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<h1>Special Issue 21</h1>
<h2>xperimental publishing | april - june 2023</h2>
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| |_| |_ _ _ transparent touches you time touches you teletype
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tele touching you try touching yourself teletales teleroot
talk to you titty
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<h2>A typewriter?</h2>
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<p>why shd it only make use of the tips of the fingers as contact points of flowing multi directional
creativity. If I invented a word placing machine, an “expression-scriber,” if you will, then I would
have a kind of instrument into which I could step & sit or sprawl or hang & use not only my fingers
to make words express feelings but elbows, feet, head, behind, and all the sounds I wanted, screams,
grunts, taps, itches, I'd have magnetically recorded, at the same time, & translated into word or
perhaps even the final xpressed thought/feeling wd not be merely word or sheet, but itself, the
xpression, three dimensional-able to be touched, or tasted or felt, or entered, or heard or carried
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like a speaking singing constantly communicating charm. A typewriter is corny!!</p>
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From <a href="http://www.soulsista.com/titanic/baraka.html">Amiri Baraka, Technology & Ethos</a>
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<br><p>This issue started from a single technical object: a Model 33 Teletype machine. The teletype is the
meeting point between typewriters and computer interfaces, a first automated translator of letters
into bits. Equipped with a keyboard, a transmitter and a punchcard read-writer, it is a historical
link between early transmission technology such as the telegraph and the Internet of today. Under
the administration of our kubernētēs, Martino Morandi, each week hosted a guest contributor who
joined us in unfolding the many cultural and technical layers that we found stratified in such a
machine, reading them as questions to our contemporary involvements with computing and with networks.
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The format of the issue consisted of on an on-going publishing arrangement, constantly re-considered
and escaping definition at every point in spacetime, a sort of Exquisite Corpse Network. It evaded
naming, location, and explanation; the Briki, the Breadbrick, the Worm Blob. A plan to release
weekly bricks was wattled by a shared understanding of time into something more complex in structure,
less structured in complexity.
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Initially, the week's caretakers were responsible for collecting materials from our guest
contributions, which included lectures, collective readings, hands-on exercises, an excursion to the
Houweling Telecom Museum, Rotterdam and another to Constant, Brussels. The caretakers were
responsible for recording audio, editing notes, transcribing code, taking pictures, and making lunch.
Meanwhile the week's editors were responsible for coming up with a further step in how the publishing
progressed, by adding new connections and interfaces, creating languages, plotting strikes and cherishing
memories. This mode of publishing made us develop our own collective understandings of
inter-operation, of networked care and access, backward- and forward-compatibility, obsolence and
futurability.
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Teletypewriters ushered in a new mode of inscription of writing: if the typewriter set up a
grid of letters and voids of the same size, turning the absence of a letter (the space) into a key
itself (the spacebar), the teletypewriter finished it by inscribing the space in the very same
material as all other letters: electrical zeros and ones, that were to immediately leave the
machine. The Teletype Model 33, one of the most widely produced and distributed text-based terminals
in the 1970s, introduced multiple technological concretizations that are present in the computers of
today as a sort of legacy, such as the qwerty keyboard with control keys, the ascii character
encoding and the TTY terminal capability. We have created short-circuits that allow us to remember
otherwise technical progress and computational genealogies.
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TTY was produced in april-june 2023 as special issue 21 of the xpub at piet zwart institute,
rotterdam. xpub is the master of arts in fine art and design: experimental publishing of the
piet zwart institute. xpub focuses on the acts of making things public and creating publics
in the age of post-digital networks.</p>
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<h2>Subrelease <a href="enconv/enconv.html">Encoding Converter</a></h2>
<p>It's a table, it's a converter, it's a look behind-the-scenes at what really happens when you type on a keyboard!
You know, when you press a key and the computer somehow magically knows what you meant to say?
Oh well, our buddy Javascript is here to break it down for you in all its nerdy glory.
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Get ready for some wild en-codings, including binary, hexadecimal, decimal, phonetic cyrillic,
and even the xpub1 emoji &#128520; alphabet. So kick back, relax, and let's dive into the wacky world
of character en-coding. En-joy!<p>
<h2>We are on <a href="strike/index.html">Strike</a></h2>
<p>Inspired by the "The Phantom of the Operator" documentary, our project delved into
the unusual idea of a website going on strike.
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Engaging in discussions both inside and outside the classroom, we explored the nature of strikes, labor actions,
and the often overlooked realm of invisible labor. As our ideas took shape and questions arose, we realized that
disrupting the functionality of the XPUB & Lens-Based Media Wiki, a platform where PZI people regularly access information,
could have a significant impact. Initially, we considered redirecting all the links to SI21's page or a Manifesto,
effectively occupying our beloved Wiki. However, considering the imminent assessment weeks for XPUB and LBM,
we decided against interfering with users' daily wiki experience and workflow.
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Instead, we embraced a different approach to realize our idea while preserving the Wiki's main functionality.
Our solution was to unveil the previously unseen labor and highlight its significance. We added
specific texts to corresponding wiki pages, seamlessly integrating them into the current SI21 sub-release.
To distinguish these pieces of text as additions and explanations, we placed them on top of each page
with the "<!- comments ->" command, and thus rendering them as hidden elements, i.e. invisible on page load.
This allowed us to provide comprehensive details about our intentions and the underlying ideas
while maintaining the wiki's regular functionality.</p>
<h2>Hey Babe!</h2>
<p>Hey Babe! is a publication of XPUB1 as part of the Special Issue 21. It consists of excerpts from the
conversations at the Houweling Telecom Museum, parts from the documentary The Phantom of the Operator
and a collective reading experience on binary systems, time, worms and pebbles.
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This publication aims to act as a familiar sound over the phone and requires a caller to be heard.
Unless anyone calls, our memories about the last couple of months will be phantomized.
This is our ode to the invisible labor of operators, long distance relationships,
people who could not hear from their lovers for years, trembling voices over the phone
and all the people who took an effort and spend time to reach someone. This is the sound
of your friend saying “hello” on the phone.
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The pubication consists of many sound clips. The caller will listen to a random clip each time they call. </p>
<p>Press play and listen to some of the teletales:</p><br>
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<source src="audio/closing.wav" type="audio/wav">
<source src="audio/telecompart1.wav" type="audio/wav">
<source src="audio/museumtour.wav" type="audio/wav">
<source src="audio/closing.wav" type="audio/wav">
<source src="audio/voicewithasmile.wav" type="audio/wav">
<source src="audio/zero.wav" type="audio/wav">
<source src="audio/mol1.wav" type="audio/wav">
<source src="audio/mosquitoatagate.wav" type="audio/wav">
<source src="audio/void.wav" type="audio/wav">
Your browser does not support the audio element.
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<img src="gsm.jpg" alt="GSM card">
<h2><a href="https://hub.xpub.nl/breadcube/gesture/">Gesture Glossary</a></h2>
<p>This is the gesture glossary. Click a word to see the gestures related to it.
The aim is to see if a gesture glossary works and how it will work best.
Also to see what kind of different interpretations there will be on gestures of our memory.
To test the gesture glossary idea, and see what different meanings appear
or already exist in the current vocabulary. Putting next to each other
different agreements on linguistic and body units, testing what makes sense.
Investigating and playing with communicational channels in between us,
how a body language is documented, how it expands, how it is capable of creating
or enhancing identities. To be an xpub means to speak/perform the xpub language?</p>
<h2>Overlap</h2>
<p>We have a bag full of planets, stars, our favorite moments, darkest fears, best intentions and worst
feelings. We contain them and sometimes they overlap each other. Sometimes we are happy and sad;
sometimes we forget why we were even mad in the beginning. But we also share some of these moments or
galaxies that reside in our bags with other souls. We remember the same moment through a different
window. We remember that day as cold, whereas they remember it as warm. One by one, these moments
create one snapshot of the reality. The reality we create collectively. We sometimes trust our memories
and our memories always trust us.
We overlap, we crawl through the memory lane. We go silently through the gates of space and time,
we exchange our sights with each other and for one spectacular moment, all the stars in our bags spill
and we get to see through each others' eyes. Our bag is now in the middle, its ready for you to
discover and see the networks of our minds, make knots in the middle or intervene with what we call is
a collective memory of few xpubbers.</p>
<img src="overlap2.png">
<img src="overlap1.png">
<h2>Special thanks to Martino Morandi (guest editor) and the TTY <_0_o_></h2>
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<p>With contributions of:
<br><a href="http://www.andreadiseregoalighieri.info/">Andrea di Serego Alighieri</a>
<br><a href="https://snelting.domainepublic.net/">Femke Snelting</a>
<br><a href="https://www.isabelle-sully.com/">Isabelle Sully</a>
<br><a href="http://jararocha.blogspot.com/">Jara Rocha</a></p>
<br><a href="https://roelof.info/">Roel Roscam Abbing</a>
<br>Zoumana Meïté: a performer and theatre-maker based in Strasbourg
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