Frustrating Computers
17.05.2023
I was originally going to write something about the various computer histories I've been reading up on recently, but I feel the need to write about something else that feels more urgent at this moment. Over the last few weeks I've been attempting to set up a server in the Extra Practice studio that …
Back to Basics
11.05.2023
This is a post in a series about Coding in Situ . In this entry, I wanted to explore why my early experience of the internet has led me on this search for a more situated, contextual and intimate way of relating to networked technology. The previous post can be found here . I feel the need to begin …
First of all, what is the internet?
01.05.2023
As part of the Design and Deep Future Research Group at the KABK, I have been trying to figure out what Coding in Situ means. I wrote about the idea around 10 months ago after a visit to Robida with Kirsten to make a website. In that moment, it felt right to co-opt a term from architecture …
Sense of Goethe
01.03.2023
For the last month or two I've been working towards an exhibition in the corridor space of the Goethe Insitute in Rotterdam. Unusually for me, it's been a fun process that I've enjoyed working on from day one. This project kind of began last year whilst I was on a residency at a lovely place called …
The Australia Process
11.02.2023
I made bread for the first time in a while earlier this week. It felt good to do something productive after being hit by a fairly heavy stomach bug the week before. Somehow making bread felt like I was landing back into life in the Netherlands. One month ago I was in Sydney having a pretty great …
A Summer Note
17.07.2022
This is just a little note to say that I am currently taking part in a residency programme at Sasso Residency in Ticino, CH. I actually plan to write a few more posts on here as part of the things that I do during my month here, but for now I am journaling my time and thoughts in quite sporadic …
Coding-In-Situ
13.06.2022
In April, earlier this year, Kirsten and I went on a trip to Topolo, a village on the Italian-Slovenian border. It's a remote and beautiful place, not only because of its geography but also because of its inhabitants. We were there to make a website for Robida , a collective exploring what …
Time passes by
01.05.2022
I'm sitting in my apartment in the dark listening to Tangerine Dream's Optical Race (1988). It feels good even if the laptops screen is slightly too bright and bringing on a bit of a headache. Turn brightness down tap tap tap ~*... I've been camping this weekend with W and her family. The bird song …
Good for Nothing, Nothing for Good
11.03.2022
I became a real teacher in November 2021. Real is in italics because I'm not sure if I feel like whatever a real teacher is and I certainly don't feel certified to be one. I guess there is a difference somehow because my experience with being the educator rather than the educatee was mostly formed …
Windows and Webcams
01.03.2022
Yesterday I read Lukas W's contribution to the Are.na Annual 2022 (the theme of which is Portals). It was great to be welcomed into the book by two things that I pay a lot of attention to, waves and webcams. It was also somehow reassuring to know that someone else also collects screenshots from …