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-====== femke introduction ======
+======   VJ12 Lectures notes ======
+[[vj12 | VJ12 Brainstorm]] | [[Vj12 Press Release | VJ12 Press Release]] | [[Vj12Expo | VJ12 Expo, video programme, readinglist]] | [[VJ12BookNotes | Vj12 Book's notes]] | [[VJ12LecturesNotes | Vj12 Lectures notes]]
+======   Saturday 28/11/2009 ======
+===== Femke's introduction =====
 laboratory check if product on the black market are not dangerous\\ testing rubber, petrol coming from colonies, later testing things \\ that could be sold\\ danger of radioactive material\\ \\ operates by association\\ \\ emma marriage - license
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-====== Monroy Lopez, Ivan ======
+===== Monroy Lopez, Ivan =====
 man pages -> groff\\ nroff and troff -> formatting\\ man \\ man man\\ sourcecode man man\\ \\ man command = groff -man -Tascii command.1 | less\\ \\ tutorial, manual, reference, self-notes\\ code is relative\\ sociality of code, manual <=> hospitality, lab rat in the workplace
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-====== Lazaro, Christophe ======
+===== Lazaro, Christophe =====
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-====== Roodthooft, Dominique ======
+===== Roodthooft, Dominique =====
-Smatch scene theatrale: poser probleme et le commenter\\ se compose des idees de ceux qui participent a la piece.\\ smash (ecrabouiller) match (aller ensemble)\\ s'arreter pour penser joyeusement - impuissance par rapport a l'etat des choses? catastrophisme ambiant\\ assistante sociale  -> attentes? auto-socio-construction - mettre en place les choses pour qu'elles se realisent.\\ choses decidees avant q'elles ne se passent - ce q je veux faire et ce q veut l'institution\\ PMS confirme ce q l'enseignant demande\\ analyse institutionnelle, psy institutionnelle > changer l'institution change l'homme\\ ne pas donner le resultat des tests aux enseignants, ne pas faire en sorte que le dossier suive \\ l'eleve d'une ecole a l'autre\\ histoire du petit prince enfants doivent dessiner troupeau de moutons, un enfant dessine un mouton: doit redoubler sa maternelle.\\ Liege culture de l'ennemi, prendre le pouvoir. au centre rien ne bouge, l'interessant est dans la peripherie\\ on peut resister autrement - des qu'on a le pouvoir on est impuissant\\ poetique - contre-pied- ne pas etre dans la denonciation\\ la peur est partout - amene la creativite\\ parler du vieux - pas d nostalgie - home, rencontre forcee - parler du fait qu'ils sont vivants, ont des projets\\ gens qui n'ont rien a voir ensemble peuvent s'organiser et defendre un propos commun, construit un cirque et faisaient des numeros\\ la noyade d'une sirene dans ses larmes\\ carte BAM oost-duitsland (west Germany pour cantons redimes) -> contrepied\\ wallonie = desert -> peuplee avec des cochons; contrainte reprendre des mots qui commencent par les lettres de SMATCH\\ vinciane despret - etudie les gens qui s'interessent aux animaux - attentes - mettre les moutons ds des conditions\\  qui ne servent pas a en faire de la nourriture\\ syntaxe - permet d'etre dans une pensee du monde - agency: donner du pouvoir a d'autres modes d'etre que l'etre humain\\ construction du Smatch: animaux et desert\\ on ne peut pas mettre un mur pour eviter que la dune ne recouvre un village, connaitre le sens des vents et l'orienter \\ pour qu'elle passe a cote du village\\ \\ -------------------
+Smatch scene theatrale: poser probleme et le commenter\\ se compose des idees de ceux qui participent a la piece.\\ smash (ecrabouiller) match (aller ensemble)\\ s'arreter pour penser joyeusement - impuissance par rapport a l'etat des choses? catastrophisme ambiant\\ assistante sociale  -> attentes? auto-socio-construction - mettre en place les choses pour qu'elles se realisent.\\ choses decidees avant q'elles ne se passent - ce q je veux faire et ce q veut l'institution\\ PMS confirme ce q l'enseignant demande\\ analyse institutionnelle, psy institutionnelle > changer l'institution change l'homme\\ ne pas donner le resultat des tests aux enseignants, ne pas faire en sorte que le dossier suive \\ l'eleve d'une ecole a l'autre\\ histoire du petit prince enfants doivent dessiner troupeau de moutons, un enfant dessine un mouton: doit redoubler sa maternelle.\\ Liege culture de l'ennemi, prendre le pouvoir. au centre rien ne bouge, l'interessant est dans la peripherie\\ on peut resister autrement - des qu'on a le pouvoir on est impuissant\\ poetique - contre-pied- ne pas etre dans la denonciation\\ la peur est partout - amene la creativite\\ parler du vieux - pas d nostalgie - home, rencontre forcee - parler du fait qu'ils sont vivants, ont des projets\\ gens qui n'ont rien a voir ensemble peuvent s'organiser et defendre un propos commun, construit un cirque et faisaient des numeros\\ la noyade d'une sirene dans ses larmes\\ carte BAM oost-duitsland (west Germany pour cantons redimes) -> contrepied\\ wallonie = desert -> peuplee avec des cochons; contrainte reprendre des mots qui commencent par les lettres de SMATCH\\ vinciane despret - etudie les gens qui s'interessent aux animaux - attentes - mettre les moutons ds des conditions\\  qui ne servent pas a en faire de la nourriture\\ syntaxe - permet d'etre dans une pensee du monde - agency: donner du pouvoir a d'autres modes d'etre que l'etre humain\\ construction du Smatch: animaux et desert\\ on ne peut pas mettre un mur pour eviter que la dune ne recouvre un village, connaitre le sens des vents et l'orienter \\ pour qu'elle passe a cote du village
-====== Hyde, Adam - Borges, Claudia ======
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+===== Hyde, Adam - Borges, Claudia =====
 Floss Manuals industry takes 6 months - manuals in 2 days\\ book sprint\\ what are the roles, who sets the goal? - anybody can contribute it but there is a facilitator\\ can I learn sthg by writing the manual? Ctrl quality? entrance exam? project no entrance level\\ 'porting' manuals - floss manuals are not part of the softwares they describe?\\ making manuals for people who are not in the project already - manuals user-friendly\\ write manual at the level, with the mindset\\ put manuals and software in two worlds?\\ cookbook approach - small snippets\\ difference of tone\\ write the manual first and then write the software\\ booki wikisystem\\ \\
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-====== Goffey, Andrew  - Fuller, Matthew ======
+===== Goffey, Andrew  - Fuller, Matthew =====
 theory of media below the level of representation\\ evil text - strategies - technicity of persuasion - of subjectivity\\ Florence <> Brussels\\ stratagems based on extreme formalisation of human behaviour and thoughts\\ humanitarianism of free software - evil is the primary purpose - occupy the space of evil\\ grey criticism - grey litterature\\ user error\\ systemic ambiguity CIA -> textual detail - almost everything can be considered ambiguous\\ ambiguity is an indicator of deception \\ the other is always a bearer of hidden message - if not decoded, it must be forced to not be ambiguous\\ world of today, not only text but also databases\\ litterary criticism not only between texts\\ ambiguity happens between media systems\\ formal languages contain no evil, but the don't exist in a void, and therefore must be translated into natural languages\\ systems interacting -> mutual misunderstanding\\ ambiguous sign <> systemic ambiguity\\ dataveillance forensic can avoid sometimes ambiguity\\ immanence grise - decyphering of signs - generate uncertainty - open space for undeterminacy\\ jouer les generations les unes contre les autres ds le lieu de travail\\ reversability of relation of power\\ user era -> shaping relatins in the world of work\\ good unambiguous software - competence of the user - users persist in not thiniking like machines\\ users are products of ambiguity - not just an error - the script someone follows in a call center \\ - performing conversation following algorithm - caller adapts to the script - have a nice day - supervisor can\\ stop listening at what they are saying\\ failure of internalize new forms of systems/production/productivity\\ persistant user error -> lack of belief in the company mission statement\\ OO throws exception\\ user errors decline because users are more used to the syntax\\ take responsibility for a system means take resp. for its failure\\ blaming ambiguity on user error can only last for so long\\ user error -> people have not internalized expectations of machine work -> positive\\ in the absence of uncertainty users is being used, code has become law\\ recursion cultural pleasure of programmer relaunching itself\\ loop - derivable pattern of activity - behaviour placed into other recursions\\ control requires recursion - who guards the guardians? eye-tracking device of guards watching CCTV feeds\\ cyclical deference of control\\ social network \\ target finding and avoidance\\ stratagems recurse upon themselves\\ leak\\ no general taxonomy of the leak -> dissemination of all narratives\\ neglegted proper containment\\ leak strategy - it was a draft\\ mobilizes user response\\ beta version is a decoy\\ possibility of the leak can be designed into a system\\ whistleblower\\ staged exclusivity - paparazzi\\ unlawfully obtained data: tapping, keylogger\\
+====== Sun 29/11/2009 ======
+===== Morning intro =====
+One theme of the festival, grey literature, is an invitation to discover, play and worry about the numerous documents, commentaries and \\ traces which organise electronic communication in the background. \\ Yesterday, during the talks, we discussed, with Ivan Monroy Lopez, Claudia Borges, Adam Hyde and his impersonator, various aspects of computer manuals, how they can be made collaboratively, how they offer hospitality in a world of code contrasting somehow with the harshness of the workplace, but also how they prescribe use or contain surprisingly a poetic potential. Another key theme of the presentations was the relationship between guidelines, reference documents and the organisation of communities. We have heard from Christophe Lazaro how the Debian community was dealing with an enormous flow of text (code, licenses, guidelines, etc). And how these disparate elements were connected through a social contract. And we discussed strategies and stratagems. How to use games, elements of surprises and situations to do away with the fear, learn from the animals or refuse to internalize institutional expectations, avoid the trap of power, - with Dominique Roodthooft. How to learn to love user errors and ambiguity with Andrew Goffey and Matthew Fuller. But also to expand our understanding of 'media' to include strategies and stratagems operating below the representation: scripted situations like call centers, or the leaking of information in the media (intentional or not).\\ \\ This morning, we will move to the questions identity, authenticity, trust, data and documents. But to take us there, Michael Moss, research professor in archive studies in the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute, Glasgow (anong so many things), will also tell us about shoes, cabbages and sealing wax.\\ \\ Our inspiration to start thinking about Grey literature came for one part from the French literary critic, Gerard Genette and his book Seuils in wich he develops the idea of the paratext\\ "More than a boundary or a sealed border, the paratext is, rather, a threshold." \\ "a zone between text and off-text, a zone not only of transition but also of transaction: a privileged place of pragmatics and a strategy, of an influence on the public, an influence that ... is at the service of a better reception for the text and a more pertinent reading of it". \\ "a fringe of the printed text which in reality controls one's whole reading of the text"\\ \\ Jürgen Pieters, professor in General Literature Science at the University of Gent, will look with us at the case study of the Ooghen-troost text by Dutch poet Constantijn Huygens (1647). In his talk, he will specifically address the theories of the American literary scholar Jerome McGann and will relate his work to the notion of paratext by Gerard Genette.\\ \\ Anne James Chaton is sound poet. He has directed several magazines and six books, published by Al Dante. With the duo Kristoff K. Roll he co-directs the festival of sound art "Sonorités", which he founded in Montpellier in 2005. He has given numerous lectures in France and abroad. He has worked with dutch rock band The Ex, released an album (The Journalist) with guitarist Andy Moor and collaborated on the album Unitxt by musician Alva Noto.\\ \\
+===== Michael Moss =====
+stats - information rather than the math\\ migration of info from analog to digital\\ the Walrus and the carpenter Lewis Carroll Charles Da...son\\ nonsense destabilize comfortable world of reference\\ nonsense needs to have reference to the authentic\\ authenticity -> diplmatique 17e s\\ authencity is a retrospective activity\\ authentication depends on absences; but absence can have been always been there; original document may miss signature\\ such quantities of sand - granularity - stand alone objects\\ financial systems - no hierarchies of information - balance sheet made of quantities of sand\\ Pacioli - divine proportions -> dble entry book keeping (refer to aggregations of other books)\\ aggregation/disaggregation\\ grain of sand = digital object -> the bit stream has identity of reference even if its identity changes \\ every time it is opened or closed. Danger -> financial crisis -> data that underpin the system -> input and output but nothing\\ about what happens in between - understand what happens between input and output - abandon what happens in the middle\\ eating oysters - sorting the authentic\\ information object - experiential encounter with digital object\\ Internet imaginaire -  relation of digital to analog\\ Pomo dominates information science kinaesthetic encounter with dig. object\\ Gainsborough Boy in Blue: surprise it is small Bodily encounter - context dependent\\ grains of sand lack of context\\ Phising scam exploit lack of context\\ users modify their analog behaviour in the digital\\ suspension of disbelief -  info in the digital needs less scrutiny\\ and more and more and more\\ triangulation look at several srcs to cross-reference\\ modification in the digital - labeling technology as new? - ordering of information is a technology\\ Mc Luhan is wrong content is more important than media\\ partnership between tech and people interested in the info object\\ curator can't control the technology\\ reflection and reflexivity -  David Leevy Strolling Forward\\ Susan Greenfield \\ authenticity and identity must be confrmed by more than one token\\ family history and new forms of genealogy with genetics\\ sealing wax japan still a sealing culture - everybody seals elements, luggages, documents - doesn't disapear with technology\\ Mc Donalds employs psychologists understand ways info is accessed in different contexts\\ China receives info densely, Europe light, arabic countries info is heavily dependent of social hierarchy\\ binding - diplomatique - kings require high level of binding -  social conventions\\ pepper and vinegar can mean only one thing for an oyster\\ people will not add metadata unless if there is added value in doing it\\ better invest in text describing dig object rather than dublin core (too expensive)\\ trust like authenticity is retrospective\\ the lack of trust comes from the trust in the regime not the officiality of the source\\ 1970's last financial crisis, more responsibility? require jurisprudence\\ before his streaming eyes
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+===== Jurgen Pieters =====
+Seuils pensee theorique moins adequat pour textes digitaux\\ pensee -> stabilite forte d'un texte\\ -> McGann\\ fonctionnement du texte historique\\ chaque livre a son propre avenir\\ habent sua fata libelli\\ Benjamin - ses livres - ts ses livres l'accompagnent ds ses demenagements\\ livres matiere pour penser - collectionneur de livre a un lien physqiue avec ses livres\\ ses livres offrent domicile, une maison\\ demenagement problematique - choix dechirant - suicide Port Bou, Catalogne\\ 1933 banni de l'Allemagne. ts les immigrants allemands internes\\ necessite visa autorisation de passer une nuit a Port Bou, n'avait plus de livre avec lui.\\ centaine de livres pour enfants \\ redefinit son reve d'une bibliotheque -  Passages - bibliotheque virtuelle fait d'extraits\\ livre cache dans la bibliotheque nationale\\ Adorno a fait la publication - Passages bibliotheque emballee\\ forme donnee au travail, enorme serie de fragments - quel est le texte centrale? - citations 800 livres\\ et fragments de Benjamin (commentaires ou developpement de premisse methodologique) - montage\\ lecteur est createur - 36 dossiers qui contiennent une lettre de l'alphabet - liens entre citatins internes au dossier\\ Robin Michals e-arcades.com\\ George P.Landow Hypertext 3.0\\ Pour chaque texte, il y a tjrs une version alternative presente derriere le texte\\ mort du livre? passagenwerk n'aurait pas eu un aspect different - forme est deja adequate por le format electronique\\ www.othervoices.org/gpeaker/Passagenwerk.php\\ benjamin en plus rapide, plus actuel?\\ se defaire de la question: livre < > ordinateur fertilisation croisee - ordinateur nous enfonce ds le livre\\ ordinateur revele le livre\\ livre individuel. lecteur se detache de tout par le livre et se rapproche de lui-meme, dvlpt du moi individuel\\ lecteurs ere electroniq manque d'individualite\\ langue doit devenir economique: apporter le plus au plus grand nombre de lecteurs\\ language is a source ozone layer\\ McGann s'oppose a cette idee.\\ hypertext prophet la page limite les possibilites, limite la vision du lecteur\\ McGann position intermediaire\\ que sont les textes? ns savons trop a propos des textes, mais nous devons reflechir differemment\\ a page of printed text or scripted text should thus be understood asa certain kind of graphic interface\\ reconceptualiser relation lecteur livre\\ livre n'est pas une forme de textualite naturelle\\ prejuge qu'un texte est un element stable, produit linguistique harmonieux\\ new criticism - dogme - remise en question par Derrida, Foucault\\ texte imprime est un ecran qui donne acces a ce qui est derriere -a cote - devant - derriere - variantes de ce  texte a l'interieur de ce meme texte.\\ ne pas chercher le texte stable ultime, ajouter autre potentialite de signification\\ book 2 basic functions: data storage and constructing simulations\\ a=a si et seulement si a!=a\\ identite non-identique\\ chaque fragment cache d'autres fragments, mais aussi une autre version de lui-meme.\\ ds la pratiq, pb curateur de texte et technologie: pb de dependance\\ Huygens 1647 - le reconfort pour l'oeil - ecrit pour une amie qui a un probleme de cataracte\\ ils sont aveugles mais ils ne savent pas qu'ils sont aveugles\\ l'oeil de ton esprit peutmieux travailler - a cote du poeme principal, 600 citations\\ but de l'edition electroniq - pas p our mieux presenter mais preciser sur base des liens q ily a des relations claires entre fragments, liaisons horizontales\\ huygens -> montaigne -> ovide -> seneque la liaison peut se faire en amplifiant les citations\\ ds la marge textes paiens
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+===== Anne-James Chaton =====
+===== Afternoon intro =====
+to introduce this afternoon, I would like to use the active archive software installed for Verbindingen-Jonctions, developed by Michael Murtaugh. This software is used to organise and make accessible the videos selected for the festival. I propose you to look together at the short film "The Google Optout Village".\\ \\ We had already the chance to have Alexandre Dulaunoy for a lecture in the seventh edition of VJ. Today, Alexandre comes to discuss with us the questions surrounding Goodiff. Before giving the mike to Alexandre, I would like to show an image ofsomething that stroke me several years ago and that explains my interest in the work of Alexandre. Years ago a small and sympathetic company called Ludicorp released a web platform where users could upload images, Flickr. At the time, Flickr was an important vector for spreading the use of open licenses for creative content like the Creative Commons. One could read in their terms of services:\\ A few years after, when Yahoo bought flickr one can find instead:\\ \\ \\ Are we in the golden age of privacy? our digital every day life is full of privacy by-products: privacy policies, privacy settings, privacy language, privacy reports, privacy rankings, privacy films, privacy tools, privacy legislation, privacy conferences, privacy festivals ,...\\ Want to know more? Let's follow Seda Gurses. Seda Gürses is doing her PhD on privacy, requirements engineering and social networks at the K.U. Leuven. She is also an active member of de- center kuenstlerherde, a media initiative based in Kreuzberg, Berlin. And she is the person whose permanent questioning is helping us to redefine constantly our preconceived ideas about data, privacy and property.
+===== Alexandre Dulaunoy =====
+Goodiff\\ gray goo -> masse compliquee qui va prendre la vie sur terre avec une seule sorte de vie et eliminer toute autre existence sur terre.\\ tracking semantic changes in legal documents (flickr mettre des photos qui font perdre des droits pour les photos)\\ release des datasets tout le monde peut voir ce qui se passe dedans, pas d'objectif particulier\\ theodore Kaczynski Les optimistes n'existent meme pas\\ goodiff origin: honeytoken, mettre un honeytoken pour voir si Google verifie les clics sur les liens.\\ google spider les liens des emails\\ voir soi-meme ds les terms of service - pas de versions, pas d'archives\\ diff difference in files\\ fonctionnement du systeme:\\ - fetch daily\\ - verif changes\\ - notifier modifs\\ Google rachete double-click et change sa web policy\\ Google desktop -> enregistre system\\ blogger associer infos qd on est logge <-> Google oct. 2007\\ pixel tags apple we may use this information to reduce or eliminate messages\\ Google Talk -> SMS phone number , operateur, content of the message, date and time of the transaction.\\ terms of service are updated before the service enters in operation\\ documents legaux changent tt le temps\\ dates ds document ne correspondent pas aux changements du document public\\ pb: - urls changent\\     - documents ne sont pas presents sur tous les serveurs qui distribuent la charge\\     - pollution du contenu par pub, bugs, html mal formes, session ids\\ Europoker -> out! -> you are a robot\\ gitorious.org/goodiff\\ Lawyer2text work with corpus\\ timeline representation of docs changes -> rachat d'1 compagnie et changement des termes of services\\ collaborative evaulation of changeset\\ Ivan Illich, la reconstruction conviviale -> autonomie de l'outil\\ jacques ellul, Andre Gorz\\ interface track? -> feed rss\\ git? -> rss aussi mais pas les memes.\\ afficher les terms of services via plugin firefox
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+===== Seda Gurses =====
+alternative to data protection\\ concentration on the individual, privacy as a social good -> rethink copyleft for data protection\\ side products of privacy\\ privacy laws have to comply to data protection laws -> databases of the 70's\\ data subject, data controllers (what purpose they collect data), data processors\\ privacy as control, control your data - access and subject rights\\ what terms of services are promising?\\ anonymous data is not protected -> \\ standards need to apply and then you can exchange data\\ the data you give are yours but the ones we capture are not protected\\ third parties recursion\\ organise community to react against changes in service policy\\ we made mistake - write the privacy policy yourself - linquist case: photographer sued because making photo of people in a church\\ every user is a datacontroller - photo of soemeone with leg broken -> sensitive health information\\ desire to solve everything legally - internalization of legal\\ make individual responsible for data protection\\ common data - everybody can claim privacy about these\\ technically protect -> hide your data -> anonymity systems\\ unlink the identity of persons from the traces they leave behind \\ indexical identification (Seda) - pointer (she is a facebook user) - descriptive identification\\ anonymiser cut connexion between indexical identification and descriptive identification\\ important in state surveillance\\ but doesn't prevent classification \\ we have a lot of data bodies out there -  how should we be related to them?\\ experiment: asked friends objects that identify them but anonymized\\ text of thesis\\ picture of happy location\\ picture of oneself hidden behind hairs but background identifying\\ peinture signee\\ photo decoupee\\ ancien dessin d'enfant\\ photos de crps n'ont pas pu etre upladeee sur facebook\\ camouflage picture\\ life is embedded in systems, not about anonymity but negociating spaces\\ aggregation of data - who fits some norms - from there starts discrimination\\ modern state goes with surveillance - we don't know - no feedback loop\\ no possible to stop categorization - \\ seeing my own data doesn't mean anything to me - this is who you are\\ human resources company -> discrimination based on facebook\\ privacy itself is the wrong term - focus on the use not on the data itself\\ define illigetimate use\\ gaydar project - vicinity in soc network and we can say if you are gay or not\\ silencing movement\\ robots.txt \\ \\ \\ \\ \\