Travel Report
Travel Report
Spencer Chang, Agnes Cameron, Tiny Awards, and Wildfires
Dear reader
The wildfire arrived as a mistimed golden hour. Ana was the first to notice. She came into the living room asking if we had seen the light. We hadn’t. Uno and I were heads down in our LEGO landscape. But the moment we looked up, something was clearly wrong, and all three of us went to the balcony to analyze the situation.
There was hardly any information available online. I wasn’t sure if the recoloring of the sky was a wildfire or a dust cloud from the Sahara. In any case, we closed the doors and windows. Only a few hours later could Ana confirm her hunch: it was a wildfire, and this one reached the suburbs of Athens.
The next day, as we left Athens for our planned summer trip to Slovenia, the wildfire was still burning. To drive through the smoke to the airport was one of my most surreal, ambivalent, and sad experiences: our phones kept alerting us about nearby danger, the air had a strange hue of beige and grey, and everywhere it smelled like a campfire. Once at the airport, we could see one of the fire flanks, but otherwise, everything worked as usual. People, planes, and luggage kept moving, and so did we.
With care
Kristoffer
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Field notes
1.
Matt and I spoke with It’s Nice That about Tiny Awards and »the other web.«
2.
»In contrast to fine art created for aesthetic value, folk art emerges from cultural significance and needs. Folklore encompasses emergent practices and traditions, passed down person-to-person within communities, as opposed to “high culture” which is universal and prescriptive, passed down through formal education.«
— Spencer Chang, We’re All (Folk) Programmers
3.
YouTube TV.
Does this count as software co-opt?
4.
»We wanted to have a way of seeing that shows what‘s really happening with the landscape. Like, is the landscape happy? Are the plants growing properly?«
— Agnes Cameron talking about Permaculture Network in Sensing the Earth. It is worth mentioning that Agnes is speaking at this year’s Naive Yearly.
5.
From Call for Participation: Rhizome offers microgrants, Taper accepts submissions, and PikselFest requests projects.
Collections
I’ll be in Malmö, Sweden the next few days for The Conference. Ping me if you are around :)
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