pmc-aesthetics-pres

presentation files about permacomputing aesthetics
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Author: ugrnm <ultrageranium@bleu255.com>
Date:   Fri,  9 Dec 2022 13:24:23 +0100

refactoring

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diff --git a/index.html b/index.html @@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ class: inverted, middle, center - 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. --- @@ -364,13 +364,12 @@ class: inverted, middle, center # SPACE FOR (WEIRD?) CHARACTERS & CULTURES ??? - - 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 + --- class: inverted, middle, center @@ -379,7 +378,7 @@ class: inverted, middle, center ??? - 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 --- class: inverted, middle, center