Resurrection Workshop/s

Resurrection is a series of workshops where participants explore death in digital infrastructures, devices, technologies, understandings. We use the deprecation of these dead as a point to remember and respect their origins, lives and death. With this specific edition, we resurrect obsolete networks or networks. First we examine what do we think is death in networks, is it when there are no users, there are no events declared, no viewers, or no connection, no cheap infrastructures, new versions of this network that are cheaper and faster? What was the slower network’s appeal? We will list all our ideations of death and in groups or individually perform memorials, obituaries or silences to respect their past. The idea for resurrection comes from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as a method of media archaeology based maintenance and care. I believe that these dead bordering the living share a collective past and common destiny, and hence also a simultaneity in time.* As we remember the past, we connect futures of networks and see what are the differences, genealogies that we would like to keep, what did we keep, what can come after? Dead networks could include: telephony, telegraphy, speed dating, party lines, AOL, MSN messenger, askfm, tumblr, block parties etc.

Quilting Research: How to archive workshops of craft?

During the Fiber, Fiber! Exhibiton, I prepared my 6 month long research as a reader to be stitcher together. Visitors read, discussed and quilted their own readers together. This research was a culmination of a research program I was a part of with Fiber Space. My question was how do we 'try' to archive hand to hand inherited crafts. This question lead me to other questions, eventually trying to find an answer to why do we workshop? I read upon working together a lot and really enjoyed this experience of learning about the pedagogy of collaboration. I decided to create a quiltable research instead of one that presents a sole idea or a question. I prepared work sheets for crafts like knitting, weaving and crocheting in an attempt to give way to a reader that has crafting in itself, as a pattern.

Experimental Publishing Zine Fair

Experimental Publishing Zine Fair was a zine fair I co-organized with friends; Charlie, Wyn, Chrissy and Eleni. We curated, organized and took part in the fair, invited others to host workshops, talks and screenings with the help of Dokhuis. We heard talks from Paper Trail and Potato Publishing, workshops by Amsterdam Zine Crew, Hum Drum Press and many others, and screenings from students of Piet Zwart Instituut's Lens Based Media department.

Party Line

Party Line was my first attempt to prototype my Resurrection research. for this attempt of care and maintenance I decided to resurrect a network; the Party Line. Connecting three T65's I created a small network of telephones where party people could connect with each other and play a simple talking game (Who is the Wolf?). I wanted to recreate a simple network that is long gone to itirate on my research about dead tech and what can we learn from their obsoletion. For this research I contacted Houweling Telecom Museum volunteer Arnold, got in touch with FUTEL, another Party Line enthusiast organization from Portland. I dived deep into the lore of T65's.

Stitch & Bitch Community Meetings

Stitch and Bitch is a type of community meeting where mainly women of a neighborhood come together to do textile crafts together, originating in the US. We started organizing Stitch and Bitch meetings at Buitenplaats Brienenoord with friends Pier, Sadie and Naima since 2023. As community organizers, we take part in setting up the physical space and creating conversation that centers 'gossip'. We try to learn the names of our participants, regulars, skillshare and encourage skill sharing, share the way we do it so others feel inclined to host their own Stitch and Bitch's. We are supported by Gemeente Rotterdam's Circulair division.

Words Warts Worlds Worms or Zinectodes ... Web to Print Zine

I made this web to print (css only) zine website for a workshop I hosted with my friend Feline. We hosted a glossary workshop where we talked about the words we can incorporate in our everyday language from within (our other communities, families, native languages).Link to the words here.

Wiki Active Users Graveyard

Wiki graveyard is a dead users space exposing inactivity amongst Piet Zwart Wiki user list. I made this as an exercise of using mediawiki api.

Interpretive Licenses Workshop

Interpretive Licenses workshop is a 1 hour workshop for creatives of all kinds(weavers, makers, painters, poets, coders, etc) who would like to think about the relationship of their work and the public.

I am interested in poetry as a means of enacting through new shared language a community that had not previously existed.*

Licensing law borders art and public and is predetermined if not stated in the work. Even though this border is a political, experimental, poetic scene in itself, it is usually left for common copyright or copyleft documents to be 'protected' . Without any experimentation with the law, we forget the extends of our work. There are many statements that can be made in relation to the work and this can create a new understanding of working together. To break down barriers or build new custom ones, we will come together in this workshop and think about our works, who do we think interacts with them and how can we engage.

I am interested in a you in me that corresponds to a you in you or rather I should say I am interested in we, our, with, correspondence, plurality, betweenness, I mean between you and me I am interested in the territories of truth a poem makes through language, through listening—*

Examples from a previous workshop: Dissemination or experimentation is for the lovers Under the spell of this license, All work becomes occult knowledge, All author becomes a Interpretive Licensing Workshop witch in the shape of a bird, All spectator a worm awaiting transformation. ★ *Poem is Legal Tender by Kyle Dacuyan. Full poem can be found here.

Here is a timeline of licenses I made for this workshop.

Apollo's Mouthpiece

This was a future telling job assignment performance I did at See you many times! exhibition in June 2025 at the Telecom Museum Rotterdam. I wrote a simple 'care' related fortune telling text game where the questions mattered more than the answers; how many plants do you have in your house, do your friends trust you with their keys, do you have a pet? I wrote 18 speculative occupations that related to each person's answers. I reverse engineered a Northern Display Phone's keyboard and connected it to a raspberry pi, making it seem like the Display phone from the 80s was still working and even assigning jobs. I made schedules and diaries that related to the occupations to reinstate: AI will not take your job, in fact the job will be a care-related time-based task where you will personally have to show up and invest time. Your investment will be your work, your working will become valuable through time. This is how we will generate value and move on to sentimentalities as a subversive economic system.
I am aware this is high speculation, a dream. It is easy to believe an idea is a complete dream but I try to remember, many nightmares have been coming true these past years. maybe dreams could too.

Quilting Web Workshop

This was a workshop I hosted with my friend Martina. We were working on a project based on inherintg the cultures of quilting craft into a digital realm. We gathered supplies and told our participants to choose a website, don't tell us or each other and make it out of textiles. Afterwards, we talked about translations of tactile textures to webs and interactivities. After trying to guess each others websites, we quilted all of the 'websites' together at the end of the workshop.