diff --git a/content/oracle_stories/story_1.md b/content/oracle-stories/story_1.md similarity index 94% rename from content/oracle_stories/story_1.md rename to content/oracle-stories/story_1.md index ed7fc1f..c30614f 100644 --- a/content/oracle_stories/story_1.md +++ b/content/oracle-stories/story_1.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ title: Cacao Trial -cards: Testimony, Cacao, Interdependence - ---- +cards: Testimony + Cacao + Interdependence Will be used by everyone who eats chocolate. Now people eat it in unconscious ways, some are addicted to it, very few people know about the sacral function it had in Mayan Traditions, where it is grown, and where it has been used. diff --git a/content/oracle_stories/story_2.md b/content/oracle-stories/story_2.md similarity index 93% rename from content/oracle_stories/story_2.md rename to content/oracle-stories/story_2.md index aa6b0f6..0172d1f 100644 --- a/content/oracle_stories/story_2.md +++ b/content/oracle-stories/story_2.md @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ title: Ritual for non-stable publishing slug: ritual -cards: Storytelling, Ritual, Sharing - ---- +cards: Storytelling + Ritual + Sharing This publishing infrastructure is a ritualistic storytelling prompt for non-stable publishing. By engaging with the different steps of ritual and telling the story to a friend, a tree, a more-than-human you will have published the work. diff --git a/content/oracle_stories/story_3.md b/content/oracle-stories/story_3.md similarity index 84% rename from content/oracle_stories/story_3.md rename to content/oracle-stories/story_3.md index 9ae184a..dd6bb84 100644 --- a/content/oracle_stories/story_3.md +++ b/content/oracle-stories/story_3.md @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ title: Storytellers.com slug: storytellers -cards: Storytelling, Order Fulfillment Apparatus, Nothing about us without us - ---- +cards: Storytelling + Order Fulfillment Apparatus + Nothing about us without us Anyone who likes stories, can order a storyteller on an online platform. It works like Mechanical Turk but it’s well paid - it’s physical work. A storyteller can come physically to your place, or can tell the story via video call or with a letter. An NGO organises this. They previously have interviews with each of the storytellers who are working for the platform. Storytellers can only tell from their own perspective. When you order one, the storyteller will be assigned to you based on the chosen values, language etc. diff --git a/content/oracle_stories/story_4.md b/content/oracle-stories/story_4.md similarity index 84% rename from content/oracle_stories/story_4.md rename to content/oracle-stories/story_4.md index 08a4341..63acca3 100644 --- a/content/oracle_stories/story_4.md +++ b/content/oracle-stories/story_4.md @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ title: Melt slug: melt -cards: Testimony, Melting, Dismantling standards - ---- +cards: Testimony + Melting + Dismantling standards In situation of melting due to climate change in Berlin, we will dismantle standards of publishing towards valuing testimony as a publishing infrastructure and as embodied by the transforming materials around us. It is a temporal infrastructure, only active when it snows or freezes in Berlin. diff --git a/content/pages/about.md b/content/pages/about.md index 23ee3f2..5eb80f9 100644 --- a/content/pages/about.md +++ b/content/pages/about.md @@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ Anaïs Berck is an alias that exists since September 2019. The name stands for a As a collective Anais Berck opens up a space in which human intelligence is explored in the company of plant intelligence and artificial intelligence. +[Research questions →]({filename}/pages/research-questions.md) + For this project, Anaïs Berck is represented by the human beings An Mertens, Guillaume Slizewicz, Gijs de Heij and Loren Britton, all members or friends of [Constant](https://constantvzw.org), the association for arts and media in Brussels; and of [Algolit](https://algolit.net), the artistic research group around text and free code. This research is initiated in June 2021, with An Mertens, Gijs de Heij and Loren Britton, during a three-week residency at Medialab Prado in Madrid (granted by the Vlaamse Overheid as part of their 'Digital Culture Residencies' program). It will be continued during one year with the support of a grant by [FRArt/Art & Recherche](http://www.art-recherche.be), in partnership with [ESA St-Luc Brussels](http://www.stluc-bruxelles-esa.be/), [ESA La Cambre Brussels](http://www.stluc-bruxelles-esa.be/), [Botanic Garden Meise](https://www.plantentuinmeise.be/en/home/), [Villa Empain](https://www.villaempain.com/), the [Royal Library of Belgium](https://www.kbr.be/en/) and the [Bibliothèque Nationale de France](https://www.bnf.fr/fr). diff --git a/content/pages/activities.md b/content/pages/activities.md index feaf20a..e674fbc 100644 --- a/content/pages/activities.md +++ b/content/pages/activities.md @@ -4,14 +4,12 @@ template: activities The research is organised around the following activites. Each activity will be documented. -- **November/December 2021**: [Literary Python for Beginners](https://www.anaisberck.be/literary-python-for-beginners/), CASO Arts Numériques, ESA La Cambre, Bruxelles - -- **November/December 2021**: Follow-up students, New Media Art, ESA Saint-Luc Bruxelles - -- **26 Oct - 29 Oct 2021**: Workshops with students of ESA Saint-Luc Bruxelles [Download description workshops]({static}/pdfs/workshops_st_luc_description_FR_EN.pdf) +- **18 Oct - 30 Oct 2021**: Residency ‘Fruit Rains’ in Villa Empain, Brussels - **25 Oct 2021**: Seminar 'On human, plant and artificial intelligence' in ESA Saint-Luc Bruxelles, with lectures by Jara Rocha (SP), Outi Laiti (FI), Stephan Kempelman (BE) and Nathalie Grandjean (BE). [Download the full program]({static}/pdfs/seminar_st_luc_description_FR_EN.pdf) -- **18 Oct - 30 Oct 2021**: Residency ‘Fruit Rains’ in Villa Empain, Brussels +- **26 Oct - 29 Oct 2021**: Workshops with students of ESA Saint-Luc Bruxelles [Download description workshops]({static}/pdfs/workshops_st_luc_description_FR_EN.pdf) +- **November/December 2021**: [Literary Python for Beginners](https://www.anaisberck.be/literary-python-for-beginners/), CASO Arts Numériques, ESA La Cambre, Bruxelles +- **November/December 2021**: Follow-up students, New Media Art, ESA Saint-Luc Bruxelles \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/pages/oracle.md b/content/pages/oracle.md index 91f9711..d82daca 100644 --- a/content/pages/oracle.md +++ b/content/pages/oracle.md @@ -1,8 +1,7 @@ title: Oracle for Consentful Publishing Infrastructures slug: oracle -status: hidden - ---- +save_as: oracle.html +template: oracle This oracle is a hands-on card deck in development. It is designed to help us collectively envision and share ideas for what consentful publishing infrastructures might be... or might not. @@ -13,9 +12,8 @@ At the right you can read stories that are result from consulting the Oracle for ![]({static}/images/2-Value-Cacao.jpg) The Values, Objects and Situations of the Oracle have been inspired by reading texts from the [reader]({filename}/pages/reader.md) and extracting elements from the texts. The deck is unstable and still in development. -[Download the deck]({static}/images/Oracle_for_Consentful_Publishing_Infrastructures.zip) - -[Download the rules]({static}/pdfs/Rules_oracle_for_consentful_infractructures.pdf) +[↓ Download the deck (~35mb)]({static}/images/Oracle_for_Consentful_Publishing_Infrastructures.zip) +[↓ Download the rules]({static}/pdfs/Rules_oracle_for_consentful_infractructures.pdf) ![]({static}/images/final_box_madrid.jpg) diff --git a/content/pages/research-questions.md b/content/pages/research-questions.md index 14729c4..fe24588 100644 --- a/content/pages/research-questions.md +++ b/content/pages/research-questions.md @@ -1,8 +1,6 @@ title: Research questions slug: research ---- - This research is organised around different axes. It will look into formal narratives generated by algorithms, question the form of the book as an object and authorial product, explore the concept of a ‘decolonial publishing house’ and experiment with the influence of ‘forest baths’ on the writing of code and the communication with trees. Concretely, this translates into the following current questions. diff --git a/theme/static/styles/styles.css b/theme/static/styles/styles.css index 78395a3..5530a0b 100644 --- a/theme/static/styles/styles.css +++ b/theme/static/styles/styles.css @@ -48,7 +48,12 @@ h1 { margin-bottom: var(--line-height); } -h2 { +aside h2 { + padding: .5rem 1.5rem .5rem 1.5rem; + border-bottom: 1px solid black; +} + +h3 { letter-spacing: .05em; text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; @@ -61,7 +66,7 @@ p { main { grid-column: 1; - padding: var(--line-height) calc(3 * var(--line-height)) var(--line-height) var(--line-height); + padding: var(--line-height) calc(3 * var(--line-height)) var(--line-height) calc(2 * var(--line-height)); overflow-y: auto; } @@ -69,6 +74,10 @@ main, nav { border-right: 1px solid black; } +nav { + grid-column: 1; +} + aside { grid-column: 2; grid-row: 1 / 3; @@ -242,7 +251,11 @@ strong { } } -img {max-width: 100%;} +img { + max-width: 75%; + display: block; + margin: var(--line-height) 0; +} ul#nav { display: flex; @@ -265,4 +278,11 @@ ul#nav li a { /* text-transform: uppercase; */ /* font-weight: 500; */ letter-spacing: .25px; + white-space: nowrap; +} + +main li:before { + content: '*'; + float: left; + margin-right: 1em; } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/theme/templates/activities.html b/theme/templates/activities.html index c5d3fbf..337de47 100644 --- a/theme/templates/activities.html +++ b/theme/templates/activities.html @@ -11,10 +11,11 @@ {% endblock %} {% block sidebar %} +

Latest activities

{% for activity in categories|get_category_articles('activities') %}
-

{{ activity.title }}

+

{{ activity.title }}

{{ activity.date|display_if_set('date')}} {{ activity.location|display_if_set('Location')}} diff --git a/theme/templates/algoliterary-works.html b/theme/templates/algoliterary-works.html index 88f7491..df19e37 100644 --- a/theme/templates/algoliterary-works.html +++ b/theme/templates/algoliterary-works.html @@ -10,10 +10,11 @@ {% endblock %} {% block sidebar %} +

Latest Algoliterary works

{% for article in categories|get_category_articles('algoliterary-works') %}
-

{{ article.title }}

+

{{ article.title }}

{{ article.algorithm|display_if_set('Algorithm')}} {{ article.trees|display_if_set('Trees')}} diff --git a/theme/templates/base.html b/theme/templates/base.html index 1afd906..9fc4d7d 100644 --- a/theme/templates/base.html +++ b/theme/templates/base.html @@ -34,6 +34,16 @@ +
{% block content %} {% endblock %} diff --git a/theme/templates/home.html b/theme/templates/home.html index c35f280..e6a55e1 100644 --- a/theme/templates/home.html +++ b/theme/templates/home.html @@ -10,10 +10,11 @@ {% endblock %} {% block sidebar %} +

Recent Algoliterary works

{% for article in categories|get_category_articles('algoliterary-works') %}
-

{{ article.title }}

+

{{ article.title }}

{{ article.algorithm|display_if_set('Algorithm')}} {{ article.trees|display_if_set('Trees')}} diff --git a/theme/templates/oracle.html b/theme/templates/oracle.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..572da9f --- /dev/null +++ b/theme/templates/oracle.html @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +{% extends "base.html" %} + +{% block title %}{{ SITENAME }}{%endblock%} + +{% block bodyclass %}activities{% endblock %} + +{% block content %} +

{{ page.title }}

+ {{ page.content }} +

← Back

+{% endblock %} + +{% block sidebar %} +

Oracle stories

+ {% for story in categories|get_category_articles('oracle-stories') %} +
+ +

{{ story.title }}

+
+ {{ story.cards|display_if_set('Cards')}} +
+
+ {{ story.content }} +
+ {% endfor %} +{% endblock %} \ No newline at end of file