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 +THE FOUR TENETS\\ 
 +OF POST-FORMAL\\ 
 +AUTOMATED PEDAGOGY\\
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 +Authored July 2017 by\\
 +Denise Gonzalez Crisp\\
 +Nicole Killian\\
 +Selwa Sweidan\\
 +Davey Whitcraft
  
 +**To swap and give,\\ always as a guest by invitation,\\ always already borrowing.\\ Each moment is new.\\ We others are always now. **\\ DÉOTHER.
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 +**The state of doorlessness\\ and perpetual (touch) points.\\ De-analytic acceptance\\ of how and with whom\\ we make, we converse, we think.\\ No peak.**\\ NONENDGOAL 
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 +**Enfolding cycles of meaning,\\ inclusive of archives, libraries,\\ and personal histories.\\ Present minds in constant\\ reassembly of the ritual.\\ ** CONTEXTAMATION 
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 +**The prevailing threat\\ to creative production;\\ a ticking bomb.\\ Deliberate awareness of,\\ with intent to resist.\\ ** EGOMOTOR
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 +We propose as a pedagogical method, a form of automation that exploits rules/algorithms that generate ephemeral yet consequential artifacts to support developing designers in **deothering**, mutual critical observation, and experience in the moment. Getting rid of all permanent artifacts, we value only literacy in systems and rule sets.
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 +Using improvisational, now-based, score-based, systems based, rule-based parameters that counter the technocratic, human machine anxiety. **Nonendgoal** creation. Teach designers to design their position in relation to their tools and their communities. **Contextamation**.
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 +A) How do we free the self from the **egomotor** that propels self-critical thinking, and instead encourage students embrace the moment of question and creation?
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 +B) How do we empower students to rethink relationships to basic tools?Challenge power structures that are implicit in tools?
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 +[[http://php.net|{{http://idyrself.com/img/bewersdorf_diagram.gif}}]]
 +Net Art Diagram by Kevin Bewersdorf from Krystal South's [[Identify Yourself]][[http://idyrself.com/]]
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 +[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibi-J74NyTw]]
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 + ===== Process Notes & References:  =====
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 +[[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzz7d0u608hDQnMxemNwcUVTU1U/view?usp=sharing|Animated Process Notes Here!]]
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 +**Examples of automation:**
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 +   * Brockmann (automating composition)
 +  *  (last chapter / open ended room for research
 +  *  Studio Moniker (conditional design)
 +  *  Letterror Twins (beowulf /twin cities)
 +  *  Piotr Szyhalski performances
 +  *  Automated drawing (Nicole soph example)
 +  *  Open Source Publishing OSP
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 +**Automate Failure / Rules of Play**
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 +  * Automation frees up time or WHAT does it free us up to do? If design is actually something humans need to be doing? to Make art rather than design?
 +  * Performances that feature repetition, labor etc
 +  * Working on the same platform (industry standard)... pre-existing formats: software is an automator. How does that determine how we design
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 +**WHO OWNS THE AUTOMATION TOOLS**
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 +  * i.e. Processing as a way of breaking that?
 +  * Open source, power of tools
 +  * Mapping: automapping
 +  * Current automation: boomering, auto messages, wake up call, in tune with one cycle.
 +  * published processes (GIT hub for designers):
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 +**Sample In-Class Improvisation as algorithms:**
 +  *  Read a section present in one sentence and create a set of instructions.
 +  *  Improv critique
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 +  * Muscle confusion for the graphic designers
 +  * Program the discomfort. Program the external
 +  * Delimited time
 +  * Timing and the cycle (timing any-architecture)
 +  * In-time response
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 +Automation sets something for future and ongoing use
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 +Anonymous-press.com: generates zines from a word
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 +The aesthetics of Index "Nicole Killian"
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 +N. Katherine Hayles: nonconscious cognition
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 +Marie Cool - repetitive mindfulness
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 +Benjamon Bratton (post-anthropocenic, post-anthropomorphization of AI)
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 +Laura Pappa
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 +Kate Crawford
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 +Politics of Study
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 +Carlos Castenada's Tensegrities
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 +FLUCT (dance/performance)
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 +Generative tools:
 +1) Making happens on the back end
 +2) Set of instructions that requires making
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 +Amount of intervention
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 +1. separating making from analyzing using automation
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 +2.consequential, it's about the experience: empathy, observation, collection, looking, slowing down
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 +3. to get them in the moment and to get started in a moment --- the cycle is the score or algorithm on a basic level.
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 +4. post-formalist education --- championing the ephemeral, consequential to be able to teach to the moment and not focus on teaching to the end goal to tap into experience empathy temporal
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 +  * Heiner Goebbels
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 +  * Clifford gertz --- anthropologist that adds the interpretation on the anthropologist is critical, how reality is interpreted
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 +  * Levinas --- to be conscious is to "we are only conscious to the other"
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 +  * "situated learning"
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 +  * Marx talking about revolutionary workers uprising, master/slave, reclaiming
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 +  * Designer as challenging monopolization by master/large tech owner
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 +  * Empowering the designer to question their relationship to the tools. as opposed to the default (of the model)
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 +  * Rethink simple architecture
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 +  * Questioning the hierarchy and access to the tools
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 +  * Modeling a re-architecture of assumptions
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