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tags: notes, project, Taiwan, aesthetic programming
title: Pad/Notes for Aesthetic Programming
link: https://hackmd.io/@aesthetic-programming/Notes
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# Basic info
***NOTE: JUST RECOVERED THE PAD on 11-Dec-2021***
==Next meeting: 17-Aug 14.00-15.15 (UK GMT), 2100-1215 (TW)==

:::info
**Meeting online venue:** https://meet.jit.si/aestheticprogramming
**Site:** www.aesthetic-programming.net
**Slack/Discord:**
**Translation material (Chinese):** https://hackmd.io/team/aesthetic-programming / https://hackmd.io/@aesthetic-programming/book/
**Who:** Lee Tzu Tung, Shih-yu Hsu, Winnie Soon, Geoff Cox, Andrew Lin, Chialin Lee (Ren Yu - previous translator)
:::

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## MEETING NOTES

### on 17 Aug 2022

Who's there:
Winnie, Geoff, Chialin and Shih-yu:

Agenda:
- update the information/workshop with DAC
- one page A4 description (general, activities, relevant to local context, list of history, translation process feeds into workshops)
- Oct -> sign contract (format of the publishing)
- 5000 USD (translation fees)
- workshop?
- information required for DAC
- schedule and plans
- funding application

### on 17 Jun 2022

Who's there:
Winnie, Geoff, Chialin and Shih-yu:

Notes:

Chialin :

1. Workshops (before end of 2022) - discuss with Digital Art Center (DAC)

2. Research on translating fees printing, designing, and development etc -> provide a publishing estimate for applying possible funds

Winnie:
- send out two publishing house estimate to Chialin

General:
- preferred having 1-2 translation lead and then open up for community editing and discussion
- Andrew and Shih-yu will take up more the role of proof translation esp for technical terms (校對)

Agenda:
- update on previous workshop (https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/AestheticProgramming_workshop)
- discussion of publishing model and potential collaboration with Chialin
- translation process

### on 28 Mar

1) update on grant - submitted
- workshop in taiwan
- community work & field work
2) publisher - g0v & open software foundation (Tzu Tung)
- research on independent publishers in taiwan
4) progress and overview of the translation
5) resolving the translation’s comments on HackMD
- this can be done via physical workshop in Taiwan to work with the community
7) any other things you may want to add

### on 24 Feb

1. Revisit the threads from ccswg : https://wg.criticalcodestudies.com/index.php?p=/categories/2022-week-4
2. Specific focus on Preface and Chapter 1 of the translation, and see if any specific issues would like to discuss:
a. Preface: https://hackmd.io/@aesthetic-programming/book/%2FByL0Bqq7F
- e.g footnote 42: Gitlab in English but Hackmd in Chinese. How to handle this translation?
b. Chapter Getting started: https://hackmd.io/@aesthetic-programming/book/%2FrJkBenqQY
- e.g some technical terms e.g interpreter, IDE, high-level programming language, code editor, etc
3. Any other things?
- deadline to submit DFF grant is mid March

Notes:
- RenYu would like to rejoin in Jun/Jul 2022.

### on 24 Jan

Agenda:

- Next meeting will talk about specific chapter translation
- Recap on CCSWG threads and account access, ready to go on 7 Feb
- Danish DFF grant: [Project I](https://dff.dk/en/application/overview-of-instruments)
- Update from publishers?
- Update on translation?
- we have completely missed out Shih-yu and TzuTong's writing on the old pad! (https://ctp.cc.au.dk/pad/p/Aesthetic_Programming_-_TW#L86)
I move it to [Pad/Notes for CCSWG](/z8F7hC0ASHiHBpt41yb7hQ)
and [Translator's note](/-6maxX-7RhaKx62_EnAlpg) ([name=ry] 2022/1/6)
- opened a [project finance](/kcKk9MLsTIe00vpaVk-WGg) note including reference on crowd funding and grant application.

### on 5 Jan

Notes:
- take it slowly -> crowd funding
- g0v -> 7 additional people (Discord) -> email list
- open foundation
- nextmeeting 24 Jan 2100 TW, 1400 DK, 1300 UK time

Agenda:

- CCSWG - finalize Two threads (start day 7 Feb for 7 days)
- Act for the future NCAF grant, deadline 22 Apr
- Update on g0v
- printing (e.g publishing house, independent print house, printing on demand, OHP, etc)
- previous note: https://xin-xin.info/teaching/ (she is the new co-lead of p5.js, and also participate the CCSWG in other week/track - decolonial code)

### on 8 Dec

Summary:
1. Will contact SP House again for next meeting -> Ren Yu will prepare a letter to approach them.
> on 10 Dec the letter sent, still no response till now 23 Dec [name=RY]
2. Before next meet up:

a. Thread 1: modify and intervene the text to make it more final e.g incorporate the new questions into the text, and complete sentences, etc

b. Thread 2: Collective writing on the assigned paragraphs. Will gather again next to discuss and revise

3. G0v: Tzutung will present for 6 mins on Sat to see who might be interested to involve (technical term translation, publishing houses, funders, readers' feedback)

4. Print-on-Demand: Explore other independent publishing and ways of publishing e.g Shih-yu, which will be useful for Taiwan community as well. (Open Humanities Press can be the publisher)
- book store distribution , independent publishing (Shih-yu)

An Anticolonial Pollution Science
* https://compostingfeminisms.wordpress.com/2021/09/16/composting-63-protocol/?fbclid=IwAR2i3YNYKE5ek8NiQVymKiMlz7CwNXOkaEEJlOj4w2U-IOsfHjgx0tb91bQ
* Max Liboiron, “An Anticolonial Pollution Science” from Pollution is Colonialism (Duke 2020) [Download here](https://compostingfeminisms.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/liboiron-an-anticolonial-pollution-science.pdf)
* [Critical Design Lab Protocol Index](https://www.mapping-access.com/protocols) from mapping-access.com
* https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/2876/chapter-abstract/2773671/An-Anticolonial-Pollution-Science?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Renyu:
- pointers for CCSWG:
1. molecular translation and protocol for reproducing good relations, looking from bodies and accessibility point of view. making index(.html) and making kin, footnotes lead to/incooperate alternative resources and libraries.
2. dominant ideas about work, (ab)use of bodies, code and knowledge. how to protect oneself, as well as, to constantly resist, to draw, to renegociate and transend lines and boundaries. more-than-human copyright collection society.
- feel financially strainded recently, might be difficult till mid year if for next couple of month without an income stream. could we have a collective evaluation on allocating a budget for translation work or on funding application?
currently have worked from August through November (4 month), completed translation section: preface + 3. Infinity Loop, word count around 20,000 ~ 44,000.
summerised worklog from August https://gitlab.com/colourstroke/aesthetic-programming-translation/-/blob/1b46685f24140e55ec9a5bb9d3e34a12829e05c5/README.md
suggest allocating 5,500 euro as the budget for translating the whole book

> **Act for the future** NCAF grant
>
> "Act for the future" is a highly competitive project that adopts cross-field call for proposal and selection. A review committee will be composed of professionals from various fields, and the future potential of the participating projects will be seen through multiple aspects: considering their long-term support for the arts and culture industry, how it might be accepted and affirmed by the audience and the society, applicants are encouraged to propose social, social, and public engaged plan to take care and act for the future ecological aspects.
>
> Deadline: April 2022
> Amount: Grant total 300 million NT. Max 15 million NT for group, 3 million NT for individul application (5 million and 300k in euro respectively). So it might select 20 groups or 100 individuals, a mix of that, or more than that, and reducing grant received by each selected applicants.
> Duration: 2-3 year
> https://ncaf.pse.is/ActfortheFuture
>
>:::spoiler **proposal**
> (only a sketch, work in progress)
> * project aim and objective
>
> > (With Fei, solidart in-house curator, we are thinking collectives must have strategies! How might we connect with galleries, media, funding and projects, etc. to form a more holistic art ecosystem in Taiwan?)
> >
> * issue and analysis
> > According to openly accessible central and municipal governments' annual budget books, around 20 billion and 18 billion respectively are spent on culture activities in Taiwan. However, artists, writers and others working in this field are facing wide disparity of precarious financial conditions, as well as, institutions facing challenges more than ever, from the pressure of legislation, politics, public scrutiny and expectation to playing a role in the society. Of over-production of exhibitions, events and publications, unresolved disputes arising with regard to copyright, crediting, what legacies are left that could bear and bridge the potential of providing better state of living for the public apart from more and more museum buildings?
> >
> > We would like to re-imagine otherwise from the smallest and most fundamental question: how to use, not abuse? Acknowledging the debts that we muster from ancestiral past, present and emerging, organic and inorganic. Through collective translating, reading and listening one word at a time. The wager is simple, could art ecologies be shaped if we pay more attention, freedom, integrity and fecundity through self-care, slow programming and institutional criticality?
> >
> * blueprint for future and how to bridge the gap
> > * Developing protocols for collaborating practices
> > * Introducing copyright collection society practice for visual arts in Taiwan
> > * Access, Describe, Amplify! -- Astrida Neimanis
> >
> * method of excution, expected result and benefit
> >
> > We, that aquires no one. -- Alexis Pauline Gumbs
> >
> > Unravel the scale of atrocity through SAS (science, art and sociology)
> >
> > emboding, empowering, facilitating
> > cross-disciplinary discussions, workshops, activities
> > through translating, writing, coding, reporting, publishing, walking, listening, composting, digesting, unlearning, undoing
> * human resourse and timeline
> * budget allocation

TzuTung:
- points/slides to present in g0v
What's this project?
What are we going to do?

- see taiwan as an important place for free, opensouce publishing, for more chances in free speeches, to express the sovernity.

Who do we need?

- in g0v there's technician and potential participants who can vary the orginal, dominant simplified Chinese programming translation.

- also for people who want to learn p5.js and think about code critically can gather togather

- construct a free and open source Traditional Chinese online platform that can receive readers feedback

- more independent publishing channels/infrastructure e.g print-on-demand

### on 25 Nov

shihyu:

- google translate mainly from mainland china
- the book may work best in art school e.g national art university in taipei

Winnie + Geoff:
- participate the CCSWC together as a collective (ref: http://wg20.criticalcodestudies.com/), and open for registration: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VhP0rymxIHcPyloVPL3102Q8ZNsXnOJkLStPw7rHMAw/edit (deadline 15 Dec)

Tzutung:
- catch the general meeting of g0v and invite people to participate the CCSWG'22 (good to have engineers and technical people to join)

### on 22 Oct

- hackmd as the platform for translation : https://hackmd.io/@hT50R4BuR1aenJgRJ63BJw/rkmLaK9Xt/https%3A%2F%2Fhackmd.io%2F%40hT50R4BuR1aenJgRJ63BJw%2FHJBH7cqQF
- social publishing house will join next time (Nov)
- may need to think about hackmd to print (at a later stage) – in parallel to git to print
- document the translation politics + notes (not to smoothen the differences, but to make them apparent as part of forking/translation) e.g https://futureofthebook.org/gamertheory2.0/
- Ren Yu expressed the interest of having a community/ people around to work on specific terms/translation
- Shiu-yu expressed university/academics in TW may be interested in this type of book
- Winnie + Geoff shared the latest update of AP: https://gitlab.com/aesthetic-programming/book/-/blob/master/News.md
- next meeting 25 Nov at 1600 TW time

### on 2 Sep

- Social Publishing House: interested but not the right timing due to COVID -> may be approach them again in early 2022?
- Approach Audrey Tang in one of the open office sessions (TzuTung and RenYu)
- Continous translation and note for details to discuss + research more on other publishing house
- Basic principle: First translation > may be get audrew's advice on technical phrases? > Workshop with TW communities and fine-tune/edit the book > decide on best publishing strategy
- Grant application (in Denmark): includes publishing fees, design and workshops

## Notes/Thoughts about the chapters or translation or the books (for ongoing discussion)

- Design/Development: Right now OSP (http://osp.kitchen/about) already developed script - python, CSS, markdown, HTML (without the use of adobe AI/Indesign or any graphical UI tools) to execute content / data from Git repository (https://gitlab.com/aesthetic-programming/book) to physical print/ PDF and web pages. This allows all people to work on the same repository at the same time, and upate for content is relatively easy. The font is also open source and developed with script (but yes need to see if there is any chinese font development using code). We would like to follow the similar approach to consider the book itself as a distributed computational object. So what this implies may be the work space of translation and how to adapt would be somthing we can discuss further and see how we should approach it(or we are also open for people from Taiwan who are interested in this kind of git / markdown to book approach) /W + G

## work log

9/20
- Joined Dong Hwa University bike co-op https://byebike.wixsite.com/donghwabyebike/about-us. They are open for hands-on, self-organised events. Making links with students from Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Studies https://ces.ndhu.edu.tw/ and Department of Opto-Electronic Engineering https://oe.ndhu.edu.tw. But no one know any female coder.

9/22
- Start revising google translation from beginning, google doc crush (might due to irregular format like class table and codes)
- Joined Taipei Women in Tech FB group https://www.facebook.com/groups/420817431404071

they post inspiring journalism: 若水國際 https://meet.bnext.com.tw/articles/view/48196?fbclid=IwAR2BKUXFHSP4uv5Off4QK7zTE6Z2qocWITkpnbJJCHjBeRcCp2M0XI2avJ4

and have programs such as Woman who codes: https://www.womenwhocode.com/taipei?fbclid=IwAR0da5nZ03lsJknSDBCsh8-ZUG0Ky2fU7P1BFth34bckwLnjn3NmPZs_Qvc

- Thinking about how to translate book title and chapters

aesthetic programming 美感程式設計？感知程式設計？美感編程？

machine unlearning 機器反學習 https://www.cw.com.tw/article/5094061

9/23
- create iCloud link, collaborate here to comment and make changes (seems to only allow mac devices): https://www.icloud.com/pages/0jAow1iIEHZWpDqndXrJBFMKg#Aesthetic_Programming
- finished revising cover page and table of content (page 1-5)

9/24
- Try to migrate the revised contents, as well as, those that yet need to be revised from iCloud page to HackMD: https://hackmd.io/@hT50R4BuR1aenJgRJ63BJw/rkmLaK9Xt
- HackMD + CSS 直書 how to make chinese horizontal book layout reference: https://hackmd.io/@hackmd/hackmd-new-blog
- revision process 9/23, 24 combined 4000 words (from cover page to first two sections on preface)

9/25
Round 1: 10 am to 5pm
- revision process 5000 words (from preface/beginning to open publishing).
Self-review: normally translating 2~3000 words aday is the max I can do for a day. But with help of Google translate and revise afterwards, 5000 words a day is possible. I feel it is still a bit slow and a bit over stretching though. My aim today was to complete the translation revision for the preface. But still, it is only half way through. Maybe the first draft always require the most time and efforts to torque, to move around the words like puzzles, to make sure the translation capture the right meaning. And how do reader feel the text? Is it ok to soften the tone a little bit? If "we" appears too many times in a sentence or a paragraph, is it ok to reduce some of the "we" in Mandarin, to improve readibility and to conform to the seemly less "self-centric" convention that is often critiqued in chinese writings? How to percisely iterate the criticality and not to submit to the tendency of hegemonic rhetoric of chinese language? Still a lack of vocabularies and fluency pervade in these translated lines.
On top of that, I still feel there is a way to improve the work-flow, to be more focused and to find a more constructive way to communicate/ list out questions I encountered.
Round 2: 7:30~11:30PM
-formating from preface to 1. Getting started

9/26
Drinking with village elder from early morning, and prepare lunch/ went to church gathering with Mari.
2-4pm
- second time revision and highlight from preface/beginning to open publishing (one hour), first time revision of preface/flow of context (three paragraph) @林田山

9/27
A day in the tribe without knowing exactly what to do. Went to the forest trail to see the resistance site for dam construction in the early morning. Taking care of kids, cleaning and cooking with Mari. Furious talk by a friend, alot of fustrations about complete ignoring indiginous narratives in 林田山, limited prospect and government subsidies for reginal development. But what can we do now? What is my role in it? There is no answer. After returning to the dorm in the evening and try to focus on translation, my attention drifted to listening to an online talk. It was 張中宜‘s presentation on AI and inclusive finance during Taipei Woman techmaker's forum and Audrey Tang's open office session, espeically on the topics such as using technology to develope carbon finance, to extent the more-than-human dimention of technology and intellegenc draw my attention. How big we can dream is only limited by our imagination. I'm inspired by how they transform local shops or newspaper vendors into financial institution for the female population and the iliterate (with AI vocal instruction and KYC app) by recruiting major players. Night walk from 鳳林 to 萬榮 (one and half hour) and took the last train back. The design of train station don't have a door facing the tribe, only a door facing the high road. An example of how architecture shape us and we are shaped by architecture. While infurstractures are not designed with concern of local people who live there, how do we take back the soveranty and re-program, re-design a liveable environment with people and nature (economy of course) in mind?

9/28
2:30-6:00 pm finish revising flow of content section

found these serise of online event on Processing and p5.js at C-LAB very interesting
p55p: poetry, people, politics, pedagogy, Process 10/24
https://www.facebook.com/events/1460021324365299/?ref=newsfeed
event details:
除了上述活動，2021「C-LAB未來媒體藝術節」也將舉辦「Processing臺灣國際社群日」、「TouchDesigner新媒體互動集線器」和「Playaround工作坊：回顧與展望」三個系列活動，透過工作坊、講座及論壇的實作與討論，讓大眾除了「解讀」程式，也能走進「編寫」的過程，讓過去位於兩端的「編寫」與「解讀」成為可被理解、甚至可被對調的雙向關係。
所有你想知道的活動都在這裡
https://reurl.cc/6Da1rd
▍Processing臺灣國際社群日（2021/10/19-24）
https://reurl.cc/35a0G0
▍TouchDesigner新媒體互動集線器（2021/11/02-07）
https://reurl.cc/XlWdv0
▍Playaround工作坊：回顧與展望（2021/11/16-21）
https://reurl.cc/ARkQEQ
will be good to know them, and let them know there is this long term book project, incooperate new examples, create new resources and reflections on current development together follow the structure of AP?

9/30
9-11PM
revise from The book object to Note. 8

10/2
2-2:30
Note.8-14

10/2
8:40 revise from Note.15

10/22-23 - Shih-yu
go through preface
begin Vocable Code
26: p1,2,3
29: p4,5
11.1: line 26-325
11.2: line 341-482
1.2: line 483-525 同時她也表示，現今無論繁體中文還是簡體中文，Google Translate 都是用同一套模型去訓練，這是因為若將模型拆成兩種資料庫，需要資料庫內容太大、太多了，而且在繁中、簡中之間語法極為相同，僅有少數詞彙不一樣的狀況下，採用單一學習模型再搭配不同詞彙是最符合效益的做法。https://www.inside.com.tw/article/9231-google-translate-machine-learning-taiwan

10/28 Renyu

＊因為修改 preface/ note. 14 [^afro] : African Fractals: Modern computing and Indigenous Design ->現代電子計算（改為現代電子運算），想回過頭來把 computing 電子「計算」都改成「運算」或是把「電子」也都省略掉，因為沒有電運算思考也成立。
－> 已更新「前言 Preface」29個與運算 computing 相關的字詞。

＊note. 17 [^agre] Bridging the Great Divide: Social Science, Technical systems, and cooperative work 的這本書名Google 翻譯的建議是《彌合大落差：社會科學、技術系統和合作工作》覺得很好笑，什麼是「彌合大落差」啦！改成《銜接落差之橋》又覺得很矯情，《為隔閡搭建橋樑》好心靈工坊？繞了一圈好像讀起來還是《彌合大落差》比較清楚，可是還是留了矯情的《銜接落差之橋》。忽然發現，原文名稱是beyound great divide
＊ 因為整理 no.23 [^Readme] 剛好碰到關鍵詞 ReadMe/RunMe，所以想把每個章節的「執行檔／說明檔」翻譯統整為 Readme 解讀、Runme 編寫，和在 C-Lab 舉辦的 Processing Open Day 看到的宣傳文宣一樣（請見上方 9/28 work log）
＊ 暫時統一整理書籍的格式為 *《中文書名》（英文書名）*，兩側用「*」括起來變成斜體。

11/1 Renyu
Go through Preface again, found the previous translation I have done in Hualien is terrible! Huge make over: tidy up format for links, double check they are clickable, rethink sentence flow, fluency and readability. Maybe I should do translation only in my home in Taichung, not while traveling in Hualien.

11/2
formating for Vocable code (half-way through)

11/4 formating from beginning to end (add images and markdown language)

11/18 contact SP to check if they are able to participate in the 11/25 meeting. They will have a book stall at a sociology anual gathering on the same day, so maybe the next time they will be able to join.

11/22 go through Design notes
begin Chapter 1 Getting Started <3

11/29: line 1-9, 266-272
11/30: line 10-25, 272-298
12/1: line 25-163, 298-332 <3
12/3: finsih Chapter 1, Begin Chapter 2
12/4: line 1-21
12/6: line 21-132
12/8: call SP, AP check in
12/10 letter to SP
12/11 g0v
12/14: line:140-152
12/21 research on Benjamin's "the task of the translator"
12/22 line:153-386 chapter 2 finished
12/23 recived irregular phone bill from last two month. (i rarely call anybody except call twice socio publishing in Nov. and Dec.) It is $1268 and $1399 NT (around €90 euro in total) I think there is a need to let you know there is expenses in communication. Of couse it could be my bad signing up a wrong phone deal. One step away from ditch my mobile to the garbage.
-> transferred NTD6000 to renyu

## Translator's note

[here](https://hackmd.io/@aesthetic-programming/translator_note)

## Project finance

[here](https://hackmd.io/@aesthetic-programming/project_finance)

## Useful reference

10/23 How do others translate? computational thinking --> 運算性思維 reference C-Lab Processing Open Day https://fb.watch/8Pwdhds8Mr/

10/24 -Renyu
p55p conference
amazing speaker
https://xin-xin.info/teaching/

On publishing strategy:
- community based, open-source publishing: 紙飛機計劃 paperplane is a project initiated by Martinet Lee. In this article https://medium.com/education-x-engineering/cs4all-2948c417d5ea, he wrote his experience from obtaining the copyright of Paul Curzon, 2014, Computing Without Computers: A Gentle Introduction to Computer Programming, Data Structures and Algorithms (https://teachinglondoncomputing.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/booklet-cwc-feb2014.pdf) and recruiting volunteers to collaborate on translation, patrons for printing the book and donating the books free to libraries. (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-VIU6beaL9TbGM3V2RTYTYyN00/view?resourcekey=0-vlHzmwDRSE17nnyjvoDS2g) Seems to be a successful case of pedagogy, translation, and open source publishing in Taiwan. I wonder whether it is also possible to do so for aesthetic programming, critical software studies, and more-than-human intelligence. Interestingly, amid their aim to seek 100 locally-made teaching packages, the most avid contributor is Taipei First Girls High school teacher 陳怡芬 with more than three dozen course materials. We can say she is the queen of the pack and a programing teaching powerhouse! (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B-VIU6beaL9TMjNQTFJXTUhSNnM?resourcekey=0-JHvisR8iRTXR2dyuj9zjkw) However, apart from that, http://paperplane-tw.weebly.com/teachingpackage.html don't seem to live up to their promise, most open-access teaching resources are derived from translating teachinglondoncomputing.org ,and there is no documentation on student feedback and how it is disseminated in the classroom.

- traditional, paper-based publishing: And strangely, paperplane project doesn't seem to be acknowledged on https://teachinglondoncomputing.org/books/, but the other book did: published by 八旗文化Gusa Publishing (https://www.books.com.tw/products/0010782957?sloc=main) co-written by Paul Curzon, Peter William McOwan, 2017, The Power of Computational Thinking: Games, Magic and Puzzles to Help You Become a Computational Thinker was published in Taiwan in 2018.

- this tread is inspired by Andrew Lin's FB discussion page on how to teach children about programming: https://www.facebook.com/andrewintw/posts/10222660854163184?comment_id=10222667203001901&reply_comment_id=10222670514044675&notif_id=1630787229248845&notif_t=feed_comment_reply&ref=notif

## Relevant links
- http://aesthetic-programming.net/
- News: https://gitlab.com/aesthetic-programming/book/-/blob/master/News.md
- g0v open access publishing: https://g0v.hackmd.io/@jothon/content/https%3A%2F%2Fg0v.hackmd.io%2FuIRsBftDQz2w7VUO4xrfgA%3Fview
- GAMER THEORY / McKenzie Wark / Institute for the Future of the Book https://futureofthebook.org/mckenziewark/

### a temporary place to store other links recommended by winnie
https://picocms.org/about/
https://transmediale.de/almanac/to-undo-nature-on-refusal-as-return

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## ==CCSWG'22==

- The week of 7 Feb (ref: http://wg20.criticalcodestudies.com/)
- registration: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VhP0rymxIHcPyloVPL3102Q8ZNsXnOJkLStPw7rHMAw/edit (deadline 15 Dec)

Two discussion threads are under the theme "code accessibility, inclusivity, & community;": (objective: keep the conversation rolling)

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2 THREADS: https://hackmd.io/@aesthetic-programming/CCSWG
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:::spoiler CHINESE VERSION

### CHINESE VERSION

在線會議地點：https : //meet.jit.si/aestheticprogramming
網站：www.aesthetic-programming.net
翻譯材料（中文）：https://hackmd.io/@aesthetic-programming/book/%2FHJBH7cqQF
有誰：礽喻、李紫彤、徐詩雨、Winnie Soon、Geoff Cox

+++CCSWG'22+++
- 2 月 7 日那一周（參考：http : //wg20.criticalcodestudies.com/）
- 註冊：https : //docs.google.com/document/d/1VhP0rymxIHcPyloVPL3102Q8ZNsXnOJkLStPw7rHMAw/edit（截止日期 12 月 15 日）

主題為「程式設計的進用性、包容性和社區」
兩個討論主題：（目標：保持對話滾動）

1.美感程式設計介紹（用於初始反應/接合到書）

-基於前言的介紹（美學+技術+由內而外）
- 強調對分叉的開放性，書籍作為計算對象
- 馬克和莎拉的例子 -> 分叉一本書就像分叉軟件是什麼意思（https://markcmarino.medium.com/how-to-fork-a-book-the-radical-transformation-of -publishing-3e1f4a39a66c )

#### 第一條線

在遲到2020年，我們發布了開放獲取書“審美編程：軟件研究的手冊”（http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/aesthetic-programming/）。這本書從內部探討了編程的文化和美學維度，作為批判性思考和行動的一種手段，提供了一種應用且公開的基於實踐的方法來理解編程的重要性——使用軟件閱讀、寫作和思考。我們的目的是讓讀者也成為作家，因為他們獲得關鍵的編程技能，以便閱讀、編寫和思考代碼。我們認為進一步探索代碼的技術和概念方面的交叉點很重要，以便深入反思計算文化的普遍性及其社會和政治影響——從人機語言的語言到對象的抽象、數據化例如，自動化機器智能的最新發展。Ť他預定發生在權力關係是一個特別的興趣相對之下，承認技術課題，關於階級和資本主義，性別和性，以及種族和殖民主義的遺產-這是已經熟悉的關鍵代碼研究社會問題當然—— 不僅與表徵的政治有關，也與非表徵的政治有關：權力差異如何隱含在代碼中，如二進制邏輯、層次結構、屬性命名，以及特定的世界觀如何通過計算得到加強和延續。本書使用 p5.js介紹並展示了*審美編程*的反思性實踐，參與學習編程作為理解和質疑現有技術對象和範式的一種方式，並探索重新編程更廣泛生態社會的潛力。技術系統。

**本書詳情**
本書包含 10 個章節 + 1 個獎勵機器生成的章節，包含學習編程的技術和基本原理以及示例代碼解釋，以及更廣泛的政治、文化和社會問題。本書的每一章都以流程圖開頭，以提供其內容的形式/技術和美學/概念方面之間糾纏關係的“圖表”。這捕捉用於思考的具體和抽象表示中的動態（學習）過程，尤其是“setup()”部分中表達的階段設置、“start()”中表達的起點、人工製品和示例代碼之間的關係如“源代碼”中所表達的，“課堂練習和討論”中所表達的有關代碼和語法的正式和話語活動，以及“While()”中所表達的進一步擴展討論。流程圖作為起點來舉例說明我們“由內而外”轉變概念的方法，以及需要以邏輯和話語形式理解計算和可編程對象、關係和過程。10 章的當前主題是：入門、可變幾何、無限循環、數據捕獲、自動生成器、對象抽象、Vocable 代碼、查詢數據、算法程序、機器學習。它們是目前 BA 課程中使用的主題/module “ Aesthetic Programming ”在奧胡斯大學。（另見：http : //aesthetic-programming.net/）

**分叉**
我們沒有看到這本書作為一個普遍的教學用書，而是一個情境課程與訊號分配延長的潛在小號離子和定制與其他人文學科和編碼社區。遵循免費和開源的精神，我們想開闢在各種材料和想法之間進行“剪輯”的不同可能性，並鼓勵讀者分叉副本並製作自己的版本，並提供不同的參考、示例、反思和例如，用於進一步修改和重用的新章節（參見：https : //gitlab.com/aesthetic-programming/book）。應邀於2021 年，Sarah Ciston 和 Mark Marino 將本書分叉並創作了名為“Talking Back”的第 8.5 章（https://markcmarino.medium.com/how-to-fork-a-book-the-radical-transformation-of-publishing-3e1f4a39a66c）位於第 8 章（查詢（e）里數據）和第 9 章（算法程序），擴展了我們對API 和會話代理的討論。他們還添加了兩個新的視角和結構變化：Code Confession 和 Code Commentaries，考慮了有關編碼的情感關係和進一步的見解。通過這次公開邀請，我們想強調美學編程不僅是一本“手冊”，而且還是一個計算網絡對象，分佈在其他空間和時間中，可供讀者和作者使用。

首先，我們邀請您和我們一起探討以下問題：

1. 哪些教學方法可用於教授/學習如何編寫代碼，而且還可以通過批判性和創造性的人文視角使用（閱讀和編寫）代碼？什麼是在實踐（“現實生活中的情況下”）的挑戰跨越工程和文化主義傳統工作的？如何通過學習編程來培養提出問題而不是解決問題的能力？
> 哪些方法能有效教授/學習編寫程式，並且在讀寫程式碼的工作過程中促成批判和創造性行動？挑戰、跨越工程和文化傳統的工作實踐在「現實生活情境」中有哪些案例？如何藉由學寫程式來培養「提出問題」而不是「解決問題」的能力？(revised: RY)

2.如何威力的組合，自由和開放源碼道德，並交叉女權主義/酷兒p olitics開闢學習代碼的方式，否則？
> 如何能開啟結合自由開放程式碼倫理，與跨領域女權主義/酷兒政治交匯處之間，另一種學習程式碼的方式？(revised: RY)
3. 在美學編程中探索哪些其他主題和主題是有用的，這本書缺少什麼？ 像分叉軟件一樣分叉一本書有什麼含義？
>這本書中尚缺乏什麼，有什麼其他的主題和議題可以在美感程式設計中討論？當一本書長出新的枝枒，就像軟體研發的分岔，會有什麼樣的影響？(revised: RY)

- 內容
我們如何打破社交媒體（通過人工智能/機器學習計算）創造的迴聲室？以便在沒有某些媒體和平台增強的狗血戲劇的情況下，可以平等和尊重地欣賞和討論想法？人們如何以尊重和健康的方式解釋信息？
如何superint Ë lligence / AI實現這一目標？
AI 價值對齊研究格局
https://futureoflife.org/valuealignmentmap/

3.什麼其他的主題和議題的興趣荷蘭國際集團探索在審美編程，缺什麼？什麼是影響叉荷蘭國際集團一本書像叉子ING軟件？
- wikipedialize it? eg. DokuWiki, MediaWiki, PmWiki, WikkaWiki, hackmd --> Local Contributors / local, real life cases
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## Description

“Aesthetic Programming: A Handbook of Software Studies” is an open access book by Winnie Soon and Geoff Cox first published by Open Humanities Press in 2020. We now seek to translate the book into Traditional Chinese language, working closely with Taiwanese art and coding communities. The politics of translation has been well-established in general, but what of the specifics of translating a book such as this? Translating Aesthetic Programming opens up a politics of versioning, forking and translation.

In summary, the book addresses the cultural and aesthetic dimensions of programming from its insides, as a means to think and act critically, offering an applied and overtly practice-based approach to understanding the importance of programming. Our intention is for readers to also become writers in the sense that they acquire key programming skills in order to read, write and think with, and through, code. We feel that it is important to further explore the intersections of technical and conceptual aspects of code in order to reflect deeply on the pervasiveness of computational culture and its social and political effects — from the language of human-machine languages to abstraction of objects, datafication and recent developments in automated machine intelligence, for example. The book develops discussion of power relations that are still relatively under-acknowledged in technical subjects, concerning class and capitalism, gender and sexuality, as well as race and the legacies of colonialism.

### Translating/Forking

Importantly, we do not see this book as a fixed and universal teaching resource, but rather a situated curriculum with the potential for extension and customization with other arts and coding communities. Following the free and open source ethos, we want to open up different possibilities for making “cuts” across the various materials and ideas, and encourage readers to fork a copy and produce their own versions; with different references, examples, for further modification and re-use. With this open invitation, we want to stress that Aesthetic Programming is not only a book, but it is also a computational networked object, distributed across other spaces and temporalities, able to be translated into new contexts and versions.

In the forking of Aesthetic Programming, we are curious to consider translation at the various levels of socio-technical operation - recognising the many layers of translation at work when machines interpret instructions in their own terms.

We propose a series of workshops at Digital Art Center Taipei to further expose some of these issues and develop a full translation of the book sensitive to its situatedness in a Taiwanese context.

We are currently in a team of 6 people who are working on the traditional Chinese translation of Aesthetic Programming:

- Co-authors: Winnie Soon (HK/DK/UK) & Geoff Cox (UK)
- Publisher: 李佳霖, ZIMU CULTURE (TW)
- Translator: Shih-yu Hsu (TW)
- Programmer and Translator: Andrew Lin (TW)
- Facilitator: Lee Tzu Tung (TW/US)

Event list:

- 10-11.May.2022 - Talk and workshop on Introducing/Forking/Translating Aesthetic Programming, CRC Media of Cooperation (University of Siegen), Germany
- 7-13.Feb.2022 - Led the online discussion of Critical Code Studies Working Group on Aesthetic Programming (w/ Lee Tzu Tung, Ren Yu, Shih-yu)
- 18.Nov.2021 - Exhibiting Aesthetic Programming as part of Data Vitality: Soft Infrastructures and Economies of Knowledge, Dipoli Gallery, Finland (curated by Edel O'Reilly)
- 6.Oct.2021 - Aesthetic Programming, Technologies in Practice, IT University of Copenhagen
- 25.Jun.2021- Workshop and Talks on Aesthetic Programming, Transart Institute
- 17.Jun.2021- Book launch: Aesthetic Programming, Coding Literacy, Practices & Cultures: A networked series of research, University of Magdeburg & Film University KONRAD WOLF in Potsdam Babelsberg
- 21.May.2021- Book launch: Aesthetic Programming, HaCCS Lab, University of Southern California
- 23.Apr.2021- Book Launch: Aesthetic Programming, DARC, Aarhus University