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Author: Brendan Howell <brendan@howell-ersatz.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2022 13:28:39 +0100
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- and this is where another interesting contradiction emerges
-- constraints can be so varied, from constraints of media/formats to self-imposed constraints
- they create a lot of diversity
- constraints expand the narrow cultural scale
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- so this is interesting because there is indeed a strong connection between cultural diversity and constraints
- cultural uniformity is the oil that keeps the capitalist and neoliberal machines running
- corporate capitalism relies on hegemonic ethnocentrism, cultural assimilation and cultural appropriation to be the most efficient and productive
-- produced under such conditions, computer aesthetics are obviously affected and will always struggle to escape the fate of computational culture as mimicking dominant forms of organisation (REF UNIX) and their institutional reinforcing (REF Weizenbaum) and stereotypical effect (REF Femke + Jara)
+- produced under such conditions, computer aesthetics are obviously affected and will always struggle to escape the fate of computational culture as mimicking and reinforcing dominant forms of organisation
- for instance UX can be articulated as a neo-colonial project, designed to steamroll the "look and feel" of everyday life and to standardize our relations to the world in the service of massive hegemonic tech companies.
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# SPACE FOR (WEIRD?) CHARACTERS & CULTURES
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- - IMAGE - sun ra? george clinton? janelle monae?
- how to reintroduce critical weirdness?
- we believe that diversity in computing should be celebrated like diversity in food, clothing, architecture, music and crafts.
- important counter-hegemonic action
-- celebrating and unconventional interfaces we resist the normative forces
-- we argue that reintroducing critical weirdness is as simple as embracing the plethora of underlying constraints found in code, procedurality and interaction
-- all software are concerned, e.g. art-making tools, user interfaces and games
+- by celebrating unconventional interfaces we resist the normative forces, symbolically but also via cultural diffusion
+- maybe a first step to reintroduce critical weirdnessin computational cultural could be to as simple as embracing the plethora of underlying constraints found in software code, procedurality and interaction
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- of course limits are arbitrary
- the latest GPU also has limits within which a creative coder needs to work with
-- what makes pmc stands apart from a more creative approach to make visible and use constraint is its connection to material constraints
+- what makes permacomputing stands apart from a more creative approach to make visible and use constraint is its connection to material and environmental constraints
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# CONSTRAINED AESTHETICS DRIVE ETHICS
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-- how the material constraints is also a driving force through which aesthetics choices are made
-- pmc use material constraints to reflect its environmental and cultural values
-- working with e-waste
-- limited availability of hardware and energy
-- but also thinking of computational devices as heirloom objects
-- using natural materials
-- repairable and designed to reflect local, regional and sub-cultural aesthetics and materials.
+- permacomputing uses material constraints to reflect its environmental and cultural values
+ - working with e-waste
+ - limited availability of hardware and energy
+ - but also thinking of computational devices as heirloom objects
+ - using natural materials
+ - and also repairable and designed to reflect local, regional and sub-cultural aesthetics and materials.
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# PMC EXAMPLES
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-- pmc is a nascent community of practice
+- like we said permacomputing is a nascent community of practice
- it exists as two interleaved threads
-- 1. incentive to re-use and repurpose existing computer technology and materials for the making of new works
-- 2. design principles to guide such re-use and repurposing but also to inform the development of new software and hardware
+ 1. incentive to re-use and repurpose existing computer technology and materials for the making of new works
+ 2. design principles to guide such re-use and repurposing but also to inform the development of new software and hardware
- some projects have started to use the term pmc:
-- A word about the fact that this is about transformative practices, not so much about making new cool ethical artworks to be shown in an exhibition appropriately themed
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# GEMINI PROTOCOL
