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<p class="tags">Publication, graduation catalogue</p>
<p>The Upsetting Settings Catalogue presents two years' worth of work from the 2019 graduates of the Piet Zwart Institute, Experimental Publishing. The publication was launched within the graduation show Upsetting Settings, at UBIK Rotterdam. The concept behind 'Upsetting settings' arises from the defaults of technology. In every system there are settings predefined by its creators, that most of the time stay untouched by us, as users. It's their default, not ours, but it's up to us to change it. Society is made of similar preset frameworks that we take for granted. The projects in this exhibition engage with these different default modes and intervene in their core structure/source/root.
<p>The Upsetting Settings Catalogue presents two years' worth of work from the 2019 graduates of the Piet Zwart Institute, Experimental Publishing. The publication was launched within the graduation show Upsetting Settings, at UBIK Rotterdam. The concept behind <i>Upsetting settings</i> arises from the defaults of technology. In every system there are settings predefined by its creators, that most of the time stay untouched by us, as users. It's their default, not ours, but it's up to us to change it. Society is made of similar preset frameworks that we take for granted. The projects in this catalogue engage with these different default modes and intervene in their core structure/source/root.
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<p>This publication was developed together with Natasha Berting, Angeliki Diakrousi, Joca van der Horst, Alex Roidl, and Zalán Szakács.</p>
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<p class="tags">Public intervention</p>
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The Happiness Project was created together with Angeliki Diakrousi as a intervention in the city of Groningen. The intervention took place in parallel and as a response to the local festival Let's Gro, a festival about improving the city through start up initiatives, wih a focus on the assumption that Groningen locals are 'happy'. </p>
<p>Borrowing the existing infrastructure for advertising and corporate communication, or signs placed by people to regulate their own private space, creating borders between private and public, we made our own statements as a response/dialogue to the words of Lets Gro. Using similar materials, communication methods and graphics, we created small engravings that blend in with the grass, buildings and sidewalk, and make a surprising comment on the issue of happiness. At the same time we understand the term growing, that is included in the name of the festival, as occupying a space, making a big and bold statement, which led to our choice of a big banner. We walked with a big banner, with the statement Happiness is a privilege, through the city in a rush hour.</p>
The Happiness Project was created together with Angeliki Diakrousi as a intervention in the city of Groningen. The intervention took place in parallel and as a response to the local event <i>Let's Gro</i>, a festival about improving the city through start up initiatives, wih a focus on the assumption that Groningen locals are 'happy'. </p>
<p>Borrowing the existing infrastructure for advertising and corporate communication, or signs placed by people to regulate their own private space, creating borders between private and public, we made our own statements as a response/dialogue to the words of Lets Gro. Using similar materials, communication methods and graphics, we created small engravings that blend in with the grass, buildings and sidewalk, and make a surprising comment on the issue of happiness. At the same time, we understand the term growing, that is included in the name of the festival, as occupying a space, making a big and bold statement, which led to our choice of printing big banner. We walked with the banner, with the statement Happiness is a privilege, through the city during rush hour.</p>
<p>The project was part of the Timeline Gallery project, developed with the help of SIGN Groningen. Find this project <a href="https://sign2.nl/events/timeline-intervention-happiness-project-alice-strete-angeliki-diakrousi/" target="_blank">here</a> as well.</p>
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Alice Strete
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<p class="tags">Installation, discussion, workshop, performance, publication</p>
<p>The Temporary Autonomous Bureau is a space for researching and discussing interpretations of autonomy in cultural or social projects within Rotterdam. For the duration of three months in 2018, we converted a space at TENT into a temporary office. Following two projects from 2017 the database The Autonomous Archive and the publication A Bed, A Chair and A Table we used this space to carry on researching the Poortgebouws history, a historic residential community located next to the Maas River.</p>
<p>The Temporary Autonomous Bureau is a space for researching and discussing interpretations of autonomy in cultural or social projects within Rotterdam. For the duration of three months in 2018, we converted a space at TENT into a temporary office. Following two projects from 2017 the database The Autonomous Archive and the publication A Bed, a Chair and a Table we used this space to carry on researching Poortgebouws story, a historic residential community located next to the Maas River.</p>
<p>The project has 3 parts. First, we organized a discussion session with guests from WORM Pirate Bay Archive, Leeszaal West and Stichting Freehouse, on the topic of <a href="https://www.tentrotterdam.nl/event/the-temporary-autonomous-bureau-anomalous-institutions/" target="_blank"><i>Anomalous Institutions</i></a> and how they can function and survive in Rotterdam. Second, within the workshop <a href="https://www.tentrotterdam.nl/event/workshop-stop-being-an-instrument-and-sing-your-own-songs/" target="_blank"><i>Stop Being an Instrument and Sing Your Own Songs</i></a>, we generated slogans with the help of a Python script, painted them on banners and displayed them in and outside of the TENT building. Finally, during our last performance <a href="https://www.tentrotterdam.nl/event/the-temporary-autonomous-bureau-anatomy-autonomy/" target="_blank"><i>Anatomy of Autonomy</i></a>, we read collectively a computer generated manifesto on autonomy and self-organization, and presented our research within a publication. </p>
<p>This research project was developed together with Angeliki Diakrousi, Giulia de Giovanelli, Naomi De Wit, Philippa Driest, and Thanos Kaltsamis. Find this project <a href="https://www.tentrotterdam.nl/tentoonstelling/rotterdam-cultural-histories-13-the-temporary-autonomous-bureau/" target="_blank">here</a> as well.</p>

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<p class="tags">Desktop film, website, essay, installation, performance</p>
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Is it time to eat, or is there no more time to eat is an extensive review of the most prominent techno-solutionist creation in terms of food. It manifests itself into a desktop film and an essay, alongside an archive of images, articles, videos and more, which together deconstruct the culture of future food, born in the valley of technological quick-fixes.</p>
<i>Is it time to eat, or is there no more time to eat</i> is an extensive review of the most prominent techno-solutionist creation in terms of food. It manifests itself into a desktop film and an essay, alongside an archive of images, articles, videos and more, which together deconstruct the culture of future food, born in the valley of technological quick-fixes.</p>
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The work takes a closer look at the culture around the techno-solutionist ideology, and the role of meal replacements within societies which value the authoritative roles of tech innovators and their potential to impact the way humans live.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-maUIUAC3I" target="_blank">video</a> was presented alongside an installation, <a href="https://food.alicestrete.me/" target="_blank">website</a>, and a participative performance within the Upsetting Settings graduation show of the Experimental Publishing masters program, at UBIK Rotterdam, July, 2019. Find the project <a href="https://project.xpub.nl/is-it-time-to-eat-or-is-there-no-more-time-to-eat/" target="_blank">here</a> and the thesis <a href="https://project.xpub.nl/is-it-time-to-eat-or-is-there-no-more-time-to-eat/pdf/your-body-will-make-itself-heard.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>

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<p class="tags">Workshop, discussion</p>
<p>Unpacking Gender Roles was an informal meet-up to discuss our graduation processes under the same umbrella, through the lens of gender. In our work, we explored strategies to unpack, decontextualize and infiltrate gender structures in our daily lives. During this session, we talked about public speaking and listening, visual gender representations in food culture, and how social media amplifies some voices while silencing others. The intention of this event was to make our processes public, and invite others to exchange feedback.</p>
<p><i>Unpacking Gender Roles</i> was an informal meet-up to discuss our graduation processes under the same umbrella, through the lens of gender. In our work, we explored strategies to unpack, decontextualize and infiltrate gender structures in our daily lives. During this session, we talked about public speaking and listening, visual gender representations in food culture, and how social media amplifies some voices while silencing others. The intention of this event was to make our processes public, and invite others to exchange feedback.</p>
<p>This session was created in collaboration with Angeliki Diakrousi and Natasha Berting.</p>
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<p class="tags">Publication, graduation thesis</p>
<p>Upsetting Settings, Collected Works presents graduation theses from the 2019 graduates of the Piet Zwart Institute, Experimental Publishing. The publication was launched within the graduation show Upsetting Settings, at UBIK Rotterdam. The concept behind 'Upsetting settings' arises from the defaults of technology. In every system there are settings predefined by its creators, that most of the time stay untouched by us, as users. It's their default, not ours, but it's up to us to change it. Society is made of similar preset frameworks that we take for granted. The projects in this exhibition engage with these different default modes and intervene in their core structure/source/root.
<p>Upsetting Settings, Collected Works presents graduation theses from the 2019 graduates of the Piet Zwart Institute, Experimental Publishing. The publication was launched within the graduation show Upsetting Settings, at UBIK Rotterdam. The concept behind 'Upsetting settings' arises from the defaults of technology. In every system there are settings predefined by its creators, that most of the time stay untouched by us, as users. It's their default, not ours, but it's up to us to change it. Society is made of similar preset frameworks that we take for granted.
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<p>My graduation thesis, <a href="https://project.xpub.nl/is-it-time-to-eat-or-is-there-no-more-time-to-eat/pdf/your-body-will-make-itself-heard.pdf" target="_blank"><i>Your Body Will Make Itself Heard</i></a>, deals with the meal replacement phenomenon occurring in Western countries, within a culture that falls under the sphere of influence of the startup world, driven by entrepreneurial values and libertarian views. To understand the way the role of food is being transformed by technology companies, I follow a path through the history of cooking and gender roles in food preparation, the role technology has in food culture and the way Silicon Valley is appropriating food traditions and knowledge in creating new consumer products for the privileged. At the same time, I explore the potential of future food innovations, in the context of ever increasing abstraction and commodification of food and the labour of cooking.</p>

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<p class="tags">Publication, reader</p>
<p>Techno/Cyber/Xeno-Feminism: The Intimate and Possibly Subversive Relationship Between Women and Machines Reader explores topics from women's introduction into the technological workforce, the connection between weaving and programming, and using technology in favour of the feminist movement. One major concept that appears throughout the reader is an almost mystical connection between women and software writing, embedded deep in women's tradition of weaving not just threads, but networks. Does software have a gender?
<p><i>Techno/Cyber/Xeno-Feminism: The Intimate and Possibly Subversive Relationship Between Women and Machines</i> Reader explores topics from women's introduction into the technological workforce, the connection between weaving and programming, and using technology in favour of the feminist movement. One major concept that appears throughout the reader is an almost mystical connection between women and software writing, embedded deep in women's tradition of weaving not just threads, but networks. Does software have a gender?
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<p>The reader was developed using free software, in the context of the <a href="https://issue.xpub.nl/05/">OuNuPo Special Issue</a>, at the Piet Zwart Institute. The publication was displayed at the <a href="https://gaite-lyrique.net/evenement/grrrls-tech-zine-fair">Grrrls Tech Zine Fair</a>, at Le Gaîté Lyrique, Paris.</p>

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<p class="tags">Pirate library, web application</p>
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XPPL is a space for potential pirate librarianship. It is both an experiment and a working prototype for a distributed network catalogue and library that you can run and install on several machines and share/synchronise with the same bibliographical database.</p>
<p>Initially developed as a in-house tool for the XPUB course, XPPL is a project aimed at people who are studying within and outside formal education. XPPL provides a web interface and hosts a curated catalogue of books and articles. Its distributed architecture is open to instances of uploading and downloading, and allows for the collective editing of its content. In XPPL, librarians can add, and modify small collections of books that are connected by threads of thought, or follow a certain thematic or study path.</p>
<p>Initially developed as a in-house tool for the XPUB course, XPPL is a project aimed at people who are studying within and outside formal education. XPPL provides a web interface and hosts a curated catalogue of books and articles. Its distributed architecture is open to instances of uploading and downloading, and allows for the collective editing of its content. In XPPL, librarians can add and modify small collections of books that are connected by threads of thought, or follow a certain thematic or study path.</p>
<p>My main focus within the library revolved around the notion of stacks. Rather than a bookshelf in a library, where books are lined up and often forgotten, the stacks on your table/nightstand/bathroom floor consist of books prone to be opened and reopened at any time. The stacks in XPPL are visible for others in the network to browse, annotate, update or shuffle. </p>
<p>Find the project <a href="https://issue.xpub.nl/06/" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://git.xpub.nl/XPUB/XPPL" target="_blank">here</a> as well.</p>

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