Composing Interactions

On September 14, there was a book launch at V2.

The book is almost ready at the printer. Here are some previews of what it will look like!

Over the past months, we have been working on the final edits, the layout, references, index, and forewords.

As an inevitable part of writing, I am also taking decisions along the way what not to write. Or rather, what to write in a next book. The part computational behaviours that I previously planned for this book, seems to be too much to add right now. Rather, I think it merits a book of its own, where I can also go into more detail on my own artistic work. The updated contents for “Just a question of mapping” can be found on the book page.

In the winter semester of the German academic year, I had the opportunity to teach at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe to the students of Music Informatics. I though two course, closely related to the topic of the book: “Custom Sensors for Sonic Interaction” and “Interactive Sound Design for Performative Contexts”. This put the writing partially on hold, but also gave me the opportunity to try out and work with the contents of the book with the students.

The work session at Splendor is postponed to October. The exact dates still need to be determined.

The call for the last work session planned within the trajectory for the book writing is open!

The work session that was planned at V2_ is moved online. Some of the participants that had signed up for the NOTAM work session that was cancelled, are now also taking part in this session. I’m looking forward to get to know the different projects of the participants in detail!

The Corona crisis affected my Norway tour. As I was traveling back to Oslo from Trondheim, the Norwegian government took more actions to prevent the Corona virus from spreading. As a result my workshop at NOTAM, presentation and residency at BEK and presentation at IAC had to be canceled, and I had to find my way back home as soon as possible.

On Feb 27th, I will be teaching a workshop “Approaching the Question of Mapping” at the Aalborg University, at the department of architecture, design, and media technology to Master Students from the department.

After considering different options for crowdfunding, I found that the best way would be to ask for irregular donations or recurring donations, rather than go for a crowdfunding campaign that requires a lot of extra work in advertising and coming up with additional rewards. So I’ve made a choice to use LiberaPay and Ko-Fi* which allow for small donations, without a push to a deadline. I’ve created a support page to provide you with links and to explain why I’m asking for donations.

In the first worksession, that took place at iii on October 28, 29 and 30, we took an in-depth look at the work of four artists: Dan Gibson, Erfan Abdi, Stelios Manousakis and Solomiya Moroz. Over the course of three days, we delved deeper and deeper into these works. For the participants it was a good way to look at their own work again, and be able to describe and discuss their works in detail with the other participants.

On September 28th, I presented a position paper about the topic of the book at the Conference for Interdisciplinary Musicology (CIM) in Graz.

As I am preparing the follow-up trajectory, I have put an expression of interest form online. Please fill it in if you want to help out making this book real!

On Saturday February 9, I will give a presentation aobut the project at the Processing Community Day Amsterdam between 17h and 18h.

To get feedback on the ongoing project, I have created a survey to gather input, feedback and interest. I would greatly appreciate it if you would take the time to fill in the survey: https://justaquestionofmapping.info/survey/

On July 16th, I interviewed Andi Otto about his Fello.

Halfway October I got the news that the Creative Industry Fund NL would fund me to get started on writing a book on mapping. The idea for this book has been in the back of my mind for a long time now - as it came up regularly in discussions during my post-doctoral research at Concordia University and in collaborations on projects since then (e.g. the Emerge project with Concordia University, the Modality project with BEK and a group of SuperCollider programmers and musicians, and during the METABODY EU-project while I was at STEIM).