Geprogrammeerde veroudering

Workshop proposed by Marije Baalman, Riek Sijbring, Anja Hertenberger

What would you write in a loveletter to the device you feel most intimate with? How to touch the room and make others touch it? How to move with different attachments?

• 40 Questions for your companion http://ageingcompanions.constantvzw.org/introduction_workshop/40-questions-for-your-companion.pdf
• My legs feel different http://ageingcompanions.constantvzw.org/introduction_workshop/My_Legs_Feel_Different.pdf

Visit to IMEC and COSIC

During a visit to the IMEC tower in Leuven we were toured along the ‘cleanrooms’ by Thomas Kallstenius followed by an on-line conversation with Eduard Marin on pacemaker security, and a reading session provoked by Helen Pritchard. The cleanroom visit was ‘confidential’ so there are no pictures or recordings from this visit.

• Notes on the introduction by Thomas Kallstenius to IMEC: http://ageingcompanions.constantvzw.org/etherdump/confidential.diff.html
• On-line conversation with Eduard Marin: http://sound.constantvzw.org/AgeingCompanions/AgeingCompanions_Eduard_Marin.oggAgeing companions

Provocation Helen Pritchard

• Recording: http://sound.constantvzw.org/AgeingCompanions/AgeingCompanions_Helen_Pritchard.oggAgeing companions
• Notes: http://ageingcompanions.constantvzw.org/etherdump/afternoon.diff.html

Pianorama Cinema

Film programme within the framework of senior cinema Pianorama. With care robots, digital grandmothers and hybrid animals. Cake, coffee and discussion included!

• Flyer: http://constantvzw.org/AgeingCompanions/pianorama_extra_a4+a3.pdf
• Playlist: http://constantvzw.org/AgeingCompanions/playlist.txt

Zoumana Meite workshop

Performer and theater-maker Zoumana Meite proposed a workshop on device-related blot patterns.

Zoumana Meite performance

A public performance on Saturday afternoon. Zoumana performed with electromagnetic devices to explore what old ideas of ’soul’ these so-called new technologies might carry. Using his observations from participating in the worksession, he moved with radio-waves, ink-drops and the memories of his own body.

I form the vision of a black ink drop falling in my eye, bringing a recollection of the possible. I see each and every hesitation, trembling, shaking like an oscillography of my flesh, magnetically charged. Those objectivised vibrations in front of us are spread and spattered spores, generating other hesitations, doubts, … slides of an oriented gesture. I partially charge my flesh with a strong craving, something obsessing me. I gather liquid from my liver on blottingpaper. Drops of an (id)entity …

• Flyer: http://constantvzw.org/AgeingCompanions/flyer.pdf
• Video-recording: http://video.constantvzw.org/AgeingCompanions/

Area of work: Bitflipping - Ageing on the command line - semi-conductor

• Interview with Maria, Martino, Jara, Helen, Andrea: http://sound.constantvzw.org/AgeingCompanions/AgeingCompanions_Interview02A.oggAgeing companions
• Notes: http://ageingcompanions.constantvzw.org/etherdump/agingcommandline.diff.html
• Cosmic Rays! http://video.constantvzw.org/AgeingCompanions/Cloud_chamber_ageing-companions.mp4

Is it worth it? Let me work it
I put my thing down, flip it and reverse it
Ti esrever dna ti pilf, nwod gniht ym tup
Ti esrever dna ti pilf, nwod gniht ym tup
If you got a big, let me search ya
And find out how hard I gotta work ya
Ti esrever dna ti pilf, nwod gniht ym tup
Ti esrever dna ti pilf, nwod gniht ym tup
(Missy Elliott)

Area of work: Ageing/Queering interfaces

• Interview with Constanza, Lionel: http://sound.constantvzw.org/AgeingCompanions/AgeingCompanions_Interview01A.oggAgeing companions
• Notes: http://ageingcompanions.constantvzw.org/etherdump/queering_interfaces.diff.html

Area of work: The unthought - The Vibration - Touch

• Interview with Anja, Rebecca, Marije, Konstantin, Laura, Matthias: http://sound.constantvzw.org/AgeingCompanions/AgeingCompanions_Interview03A.oggAgeing companions
• Code: http://ageingcompanions.constantvzw.org/the_vibes/normative_vibrations/
• Notes: http://ageingcompanions.constantvzw.org/etherdump/the-vibes.diff.html
• Manifesto: http://ageingcompanions.constantvzw.org/the_vibes/THE_UNTHOUGHT_MANIFESTO_OF_VIBRANT_MATTERS.docx

How to be a water kettle

• Script: http://ageingcompanions.constantvzw.org/etherdump/Kettle.diff.html

Area of work: Micro-awareness - Mirror matter touch - empathy with material others, human and non human others

• Interview with Emile, Riek, Blanca: http://sound.constantvzw.org/AgeingCompanions/AgeingCompanions_Interview04A.oggAgeing companions
• Notes: https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/mirrormatter
• Slowing down exercise: http://sound.constantvzw.org/AgeingCompanions/Ageing_Companions_field_rec03.oggAgeing companions

Area of work: Organising/caretaking

• Interview with Donatella: http://sound.constantvzw.org/AgeingCompanions/AgeingCompanions_Interview_Donatella.oggAgeing companions
• Interview with Wendy + Femke: http://sound.constantvzw.org/AgeingCompanions/AgeingCompanions_Interview_Femke_Wendy01A.ogg+ Ageing companionshttp://sound.constantvzw.org/AgeingCompanions/AgeingCompanions_Interview_Femke_Wendy01B.ogg + Ageing companionshttp://sound.constantvzw.org/AgeingCompanions/AgeingCompanions_Interview_Femke_Wendy02A.ogg + Ageing companionshttp://sound.constantvzw.org/AgeingCompanions/AgeingCompanions_Interview_Femke_Wendy02B.oggAgeing companions