From: Magda <[email protected]> Subject: First session of common practice at Arnolfini and online - 3 June, 5pm-8pm
common practice/language Texts by mez breeze 3 June, 5pm-8pm Reading Room in Arnolfini and online at http://automatist.net/deptofreading/wiki/pmwiki.php/CommonPractice contact common_practice on Skype to join the session (next sessions: 24 June, 9 and 30 September) Italo Calvino said 'the storyteller explored the possibilities implied in his own language by combining and changing the permutations of the figures and the actions, and of the objects on which these actions could be brought to bear'. It is by following this principle that common practice will start. The first session will open with mez breeze's mezangelle poems, written in a blend of code and language, and we will be practising a simultaneous reading/writing reworking of these texts to experience their language-code operations during the event. common practice is a reading group that uses Wiki and Skype to perform a Calvino-style manipulation of texts. Through unpredictable cobbling together of texts, poetry, people, code, language, Wiki, chat, conversations etc. we will co-produce untagged and free style body/ies of knowledge. The reading groups that make up common practice will take place in June and September. You are invited to read, write, tinker with and intervene in the literary and theoretical texts and poetry together with others through the simple-to-use online tools. You can join us in the Reading Room at Arnolfini or online and via Skype (contact: common_practice). common practice references the widespread and increasingly familiar activity of using online tools in everyday to communicate, contact, work, socialise, play, research, be entertained etc. The practice embodies the curiosity to experience ways in which human and machine skills and abilities perform together. More importantly, however, common practice also refers to the fact that it is done in common - together with others. Thus it is social space of knowledge materialised through co-labour, codeworking and language. Anxiety, concern and conflict might be part of the practice in the same way that curiosity, hospitality and kindness are hoped for. This is practice in flux, nomadic practice that exists in the common. Knowledge and experiences generated during the session will be captured by its users. common practice is a series of curated events initiated by Magda Tyzlik-Carver, hosted by the Reading Room in Arnolfini, and online by Department of Reading http://automatist.net/deptofreading/wiki/pmwiki.php/CommonPractice and project.arnolfini http://project.arnolfini.org.uk/?t=5 . Please bring your own laptop with wireless enabled to join the common practice in the Reading Room. If you don't have your own laptop, there will be a common computer available to use by those without one. Wiki-page will be also projected on the wall so it will be possible to follow the practice. - MANUAL FOR THE COMMON PRACTICE SESSION - In order to take part in common practice all you need is an account on Skype and a connection to the internet for the time of the session. You can also join us in the Reading Room at Arnolfini at the time of the session. Please bring your laptop with you. The space of the session is a Skype-chat and a Wiki-page. The Wiki (http://automatist.net/deptofreading/wiki/pmwiki.php/Seisure) contains two poems by mez breeze, each line marked by a number. The Department of Reading Internet System (doris) connects the chat and the pool directly. doris listens to the chat, records all entries and allows for manipulation of the poems directly through the chat. In this session we will make use of the module [getput]. This module consists of two commands, namely [get], which allows to get any one of the lines from the poems directly to the chat; and [put], which allows to put any entry of the chat into any one of the numbered lines on the Wiki. To get any line from one of the poems into the chat, write: "get 1" or "get 6" depending on which section you want to get the line from. The text will not be deleted on the Wiki, but can be altered in the chat and replaced later on by using the command "put". In between the two poems is an empty column that can as well be addressed by the commands [get] and [put] via the related numbers - this will become operative during the session. doris allows to modify, rewrite, edit or manipulate the poems with the command [put]. To place any entry or rewritten line into the poems, write it in the chat, then press ENTER, and then write: "put 1" in the chat and press ENTER again. This will place the entry in line 1 of the Wiki and overwrite the previously given line of the poem. If you want to position an entry in section 3 or 4 or 9 or any other, you need to change the number in the command accordingly. For example, if you want an entry to be in section 4, the command should be: "put 4", etc. There are some signs, so called markups, that allow for italic, bold and coloured text. They can be used as well through the Skype-chat, simply in writing them along with the related entry that you would like to post on the Wiki. In order to set an expression italic, you would have to use two apostrophes at the beginning and the end of that expression - like ''italic''. When it comes to bold, just use three apostrophes '''bold'''. It's also possible to use colours in this reading session. The signs % is necessary in this case, again one before the name of the colour, then one after the name of the colour. Next comes the text and then comes another % sign to stop the colouring. Like this: %blue%coloured-invisi.belles%. The mark-up [[<<]] introduces a line-break. You need to refresh the Wiki-page from time to time to see the changes. Since the poems easily might interfere with the marks-ups as it plays with quite similar signs, it can happen that you don't necessarily get, what you might have intended with an entry.
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