• Forking the Long Table
• Positive community exchange
• Conversation was recorded, published and listened to a few times
• 10 attendees

Question:

Why does Klankschool need a server?

Concept

Ephemerality of Community (Weaver Cited in McAvinchey, 2014, p.31)

• 1978: Pauline Oliveros' Software for People
• 2012: 4-bit addition with humans (From the course wiki, depicted below)

Question

What does it mean if software can run on people?

Concept

"embodied software", a patenting practice during the 1960s (Con Diaz, 2015)

Performed during Gulaschprogrammiernacht 22 @ ZKM, Karlsruhe

Summary

• Gaining exposure to Arduino and hardware
• Live Coding
• Open Sound Control protocol

Question

How is live coding framed in this performance?

Listen

Server Maintenance...?

Body-based Software

• computational processes expressed in natural languages which can run on or through an embodied substrate?

Informing contexts

• Live Coding
• Codework

To collaborate with Rosa on a workshop series and write entries for a newsletter.

• Endeavoured to set up a mail server
• Tricky so pivoted to a self-hosted static site
• Documents the workshops series

Con Diaz, G. (2015) ‘Embodied Software: Patents and the History of Software Development, 1946-1970’, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 8–19 [Online]. DOI: 10.1109/MAHC.2015.45.

McAvinchey, C. (2014) ‘Lois Weaver: Interview and introduction by Caoimhe McAvinchey’, in Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies, London, England, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, pp. 21–32 [Online]. DOI: 10.5040/9781408166505.