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CHT/Totalism.org:
KUNSTHAL HACKBASE
participative programme

→PROGRAMME


at Kunsthal Gent (BE)
October → January


TO INTRODUCTION


TO SCHEDULE




Table of Contents
1 *** OVERVIEW
2 *** LEGENDA
2.1 ↘ LABS [Sessions @ Onsite+Online]
2.2 ↘ INHABITATION [Work-Life @ Onsite]
2.3 ↘ EXCURSIONS [Regional Consultations @ Offsite]
2.4 ↘ HAPPENINGS [Inpredictability @ Onsite] 
2.5 ↘ ARTEFACTS / ARCHIVE / EXHIBIT [Onsite+Online]
3 *** ECONOMIC TOOLING
3.1 [LAB+, TOOLS] Comrade License
3.2 [TALK, LAB] TBA: Guest session led by Telekommunisten
3.3 [LAB+, TOOLS] Extra-legal Bodies (w/ Extra body vzw)
3.4 [LAB+] Lim0 Replaces Capitalist Shops
3.4.1     [SITE] Lim0 Distribution Node
3.4.2     [OBJECT+] Food Boxes
3.4.3     [OBJECT, PURSUANCE] Hackbase-In-A-Box (HIAB)
4 *** BASE LIFE & INFRASTRUCTURE
4.1 [INHABITATION+, SITE, CFP] KUNSTHAL HACKBASE
4.2 [SITE, ROUTINE, HAPPENINGS] Totalist Cantine
4.3 [SITE] Hypertent Prototype (w/ ?)
4.4 [LAB, TOOLS, PURSUANCE] Gathering the Lab
4.5 [SITE, LAB+, OBJECT+] Embedded Ecology
5 *** COLLABORATIVE TOOLING
5.1 [LAB+] Pad.Land (for Fellow Travellers)
5.2 [LAB, TOOL+] Art-Tech Sovereignty
5.3 [LAB, TOOLS] Etheric Writing
5.4 [LAB, EDITION+, OBJECT+] Printed Editions
6 *** SITUATED/TRANSPOSE/SPREAD
6.1 [10+ EXCURSIONS] Adjacent Spaces : Research Excursions
6.2 [LAB+, TOOLS, ARCHIVE] Space Manuals
6.3 [HAPPENING] Harbouring a Caravan
6.4 [LAB, TOOLS] Representing Lifestyle & Cohabitation
6.5 [LAB, HAPPENING, CFP] Prepared Hackathon
6.6 [LAB+, TOOLS] Spidering to Consolidation
6.7 [LAB, HAPPENINGS+] nOISE tEMPLES ) ) ) )
6.8 [LAB] Hackbase Type 6 — Totalist Cities
6.9 [AUX, HAPPENING] PR, Interview (w/ Trashkot @Radio Centraal)
6.10 [AUX, REMOTE] Remote Chaos Communication Congress experience (rc3)
7 *** CHT @ 10
7.1 [LAB, ARCHIVE] CHT @ 10 : Retrospective→Prospective
7.2 [TALK, HAPPENING] FINISSAGE


*** OVERVIEW

VERNISSAGE
INHABITATION
3 X SITE / MINI-EXHIBIT
MANY LABS
### [!!] as SESSIONS
MANY MICRO-EDITIONS
MANY EXCURSIONS
4 X OBJECT PROTOTYPES
HAPPENINGS
1 X EDITION
FINISSAGE



*** LEGENDA

__________________________________________
!mechanics:
    %ethering, etherbeaming
    %within-city
    %enabling participation
    %micro editions
    %sweeps
    %fellow travelling
_________
    ~~ethering
    ~~within-city
    ~~enabling
    ~~edition
    ~~sweep
    ~~fellow
____________________________________


TOOL / MEDIA->tactics TOOL / MEDIA->software TOOL / MEDIA->protocols/processes TOOL / MEDIA->representation system EVENT->excursion EVENT->lab {{a}}->TOOL / MEDIA {{a}}->EVENT {{a}}->PURSUANCE {{a}}->SITE {{a}}->OBJECT {{a}}->INHABITATION SITE->mini-exhibit SITE->infrastructure OBJECT->box OBJECT->edition OBJECT->micro-edition TOOL / MEDIA TOOL / MEDIA tactics tactics software software protocols/processes protocols/processes representation system representation system EVENT EVENT excursion excursion lab lab PURSUANCE PURSUANCE SITE SITE OBJECT OBJECT INHABITATION INHABITATION mini-exhibit mini-exhibit infrastructure infrastructure box box edition edition micro-edition micro-edition


###[!!] missing: MICRO-EDITION

↘ LABS [Sessions @ Onsite+Online]
### it's not just "invited", it's push AND pull

Topical; represent & collaboratively advance the project's compendium; involve invited actors and the open public, from 5 to 50; apply 🔗ethering writing strategies.
###[!→] "by stepping back, with listening, not dominating"
###[!→] (DONE BUT MERGE OUT) consider "HARD 3RD" POW (cutting "labs" and "they")

Each lab develops tactics and systematics related to the specific topic, often processes previously unpublished work. Labs produce a corresponding micro edition.


↘ INHABITATION [Work-Life @ Onsite]

KUNSTHAL HACKBASE — recompile hackbase protocols, establish a reusable typology.

Revisit existing hackbase typologies for the urban/institutional context, while preserving the participation character (liquid crew, scalable capacity, common economic provisioning).
###Actively detourn the space !

    → 🔗hackbases 
    → 🔗hackbase-type1
    → 🔗hackbase-type2



↘ EXCURSIONS [Regional Consultations @ Offsite]

Guide excursions to the myriad of existing adjacent spaces, collectives and ideas.
 
Expand the already strong interest in & culture of (hack)bases around Gent.



↘ HAPPENINGS [Inpredictability @ Onsite] 
Ad hoc & semi-autonomous manifestations of extended workgroups.

 ‽ ‽ ‽ 



↘ ARTEFACTS / ARCHIVE / EXHIBIT [Onsite+Online]

(texts, photography, A/V, bio/technical/mineral matter, graph projections, data, props, maps, presence, indexes, financials, etc)






*** ECONOMIC TOOLING


[LAB+, TOOLS] Comrade License
### [!*] merge with Extra body?

"...in what would normally be just an exchange, like tech transfer for money — evaluates a more complex image of the financial and political standing of all involved..."
"... and then prescribes the next steps — pushes all towards something more than that: involved & lasting resource, workflow, knowledge commoning."

Comrade License is a process that regulates fair/consensual use of infrastructures & other resources with fellow travellers, especially from art & activist worlds. With diverse investigative and prescriptive interventions, it aims to develop a continuous mutual utility & shared understanding.
### [!] express CL as more general, not from 1st person (de-CHT)
### [!] "diverse" : is it really?, in what sense?

🔗comrade-license
    → 🔗communique-comradelicense (A letter to a Fellow Traveller)
🔗postmarket
🔗puzzles
    → XXX🔗export
    → XXX🔗protocol-ext

Cast:
    Common Income; Karoot; Rob Ritzen (That Might Be Right/Permanent); Yuan?; ooooo.be?; KASK?; Jaco; ###+
###L: add "?" at Rob Ritzen



[TALK, LAB] TBA: Guest session led by Telekommunisten

We invite the Telekommunisten art-politics-technology collective.

Workshop / Discussion:
    political economy of time, venture communes, appropriate technology, left commons/P2P, commie curiosity, ideological integrity, universal base outcomes
community ideological integrity against cooption, 
### more: https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Telekommunisten
### [!] cast!



[LAB+, TOOLS] Extra-legal Bodies (w/ Extra body vzw)
### [!!!**] develop this an write a proper outline:

Extra Body is a legal entity that supports comradely, counter-capitalist practices in the cultural fields.

Established in 2020, it aims to design, produce, exercise, coordinate, support and disseminate this research, by organising and setting-up various long- and short-term projects that can operate mutually-but-autonomously. It forms an umbrella for an intersectional field that connects the domains of (visual) art, new media, technology, product development, performances, housing, (health) care and general welfare, (art) education, cooperative and p2p economic models, etc.
###[!] maybe shorten

The lab will conduct interviews with varied local, national and international activist & artist groupations to document their (extra)legal infrastructures.
Finally, it processes that documentation towards a printed edition.
###L add/// The lab will operate in close proximity to the CL."""

Cast:
    Omnes?; XR?; Rob Ritzen?; diverse collect representatives (under anonymity); POCO?; ooooo.be/S14; ###



[LAB+] Lim0 Replaces Capitalist Shops

🔗lim0 — "Not a market — anti-profit — a collaborative selection & mass resourcing — redefining quality"

A gathering about goods as multiples, and the technical & representational aspects towards radically different, post-consumer economies and attitudes.

How to represent provenance, the production & logistics chain?
How to guide decisions?
How to immediately re-organize supply & distribution?

    → 🔗graph-postapple, via 🔗polemics
    → 🔗representation.systems
    → 🔗postmarket-stuff [!]

Cast:
    Samenschool; EOTL (Berlin)?; Gent Foodsavers?; Kringwinkel Gent?; Karoot; ###


    [SITE] Lim0 Distribution Node
WEEKLY; WHEN ON SITE & PER APPOINTMENT

Procure, box & distribute various goods.
 
With strong ties to CHT's 🔗communist-conspiracy, where comrades and available as a priced, ethical market-choice to the rest.


    [OBJECT+] Food Boxes
BIWEEKLY

Make-ahead multiples, curated with Totalist sensibilities.

Based on CHT's 🔗food and 🔗ordering protocols; 🔗representation.systems; Yippie notions of food supply.



    [OBJECT, PURSUANCE] Hackbase-In-A-Box (HIAB)

See ↓ "Gathering the lab".

At least 1 box is assembled. More on demand.
###[!] make this more inviting






*** BASE LIFE & INFRASTRUCTURE


[INHABITATION+, SITE, CFP] KUNSTHAL HACKBASE
ONGOING; MAIN CALL: MID-DECEMBER
###[!!] >KHG

"A Hackbase or Hackerbase is a Live-in Hackerspace - a hackerspace with a capacity for coliving. Everything you would expect from a hackerspace + place to stay (sleep, eat, ...); ... this includes being publicly accessible (via a clear and non-discriminatory process);..."
https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/Hackbase

Infrastructure & process demo: variations of 🔗hackbase-type1 & 🔗hackbase-type2, towards 🔗hackbase-type7: on-site within an institution.

Cast:
    ooooo.be / S14 hackbase (Antwerp); Instant City Harbour hackbase / tazio vzw (~Brussels); Samenschool proto-base (Antwerp); Villa Delfia; pauline?; bebsico?; TG?; Mark?; master students; HS Gent; Living equipment: Portable spaces (Ines, Michela)?; TBA



[SITE, ROUTINE, HAPPENINGS] Totalist Cantine
DAILY (CREW); REGULAR (WITH ALL PUBLIC EVENTS; WITH FOOD BOXES)
→ O;G?

Deploy CHT's supply & chef protocols.

Essential to base's lived experience, the Cantine regularly serves crew, Lab fellow travellers, and the Kunsthal. Complemented by data-portraits of ingredient context, provenance, financials, preparation, nutrition, and other extended information.
[!] "regularly..." is repetition
### also food boxes have this
#[!] Can also become "take-out", if covid measures forbid meetings

    → 🔗food
    → 🔗david-restauran

Cast:
    CHT; guest chefs & line cooks; Karoot; food suppliers (like Foodsavers); Food Hacking Base (FHB)?; Jaco; ###



[SITE] Hypertent Prototype (w/ ?)
‽ ‽ ‽

🔗hypertent is an environment sensing, computer-controlled, motor-actuating pole & textile structure.

Tensegrical, gear-motored — it responds physically to its environments; tensioning by wind change, shading by sun travel.
 
If successful, can be showcased on site, or in the city.
The prototype is developed with local partners (hackers, architects, engeneers, product designers, ...).

Cast:
    Instant City Harbour?; HS Gent?; KHG?; architect?; builder/mechatronic; Jaco; ###



[LAB, TOOLS, PURSUANCE] Gathering the Lab
CONTINUOUS

A base is a curated assortment of equipment. Ground-up assemble a hacklab instance, by contacting adjacent spaces, collecting their tool & materials surplus, and procure the rest from best possible sources.

With resulting equipment, we (re)write the rules of "ownership", to be used & deploying amongst a network of kindered collectives.

    → 🔗stuff
    → 🔗ordering
    → 🔗base-eu
    → 🔗vaults

Cast:
    HS Gent; 42 hacklabs; tazio; bebsico; hackers; makers; donors; De Kringwinkel?; ###



[SITE, LAB+, OBJECT+] Embedded Ecology
CONTINUOUS STATION (APPOINTMENT)

A permanent station focuses on environmental ecology, auto-educative methods, and DIY/post-consumer utility.

Conduct interviews with practicioners — (citizen) scientists, art experimentators, witches, and hackers; note & hybridize their varied ways of observation, experimentation, learning, and utilization.

    → 🔗ecology
    → 🔗teaching
    → 🔗tech-tree
    → XXX🔗specificity
    → 🔗education [!**]
    → 🔗natural-resources
    → 🔗essential-oils

Cast:
    Samentuin/avant-garden; Wouter Van Steelant; Saar & Rose Van De Leest; HACC (Hackers Against Climate Change); Julie Van Overmeiren / Scheldetuin Ziltenzoet; LowTech Magazine; Botanical Garden Fuerteventura; Laboratorium?; CyberTracker; DIY/makers/hackers; eco-minded; Karoot; ###
### domen? #wildfood






*** COLLABORATIVE TOOLING


[LAB+] Pad.Land (for Fellow Travellers)

Hands-on Pad.Land: the public instance of our powerful collaboration tool. Write either lone texts, or use as a full content management system for wiki-like sites.

Rapidly explain the system & build up competence; evaluate user needs and wants; continue refining the tool via testimonials & critical evaluations.

🔗E2H
🔗ethering
🔗documentarianism

Cast:
    KASK; Hackerspaces.org; ooooo.be; TLM; Yuan (people's sinology); HACC (hackers/ecologists); Komun.org?; POCO?; Rob Ritzen? (TMBR / LVL5?); Jaco; ###+



[LAB, TOOL+] Art-Tech Sovereignty

No thanks Google Apple Facebook Amazon Microsoft Netflix Spotify Uber Airbnb Zoom Squarespace

Wide avoiding "GAFAM" is already understood as basic activist and journalist behaviour. But regimes are also showing eagerness to concord with the techno giants, and persecute within the engaged artworld (as seen recently in Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, etc.).
### [!] refs
### [!!*] also other arguments for hit list, not just security/privacy ....... 1) fuck platform capitalism ........ 2) pop culture is cringe ... ###

Hands-on introductory sessions (demos, cookbooks, etc) to non-proprietary, self-hosted and de-hosted/end-to-end rationale, platforms and workflows; specific considerations to artistic work, its real needs, and seeking solutions to address them.

    * 🔗ethering-why
    * 🔗workflow
    * 🔗packages & 🔗hacker-tools
    * 🔗lim0 & 🔗laptop (supplying equipment)
    * 🔗graph-postapple
    * [...] ###

Cast:
    Calafou/Maxigas (book)?; HSBXL; Hackerspace Gent; Constant?; TK?; HSO; KHG; Constant?; Rob Ritzen? (TMBR / LVL5?)?; Zeus WPI; Librehosters?; RG; Chatons?; Fubar; hackers; artists & other cultural producers; activists; Julian Oliver? / Critical Engineering; Frank?; Berlin?; Quadrature?; Cryptoparty?; Tactical Tech?; KASK?; ooooo.be/S14; anarchaserver - systerserver?;  maxigas?; HL; Jaco; ###



[LAB, TOOLS] Etheric Writing

Conceptual exploration of full-fidelity writing tools & the opportunities for new types of expression.

Time-synced logging (including for performance); reprocessing chatter; polemics (argumentation), strategems & negotiation analysis; hyperfiction; retracing developing research insight; post-authorship; bots / non-human agents; templates, forms & surveys; ...

🔗E2H
🔗documentarianism
🔗postchatter
🔗ethering

Cast:
    KASK?; knowledge technologists/academia; CCQO?; Pekinpah?; hyperfiction writer?; Mark?; PXL/MAD; Zeus?; Rob Ritzen? (TMBR / LVL5?); Jaco; ###



[LAB, EDITION+, OBJECT+] Printed Editions
###[!] EXPAND

Rethink and improve instant self-publishing: conceptual, look, tooling, distribution, ...

Each of the Labs develops printed publications (micro-editions, posters, assembled edition).
# "fragment collage" session

    → 🔗book
    → 🔗poster
    → 🔗documentarianism

Cast:
    poster designer; propaganda artist; dataviz; bolwerk?; KASK?; Jaco; ###+






*** SITUATED/TRANSPOSE/SPREAD
*** TRANSPOSE + SPREAD ← LOCAL INPUT / SITUATED / "CITYSCAPE"


[10+ EXCURSIONS] Adjacent Spaces : Research Excursions

Visit, document & typologize the spaces.
A series of pads & a general map.
publicize (sweep!) new ones on our social media channels
#crosslinking

Cast:
    Tenace (concert boat, Tubize); Villa Delphia (squat, Antwerp); S14 (hackbase, Antwerp); Samenschool (Antwerp); Scheldetuin Ziltenzoet (Antwerp); Kringwinkel (distribution centre, Gent)?; Gent Foodsavers (Gent)?; Jaco; ###
###L: add "The botanical revolution (expo)"



[LAB+, TOOLS, ARCHIVE] Space Manuals

Bring your own manual !
Present; discuss; collect; hybridize.

We will assemble a "manual archive", discuss a good-practices "manual kit", and try out an intertextual pastiche technique.

Cast:
    CHT → 🔗manual + XXX🔗manual-redo. [!]
    Kunsthal Gent → https://kunsthal.gent/en/about/users-manual
    Hackerspace Gent → https://hackerspace.design/
    S14 hackbase (Antwerp) → http://www.ooooo.be/etherhtml/e2h.php?_=S14
    Calafou (CAT)?
    KuM base (DE)?
    Samenschool (Antwerp)
    Alan Quireyns?
    Rob Ritzen / LVL5 (Brussels)
    ###



[HAPPENING] Harbouring a Caravan

Attempt luring a congregation of hack/art/activist vessels: buses, boats, vans.

    → 🔗hackbase-type4
    → XXX🔗caravan

Cast:
    Instant city / betz's bus; Techotskumogami or Burazina boat (w/ ooooo.be)?; Tenace?; Samenschool van & bike; Katze crew?→→; Pauline?; HSO; ###



[LAB, TOOLS] Representing Lifestyle & Cohabitation

How to generate consistent & approximately comparable representations of any living situation?

From 🔗metrics / 🔗poster:
    "A framework that enables description / representation of a lifestyle, and as a consequence, comparison between lifestyles, and as a consequence of that, switching ... [Without such a representational framework, projects encouraging radical life context shifts have to do this via] "social media outreach", [and] "calls to action" ... Marketing is an arms race we cannot win, and should not attempt to participate in. ..."

Cast:
    hackbases; ethnographer; anthropologist; alternative living (occupy, art collectives, etc); dataviz; designer; KASK?; Jaco; ###
[!!*]



[LAB, HAPPENING, CFP] Prepared Hackathon

General hackathon in conjunction with the regional hack scene. Topic & call for participation TBA.
### Prepared Hackathons are a new approach to holding hackathons.
###[!!**] precej nedojebano tole, tudi CFPja še ni

"A hackathon (also known as a hack day, hackfest or codefest; a portmanteau of hacking marathon is a design sprint-like event; often, in which computer programmers and others involved in software development, including graphic designers, interface designers, project managers, domain experts, and others collaborate intensively on software projects. The goal of a hackathon is to create functioning software or hardware by the end of the event."

Cast:
    hackers; spec'ers; 42; HSBXL; Hackerspace Gent; HACC?; EOTL?; Lowtech Mag?; ooooo.be?; TK?; ###
 
Needs:
    Tables + Beamer + working network / LAN ports



[LAB+, TOOLS] Spidering to Consolidation

Graph our connections beyond the obvious: spider-out each edge of our networks; assume our common goals; ask, "How do we operate with others in the context of a common struggle, beyond whim?"

Discuss, curate, develop & deploy tools (ready-made communiques, protocols, etc).

    → 🔗intersub
    → 🔗consolidation

Cast:
    Pekinpah / "East is Best" network; HL & Kask; Alan; tapete & Komona?; E2h users; ryzo; bolwerk; Jaco; ###



[LAB, HAPPENINGS+] nOISE tEMPLES ) ) ) )
AT NIGHT

🔗noise-temples are hackbase patterns driving 4x15" guitar cabinets. Abandon bourgeois noisemaking!
[ img:https://dcht00.totalism.org/slayer_abyss2.gif|350px]

Iggy Pop (to Jarmusch):
    "We were real communists. We lived in a communal house, we ate the same food at the same time, we shared all money, and when we began to write songs, we shared all authorship.""

Cells in every city — fluid crews — big sound — radical use of space — radical gear — radical touring — play — converge — have a couple of drinks — spawn NOISE TEMPLES !

Cast:
    CHT; KHG; Planet Concrete; Het Bos?; jap?; noisers; doomers; christo mcc?; serialists/minimalists/maximalists; ###
### [!] CFP also?



[LAB] Hackbase Type 6 — Totalist Cities

Establishing cities, ground-up, centered around affinity.
### and what else? [!]

Transcend the "right to the city" versus "back to the land" false dichotomy; learn to build physical support for their possibility.
### [!] it's not about "learning", that's individual, it's more about establishing a possibility for a possibility
Rising rents & housing crisis? Insuitability & inhospitability of existing places (Natural, climate, war disasters)?
Re-evaluate & build new cities in new environments.

    → 🔗hacking-housing
    → 🔗tech-tree
    → 🔗city

Cast:
    architecture university; SQEK?; vgupta?; tapete?; toestand?; Adam Smart?; Eric Hunting?; Regenerative Urbanism & De-Urban Design?; Raoul Vaneigem?; Permanent?;  Jaco



[AUX, HAPPENING] PR, Interview (w/ Trashkot @Radio Centraal)

"Trashkot is a fortnightly radio program by Jo Caimo and Sjoerd Leijten on Radio Centraal in Antwerp. A rancid fabric of sounds, conversations and mess forms a shaky bridge between music and politics."

    → https://trashkot.weebly.com
    → https://www.radiocentraal.be



[AUX, REMOTE] Remote Chaos Communication Congress experience (rc3)
25-31 DECEMBER

"The Chaos Communication Congress is an annual conference organized by the Chaos Computer Club. The congress features [more than 15.000 creatures co-organizing a 5-day vortex with] a variety of lectures and workshops on technical and political issues related to security, cryptography, privacy and online freedom of speech. The event has taken place regularly at the end of the year since 1984 ..."






*** CHT @ 10


[LAB, ARCHIVE] CHT @ 10 : Retrospective→Prospective

As the project reaches into its 10 year mark of operations: establish a retrospective overview of the produced & collected materials, and a prospective outlining of its near & far possibilities.
As part of the retrospective activities, past "speculated future directions" are revisited, and new ones are forged.
###[!!**] possibly merge with "VERNISSAGE"
###[!!*] CHT or HACKBASES at 10 ???
###→ 🔗future

Cast:
    general; other bases; studio visits; Frederik Vergaert; ###



[TALK, HAPPENING] FINISSAGE
END OF DECEMBER