Workshop 2: Risography + the Registration of the Self

overview

In this workshop, you will take on a basic understanding of risographic duplication. You'll also use the program P5*js (a popular version of Processing).

theoretical contexts

Consider Andrew Murphie's provocation equivilancy between media and the world (going far beyond Marshall McLuhan's "medium is the message"):

In all this data is powerful precisely because data is the potential for feeling that, actualized, makes the world. Working with data is this actualization of world in process, in and through feeling, and in and through the repotentializing of feeling. And data here means all data, not just digital data, which is only one way of moving the potential for feeling. This making of the world is serially immediate.

What are the data that you might mediate collectively? Across a digital realm into a printed one, into people's hands, on the subway floor, and so on?

Deliverables

No concrete deliverables for this workshop. You are asked to play around with the Paged.js library in service of potential use in the collective, cumulative project.

Resources

Here is a link to the paged.js library. You will find helpful examples there, as well as a template in the "getting started" section. Note that custom pages and booklet specification is supported in Chrome.

Alternatively, you may find the archived library Bindery.js useful.