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1. Reading Session
   Research Center
   Boundaries do not sit still
   Text processing characters, language and code
   05 January 2018
   posted by: Femke Snelting
   Monday Readings
   a.pass, 3rd floor
   15 January 2018
   

   This first Monday Reading will be dedicated to text processing. We will discuss concepts such as What You See Is What You Get (WISYWYG), the virtues of ascii, what the differences are between writing, language, code, formatting and markup, and how our keyboards perform.

   As a way to map the long-term legacies that are implied in each of our keystrokes, we will play with a Teletype Model 33, one of the most widespread computer interfaces in the 1960s.

    

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   The Monday Readings are five one day sessions that bring habitual tool-situations in conversation with theoretical and political thinking. They are intimate collective situations on the articulation of technique and the performance of boundaries, reading across technical tools and theoretical devices. The Mondays attempt to develop further connections between artistic research and techno-political practices such as software-as-a-critique, active archives and techno-galactic software observation.

   Each session starts with an exploration of day-to-day tools and technologies: text processing, file compression, on-line communication, security or digital archiving. This tool-reading is followed by a discussion and collective reading of one or two related texts.

   Reading materials: https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/apass.mondayreadings

   Schedule

   10:00-13:00: Reading tools
   14:00-17:00: Reading texts

   If possible, bring a laptop. Sessions take place in a.pass on the 3rd floor. Participation is free.
2. Reading Session
   Research Center
   Boundaries do not sit still
   Local server Servers and hosts
   05 January 2018
   posted by: Femke Snelting
   Monday Readings
   a.pass, 3rd floor
   05 February 2018
   

   In the lexicon of networks, any computer connected to the Internet is called a host. This means that all computers have the ability to host content. But in the current paradigm of the Internet, some hosts are designated to be serving (servers), and other hosts are to be served (clients). For most activities on the Internet (email, web pages, social media applications and so on ...) users act as clients to servers, delegating more and more of their content to the "cloud". To understand the implications of this "delegation of hosting", we will look together at different computers that act as servers, talk about where they are located, who maintains them, and why this all matters. Followed by a collective reading of texts by Muriel Combes and Invisible Committee.

   The Monday Readings are five one day sessions that bring habitual tool-situations in conversation with theoretical and political thinking. They are intimate collective situations on the articulation of technique and the performance of boundaries, reading across technical tools and theoretical devices. The Mondays attempt to develop further connections between artistic research and techno-political practices such as software-as-a-critique, active archives and techno-galactic software observation.

   Each session starts with an exploration of day-to-day tools and technologies: text processing, file compression, on-line communication, security or digital archiving. This tool-reading is followed by a discussion and collective reading of related texts.

   Reading materials: https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/apass.mondayreadings

   Schedule

   10:00-13:00: Reading tools
   14:00-17:00: Reading texts

   If possible, bring a laptop. Sessions take place in a.pass on the 3rd floor. Participation is free.
3. Reading Session
   Research Center
   Boundaries do not sit still
   Encoding and compression Monday Readings
   05 January 2018
   posted by: Femke Snelting
   Monday Readings
   a.pass, 3rd floor
   26 February 2018
   

   "Codecs perform encoding and decoding on a data stream or signal, usually in the interest of compressing video, speech, or music. [...] Software such as codecs poses several analytical problems. Firstly they are monstrously complicated. [...] Second, at a phenomenological level, they deeply influence the very texture, flow and materiality of sounds and images. [...] Third from the perspective of political economy, codecs structure contemporary media economies and culture in important ways. [...] Despite or perhaps because of their convoluted obscurity, codecs catalyze new relations between people, things, spaces and times in events and forms." Adrian Mckenzie, "Codecs" in: Matthew Fuller (eds), Software Studies, a lexicon (2008)

    

    

   The third Monday Reading starts with poking holes in different image and video-files. From there we will try put the vocabulary of encoding and compression (Codec, Container, Compression, Interpolation, Interlacing, Artifact, Bitstream, Sampling, Conversion, ...) together with some of the key terms in the work of the philosopher Gilbert Simondon (Allagmatics, Transduction, Analogy, Individuation, Cybernetics, ...). How do structures make operations appear, and vice versa?

   The Monday Readings are five one day sessions that bring habitual tool-situations in conversation with theoretical and political thinking. They are intimate collective situations on the articulation of technique and the performance of boundaries, reading across technical tools and theoretical devices. The Mondays attempt to develop further connections between artistic research and techno-political practices such as software-as-a-critique, active archives and techno-galactic software observation.

   Each session starts with an exploration of day-to-day tools and technologies: text processing, file compression, on-line communication, security or digital archiving. This tool-reading is followed by a discussion and collective reading of one or two related texts.

   Reading materials: https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/apass.mondayreadings

   Schedule

   10:00-13:00: Reading tools
   14:00-17:00: Reading texts

   If possible, bring a laptop. Sessions take place in a.pass on the 3rd floor. Participation is free.
4. Reading Session
   Research Center
   Boundaries do not sit still
   Keycards Movement, security, smartness
   05 January 2018
   posted by: Femke Snelting
   Monday Readings
   a.pass, 3rd floor
   19 March 2018
   

   For this Monday Reading we will follow the path of the keycard system that opens the outside doors at a.pass. What does it mean when opening a door becomes part of a data-flow?

   The Monday Readings are five one day sessions that bring habitual tool-situations in conversation with theoretical and political thinking. They are intimate collective situations on the articulation of technique and the performance of boundaries, reading across technical tools and theoretical devices. The Mondays attempt to develop further connections between artistic research and techno-political practices such as software-as-a-critique, active archives and techno-galactic software observation.

   Each session starts with an exploration of day-to-day tools and technologies: text processing, file compression, on-line communication, security or digital archiving. This tool-reading is followed by a discussion and collective reading of one or two related texts.

   Reading materials: https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/apass.mondayreadings

   Schedule

   10:00-13:00: Reading tools
   14:00-17:00: Reading texts

   If possible, bring a laptop. Sessions take place in a.pass on the 3rd floor. Participation is free.
5. Reading Session
   Research Center
   Boundaries do not sit still
   Databases Stickyness, stopping points, consistency, routines, mnemosyne
   05 January 2018
   posted by: Femke Snelting
   Monday Readings
   a.pass, 3rd floor
   16 April 2018
   case of: Sina Seifee
   
   

   This Monday Reading prepared with Sina Seifee will be dedicated to the intricate structures of the ubiquitous database. Browsing the tables and rows of this very website, we will try to graps the affordances and limits of organising the world as a collection of digital data.

   Image: Mark Manders, Two Interconnected Houses (2010)

   The Monday Readings are five one day sessions that bring habitual tool-situations in conversation with theoretical and political thinking. They are intimate collective situations on the articulation of technique and the performance of boundaries, reading across technical tools and theoretical devices. The Mondays attempt to develop further connections between artistic research and techno-political practices such as software-as-a-critique, active archives and techno-galactic software observation.

   Each session starts with an exploration of day-to-day tools and technologies: text processing, file compression, on-line communication, security or digital archiving. This tool-reading is followed by a discussion and collective reading of one or two related texts.

   Reading materials: https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/apass.mondayreadings

   Schedule

   10:00-13:00: Reading tools
   14:00-17:00: Reading texts

   If possible, bring a laptop. Sessions take place in a.pass on the 3rd floor. Participation is free.