Book Update
Chia Amisola, Meg Miller, Cristóbal Sciutto Rodríguez, Benjamin Earl and Kirsten Spruit
Dear reader
This week, I visited the copy store to print the first draft of the Internet Phone Book. It’s such a joy to see the idea come to life. Alongside seven hundred personal websites, the book features essays on creating your own home on the internet and lovely illustrations by Elliott. I can’t wait to share it with you.
With care
Kristoffer
Wayside flowers
https://handyfotos.marco.land/
https://tiffanyq.github.io/this-wont-last-forever/
https://xixxii.neocities.org/projects/weirdweboctober24/01-nature
Field notes
Meg Miller asks good questions about catholicism, writing, and performance, and Chia Amisola answers with the richness, confidence, and kindness that characterizes their work.
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»Kenneth Goldsmith’s most important selection was not the content of the archive, but rather its form. Kenneth chose simple tooling. There weren’t many other options at its time than hand-written HTML sent via file transfer protocol to a server linked up to the domain name resolution network. However, his stubbornness against adoption of “modern tools” has proved resilient.«
— Cristóbal Sciutto Rodríguez in An Autonomous Archive
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This is a cute reflection by Benjamin Earl and Kirsten Spruit about evolving Robida’s website and writing hidden messages in the comments.
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Marks in the Poetic Web Calendar: WordHack feat. Output (Wednesday, NYC), A Server Is a Mountain That Takes a Village (Thursday, Amsterdam), Algo Rave (Thursday, Paris), and Softer Social (Thursday, London).
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Notes from Calls for participation. Firstly, today (Sunday) is the deadline for applying to the School for Poetic Computation’s winter classes. Regular readers will be familiar with many instructor names, including Spencer Chang, Elan Ullendorff, Max Fowler, and Everest Pipkin. These are all people who shape how I think about the internet. The classes are online, and you can also apply for scholarships. Please let me know if you join.
Secondly, if you are based in Australia or New Zealand, check out Blackbird Foundation’s funding opportunities. They care for the internet, so don’t hesitate to submit niche web projects.
Finally, Mindy Seu and Charles Broskoski are hosting a residency about knowledge sharing and citation. Maybe something for you? Apply before December 15.
Collections
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