diff --git a/projects/grs/documentation.md b/projects/grs/documentation.md index 5606ee9..2fe0388 100644 --- a/projects/grs/documentation.md +++ b/projects/grs/documentation.md @@ -185,19 +185,28 @@ control, frame the world in a form that you can control and act on from a really i would like to research on the question: can we do it in another way? giving back something and not only take when you're using a tool you can learn the world throught the use of it, the difference is: can i use the scissors to cut a piece of paper and make a notebook or kill someone? --> -The following is a list of current trends that the software industry enforces and reiterate. +This is a list of current trends that the software industry enforces and naturalize. -Software comes from a really specific and situated cultural tradition. -Software tends to priviledge occidental, masculine, binary, exploitative and extractive practices. -Software is shrouded with technical obscurity. +Software comes from a really specific occidental cultural tradition. +Software tends to priviledge masculine, binary, exploitative and extractive practices. +Software is shrouded in technical obscurity. Software comes invisible, transparent, neutral. Software models the world in order to control it. -Making software means not only to write code, but also to take a stance regarding this trends. -With this project the intention is to situate my practice within some ethical boundaries. +To make software means not only to write code, but also to take a stance regarding this trends. +With this project the intention is to situate my practice within ethical yet sustainable boundaries. ### Who can help you and how? +I would like to interview some artists with programming-related practices to get some glimpse of their workflows. +I'm thinking for example to Nathan Sinigalia, Ian Cheng, Nicolas Maigret. +I want to ask to Ariella Vidach A.i.E.P. how working with technology changed in the past 30 years. +I'm interested in the workflow of radical studios such as Open Source Publishing but also more commercial ones like Forensic Architecture and Studio Moniker. +For sure it would be interesting to get in touch with someone mantaining open source projects such as Paged.js, P5Js, vvvv, or more unconventional ones. +Some interesting things could emerge from field research directly in git repositories, issues and wikis. + +The practical aspect depends on the second and third case studies. There are some communities I would like to work with: Pietre Parlanti is a non-profit association that works with the recovery of old routes and cultural heritage in Liguria, Italy. I'm already in touch with them for [Frana Futura](../frana-futura/), the documentary I'm working on with Sofia, Elena and Micalis. + ### Relation to previous practice ### Relation to a larger context