Projects:Z. Blace

DESCRIPTIONS (info)

in 2019

PROJECT NAME: Diff3r3ntVversionsArePOSSIBLE?!.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: If we accept that #AnotherWorldIsPossible, maybe this aspiration should scale and render around us on more levels. We can for example also think possible manifestations of differences between worlds presented in fields like knowledge collections. To render these differences one should consider not only difference of information in content, but also its form and access points. Different versions of "truths" are not only different perspectives and arguments in the same system, but potentially different systems as models of seeing and argumenting as well.

In the case of Wikipedia this could go even further. This free, open, collaboratively made and exemplary monumental digital commons project, also fails to accommodate different modes of (re)producing itself and therefore relating to different (sub)cultures. It has grown to size of epic proportions that often host hegemonic aspirations that make average Wikipedia editors have fairly notorious reputation for disciplining. Institutional-like protocols and armatures build to sustain encyclopedic work, reduce flexibility that was once essential for Wiki culture.

Hawaiian word Wiki means 'quick' and was used to describe web making through spontaneous, organic and incremental web making, that would have emergent structure based on content accumulation and constant editing/refactoring. For example Ward Cunningham (author of first WikiWikiWeb) is interested in tracking the number and location of wiki page edits as a sociological experiment and may even consider the degradation of a wiki page as part of its process to stability. "There are those who give and those who take. You can tell by reading what they write."

Current state of Wikipedia platform leaves little imagination for such approaches and space for experimentation and diversion from norms is super limited if even possible. Content conflicts are hidden under a single tab link and nothing on the front page gives out the impression of the state of potential contestation or even just web making (power)dynamics.

Diff3r3ntVversionsArePOSSIBLE?!. point to these issues in explicit and implicit ways considering queer perspectives as counter-normative positions that not only antagonize, but also ridicule and eradicate the logic of single point objectivity and its oppressive implications.

BIOGRAPHY NOTE >> As for short bio I would avoid year/nation-state identity, except when they evoke/perform something specific... So what I used as of recently was this:

'Z. Blace' (b.1976 in Čapljina/Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia) (in+)consistently working (in-)between fields of contemporary culture and arts, digital technology and media, community sports and activism — by cross-pollinating queer perspectives and commoning practices... Z. co-founded Multimedia Institute/MaMa in Zagreb, researched generative media, software art, streaming aesthetics, operating systems, net tools/technologies, but also QueerSport as tensions between normativity and queer expressions and instigated critical and creative sport/ccSPORT as trans-local connective. http://Z.Blace.name/

in 2018 (as submitted in Dutch for funding in Flanders)

Collections: Collecties: WikiMedia + immaterieelerfgoed.be

Description: Hoe maak je plek voor materieel en immaterieel erfgoed waar we nog geen weet van hebben? OmissiONfuzz stelt voor om symbolische en potentieel nuttige lege items in de database op te nemen, geïndexeerd en genummerd als ieder ander object, maar zonder vaste en representatieve inhoud. Ze dienen als symbolische markers van de leegtes in een collectie en leggen verbanden tussen de kwantiteit en kwaliteit van datgene wat ontbreekt. Deze plaatshouders kunnen worden gebruikt voor de imaginaire toevoeging van schetsmatige, onzekere en hypothetische informatie.

Biography: Zeljko Blace is actief op meerdere domeinen: cultuur, activisme, media en sport. Hij heeft een achtergrond in media, kunst en design en een affiniteit met vrije cultuur. Hij maakt video- en installatie kunst maar ook generatieve media, net art en computer game art. Op dit moment speelt zijn praktijk zich vooral af op het gebied tussen sport en media. Zijn onderzoek richt zich op QueerSport en de spanningen tussen sportnormativiteit en queer uitdrukkingsvormen.

WORK (materials)

(working 2019) Diff3r3ntVVersionsArePOSSIBLE?!.

Content example: Men's CUP

To illustrate, manifest and render the need for change and possible implementation here is an exemplary wiki page and its reWorked version with elaborated differences:

Content example: Pride parade

To illustrate the need for change and possible implementation here is an exemplary wiki page and its reWorked version with elaborated differences:

• Source URL https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pride_parade
• zBlaceCopied20190530
• zBlaceDifferencesOfVersions
• zBlaceReWork

(working 2020) Title: 0MissiONfuzz

Project work named with "temporary" to connect to notions of absence/voids and fuzzy logic (?) of kind of (negative) archive/collection gaps and amendments that are officially not re-presented/visible.