{"id":175,"date":"2012-10-21T16:37:07","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T15:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/word.root.ps\/?p=175"},"modified":"2012-12-07T00:20:34","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T23:20:34","slug":"transhackerfeminist-oscillator-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/word.root.ps\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"Transhackerfeminist Oscillator Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"

The TransHackerFeminist Oscillator Kit explores the Oscillator both as a circuit, a computer algorithm and a dispositive for the performance of gender.\u00a0When there is difference, there is oscillation. Starting from the concept of the kits distributed for DIY electronic circuits, the Transhackerfeminist Oscillator Kit is\u00a0composed of components that permit the user to build their own social and technological performance. Mixing hardware, software, texts, images, scripts\u00a0and instructions, it explores the concept of social structure as a performative circuit or operating system that can be bent or hacked. The kit embodies the\u00a0fertile meeting of hackers and transfeminists and their shared aims and methods.<\/p>\n

Politization and problemisation of the circuit, of the algorithm. Science and circuits as performative dispositives. Intuitive and artistic investigation of the\u00a0effect of the different waveforms.<\/p>\n

We seek to bring another understanding to technology and to generate a collective research project which results in a\u00a0common technosocial toolkit, understanding social constructs as waveforms, just as audio is synthesised from oscillators or radio waves communicate via\u00a0the oscillating crystal of a radio station. Understanding the oscillator and its 4 primary waves as the building blocks of synthetic identities, exploring how\u00a0waveforms function as metaphors for social constructs.<\/p>\n

Historically the project is inspired by the nato.0+55 project by Netochka Nevzanova in the late 90s,\u00a0early 00s, in which she resignified the objects of the Max operating systems and the Mongrel remix of Photoshop, Heritage Gold, which reconfigures\u00a0Photoshop as a tool for the criticism of racial stereotypes. The creation of this kit is a transhackerfeminist collective project a\u00a0materialisation of the\u00a0meeting of hacker and transfeminist communities that, through this kit, express a common purpose : reconfiguring, resignifying, hacking, opening the way\u00a0things work, socially and technologically.<\/p>\n

In the creation of the kit have participated collectives like PostOp\u00a0(http:\/\/www.postop.es\/), Mutanger\u00a0(http:\/\/mutangerlab.wordpress.com\/), Transnoise (http:\/\/transnoise.tumblr.com) \u00a0andl artists, thinkers and hackers such as Pedro Soler\u00a0(http:\/\/root.ps), Xavi Daax! (http:\/\/www.noconventions.mobi\/x!\/ ) or Beka Iglesias from the Olholivre collective (http:\/\/olholivre.net\/).<\/p>\n

The\u00a0TransHackerFeminist Oscillator Kit contains the Oscillator Kit which can be used for Identity Synthesis (additive, subtractive, AM, RM) as well as an\u00a0Amplifier of Difference and other circuits such as the Identity Sampler still to be developed. In the digital Oscillator which periodically reads a function in\u00a0order to generate a waveform we insert functions, narratives, which create the waveforms. The kit began development as a collective project at the Summerlab in Alg-A Lab in August 2012 and continued at the Artopocode Summerlab meeting in Guimaraes (Portugal) Oct 2012. \u00a0A first version of the kit can be downloaded here http:\/\/root.ps\/download\/k1t_oscilador.zip<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We now wish to develop the hardware and\u00a0software, integrating more fully the social and technical interpretations and building the machines that would be in the exhibition and preparing the circuits\u00a0for the kit.<\/p>\n

Sample components :
\n1. spoken word
\n2. definitions of Oscillation
\n3. Simple Oscillator Synthesiser (Pure Data)
\n4. Oscillator Forms &\u00a0Combinations (Processing)
\n5. Oscillator, Amplifier, Quartz Crystal Radio Oscillator (electronic circuits)
\nthese\u00a0would include custom made circuit boards – 1 for each of the 5 fundamental wave forms – \u00a0and the electronic components required for making the oscillators.
\n6. Models of Synthesis AM,\u00a0Ring, Additive, Subtractive
\n8. Notes on Performativity butler,\u00a0preciado, sontag etc.
\n9. Disguise components (to cut out)<\/p>\n

Functions are narrative routines : each culture will have its functions we\u00a0would deliver a\u00a0series of functions appropriate to Ireland as well as inviting contributions.<\/p>\n

Inappropriate behaviours (Inapropriadas)
\nMacho talk (Lingua Macho)
\nBitterness\u00a0(Rencor)
\nSuper wave (Pedazo de Onda song\u00a0by Biscuits Sal\u00e9s)
\ncandy candy (japanese comic)<\/p>\n

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circuit by\u00a0post-op\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The TransHackerFeminist Oscillator Kit explores the Oscillator both as a circuit, a computer algorithm and a dispositive for the performance of gender.\u00a0When there is difference, there is oscillation. Starting from the concept of the kits distributed for DIY electronic circuits, the Transhackerfeminist Oscillator Kit is\u00a0composed of components that permit the user to build their own […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actividades","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/word.root.ps\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/word.root.ps\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/word.root.ps\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/word.root.ps\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/word.root.ps\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/word.root.ps\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533,"href":"https:\/\/word.root.ps\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/word.root.ps\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/word.root.ps\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/word.root.ps\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}