• making nothing

    here’s a post that i wrote during my second week here. now that the showcase is coming up, i need to start making a thing. guess i’d better put this up before that starts :)

    one of my major goals during this program is to not make things.

    * silence. the sfpc showcase curators back away slowly to discuss what a mistake they’ve made. *

    it’s okay, i’ll do the assignments and make a showcase project and all that. i’m still going to make things. it’s hard not to; i’ve already made a lot of Things since arriving, more than i’m comfortable with. but i’m celebrating all the things i think of that i don’t make.

    during the binary numbers assignment, i came up with an idea to:

    • map binary digits (bits) to piano keys
    • find binary numbers that resolve to nice chords
    • create a simple matching app that prompts players with a decimal number and celebrates when the correct chord is played

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  • checking in

    hi! i haven’t written here in a while. school is busyyy. reading a lot, building a bit, exploring new york, etc. i’ve got a few drafts / reflections from the past few weeks which i’ll hopefully post, but here’s the official rundown so far:

    week 1

    week 2

    week 3

    week 4

    week 5

    …i can’t believe we’re halfway through! final showcase prep is starting and i still have no idea what i’ll build. yikes! gonna go ponder that, bye for now :)

  • border crossing

    headed back to canada for the weekend to see the AGO’s yayoi kusama exhibit (RAD!) and attend a funky dance (RAD!). i’m back at the airport now and made it through (phewf). explaining this school at customs is always complicated, and i’ve been pulled into secondary each time.

    with this week’s readings on “security” + surveillance for our crit theory course (“the radical outside”) fresh on my mind, the customs experience was heightened. last time reached an ABSURD level of invasiveness with questions about my family. this time was just lots of silence as i pondered what the neural nets were cooking up.

    lil thought: upon saying i quit my job just over a month ago, the agent said “oh - that’s a really long time”. Work is a weed we’re feeding 🌱 neoliberal capitalism, “we eat for you”, soapbox, etc.

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