13.04 Meeting with Grahame Weinbren

*Not a good idea to build a computer based on a taken apart machine
-use basic stamp or
-use an old less complex machine to build off off
-build a machine from scratch- not based on an existing setup

*Ursula Endlicher - a graduate of MFACA department, de-constructs websites in order to reconstruct them as objects and performance

*Output options, before monitors and and video cards, and just ideas for outputs that came up in conversation (will be tricky to create myself)
-teletype
-punch cards (input and output)
-LED
-sound
-muscle wire
-heat (that actually came up in the meeting with Federico)

12.04 Meeting with Federico Muellas

notes from the meeting (and thanks to KaiMin for reminding me)
* Jim Campbell- Ambiguous Icons - using an interpretation of a "normal" computer output
* Peter Vogel - Mounting electronic circuits on sculptured grids, making them into visual work
* J.F Simons - using computer-arts panels as part of the art pieces these computers are running

* the user powering the machine by physical contact of some sort (whe user looking/touching..)
* make my own computer- maybe not mount the boards as flat panels, but actually re-solder them "in the air" to make them be flat and organized more by the functionality of the parts, also making them accessible from both sides
* exposing the software - the back end of the disc check
* the computer reacts by physical means - maybe have an LED light up next to each piece o mark when that part is doing work, maybe interacting with the user by muscle wire..

What I have to start with

sorting out my thoughts:
* hardware and software are politically charged- they are driven by money and controlled by power
* every interaction with a computer interface of any kind is thus a politically charged interaction
* I cannot make interaction non-political
* I can bring out the facts that everything is political by peeling off as many layers as I can and marking whatever layers I can't peel off
* creating a computer interface, both on the hardware and on the software side, that will enable as much direct interaction and will expose as much of the process of what is going on both in the physical sense (which part is working now) and on the virtual sense (what is the binary code running on the machine right now, that is making it do what it's doing)
* allowing direct physical interaction- The user is approaching the exposed machine, and is responsible for it's operation- the system required as much honesty from the user as it is trying to be honest to them. I think this will require the user to touch the machine in order to keep it running.

New School New Project- old Blog

A list of tools to manage this Thesis:

* this blog- accesible through my googlie account
* googlie calenders
* writely
* bat.in.ze.desert delicious page- thesis tag