Presentation of Cobbled Paths Talk @ STWST Wednsday 26 Nov 18:00 ‑ 20:00 Presentation of Cobbled Paths: a web interface that brings multiple tools together to allow experimental and direct collaboration on pen-plotted drawings through the making of Ascii art on etherpads. We will go through how the tool was built, and talk about its different uses in commissioned collaborations for exhibition identity and as an intimate drawing tool. Open Source Publishing OSP is a graphic design collective based in Brussels. We work on typography, websites, web-to print tools and plotters. We exclusively use free and open source software (F/LOSS). Through our projects we question software as cultural objects and modes of collaboration between graphic designers, artists, cultural institutions and schools. We question the influence and affordances of digital tools through the practice of (commissioned) graphic design, teaching and applied research. Doriane Timmermans(BE) Vinciane Daheron(FR) Simon Browne(AU) Online Links web: https://osp.kitchen/ Printer, … Performance @ STWST Wednesday 26 Nov 21:00 ‑ 21:30 Project Description The printer is the most pervasive (and frustrating) example of technology that doesn’t work in our everyday lives. Everyone knows the situation where a printer doesn’t do what was originally intended with the print job. Designers, listen! In this performance, joak will take a different path. joak will show several modified printing devices and how they can be used as a performative device. With this approach, printers are not understood as isolated technologies but as an instrument. Because after all, printing should be fun. This performance is part of joak’s longer research on why printers never work. joak joak(AT) is an artist working with obsolete media/technologies/trash and anachronistic, fictitious timelines. Humor and irony are an important method in his undertakings. He is currently working on various alogisms and algorithms in Linz(AT). Onl
