Next #forth project: Super barebones (but useful) #willow protocol implementation.
Following with the post-apocalyptic aesthetic and everything around things like #permacomputing and #collapseos I see an opportunity for a decentralized easy to use way to share data between isolated communities through something like the #willow protocol.
I don't know why I'm so attracted to this aesthetic but it's a bit of a current obsession.
ADELA International Festival of Generative Arts
DATE: 28 May through 2 June 2024
LOCATION: Kino Šiška, Slovenska kinoteka & osmo/za, Ljubljana, Slovenia
For about a week, in between Kino Šiška, osmo/zo and Slovenska kinoteka, you will be able to catch a glimpse of Adela – a transitional state that, in its unravelling of generative systems, will this year lean towards the practices of sustainable computing (#permacomputing), establishing a media-archaeological dialogue with machines and invoking the latent potentials of analogicity.
Production: Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory (2024)
Coproduction: @creativecoding Utrecht, Kino Šiška, Slovenian Cinematheque, Razpotja magazine (DHG)
Coorganisation: osmo/za, servus.at
Supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana. Adela Focus Country: The Netherlands is co-financed by the Creative Industries Fund NL. The Virtual Ground exhibition artworks are part of the Shaping the Future project, co-funded
Permacomputing seems like a solution searching for a problem. I really don't see how it helps, except in the vague sense of maybe reducing consumption.
TBH, the older I get, the more I think we need fewer computers rather than more. In fact less stuff generally.
@cian I think there's a misunderstanding :) from the wiki:
"Most importantly, there is no #permacomputing kit to buy. See permacomputing as invitation to collectively and radically rethink computational culture. It is not a tech solution searching for a problem."
A huge problem we see is that any attempt to counter the dominant ICT industries, is somehow expected to be also operating at a technosolutionist level. It's a paradox but also is at odds with a link we make with degrowth practices, and wile we're not in favour of going back to the water clock, we surely think we could do with way less computation and screen time in our life. More specifically in a way that get rids of harmful, exploitative, extractive forms of computation.
It's an incredibly difficult ambition, and that's why we position pmc at three levels https://permacomputing.net/three_levels/ : collective problematisation, practical degrowth now, and thinking/making for tomorrow.
If you're into HCI, then I could imagine that the last level could be a space more relevant, and there are already some people trying out things, for instance @permacomputer, @jakintosh@praxeology and a few more.
Bottom line, it's an incentive to try things and join forces with a roughly shared agenda. There's not going to be a one-click install to a better computational culture :)
Making software that runs repeatedly or continuously, like CI jobs, more efficient also means less energy. If you’re working on OSS or internal projects at work that you can make similar changes to, please look into it! It’s not exactly #permacomputing but it feels like a tangible computing thing that we all can help with in corporate jobs.