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+date: 2021-05-17
+status: 🌱
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+## A City Is Not a Computer
+
+> The idea of the city as an information-processing machine has in recent years manifested as a cultural obsession with urban sites of data storage and transmission. Scholars, artists, and designers write books, conduct walking tours, and make maps of internet infrastructures. We take pleasure in pointing at nondescript buildings that hold thousands of whirring servers, at surveillance cameras, camouflaged antennae, and hovering drones. We declare: “the city’s computation happens here.”
+>
+> Yet such work runs the risk of reifying and essentializing information, even depoliticizing it. When we treat data as a “given” (which is, in fact, the etymology of the word), we see it in the abstract, as an urban fixture like traffic or crowds. We need to shift our gaze and look at data in context, at the lifecycle of urban information, distributed within a varied ecology of urban sites and subjects who interact with it in multiple ways.
+>
+> We must also recognize the shortcomings in models that presume the objectivity of urban data and conveniently delegate critical, often ethical decisions to the machine. We, humans, make urban information by various means: through sensory experience, through long-term exposure to a place, and, yes, by systematically filtering data. It’s essential to make space in our cities for those diverse methods of knowledge production. And we have to grapple with the political and ethical implications of our methods and models, embedded in all acts of planning and design. City-making is always, simultaneously, an enactment of city-knowing — which cannot be reduced to computation.
+
+_Shannon Mattern, “A City Is Not a Computer,” Places Journal, February 2017. <https://doi.org/10.22269/170207>_
+
+<https://placesjournal.org/article/a-city-is-not-a-computer/>

_notes/social-stories.md

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 date: 2021-04-18
-status: 🌱
+status: 🌳
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 **What is it that you hope to explore during your residency?**
 
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 - <https://github.com/ournetworks>: the conference [[Dawn Walker|Dawn]], [[Garry Ing|Garry]], and friends, have been organizing. We've had great talks/workshops/happenings that weave network protocols and materially. Our GitHub org is where we organize openly
 - <https://handbook.hypha.coop/>: [[Hypha]]'s (living) handbook that gives a sense of how we work and operate through online spaces
 - <https://pmvabf.org/>: Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair. We think their shift to virtual this year was really neat to experience. They had a lot of support from folks and created an experience that feels unique and "of-the-net" instead of directly replicating the in-person event. We were also are thinking about <https://www.anarchistbookfair.ca/tablers-2020/>
-- <http://designforthe.net/workshops/ascii/>: A workshop Mindy Seu hosted as part of A-B-Z-TXT. Pulling together concrete poetry and typewriter art, to create imaginary internet dwellings
-- <http://contemporary-home-computing.org/turing-complete-user/>: Essay from Olia Lialina expanding on the concept of _General Purpose Users_
+- <http://designforthe.net/workshops/ascii/>: A workshop [Mindy Seu](https://mindyseu.com/) hosted as part of [A-B-Z-TXT](https://a-b-z.co/). Pulling together concrete poetry and typewriter art, to create imaginary internet dwellings
+- <http://contemporary-home-computing.org/turing-complete-user/>: Essay from [Olia Lialina](http://art.teleportacia.org/) expanding on the concept of _General Purpose Users_
 - <https://www.foreignobjects.net/internet-as-a-city>
 - [[Community Memory]]
 - [[World in 24 Hours]]

_notes/statement-of-intent.md

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-[[Hypha]]’s practice is situated across many topics that are present in the theme of _Adaptive Reuse & Creative Misuse_. Drawing from our collective experiences, histories, and methodologies, our goal for the micro-residency to investigate how notions of digital [[infrastructure]] can be reused, reinterpreted, and reconfigured, to realize a kind of [[public space]]. Our approach to this theme will be composed of a few, very preliminary, subjects that will ground the residency: the situated histories of digital infrastructure, the implications of protocols for [[publishing]] ([[Hypertext]], [[RSS]], [[Peer-to-peer]]) in defining public spaces, and the possibilities of cooperative approaches to [[maintenance]] and repair. Our intent is to make the process of this investigation [[public space|public]] through online tools mapping our thinking about the theme (Open channels in Are.na as one example) and cultivating a [[Digital Public Garden]] as part of Hypha’s contributions to the initiative (a [[RSS|resyndicatable]] adaptive online notebook). The outputs from the [[bentway|micro-residency]] will be a written contribution to the [[Field Guide to the Digital Real]] and a micro-website containing the synthesis of our investigations and our evolving practice. The outputs will be textual and visual, and draw from our collaborative practices as a cooperative. They will explore ways to represent relationships with existing and emergent technologies within our communities. Through our micro-residency we will capture a poetic interpretation of the theme and provide prompts for institutions in the city on how they could reconfigure technology to create radically creative platforms.
+[[Hypha]]’s practice is situated across many topics that are present in the theme of _Adaptive Reuse & Creative Misuse_. Drawing from our collective experiences, histories, and methodologies, our goal for the micro-residency to investigate how notions of digital [[infrastructure]] can be reused, reinterpreted, and reconfigured, to realize a kind of [[public space]]. Our approach to this theme will be composed of a few, very preliminary, subjects that will ground the residency: the situated histories of digital infrastructure, the implications of protocols for [[publishing]] ([[Hypertext]], [[RSS]], [[Peer-to-peer]]) in defining public spaces, and the possibilities of cooperative approaches to [[maintenance]] and repair. Our intent is to make the process of this investigation [[public space|public]] through online tools mapping our thinking about the theme (Open channels in [Are.na](https://www.are.na/) as one example) and cultivating a [[Digital Public Garden]] as part of Hypha’s contributions to the initiative (a [[RSS|resyndicatable]] adaptive online notebook). The outputs from the [[bentway|micro-residency]] will be a written contribution to the [[Field Guide to the Digital Real]] and a micro-website containing the synthesis of our investigations and our evolving practice. The outputs will be textual and visual, and draw from our collaborative practices as a cooperative. They will explore ways to represent relationships with existing and emergent technologies within our communities. Through our micro-residency we will capture a poetic interpretation of the theme and provide prompts for institutions in the [[city]] on how they could reconfigure technology to create radically creative platforms.

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