Date: Wednesday, December 13, 09:30 – 10:00 PT
Stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeEjS_89Uuw
Summer of Protocols was an 18-week program that aimed to accelerate and broaden the study of protocols. It brought together a group of 33 researchers for 18 weeks of collaborative speculation, discovery, design, invention, and creative production around the topic. They were tasked with exploring protocols, broadly construed, from various angles and across a range of different domains.
Participants, with backgrounds spanning architecture, law, game design, technology, media, art, workplace safety, and more, each attempted to tackle an open question around protocols. Their findings comprise a variety of textual and non-textual artifacts (including art works, game designs, and software), organized around a set of research themes: built environments, danger and safety, dense hypermedia, technical standards, web content addressability, authorship, swarms, protocol death, and (artificial) memory.
Their collective output leaves us with a mix of temporal analyses, provocative hypotheses, and intriguing rabbit holes, all of which come together to form an multifaceted sketch of “protocols”. Similarly to the parable of the blind men & the elephant, these field notes each try and describe the elusive subject from a specific vantage point. Together, they form the Protocol Kit.
Join us as we reveal the kit and explain its role as the basis for future protocol explorations!