# Artefacts Research plan

###### tags:`Research Plan`,`2022`

# Sonic Networks

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**Context:**
This sound installation will use some of the protocols of WEB 3.0 to create a soundscape. The pipeline from data to sound passes also by other protocols such as MIDI, UDP/TCP, which are also part of the ecosystem of protcols that constitute the current web instrastructure. With the emergence of standards compliant Web services and dynamic cloud computing, massive data sets can be shared and accessed across networks, however in the context of WEB 3.0 initiatives, the end users could also be "servers" making a more equitable network topology as it aims to be decentralized.

Wifi, MIDi, IPFS, TCP, UDP, IP among others are protocolary steps in the chain for this data to become an audible sound that will then be experienced by human senses. I will like to illustrate trough the medium of ambient sound how invisible this chain of protocols have become.

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**Methods:**
**Logging the exchange of packets between nodes in a swarm** gives a lot of insides on how decentralised networks work in its core code. P2P exchange of files is at its core a complex process of exchange of information to locate, inform and retrieve key data to known the availability and complexity of data to be exchanged. The creative use of data is something that has not been done as many of this protocols are still in very early development. Indeed developers and communites that put protocols to use are still in a "stabilization" phase were the loging of this data is used mainly to optimize the protocol; Packet analyzer software like Wireshark is being mainly used in the context of finding bugs in low-level programming.

**Comparing the messages of P2P protocols to natural or social mouvements** will be the aim of loging this information trough the eyes of a designer and creating a pipeline with differents protocols is the way in which I would like to prove that protocols that have reflected on interoperability can coexist (and should). For a protocol to exist there also a community behind it hence was a subset of decisions made and debated. For instance HTTP was a protocol that although invented at CERN, it went to many RFC to become what it is now, so to a certain extent "participative" at the cost of 50.000 dollars fee for a membership to be part of the working group.
How are the current protocols of WEB 3 being deviced and what are the type of organisations that create the "rules" on how this protocols interacts with others?

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Installation:
- [x] Log the exchange of packets between IPFS nodes
- [ ] Analyse the log files
- [ ] Log the exchange of packets while different size of files are put in the swarm
- [ ] create a pipeline for this log data to become the sequencer of sounds via MIDI
- [ ] Scale up this framework with more nodes
- [ ] Test oscillators ( Synths ) to create a soundscape
- [ ] Prototype the how should the sound be spatialited ( Mulitple sound emmiters )
- [ ] Compose with the installation

**Theory:**
- [ ] Interview with Jun Mori (Internet History in Japan)
- [ ] Interview with 8 bit early sound designers (Internet History in Japan)
- [ ] Interview with Tetsuo Kogawa (Pirate Radio in japan & Community Networks)
- [ ] Transcription of interviews

**Dissemination and participation:**

- [ ] Installing in the gallery of Tama University
- [ ] Publishing the interviews and the text on cryptocities (AOC?, ISSUE?)
- [ ] Layout of the report for JSPS and Lead House Asia ETHZ

# Decentralized forms of the Internet of Things (Wifi Networks)

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**Context:**

Almost everywhere there’s a wifi network. With the cheapest smartphone on the market one can create a WiFi network and invite people to join. Is one of the few things that can’t be intercepted if good encryption is used hence it remains one of the best ways to create local connections with people without a third party. The Scalable Computing Systems lab at EPFL has recently worked with P2P protocols and Raspberry Pi’s with the goal of making digital communication simple and affordable by providing peer-to-peer data replication using gossip algorithms executed on Raspberry Pis (RPi). This protocols could be useful when digital connectivity is limited or too expensive in many usage scenarios.

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**Methods:**

**Engage with a housing community in a participatory design process to install a local network to serve their pourpouses**
Understand how a housing community takes desicions and how a local network( WIfi) could help their mechanisms or influence the ones put in place. I take as reference the May First Movement Technology whom as a "non-profit membership organization engages in building movements by advancing the strategic use and collective control of technology for local struggles, global transformation, and emancipation without borders". How can designers engage in this type of mouvements that counteract the current models for smart city infrastructure?

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Installation:
- [ ] Contact a housing Community
- [ ] Develop a relationship with them
- [ ] List their needs
- [ ] Prototype a possible Wifi network based on their needs ( Piratebox, Mazi, WiFi library, ETC)
- [ ] Inform ( workshops to non deisgners or coders on WiFi)
- [ ] Install and analyse the uses of the network ( files shared, features asked,etc)

**Dissemination and participation:**

- [ ] Writing a report on how P2P community networks could be used
- [ ] Make presentation and present at EXPLORE ( urbanism festical GE)
- [ ] Layout of the report for JSPS and Lead House Asia ETHZ

# Publishing with P2P ( Hosting my thesis )

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**Context:**

The aim of my thesis being exploring the possibilities of designers to use P2P protocols in their toolkit, I intend to publish the manuscript, images and material gathered in my thesis period. Projects like [Free Foucault](https://freefoucault.eth.link/) showcase how sound media coudl be stored in a decentralized way making it possible for infomation to be stored stored be their creators. The second aim of this artefact will be to create a framework (template and tutorial) for thesis to be written in

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Installation:
- [ ] Design the workflow
- [ ] Design the visual layout and interaction
- [ ] Gather the content in markdown
- [ ] Structure the markup
- [ ] Create an IPFS node

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