From e486c238ec93fa9562434ff8530e64dcb2b4db11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephen
When: October 2023
Where: XPUB studio wall
Who: myself
Description: Some months ago my classmates and I received an email -with a questionnaire aimed at preparing us for the upcoming quality -assurance meeting within the school. Ada and I had a meeting, in an -empty white room with closed doors, with an external collaborator of the -university. The main request was to rate and answer the pre-formulated -questions covering issues about performance, different and multiple -topics related to the course, the teaching staff, the facilities, the -tools provided. The micro linguistic experiment of highlighting, -censoring and annotating this document aimed for an understanding of -what a quality assurance meeting is within an educational -institution.
-Reflections-Thoughts: This experiment was my first attempt to start -interrogating and observing the language and the structure of a -bureaucratic document. How these “desired” standards propagated through -text. What is the role of the student-client in these processes as an -esoteric gaze of control over the course and their teachers? My focus -was to locate and accumulate all the wording related to measurements, -rate, quantity, assessments, statistics. Highlighting the -disproportionate amount of metrics-related vocabulary was enough to +
Description: Some months ago my classmates and I +received an email with a questionnaire aimed at preparing us for the +upcoming quality assurance meeting within the school. Ada and I had a +meeting, in an empty white room with closed doors, with an external +collaborator of the university. The main request was to rate and answer +the pre-formulated questions covering issues about performance, +different and multiple topics related to the course, the teaching staff, +the facilities, the tools provided. The micro linguistic experiment of +highlighting, censoring and annotating this document aimed for an +understanding of what a quality assurance meeting is within an +educational institution.
+Reflections-Thoughts: This experiment was my first +attempt to start interrogating and observing the language and the +structure of a bureaucratic document. How these “desired” standards +propagated through text. What is the role of the student-client in these +processes as an esoteric gaze of control over the course and their +teachers? My focus was to locate and accumulate all the wording related +to measurements, rate, quantity, assessments, statistics. Highlighting +the disproportionate amount of metrics-related vocabulary was enough to craft the narrative around this process.
These ‘rituals’ are components of a larger “culture of evidence”,
serving as a tool that blurs the distinction between discourse and
@@ -1613,38 +1613,38 @@ Customs Enforcement”
Where: LeeszaalCommunity
Library in Rotterdam West
Who: XPUB peers, tutors, friends, alumni
Description: During the first public moment at Leeszaal, I decided to -embody and enact the traditional role of a bureaucrat in a graphic and -possibly absurd way performing a small “theatrical play”. I prepared a -3-page and a 1-page document incorporating bureaucratic-form aesthetics -and requesting applicants’ fake data and their answers for questions -related to educational bureaucracy. People receiving an applicant number -at the entrance of Leeszaal, queuing to collect their documents from the -administration “office”, filling forms, waiting, receiving stamps, -giving fingerprints and signing, waiting again were the main components -of this act.
-Reflections-Thoughts: Beyond the information gathered through my -bureaucratic-like questionnaires, the most crucial element of this -experiment was the understanding and highlighting of the hidden -performative elements that entrench these “rituals”. It was amazing -seeing the audience becoming instantly actors of the play enacting -willingly a administrative ritualistic scene. The provided context of -this “play” was a social library hosting a masters course public event -on graduation projects. I am wondering whether this asymphony between -the repetitive bureaucratic acts within the space of Leeszaal, where -such acts are not expected to be performed, evoked contradictory -feelings or thoughts. Over-identifying with a role was being -instrumentalized as an “interrogation” of one’s own involvement in the -reproduction of social discourses, power, authority, hegemony.
+Description: During the first public moment at +Leeszaal, I decided to embody and enact the traditional role of a +bureaucrat in a graphic and possibly absurd way performing a small +“theatrical play”. I prepared a 3-page and a 1-page document +incorporating bureaucratic-form aesthetics and requesting applicants’ +fake data and their answers for questions related to educational +bureaucracy. People receiving an applicant number at the entrance of +Leeszaal, queuing to collect their documents from the administration +“office”, filling forms, waiting, receiving stamps, giving fingerprints +and signing, waiting again were the main components of this act.
+Reflections-Thoughts: Beyond the information +gathered through my bureaucratic-like questionnaires, the most crucial +element of this experiment was the understanding and highlighting of the +hidden performative elements that entrench these “rituals”. It was +amazing seeing the audience becoming instantly actors of the play +enacting willingly a administrative ritualistic scene. The provided +context of this “play” was a social library hosting a masters course +public event on graduation projects. I am wondering whether this +asymphony between the repetitive bureaucratic acts within the space of +Leeszaal, where such acts are not expected to be performed, evoked +contradictory feelings or thoughts. Over-identifying with a role was +being instrumentalized as an “interrogation” of one’s own involvement in +the reproduction of social discourses, power, authority, hegemony.
-This document is a collection of fragments exploring beliefs about labour in the creative industries, in particular graphic ⊞. Each @@ -2960,7 +2960,6 @@ than last week when there was no work. ⊞ers look at their phone and see their alarm is going to go off in ten minutes, so they switch it off and get up. -
The precarity of working in the creative industries, in particular as a freelancer or within a small studio, induces anxiety. There is a belief that the ⊞er as freelancer is empowered by their autonomy, but in @@ -3059,7 +3058,7 @@ recipient of the Catherine Donnelly Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to ⊞ in Ireland and is the Course Director of ⊞ West, an international summer ⊞ school located in the beautiful village of Letterfrack on the West Coast of Ireland. (⊞west.eu, 2023)
-The developments of the written word and its relationship to form in the 20th century is very much a part of the history of ⊞. I care about this story because it affects contemporary practitioners. I believe @@ -3172,7 +3171,7 @@ assigning or finding meanings in ⊞
This autoethnographic annotation attempts to really miss as many cultural and technical cues as possible. It’s watching the ⊞er, me, and being totally mystified by their behaviour.
-Adolf Loos was a modernist architect whose writings such as Ornament and Crime in 1910 influenced modernist ideals of functionalism and minimalism. He rejected ornament and favoured the use @@ -3437,7 +3436,7 @@ inherited from a wider cultural belief of the same general drive: to order and simplify. Humans try to make sense of the world. ⊞ers make sense of ⊞ briefs and structure them into something understandable to an audience or target market.
-⊞ers interact with the computer through keyboard and mouse usage. Compared to other computer users, my interaction involves lots of pressing of function keys, something common with other technical @@ -3580,7 +3579,7 @@ proprietary font. There is a visual difference between these fonts too which is also relevant buuuuut this description is getting very detailed maybe not right now. -
Similarly to the software changes, this documentation of my practice sees me choosing open source fonts. I’m really ambivalent about this. I do like the idea of being able to modify a font when needed, but I have @@ -3614,7 +3613,7 @@ beliefs around copyright? Do ⊞ers believe in intellectual property? What value do ⊞ers, specifically typographers, see in their work and that of their close peers, the font ⊞ers, and how does copyright relate to these values?
-Hey Conor, hope you’re keeping well these days? I’ve been going @@ -3633,7 +3632,7 @@ field like graphic ⊞? Curious to know what you think.
totally fine with anonymising, removing, or editing.Thanks,
Stephen
Yo ◱, hope all’s good with you these days?
I’ve been piecing together the interviews from December and I’d love @@ -3657,7 +3656,7 @@ way, or maybe it’s something else to you and I’m projecting :)
totally fine with anonymising, removing, or editing.Thanks,
Stephen
Hey ◳, hope youre good!
I’m thinking of putting this section of the interview we did back in @@ -3703,7 +3702,7 @@ thinking” (Brodine, 1990) or “⊞er without qualities” (Lorusso, 2023). The fragments have been situated and subjective rather than objective, they have been outside of categories because the categories are broken anyway.
-Last night I dreamt I was standing on a hill in the Swiss Alps and you were there and all of our friends and the hill was covered in little @@ -3728,9 +3727,9 @@ surfboards were Quiksilver and some they had built themselves from a git repository but the sun was a walnut and it was definitely moving but I couldnt tell was it rising or setting but it didn’t matter to us the surf was great and everything smelled like magnolias.
-Thanks to Ada, Aglaia, Ben, Chae, Conor, Irmak, Jenny, Joseph, kamo, Leslie, Manetta, Marloes, Michael, Rossi.
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This document collates and reflects on this research. -### empty title The precarity of working in the creative industries, in particular as a @@ -260,7 +233,7 @@ in Ireland and is the Course Director of ⊞ West, an international summer ⊞ school located in the beautiful village of Letterfrack on the West Coast of Ireland*. (⊞west.eu, 2023) -### empty title +--- @@ -375,7 +348,7 @@ through a cosmic hybris. - Description of Steve McCaffrey's *CARNIVAL* (The Idea of the Book, 2024) -### empty title +--- The developments of the written word and its relationship to form in the @@ -396,7 +369,7 @@ This autoethnographic annotation attempts to really miss as many cultural and technical cues as possible. It's watching the ⊞er, me, and being totally mystified by their behaviour. -### empty title +--- @@ -467,7 +440,7 @@ is an example of our general belief in this dichotomy not quite making sense or fitting reality. The ⊞er is working for whom? Themselves? Their clients? -### empty title +--- @@ -657,7 +630,7 @@ misplaced and there is a human urge to stop, just stop. -### empty title +--- Adolf Loos was a modernist architect whose writings such as *Ornament @@ -724,7 +697,7 @@ order and simplify. Humans try to make sense of the world. ⊞ers make sense of ⊞ briefs and structure them into something understandable to an audience or target market. -### empty title +--- @@ -782,7 +755,7 @@ fans were in fact taking their own conference seriously? As both seem unbelievable the true funniness of the joke hits home in it's implied meaning: ⊞ers are boring as fuck. -### empty title +--- @@ -797,7 +770,7 @@ meaning: ⊞ers are boring as fuck. v ctrl c ctrl v ctrl c ctrl v ctrl c ctrl v ctrl v ctrl v ctrl v ctrl v ctrl v ctrl v* -### empty title +--- ⊞ers interact with the computer through keyboard and mouse usage. @@ -914,7 +887,7 @@ that in a normal file format please, I can't open it. difference between these fonts too which is also relevant buuuuut this description is getting very detailed maybe not right now.* -### empty title +--- Similarly to the software changes, this documentation of my practice @@ -952,7 +925,7 @@ value do ⊞ers, specifically typographers, see in their work and that of their close peers, the font ⊞ers, and how does copyright relate to these values? -### empty title +--- @@ -979,7 +952,7 @@ fine with anonymising, removing, or editing. Thanks, Stephen -### empty title +--- @@ -1014,7 +987,7 @@ fine with anonymising, removing, or editing. Thanks, Stephen -### empty title +--- @@ -1076,7 +1049,7 @@ they have been outside of categories because the categories are broken anyway. -### empty title +--- #### Conclusion @@ -1174,11 +1147,11 @@ couldnt tell was it rising or setting but it didn't matter to us the surf was great and everything smelled like magnolias. -### empty title +--- -### empty title +--- -### empty title +--- #### Acknowledgements @@ -1270,4 +1243,4 @@ Sixteen Essays on Typography,* London: The Sylvan Press. Weber, M., (1905) "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism", *Archiv für Sozialwissenschaften* 20, no. 1 (1904), pp. 1–54; 21, no. 1 -(1905), pp. 1–110. \ No newline at end of file +(1905), pp. 1–110. 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