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< h3 id = "special-issue-21" > Special Issue 21< / h3 >
< 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’ &
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 like a speaking singing constantly communicating charm. A
typewriter is corny!!< / p >
< p > Amiri Baraka, Technology & Ethos,
http://www.soulsista.com/titanic/baraka.html< / p >
< 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.< / p >
< p > The format of the issue consisted of 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.< / p >
< p > Initially, the week’
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’
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.< / p >
< p > 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.< / p >
< p > TTY was produced in April-June 2023 as special issue 21 with guest
editor Martino Morandi, and contributors Andrea di Serego Alighieri,
Femke Snelting, Isabelle Sully, Jara Rocha, Roel Roscam Abbing, and
Zoumana Meïté.< / p >
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< img src = "TTY.jpg"
alt="An inscription performance using the TeleType Model 33 and a 40m stairwell." />
< figcaption aria-hidden = "true" > An inscription performance using the
TeleType Model 33 and a 40m stairwell.< / figcaption >
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< img src = "tape.jpg" alt = "punchtape read-writer of Teletype Machine" / >
< figcaption aria-hidden = "true" > punchtape read-writer of Teletype
Machine< / figcaption >
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< img src = "stairs_concrete.jpg"
alt="A reading and writing of poetry using pedestrians and vinyl quotes." />
< figcaption aria-hidden = "true" > A reading and writing of poetry using
pedestrians and vinyl quotes.< / figcaption >
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< figure >
< img src = "gesture.png"
alt="Gesture Glossary : how a body language is documented, how it expands, how it is capable of creating or enhancing identities." />
< figcaption aria-hidden = "true" > Gesture Glossary : how a body language is
documented, how it expands, how it is capable of creating or enhancing
identities.< / figcaption >
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< figure >
< img src = "strike.jpg"
alt="Wiki strike screenshot: embedding hidden comments in a wiki to highlight the invisible labour, to provide comprehensive details about our intentions and the underlying ideas while maintaining the wiki’
< figcaption aria-hidden = "true" > Wiki strike screenshot: embedding hidden
comments in a wiki to highlight the invisible labour, to provide
comprehensive details about our intentions and the underlying ideas
while maintaining the wiki’ < / figcaption >
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< img src = "callme_window.jpg"
alt="Hey Babe arduino based telephone experience. Callers can listen to love stories, excerpts from conversations at the Houweling Telecom Museum, Rotterdam, parts from the documentary The Phantom of the Operator and a collective reading experience on binary systems, time, worms and pebbles." />
< figcaption aria-hidden = "true" > Hey Babe arduino based telephone
experience. Callers can listen to love stories, excerpts from
conversations at the Houweling Telecom Museum, Rotterdam, parts from the
documentary The Phantom of the Operator and a collective reading
experience on binary systems, time, worms and pebbles.< / figcaption >
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< img src = "callme_bike.jpeg"
alt="I’
< figcaption aria-hidden = "true" > I’
no idea what to do about it. Phone cards inviting participation in “Hey
Babe”. Someone holding it in the street?< / figcaption >
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< img src = "encoding.png"
alt="Encoding Convertor: the wacky world of character en-coding." />
< figcaption aria-hidden = "true" > Encoding Convertor: the wacky world of
character en-coding.< / figcaption >
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< img src = "overlap.png"
alt="We have a bag full of planets, stars, our favorite moments, darkest fears, best intentions and worst feelings. 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." />
< figcaption aria-hidden = "true" > We have a bag full of planets, stars, our
favorite moments, darkest fears, best intentions and worst feelings. Our
bag is now in the middle, it's 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.< / figcaption >
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< img src = "hexalogue.jpg"
alt="Hexalogue booklet. A conversation for six voices is encoded and documented in a script." />
< figcaption aria-hidden = "true" > Hexalogue booklet. A conversation for six
voices is encoded and documented in a script.< / figcaption >
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alt="Publications holding tiny sub-releases during SI21" />
< figcaption aria-hidden = "true" > Publications holding tiny sub-releases
during SI21< / figcaption >
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< img src = "calling.jpeg"
alt="Ada’
< figcaption aria-hidden = "true" > Ada’
York and Brussels< / figcaption >
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< img src = "zine.jpg"
alt="This A6 zine is a sub-release created by three women sitting on the teletype machine thinking and performing" />
< figcaption aria-hidden = "true" > This A6 zine is a sub-release created by
three women sitting on the teletype machine thinking and
performing< / figcaption >
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