[...]stractions by combining ="trms">data objects to form compound ="trms">data ='lgc'><='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*to increase the modularity='strcls'>* of (our) designs ='lgc'>==> to increase/enhance the expressive power of our ="trms">language

="trms">data abstraction='lgc'>:
='strcls'>*="trms">technique of isolating='strcls'>* (the parts of a program that deal with) how ="trms">data objects are ‘re="trms">presented’ from (the parts of a program that deal with) how ="trms">data objects are ‘used’


="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> versioning
garbage collection

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the ="trms">question of “what ='lgc'>[='not'>✕='lgc'>] can learn from ='lgc'>[Y='lgc'>]='qstn'>?”


="ppl">="ppl">Calvert on Mestiza consciousness
library and information ="trms">scientists
consciousness of the borderlands ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ in between ="trms">categories, creative/annihilating forces a person living borderlands must struggle against='lgc'>]

='strcls'>***contradictory impulse for ='strcls'>*hording='strcls'>* ='and'>& ='strcls'>*sharing='strcls'>*

="trms">categorizing, naming, describing ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> power-laden practices we cannot do without

each ='strcls'>*schema='strcls'>* reveals its ="trms">priorities, legitimizes/delegitimizes, renders visible/invisible the knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge it contains/ex="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes

(="ppl">="ppl">Foucault='lgc'>:) library='lgc'>: (places that preserve) discourses that one wishes to re="trms">member and keep in circulation ='lgc'>[='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Anand's jinn temporality and genealogy of human ="trms">memory='lgc'>]

mestiza ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> hybrid way of knowing/acting/living, as “none of the above”
what is hybrid and impure may be ="trms">monstrous (in the ="trms">epistemologies of power) and may experience ='strcls'>*hightened visibility='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= scrutiny, study, problematization, pity)

“orphans of infrastructure” (="ppl">Leigh ="ppl">="ppl">Star)

locked in a duel with the oppressor
lived experiences of marked classes
(in each duality pair, one is called “the con="trms">situtive outside” ='lgc'>[subject/object, male/female, etc.='lgc'>]) ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> switching polarity ='lgc'>==> valorizing feminine over masculine, black over white, nurture over ="trms">nature, emotion over reason

crossing of cultures

='strcls'>*which collectivity does the daughter of the darkskinned mother ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listen to='qstn'>?='strcls'>*

(while i was in ="nms">apass i had a shift of attention to) the ='strcls'>*labor of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge work='strcls'>* (in collective digital flesh life)

media ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= knwol="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge form

in media arts studies i learn to ask which cruicual ="trms">material limitations have been radically eased in a digital era ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> impulse to hoard/share ='lgc'>+ constant tension with the ="trms">epistemological work of ="trms">categorization and classification (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">database) ='lgc'>+ (ongoing) feminization of the field

the library and information ="trms">science knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> intense expertise required to enact it ='lgc'>=/=!='qstn'>? art expertise (a ="trms">category of works that are expertise-free)

(gift of ="ppl">Marx, ="ppl">="ppl">Foucault, Lorde, ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway, ="ppl">Leigh ="ppl">="ppl">Star in) ='strcls'>*understanding subjugated ="trms">epistemologies='strcls'>*

(Lorde) master's tool dismantle the master's house='qstn'>?='lgc'> = can the ="trms">technologies and ="trms">epistemologies that have been used to organize thinking about the ="trms">world in one way succesfully uproot that way='qstn'>?

“recovering multivocality”

رسوب
='strcls'>*enact residuality
='strcls'>*residual (of transformations ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sometimes wiping away previous ="trms">techniques for dividing and describing, and substituting another set of ="trms">categories that don't easily map to the first ='lgc'>==> eliminating the residuum of the old order ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> case of ="nms">ajayeb='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> can we make overlaps and hybridities of old/new ="trms">categories='qstn'>? ='lgc'>~ ='strcls'>*residual ="trms">categories='strcls'>*='lgc'>: ="trms">affective-="trms">epistemic content that often go unclassified. ="ppl">="ppl">Calvert='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*="trms">affect='strcls'>* is too thin, too subjective to calcify into a ="trms">category. it abundantly uses its ="trms">categories in a way that offers a kaleidoscopic shuffling and reshuffling of the items='strcls'>***)='lgc'>])
='strcls'>*residuum

="trms">categories overlapping, non-hierarchical (“="trms">animal” ='lgc'>+ “livestock”, etc.)

truthiness
melting pot
actions (filled with ="trms">verbs)
nouns (both living and nonliving entities)

='strcls'>*score of recognizable ="trms">historical era='strcls'>*

using='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•filmic ="trms">techniques (animation, montage, time lapse)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">affective ="trms">techniques (sarcasm, intimacy)


how can we address aspects of ="nms">apass's exceptionalism='qstn'>?
(with its things='lgc'>: characters, colors, doings, values)
='strcls'>*="trms">historical/cultural ="trms">specificities of ="nms">apass='strcls'>*


enlightenment in="trms">heritances='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•quest for universality
="lsts lst1">•


apparent seamlessness and universality with the veneer روکش of helpfulness ='lgc'>==> purity, deny multivocality, hide the residuum produced, and ex="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clude hybridity
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (pulling the carpet of familiarity out from under users='lgc'>:)
to replace ‘familiar generic conventions’ (='lgc'>~ universal) ='lgc'>--replace-with='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a “universal of local application” (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= residuum)

(we rely on) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]words='lgc'>: value-laden components of ="trms">language that also serve as ="trms">categories and moor لنگر us in the ="trms">symbolic, to effect the transformations of the collections

labels ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-/='lgc'>==> power and oppression ="trms">epistemologies ='lgc'><== ='strcls'>*organizing logics='strcls'>* (that remain invisible when when we change the words or sub="trms">situte new sets of ="trms">categories)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>that is why i am reluctant with only changing the ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">data ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Pierre='lgc'>: using ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">data to manipulate the organizing ="trms">apparatus ='lgc'>==> versions of residuality (='qstn'>?)

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='lgc'>[working on ="nms">apass milieu ="trms">data model, summer2018='lgc'>]

c.r.i. (“collective research ="trms">interface”)
='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a pathological collage

discrete object (of problem ='lgc'>[who, when, how,='lgc'>]) ="trms">interface
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> refering to something outside c.r.i. (outside the digital model)

face (slider) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> object ="trms">monster

(='qstn'>?what is lost at) linking the ="trms">symbolic space of ="trms">data-model to the qualities of the rese="trms"nttrm="search">arches of participants ='lgc'>[which are ="trms">relational, procedural, and emotional='lgc'>]

s.s.s. (scroller, slider, still-life)

discourse ='lgc'>=/= valorizing information

="frds scrmbld">Pierre's ="trms">fables='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•“nonviolent way”
="lsts lst1">•“not by chance ...”

='strcls'>*Apologue='strcls'>*

research ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">data flow
sieve ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> nodes in/of residual


="trms">internal ="trms">categories='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•stickiness
="lsts lst1">•="trms">zoom
="lsts lst1">•cheat
="lsts lst1">•persistence
="lsts lst1">•repetition
="lsts lst1">•(vulgar)
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>}='lgc'>==> topology='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. ramp
="lstsrd">2. nest
="lstsrd">3. skew

ramp='lgc'>: sequential, one dimensional, ‘sliders’
nest='lgc'>: fractal quality, JSON, hierarchical tree, ‘comments’
skew='lgc'>: ="trms">verb act, streching, ‘2D field picker’

="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> (slider='lgc'>: marking everything)

semantic in flux ='lgc'>+ persistence
object re="trms">pository ='lgc'>+ identifiers


feedback ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> quasi object ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> structured knower ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">data

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='at'>#workshop in ="nms">apass 2018 Summer
...a series of ="trms">data models that was produced during a three days work session in a.pass May 2018.
The aim was to create a “filter" for the artistic research projects of each participants, in order to train in making ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta-="trms">linguistic abstractions (on a given computer hardware) to construct a “thing” that enables describing the problem of Building Abstractions with ="trms">Data, to increase/enhance the expressive/descriptive power of the ="trms">languages we use. It addresses the ="trms">question of machine/human ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readability in the digital imperative of computational ="trms">world we are inhabiting, with the particular case of a.pass artistic research environments for advanced performance studies.
="lsts lst1">•="trms">interested in computational ="trms">literacy (in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding ="trms">data-collection, librarianship) as part of our ='strcls'>*diversity-work='strcls'>* and our ='strcls'>*="trms">articulation-work='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•="trms">interested in ="trms">different ="trms">languages (english, computer, non-sign ="trms">languages, etc.) refers to ="trms">different value ="trms">systems and to ="trms">different lived experience
="lsts lst1">•="trms">interested in the ='strcls'>*labor of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge-work='strcls'>* (in collective digital flesh life)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">interested in shifts in topology (the ongoing reworking of bodily boundaries of each of our research practices)
="lsts lst1">•


TERMINOLOGY='lgc'>:

='strcls'>*="trms">articulation-work='lgc'>: the labor necessary to make ="trms">technologies fit together seamlessly

="large lg5" stl="font-size:156%"> ='strcls'>*diversity-work='lgc'>: a kind of work in which we learn about the damage we cause, and of how “causes” are understood as “damage”

='strcls'>*librarianship='lgc'>: a work that hooks up people with their ="trms">technologies

='strcls'>*="trms">data abstraction='lgc'>: a ='strcls'>*="trms">technique of isolating='strcls'>* (the parts of your mini-="trms">language that deal with) how ="trms">data/info objects are ‘re="trms">presented’ from (the parts of your mini-="trms">language that deal with) how ="trms">data/info objects are ‘used’ (='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> i addressed this in my ="trms">fable workshop in a totally ="trms">different ="trms">epistemology)

='strcls'>*model='lgc'>: your object de="trms">composed into ='strcls'>*computational compound objects='strcls'>* (each with their own time-varying local state variables)

(re="trms">presentation of ="trms">data and control over ="trms">data='lgc'>:)
='strcls'>*modular='lgc'>: localized part of the ="trms">system that are prod[...]