
"The hacker class desires knowledge, not education. [...] Hacker knowledge implies, in its practice, a politics of free information, free learning, the gift of the result to a network of peers." — A Hacker Manifesto [version 4.0], by McKenzie Wark, 2004
> Hackers Ethics & History + Manifestos <
MON 8th April: 10h-13h
LOCATION: WH.02.108
1 Introduction;
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- Shailoh Phillips studiobabel.nl #entanglement #tentacular_pedagogies #critical_making #coded_matter #studio_babel #tools_for_action #more_than_human #radical_solidarity #patent_pirates
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- Joana Chicau joanachicau.com; #graphic_design #computer_programming #interface #web_environments #embodiment #language #scores #scripts #choreography #codes #performance #improvisation #corporeality #techno-ecologies #techno-feminism
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2 Warm-up exercise: ad-hoc hacking reference;
3 Reading of manifestos:
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- Group #01: The Conscience of a Hacker
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- Group #02: A HACKER MANIFESTO [version 4.0] — read 'Manifestation & Hacking'
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- Group #03: We Are FemTechNet
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- Group #04: THE CRITICAL ENGINEERING MANIFESTO
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- Group #05: THE XENOFEMINIST MANIFESTO: A POLITICS FOR ALIENATION - read ' 0X00'; '0X01'; '0X11'; ' 0X14' and ' 0X1A' Click here for further reading.
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4 Set-up Github account;
homeworks to-day bring an 'inspection tool'.
- bring an association of what you know about 'hacking' (an image, a question, a definition, a strategy, or an example)
- Create a Read_MyName file in the Github under Read_me (individually)
- Start contributing to the little lexicon of hacking in your Read_Me file. Include a reference, a quote, a definition, a visual, a method, a question or a tool.
- Bring a inspection tool to class (physical and/or digital), something you use to inspect, investigate, look, probe, reveal or uncover 'hidden' qualities
- sign up for the Autonomous Fabric event on 12 april (you can pick your own workshop)[https://www.wdka.nl/news-events/autonomous-fabric-self-organisation]
THURS 11th April: 12h-15h30 Core concepts in Hacking Anatomies
LOCATION: WH.04.115
1 Core concepts and references: Inspecting & Intervening Phygital * Anatomies (aka physical and digital)
find here link to presentation and exercises
2 Warm-up exercise: inspect the inspection tools;
homeworks to-day bring 'something' to inspect. Bring your laptops (if you have them)!
Forming groups
WEDEDNESDAY 17th April: 09h-15h
Location: Education Station WH 02.209
2 workshops, divided in two groups (all students will do both, switch at 12.30):
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- Shailoh: Anatomy of Connectologogy
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Agenda:
⋅⋅⋅ • 15min — embodiment: a series of movement exercises;
What is choreography?
⋅⋅⋅ • 15min — ChoreoGraphic Coding — presentation on research; projects and methodology; examples of movement scores & programming scripts;
⋅⋅⋅ • 15min — read and discuss the text Choreographic Objects — highlight 3 first paragraphs;
⋅⋅⋅ • 30min — in groups: Scores & Scripts — a bestiary of intents - mapping "choreographic agents" exercise; brainstorm and collect references;
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Make your own choreography: Acts of Inspection
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01. present what you brought to inspect to other members of your group; collectively choose 2 objects/ systems /...
02. write a choreography on how to "Inspect & Intervene" (eg.: an instruction based text for humans and/or the machines to perform);
03. perform the choreography (let the dance begin!)
Go through the steps below and develop a choreography for the second object. Discuss the different and similarities in the approach.
⋅⋅⋅ • 30min — presentations; final discussion and critical reflections on the works/methodologies;
More references from Joana:
•on 'Hacking' the body/ies 01: http://www.zachblas.info/works/facial-weaponization-suite/
•on 'Hacking' the body/ies 02: https://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/?about)
•on 'Hacking' Language: http://siusoon.net/vocable-code/
•on 'Hacking' Cultures: https://www.lullabot.com/podcasts/hacking-culture
HOMEWORK bring 'an ingredient' for the next class at Varia!
THURSDAY 18th April: 13:00 - 15:30
LOCATION: Drawing Station
1 Anatomical Anatomic Drawing Lessons (with Joseph Huges)
For this workshop you will need to bring to the lesson:
- your inspection tools(s)
- 11 A3 scans/ photocopies/images of your body (see image provided)
- an example of your favorite / most recent hack in picture format (A4)
- a piece of fruit
WEDNESDAY 24th April: 9:30h-15:000
class at Varia: Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam
bring 'an ingredient' for this session at Varia!
1 Lecture by Florian Cramer on the history of hacking.
some references:
⋅⋅⋅ • Social Hacking, Revisited — Florian Cramer
⋅⋅⋅ • What is a hacker?
2 Workshop by Varia members Niek and Lidia; part of Varia Curriculum.
MON 13th May: 09h-11h00
Location: WH.04.115 Group presentations and evaluation;
Assignment:
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collectively: inspect (part of) a dynamic system, intervene — 10min group presentations + 10min discussions;
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individually: document and reflect on this — deliver as a "read_me" file;