curriculum - c a l c - calcaxy 2.01

> 1^st OF APRIL GRAN POLLO KICK OFF DAY ..they meet and dive deep into the material Santi brings.. in the meantime we talked a lot.. we’ll do it together.. we prepared an extra compi..mama Pi’s machine from casqueiro for that, big quark.. ..we’re deciding the basic visual structure for the book, that we want to associate kind of chicken-icons to each chapter and to visualize all chapters in a center-map..like a cartography of these 10 years the book talks about..

> 4^th OF APRIL muere el papa.. still against the war in Irak and still against reasoning against aids....y el mundo popes out! the death of the head of the most hirarchic, rigid and biggest enterprise of the world, the catholic church, makes that world becomes an image for a while.. an image of images of popehope..adios K.W.

..el pollo..all starting structuring..taking desisions together..inventing a system with post its to have a common overview..

mister Nacho MU calls..you know, after we were buying a quarter page in his magazine for the casa + o – project he proposes to dedicate the architure page to the project.. sure, fine... go ahead..

> omi and eva start to understand that they are not the wide’n deep re_lation they thought and wished they are..like all went so fast.. until emotional speeds are like flying out of the orbit..and seperate. everything, but the friendship.. and our common projects.

middle of April mama pi and uncle om meet Cristiana and Mathias because of LA CASA DE LAS PALABRAS.. another kick off, another casa..this time a school and center for all kind of language-related issues.. giving classes to foreigners, immigrants.. soon u’ll see it online.. they like what the calcies propose and they get a green freelight to just go on..

Mama Pi’s getting rounder and rounder..since months they know that its a girlfruit which grows in her…they are searching for names… names arrive by e_mail from all around... LOLA’s the favorite.. for Papa Topo at least...or MARLA...a_marla..mucho..

Bart writes .. Bart de Bear.. from MuHKA.. he got an idea > the idea that c a l c curates again.. Bart tells us that him and Rutger Wolfsen who’s the director of the Vleeshal in Middelburg-Holland are planning a kind of ‘collection-exchange’.. and that the piece they bought from Michelangelo and c a l c (uffizi porte) should be the center piece of what is supposed to be in Middelburg... curate a show in which we are the focus? hmmm, sounds impossible.. like celebrating ourselfs..but anyway: great, omi and Topo will leave to Ghent in some days anyway and omi will pass by Antwerp and Middelburg to have a look..and a talk..

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Topo and omi - one day - one clue.. in some days they are leaving.. reading a lot about memory and talking about it (using memory and generating new informations) .. ‘remembering is a creative act’ is the most important we understand. these are the 5 clues / stoyboards they take.. one day, one clue >

clue 1 ~ clue 2 ~ clue 3 ~ clue 4 ~ clue 5

> 23^rf OF APRIL going Ghent - this text went before..Jan and Lieve used it to invite people.. >

g e o g r a f i a    a f f e t t i v a   t h e    G R F   e x p e r i e n c e

                                                                                       c a l c c 02_2005

how can we remember something if this something is absent?
the answer Sokrates gave in a platonic dialog is maybe a
cultural sourcecode of what we know about memory > (wo)man,
so Sokrates, owns as a gift from Mnemosyne, the mother of all
muses, a board of wax, in which memories can imprint themselves
like from a signet ring. whatever leaves an impression can be
remembered until this impression is fading and oblivion initiates.

looking at geografia affettiva with this platonic spatial view and playing
conceptual with its telematic feasibilities provokes some interesting
questions and possibilities > do we have - finally - collective wax
boards? > is our memory getting “better” because we can outsource
it into an artificial kind of screen-brain which doesn’t fade out? or
should on the contrary a system like that also have a facility to
forget? and first of all > what shall that be: a collective memory?

if memory (Mnemosyne) is the mother of all muses and an individual
memory only can be formed via social interaction what happens if
this interaction can be mapped and contexts be seen as > a net
cartography of these interactions? do our relations change and
does our identity? what happens to what we call past and presence?
and does the system help to project the future?

during our workshop-week in the RFG we’d like to share these
questions with you and leave the result as a kind of spatial memory
for the public.

since geografiaffettiva.net was developed in all its questions by
bringing them on public tables also our GRF experience will > be
translated onto its blog-like website and soon, when we’ll be able+
to play with the prototype, in-formed better. we hope until we meet!

c a l c      >     Teresa Alonso Novo, tOmi scheiderBauer, Ma/ex Spiegel in close collaboration
                      with Re:to Stebler,

C             >     in collaboration with l a p a n a d e r i a
                      RuBén Alonso Mallén, eVa Morales Soler, David Cañavate Cazorla

+             >     we want to use this opportunity of paper to greet all media - workers, -creators,
                      - inventors and - investors.
                      please feel free and welcome to contact us and talk about a sponsor deal or
                      even a project-conceptual partnership > calc@calcaxy.com

..of course the prototype wasn’t done until then.. too much other taks, money jobs which are everytime more interesting.. and more time gorging.. but we’ll have it on___ until end of 05 for sure! we just can’t wait any longer..

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..we decided within ca_pa (c a l c and lapanadaria) to see and to inform the whole GRF-space as a huge white black- board.. everyday our circle of chairs move..from one clue to the other..and with chalks, post its and everything people like to add we in_form and deepen what the clue touches, provoces and generates through our plays and talks..

..meanwhile in Sevilla it rains surprises > the casa + o – project goes even better than we were hoping... they already sold 4 or 5 flats...the project provoces what we intended: a discussion about the misery of actual ‘social’ housing.. of course this is just a start and so many details can be improved, but it is a serious proposal to get prices and wishes more adapted to people and their needs.. the biggest problem of doing realy big steps towards a change are the realty prices.. and the sharks in the sweetwater.

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Malex arrives from Zürich on day/clue 4 >

CLUE 4 - thursday > THIS IS A COLLECTIVE MEMORY

definitions collective:

> a term without any mean in computer science
> done by or characteristic of individuals acting    together; "a joint identity"; "the collective mind";    "the corporate good"

definitions memory:
> an electronic memory device; "a memory and the    CPU form the central part of a computer to which    peripherals are attached"
> the power of retaining and recalling past    experience; "he had a good memory when he was    younger"

how is geanet, seen as a tool for generating a visual collective memory, defined as such, if its structure is a hybrid memory between the electronic and the human memory?

reflections:

in a conceptual (philosophical) way:
1 about what is "collective" nowadays (reflecting    also on the GRF-space itself as an art-space (...)    touching the problems of responsability, control,    authorship, copyleft.
2 from the individual to condividual (attitude and    backgrounds)
3 the concept of “multitud” (crowd, mass)
4 history and collective memory, differences and    similarities

relations beetwen these concepts and geanet
1 community - a base concept in geanet
2 how is a community in geanet defined?
3 how can you visualize the others information and    therefor generate your "personal collective    memory"?
4 data bank and "probability bank" - how can    geanet work as a "generator of contacts, ideas    and exchanges? how can it increase the    probabilty that we find each other over our    problems, questions, ideas? (reflecting at this    point also on our previous days regarding archive    and memory - semantic and associative memory)

technical issues:
1 about the open source "philosophy" and its    relation with geanet (basic distinctions in working    effects between final determined closed ond basic    predetermined open codes)
2 an "open software" for geanet as a principle for    common memory
3 communimage - reflecting on an example of    collective memory on-line (how "now-collective"    created a visual collective by the programm    background)
4 how to store data in geanet (touching the basic    question of the week and the theme of CLUE 5:    how can a data-bank forget without loosing    information for its activity?).

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