FRI 24

The archive plays an important role as a witness to time, a repository of ideas, and a bridge that connects people and makes information public. The concept of the archive is however artificial/virtual in nature and its shape can vary greatly, ranging from an entire building to a book, a stack of prints, a collection of digital data on noisy computers, and more. Therefore, the choice of the medium for the archive significantly shapes the overall experience, as does the process of populating the archive.

In this workshop, we will create a collective archive for the D*sign Week (and other). We will establish protocols for managing the assets in a shared Next Cloud instance, and through automated scripts we’ll learn how to export the files and recursively generate static website with our archived material. The workflow focuses on reducing computing and data transfer, hence producing a collaborative, yet less resource intensive web archive.

Throughout the days of the D*sign Week, a multitude of files will undoubtedly be generated. In the workshop will establish and adhere to a policy or protocol for managing the assets that are intended for uploading to our homemade archive. Ultimately, we will populate it with our valuable content.
To populate an archive, we need a content management system. We will upload our assets via Next Cloud, an open-source cloud software. Through its browser interface, the upload will be accessible to everyone. To visualize the archive, we need consequently an interface. The keywords for this interface will be accessible and effortless. Accessible because it has to be clear for the most, in terms also of colours, size, disposition of the elements. Effortless in the sense of computation waste. Less calculus is better for the environment!
Thanks to a script that reads the content of the server every hour, the code of our archive will be generated as a static file. So much more ecological 😃

You can register for the workshop here.

Federico Poni

Federico Poni (b. 1996 ➟ lives in Tredozio, IT) is an artist / cyborg / pizzaiolo / web architect / net urbanist / student / teacher / copy-paste champion / garden lover / dead mouse / musician / alive pigeon / accelerationist / precarious / anarcho-defeatist / professional frier / wizard / minister / publisher / friend of machines / enemy of ASCII / four-leaf clovers hunter / designer
Its practice is a slalom between performance, critical coding, games, sound design, post-photography and writing with the main focus on speculative disciplines and semiotic reflections. Always interested in the relations between humans and devices, It tries to imagine new ecosystems to dwell together.
Its obsessions, these days, are the metaphysics of telecommunications, politics of self-hosting and ontology of dough making.
Nowadays It is busy with the role of Minister of Infrastructure (that mainly means It takes care of the server) in Habitat, a permanent cult®ural settlement and collective workshop carrying participatory practices of living (and publishing) within and beyond the local scale, based in Tredozio, in Romagna toscana area.
http://www.federicoponi.it/
https://habitattt.it/