presentation at end of the day :
video ¹⁾

on padma : http://padma.okno.be/Vedp18on/info

A small description of the first day…

• guy van belle
• ellen røed
• els van riel
• danielle roberts
• junior vandebroeck
• olivier meunier
• elena veljanovska
• maja judova
• sam forsythe
• annemie maes
• edith doove
• margo de strijcker

A rather theoretical introduction about current interests into artistic research, etnography and fieldwork, and the need for qualitative but non-speculative methodologies.. Then we elaborated on techniques and usefulness of grounded theory and actors network theory, related to artistic activities, its analysis, and a common qualitative and multidisciplinary perspective for documenting the TIK project… Finally how to work convergent in a very dispersed and longtime project like TIK. Aesthetical considerations will have to be added at some point later or in follow up workshops… Btw we consider writing nowadays: writing data into memories, with any media possible, related… So, for now we are using as basic tools for it the wiki and pad.ma.

We coded one movie in a very basic way, sticking to the audiovisual data provided only by the movie, and ended up with 5 pages of description of only 5 minutes.. (exercise in initial coding). http://so-on.be/SO-ON/OpenGreen/padma/tik-korcula-transcriptionpadma.txt

We experimented with offline working (because we were all on the same network..) by using the pad.ma transcription client. It is Firefox a plugin that can be downloaded from the padma site and that allows you to work on the file in offline mdoe and then upload the transcriotions to padma as a srt file.

During this first day, we also experimented with downloading the .srt files from padma and adding them onto video files in vlc.
We tried out alternative .srt editors, but did not find any (open source) osx compatible editors that could handle ogv files.
(Jubler seems to do it, but we cant sort out the mplayer situation.) Also, the pad.ma transcription client seems to do it very good.

The backgrounds of making documentation, from a qualitative perspective.. how it is related to the creative/artistic activities, and specifically within TIK the collaborative and multidisciplinary nature of what we are trying to do…

What we have dicussed and envisioned so far is that the TIK participants can upload audiovisual, ogg-encoded material (.ogv) to http://padma.okno.be/ to share it within the project. We can use the transcript function to assign timecode specific descriptions of what is actually there in the material. It will then become accessible through the search function. The description one adds when posting a file will be on a more general level, whereas the transcriptions are more on the level of what is actually of interest in the file rather than more abstract generalisations.

We have been discussing the potential of “http://pad.ma/” for collective writing, documenting and sharing media within the project. We have experimented with developing transcripts of what we actually see and hear in the audiovisual material shared into the collective media pool in padma. Verbal descriptions (transcripts) can be added by multiple users to various sections of a mediafile using a framework of srt-files (subtitles). From the basis of the transcripts, one can then make descriptions and keywords. What is also very nice, is that different sections of a media file can be addressed in several intersecting layers.

The idea we have used is based on a sociological reserach method called grounded theory (“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grounded_theory”). This implies that the media is analysed on the basis of what is actually there, from the perspective of a subjective interest rather than an 'objective' view. By looking at and describing the material this way, the aim is that something new will arise from the data/media itself, instead of imposing ideas, categories and ambisions that are not actually there or might not be there. It is a bottoms-up approach to research, instead of starting of with grand ideas that might not even manifest in the material you have collected, you have to carefully look at what you have before you start drawing any conclusions.

When all the tik participants commit to the material they upload by carefully describing it in this way, and then going to another level where they try to make sense out of what is there, or describe how it makes sense to them, the pool of material as well as the material in itself can become saturated by more and more meaning until some kind of unexpected insight reveals itself from the by then, very dense texture of potential.

Here “http://padma.okno.be/Vsbgqwov“is an example we work with in the “http://padma.okno.be/”.

Share audiovisual material at http://padma.okno.be/ by using firefox with a firefogg plugin (ogv compatible). “http://firefogg.org/”
If you please, use the transcript tool downloadeble from “http://wiki.pad.ma/wiki/HowTo”
Use the transcript function to describe the material from a non-generalised perspective.
Look for emerging patterns. Enjoy.

* from initial coding to focused and axial coding, some exercises coding approx 10 movies with 10 people

• discussing the differences between coming to qualitative categories vs. indexing
• suggesting possible uses and ideas for generating/writing open green material, conference contributions, art works

what we talked about :

04:05:11 PM) GivanBela: so so today we went one step further in the “coding' process of the movies, by introducing next to iniitial coding also focussed coding (larger selections and more selective), and axial coding (between 2 movies)
(04:05:29 PM) GivanBela: actually the latter one is not possible within pad.ma so we leave that for later
(04:06:01 PM) GivanBela: then we were moving to then placeholder for indexes, trying to invent meaningful categories based on the coding/transcriptions
(04:06:38 PM) oddvar11 [~ADMIN@77.109.126.147] entered the room.
(04:06:45 PM) GivanBela: that proved to be for the participants a more difficult point in understanding them as empirical categories
(04:07:06 PM) GivanBela: so we talked about that a little, inventing ideas and expamples of possible use
(04:08:07 PM) GivanBela: so now we will try to prepare to move to more abstract layers (probably within wiki) for writing memo's and (probably within pad/ma) for more audiovisual writing in more complex units
(04:08:42 PM) GivanBela: any qustions from the crowd gathered here?
(04:09:49 PM) GivanBela: so now we will move to the video stream and try to talk about what is to follow today/tomarrow
(04:10:03 PM) GivanBela: anything special anyone wants to know?
(04:10:11 PM) GivanBela: about what we are doing?
(04:10:50 PM) GivanBela: hope we can extend it to next week and be creative on the spot with the recording and describing of the movies/documentation
(04:11:28 PM) GivanBela: so thank you for your attention and btw you can see all the things we are doing in padma.okno.be
(04:11:46 PM) GivanBela: getting dark here now.. good evening still

bits of explanation in video:

http://padma.okno.be/Ve2s7fr8/info

some experiments with padma (trying to get srt subtitles to work in html5)

based on jan's demo : http://v2v.cc/~j/jquery.srt/

<html>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://193.93.114.238/www/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://193.93.114.238/www/jquery.srt.js"></script>
<div id="example">
  <p>
    <video src="http://padma.okno.be/v/320/Vugv503g.ogv" id="video" autoplay controls></video>
  </p>
  <p>
    <br>
    <div class="srt" data-video="video" data-srt="http://193.93.114.238/www/bees-realtimebirth.srt"> </div>
    <br>
  </p>
</div>
</html>

demo test in html…

http://193.93.114.238/www/testpadma-srt2.html

actualy it works with padma stream video but not directly with srt from padma interface output.
I had to record the srt file on other place as there is only a link to a file generated on the fly, we would need a temporary file to use it in this script.

http://padma.okno.be/Vt332bqm/00:02:17.000-00:03:25.000

How to media write some memos based on the coding, fill up the holes, and explore some ideas together while working creatively for realizing TIK… olala lot's of thing to do today…

OpenGreen keywords in fast forward. Abstraction of information. Data.

Location: croatia, korcula, grey area
Keywords: windclock, workshop, time inventors' kabinet, TIK, screwing
http://padma.okno.be/Vsbgqwov/00:00:00.000-00:09:48.658

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Closeup of a hand making a bolt spin along a rod of metal. Glimpses of the transparent construction it is a part of. Hand screwing a nut on a tige, inside studio/workshop.
A black screen is followed by some compression errors in the video. Then we see a hand screwing down a nut on a rod, first with the index and middel fingers, then with support of the thumb. In the background we see a piece of clothing on a chair. Light falls in from the left. The nut descends into a clear plastic object, a WindClock in construction. The hand secures the nut. We hear people in a room, objects being moved.
We hear a dialogue:
Guy:“Great idea ????”
Barb:“Who had this great idea?”
Guy:“Alexandra”
Barb laughs.
pause
Guy: “I know it sounds radical, to ?? data from the server”.
Barb laughs.
Ralf talks, unintelligible, a metal object falls.
Nut is screwing down.

• here comes my code

An index finger is turning a bolt on a long stud. In the background there's a coat lying on a chair. The location is a kind of workshop. There' s a wooden table to the left..
The stud is attached to a transparant plastic holder. The holder has two horizontal screws through it. Hand moves very quickly making the stud tremble. People are talking in the background. The bolt is moving down, the hand is going down. A woman laughs. As the bolt reaches the end of the stud the thumb and ringfinger support the stud and the turning speeds up. The holder is swaying a little from left to right. The hand drives the bolt all down until it is inside the top of the plastic holder. The thumb is on the holder.

Hand is rolling on a long screw. Hand is nervous. There is a rythmic movement. Hand is rolling down a small bolt. 5 fingers show up. There are a table, a chair and some cables in the background. At the end of the long screw, a piece of plexi appears.
Various non-continuous handheld sound and image footage of people working together around a table in a room with laptops, tools, and various electronic parts while discussing what they are doing. Camera zooms in on details suchs as hands doing something, instruments being constructed and computerscreens, and rests at certain moments before moving on.

Hand screwing nut on a long screw (tige) to hold the acrylic form of a wind clock together.
Nut is continously screwing down by few fingers.
He lifts a plastic object in front of his head, he plays with moving parts which makes really interesting sound.
Guy lifts the windclock from his lap. He lifts it in front of his face, close to his mouth. He blows on a suspended transparent plastic part twice. He touches the part six times with his index finger. There's a ticking noise. The part moves back and forth. He turns the windclock looking it from the side. His facial expression changes, his mouth moves. Taps the plastic part three times, it makes a clicking sound as it touches the perspex holder. Guy moves the suspended part with his finger without letting it fall against the plastic holder. Guy rubs his nose. There is a view of the table with pens, laptops and wires. The table has a wooden top. An arm with a hand moves the pens a few centimeters to the left on the table.

A man, approx. 50 years old and funny looking, lifts up a plastic object. It is covered with orange stickers. The man wears a black T-shirt. It contrasts with the dark red color of the brick wall. The man blows into the object and moves a loose plexi part with his index finger. He's moving the flap quickly up and down and looks at it scrutinouosly from different sides, front and sidewards. An electrical wire is connected to the object. A darker strip shines through the plexi flap. The man eventually want to put the object on the table, but he first have to empty a part of the surface that is covered with small tools and cables. The man arranges the small tools in a neat line. He seems to be a maniac.
We see Guy in profile, looking critically at the WindClock, he blows the flap and moves it to test it and puts on a strange face. Then he reflects.

Overview of people working and discussing. Noisy.
Finishing the nut on the long screw, at the bottom of the acrylic wind clock, then turning it around, and testing the dynamic flap, person = guy
Guy + windclock - testing the functioning of the flap, critical look.. moving some tools on the table.
Arranging of tools situated on the table.
- Guy ordering some tools on the table in same position
- Overview of people in workshop/studio, someone is saying something technical in english (did he say semantic?).
Overview to table surronded by noisy discussing people. In the backround, there is a lot of mess.

Different people are around the table. A woman with a red shawl. 4 young man are looking at things. They are discussing. There are computers on the table, books in the background. They seem very concentrated. The table is a mess. On the foreground we see again a strange plastic object.
A young blond man in a black T-shirt is hanging around. He looks very relaxed (non-shaved) and is working on his computer, moving his mouse slowly back and forth. Other people are in the room, all are working , or it seems so.
Annemie working, looking at her computerscreen.

4 other guys working together, sitting and standing around the table filled with electronical and computer stuff.
- gert typing something on his computer (code?)
- isjtar sighing and looking back euhh
- barb sighing as well euhh
Black dressed men starts to talk and show something on the blackboard behind him. One moment later he tryes to explain the sketch on the sheet of paper fixed by piece of red tape.
A group discussing the production of the wind clocks and explaining each parts.

An electronic circuit on the paper in front of the blackboard, isjtar explaining the wiring from the sensor to the arduino.
Pictures of a blackboard followed by a drawing of a sensor with three cables, one for ground, one for 5v power and one for the arduino. The boy at the blackboard and a girl discusses where the cables should go. Followed by pictures the a girl with a laptop, of the table with equipment, fruit, waterbottle, installations. The girl and the boy at the blacboard discuss where the cables go.

Isjtar and Barb, the boy and girl….

One young man is explaining something to a young women. He points towards a blackboard, and she listens very carefully and follows his indications. Something is written on the blackboard.
The table is a mess. Water bottles, computers, boxes and tools, books and electrical devices fill the space.
The camera moves over the blackboard -we just can read 'connecting'- and freezes on a diagram that says: voltage, 5v, GND and arduino. The diagram is drawn on a paper and stuck with red tape to the wall.
Further explanation by isjtar of how the potmeter is connected to the arduino with a resistor - barb is saying potmeter

The four people round the table discuss something while continuing to work on their individual computers. Strange objects fill the table.
The young man checks the blackboard once more. The camera stops on a metal object, an open square with a flat surface on the bottom. The object seems to be connected to the computer.
Barb and Isjtar talking again about which wires to connect to the 5V and other arduino pins, little panning bringing 2 other people into view = getr and annemie.

Isjtar and Barb still talk about the connections of the potmeter, camera shows getr's other windmill model and a strange decorative lamp, in hte background a printer/scanner.
Isjtar and Barb still on and on about connecting the potmeter to the arduino, panning across the table showing a printed degrade on paper, some fruits, water bottle and packages, many computers in sight… some acryl shapes taped with orange wire.

The pomme granate, freshly picked from the neighbours tree.

Isjtar and Barb still discussing the wiring of a potmeter to the arduino, camera wandering further over the table showing tools, acrylic shapes, fruits, water, … Barb getting nervous, camera-conscience.

Numbers moving with movement of windclock, data appearing.

We see a narrow stonecovered street with stairs-steps and tall stonefences and bushes on both sides leading down to a village and a mountain in the background. Several young people are talking but we dont see tham. The camera pans abrubtly to the right and reveals in the opposite direction, a young woman sitting on the stone fence with a mac book. To pan continues across the narrow street reavealing more clearly the stairway with steps that become shorter and shorter the further from the camera and higher up they are. On the same level step as the camera, a step several meters deep, we see, in front of a door in a stone wall, a man sitting at a table in the stonepaved narrow road. In front of him there are papers and electronic equipment. Camera rests the pan here.

Outside in something that looks like a small stoneclad village with mountains in the background. After a 360 degrees pan reavealing a girl sitting on a stonefence, a stairclad road, a man at a table with electronics, a girl handing him some electronics while saying, I want to cut this, the camera passes her and moves toward a dooropening.

Michal on top with his head in the clouds, Ralf Schreiber solding wires and elements.

Inside. The camera moves around a room where several people are sitting and standing around a table. There is a blackboard in the background but we cannot see what stands on it. There are laptops and homemade electronics (looks like sensors and breadboards) on the table as well as waterbottles. Camera zoomz in on various elements. Music and talking in the sound.
Inside. The camera moves around a room where several people are sitting and standing around a table. There is a blackboard in the background but we cannot see what stands on it. There are laptops and homemade electronics (looks like sensors and breadboards) on the table as well as waterbottles. Camera zooms in on various elements. Music and talking in the sound. Towards the end, the camera rests at a boy in a gren tshirt who hold a transparent plastic thing in his hand while moving it back and forth.

Outside in the same narrow road scenario as before. We hear sound of children talking in a language I cant recognize. Several people and children around the table in the narrow road with the stairs. The children showing their home made electronics, made of shell and wire and other material, to the workshop people.
Then we see two men with laptops on the ground, discussing the signal while one of them is fingering with a plastic thing, the same translucent object we have seen earlier. We also see an old woman in a Rhododendron garden before the camera zooms out and reveals the whole scenario in the street with the table and the men with their laptops.

Korcula at sunset.