this summer i worked on a web to print publication together with @martinafarrugia and zuhui. the publication documents projects and field trips from our classes third trimester at @xpub.pietzwart .
The cover is made by 1. tweaking the website in the web inspector, 2. taking screenshots and 3. printing and layering them by manually using a photocopier (so no adobe or cloud or other proprietary software)
hope to do more of this next year and less pushing tired pixels around : )
Terms of servers is a terminal based publication that runs on a temporary, communal server called Cerealbox.
The project was developed in close collaboration with Claudio - working with the server for almost a year now evoked questions around its materiality and reliability.
Scripting and writing, we discuss these questions among us, the users, but also direct them towards Cerealbox itself.
Terms of servers’ form is malleable, it can be read in a computer shell or as printed text.
The publication was presented at the Houweling Telecommuseum Rotterdam (which I can really recommend to visit if you’re around!). They kindly hosted our @xpub.pietzwart event “See you many times” in the beginning of this month.
1: cover of the print publication
2: title of the publication in the terminal
3: installation at the Telecommuseum next to the museum archive
4: live scripts in the publication
5: me, last minute debugging
over the past months I have been working on a browser extension:
“annual rings” gets the date when a website was first created, for every year that has passed since this date, a ring will be wrapped around the sites contents.
A usable prototype is now downloadable for firefox
/en-US/firefox/addon/annual-rings/
I published the code and wrote a bit more the extensions background here:
/km_kt/annual-rings
in its making, this project travelled through different places, was shaped by and discussed with many people… from the @hackersanddesigners summercamp, it went with me to berlin and later to rotterdam where it found space to grow at @xpub.pietzwart and varia, and over the time has been closely entwined with the declarations research and @ungual.gossip , thank you!
The latest in our series with Naive Yearly is a piece by @prettyboykim on publishing, contamination, and disrupting the flow — an essay written in the margins
https://www.are.na/editorial/on-contamination
Projects and pieces from 2024 I wanted to share here but never found the time:
1. I set up a new domain and website for myself it’s kimkleinert.com :)
2. Bug fixing for “in between echoes” exhibition in Hamburg website with @fernandabraunsantos
3. “My website is a…” workshop with @kaczock for @hbk_konzeptionelles.gestalten
4. Writing together with @polinsski for @r_o_b_i_d_a magazine
5. “Tracing networks Backwards” is a website operatable with a joystick
6. Project list website for my BFA presentation in February
7. Behind the scenes BFA installation set up
In September I visited Ljubiljana and talked about contamination and infectous interfaces at this years Naive Yearly conference.
Thank you for making this space @kristoffer_tjalve and for letting me be part of it!
Thank you for capturing these days so beautifully @iamnotana and @itsletati (slide 1 and 2) and thank you to everyone else who presented, asked, discussed and listened along.
The event took place at @mao_slovenia and was kindly supported by Hypertext Foundation
Spent the last two weeks at the @hackersanddesigners summer camp - thank you all for this:)
1. + 2. Prepared “shoulder surfing: communal devices as sites of (un)learning? a workshop with @kaczock
3. Body time is a watchface which’s arms react to movement rather than Gregorian time - with @selbygildemacher
4. Programming
5. Programming with flies
6. Carrying computer in the rain
7. Moon
Went to Paris last week :)
1. Shadow of Bruno Munaris’ Macchina Inutile (Useless Machine) 1949 at Centre Pompidou
2. Mirrored building hiding construction site
3. cheese at le barav
4. pile of butter at the market
5. Market hauls and vibrant colors
Some details of network-matters.xyz, a website which posed the core part of my BFA project.
With operating on different axes, the website works as the starting point, research container and text publication at the same time. Each axis distinguishes itself through an individual scroll direction which mirrors its trajectory.
Using the @aredotna API allows me to work on it in different environments, to collaborate easily and give the contents a life of their own, apart from the interface I designed.
Transitions and thresholds appear, as you move along the axes, building a seamfull structure: showing edges as a possibility to situate yourself within.
The project was supervised by @christophknoth and @konradrenner together with @klassedigitalegrafik
Fonts in Use are OCR-X by @maxitype_com and Remus Variable by @epitype
‘Network Matters: Requests for Situating Technologies’ was presented at the @hfbkhamburg Annual Exhibition a few days ago.
network-matters.xyz
As practical part of my BFA, ‘Network Matters’ operates on three different axes: A Questionnaire, Responses and a Glossary. The site reveals an open back, all its contents are based on @aredotna
The ‘Responses’ axis contains text contributions by @fernandabraunsantos@katharinanejdl@kristoffer_tjalve@fishthursdays and @polinsski Thank you for meeting and writing in the interfaces…
Letting edges, thresholds and transitions surface, the websites underlying structures leak out into the user interface of the web and the physical exhibition space.
Thank you @christophknoth@konradrenner and @klassedigitalegrafik for the supervision and supportive environment
Exhibition documentation by @celiazehetgruber
Fonts in use are Remus Variable by @epitype and OCR-X Variable by @maxitype_com
‘Asking for Breakpoints’ is an exploration into different states of matter that started while a lightweight, snowy three day workshop. The text, reading and website’s density react to multiple outer breakpoints.
Thank you @roombaghost for the workshop and putting together the results so carefully!
/hamburg/index-after.html#works
with @klassedigitalegrafik
Slide 1-3: different states of the website in textual densities.
Slide 4: the initial prompt for writing (text and code)
Slide 5: hidden mood image
Slide 6: recording of the website ‘in situ’
