• Concept discussed and accepted: reworking the outcome / results / findings of the VJ13 meeting days in a 3d publication. Constants contribution will be a living and dynamic entity ('editing room') that evolves during the duration of the Artefact 'Social Contract' festival. To make that happen, live presence of Constant members is required. We'll think about a system / interface / … to change relationship between works / texts / research material that is included in our contribution by using the steps of the stairs, the railing, the mounting and descending characteristics, the levels and all the other formal aspects and attributes of a staircase as 'editorial tools'.

• Budget is agreed with PP, includes material costs, fee for Mathieu, fee for Constant, travel costs, small fee (50 euro) for 20 artists included etc. (Exact budget will follow)

• Space agreed upon: The central staircase in the old STUK building.

• Mathieu designs furniture / structure, STUK builds and produces

• Constant team is hired to be physically present (2 per day)

• Interventions (performances, demonstrations) will be announced locally + ad Hoc (hallway, message boards, but not in the brochure, due to tight schedule.

15 november

Deadline texts brochure

14 december, 10:00, Constant

Meeting Mathieu to talk about design installation

21 december, 15:00, STUK

Production meeting with Peter, Ilse, Pieter Paul

14 > 23 februari 2012

Dates Artefact festival

http://www.artefact-festival.be

as sent to PP, 15-11-11

Titel: “Verbindingsprotocollen”

Niet alleen mensen, maar ook bots, zoekmachines en spiders houden zich aan wetten en afspraken. Zowel in het dagelijkse leven als in de openbare ruimte, wanneer we emailen, surfen of chatten gelden afspraken, normen, wetten en voorschriften. Welk sociaal gedrag schrijven overheden, bedrijven, regulerende instanties aan machines voor? Hoe is het sociaal contract ingeschreven in standaarden en technologische infrastructuur?

In Verbindingsprotocollen brengt Constant onderzoeksmateriaal samen over hoe mensen, machines, en omgevingen verbindingen met elkaar aangaan. De collage van kunstwerken, notities, manuals, instructies, beelden en teksten is te lezen als een ruimtelijke publicatie die gedurende het festival “live” geredigeerd wordt door Constant. In een levende verzameling die zich langs de trappen van het STUK beweegt proberen we 'zachte' factoren zoals aantrekkingskracht, affectie, gelijkenis en nieuwsgierigheid in balans te brengen met de 'hardheid' en onomstotelijkheid van formatting, contracten en 'terms of use' documenten.

Title: “Connection Protocols”

Not only people but also bots, search engines and spiders abide laws and agreements. Whether we email, surf or chat … rules and regulations are having an effect on our daily lives and on the way we move in public space. Which social behavior do governments, companies, regulators project on machines? What is the social contract written into standards and technological infrastructure?

In Connection Protocols, Constant gathers research material on how people, machines and environments connect with each other. This collage of artworks, notes, manuals, instructions, images and texts can be read as a publication that will be edited “live” during the festival period. With this living collection that moves along the steps of the STUK we try to balance 'soft' factors such as attraction, affection, similarity and curiosity with the prescriptive and indisputable character of formatting, contracts and 'terms of use' documents.

Welcome visitor, A digital reference room, a virtual sketchbook, a spatial page: here are some of the projects and works that we felt encouraged by while developing Verbindingen/Jonctions 13: Prototypes for Transmission. Each in their own way they challenge what to do and how to behave on-line. You are cordially invited to disagree, disrupt or contribute to the collection. To make changes, simply click this text and log in with user: vj13 and password: jonctions Tip: Use ctrl + and ctrl - to zoom

Below is a list of the works that are in the VJ13 expo page, and that were shown during VJ13, grouped per theme (taken from the expo page). Not compulsary to have them all in !. They could be seen as a repository.

http://vj13.hotglue.me/expo/

During Artefact, we could be to regroup, rethink the relation between the work, expand the works. Also: Narrate them to an interested audience, write a time on the blackboard and make one part of the staircase research room active (by performing, by narrating, by giving context) Can we think of a way to leave traces of these live-renditions in the staircase ? (Post it like papers, scribbles, writing on the walls, or on paper ?)

The paragraph below the works gives suggestions for what could be done during Artefact. PLease add !!

So far, there are three main questions raised around this project: book as an object, re-use of texts, accessibility. Only book as an object has been somewhat elaborated. Artefact could be occasion to put a light onto one more, gather interviews & documentation and present that with a concrete action, f.ex. an honourday to Virginia Woold (recently released in the public domain…) or specificly play around with Van Ostaijen & Fonzie…

Public performance by Wendy: + Patches and electronics can be shown when there is no performance going on, along with documentation (Pictures ?)

Show video on (small) monitor with headphones.

To me (P) most likely would be to print out the documents about the trials of her parents, and show maybe an image of the photocopy installation. In addition: some of the textures would be nice, but not sure where to get them (Order book on-line, and show that folded open on the appropriate page ?)

No ideas yet if / how to include.

? Can we organise a connection with non fixed IP addresses ? Otherwise an active version of this work does not make a lot of sense …

Show the FAT webpage: http://fffff.at/occupy-the-internet/

Show video in loop as during the VJ days ?

Have it run on a laptop. Is an internet connection necessary or can that be locally ?

In addition to the 'Routines de Rencontre' work, I think that including texts and discussion about the 'Manden chartre'http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charte_du_Manden is crucial. This is the link between the work on 'local greetings' in the streets of Dakar and the (unwritten) list of rights on which a society relies.

http://www.africultures.com/php/index.php?nav=article&no=1621

“For those who accept that the present version of the Kouroukan Fouga represents the original charter, the Mali Imperial constitution is regarded as a landmark achievement in the history of Africa and the world for several reasons. As far as global significance, the document is one of the earliest declarations of human rights. Its importance to Africa is demonstrated in three main achievements. First, it established uniform laws and regulations over a significant portion of West Africa (equal to the size of Western Europe) for the first time in recorded history. Second, it afforded uniform rights for all citizens including women and slaves, unheard of in many parts of the world. Third, it is uniquely African in that it does not directly borrow from any existing law documents as opposed to the Ethiopian Fetha Negest. The prominence of the Mandinka in West Africa allowed the ideas and values within the Kouroukan Fouga to spread far beyond the borders of the Mali Empire. Many peoples related to the Mande still abide by its traditions.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kouroukan_Fouga

Sounds logical to put something in about Open Content licenses. This can stretch several documents / documentation / books / self made agreements. Most interesting would maybe be to define a specific focus, such as, personal written, exceptional, non general licenses. Some thoughts:

No longer downloadble from Piet Zwart (!!)

In recent years copyright has moved away from being an esoteric and technical legal subject to one that affects musicians, designers, artists, students, authors, ordinary consumers, and more generally any one involved in any way in cultural production. Copyright stories assault us everyday in our newspapers, our emails and in the next few years, will play a very important role in determining the way we think of creativity; either in terms of exclusive property or in terms of collaboration. It is an issue in which content creators have a vital stake and certainly too important an issue to leave to the lawyers alone. This booklet serves as an introduction to the world of ‘open content licensing’, a aradigm that is rapidly emerging as an important alternative to the existing model of copyright.

http://www.oerafrica.org/understandingoer/ResourcesonOER/ResourceDetails/tabid/1424/mctl/Details/id/36433/Default.aspx

Remains the best visual compliment to the above guide.

Public domain license that prohibits use for militairy purposes, used by Giss.tv and others.

http://mindprod.com/contact/nonmil.html

Web site owners use the /robots.txt file to give instructions about their site to web robots; this is called The Robots Exclusion Protocol.

It works likes this: a robot wants to vists a Web site URL, say http://www.example.com/welcome.html. Before it does so, it firsts checks for http://www.example.com/robots.txt, and finds:

User-agent: * Disallow: /

The “User-agent: *” means this section applies to all robots. The “Disallow: /” tells the robot that it should not visit any pages on the site.

Lots of possibilities here, since the