Cuisine Interne Keuken

"We mean what a works, an organisation is made of: the components ingredients, the tools utensils, workplace, and work and creation processes recipes"

The Cuisine Interne Keuken project was initiated in 2004 at Jonctions/Verbindingen 7, a yearly festival around art, technology and ethics organised by Constantvzw, Brussels.

Constant vzw selected 17 questions around the ingredients and recipes of cultural work. Some of these questions are quite straightforward, and some leave more space for interpretation or even evasion. The idea is to put practice, tools and conditions at the same level, so to question their interrelation.

Cuisine Interne Keuken started out of the desire to render visible the internal organisation of the cultural world we work in, with its written and unwritten laws, decision making processes and value systems. In our thinking about interdisciplinary cultural practices, we did not want to leave out.

More: http://archive.constantvzw.org/cn_core/cuisine/aboutEN.php >

For /etc, the old project is presented and extended.

Report:
* Ubuntu platform runs smooth * installing software * offline recording tool runs well
* database install is easy if you know a little
* server database connection is difficult, you need specific server access

Conceptually the questionnaire is updated; a new set of questions is developed by scratching out some of the old questions and introducing new ones relating to the collective interest of /ETC. The self(definition) is a central issue, in relation to a wider discoursce on art, activism and technology.

Report:
* Interviews should be in the native language on request.
* Language option included but we didn't take the time to translate the questions

Compose a listening session

Listen to an interview

Technically, it is beta test of the DIY manual of the "cuisine interne" project. bolwerK, follows the instructions for installing the database on a web server and uses the python recording tool, which runs on the ubuntu platform.

Facilitators:

Wendy Van Wynsberghe reported on the 'Cyberfeminist Working Days', organised by Constant vzw in 2000. She recorded events and conducted interviews. She was astonished by the content, the people, and positively intrigued with an aftertaste of "More of this, please!" and "What is this? I like what it's doing to my brain". As the years passed, her involvement with Constant grew from opening beers behind the bar and chatting, to making microphone cables and letting those brains work again. She became a do-it-all and the DIY element of Constant, focusing on hardware hacking and free software for audio.

Marthe Van Dessel is a character that actively seeks for local and international constellations. Together with bolwerK, she hacks, cuts and pastes; shares, engages, transforms and nestles in urban and private hardware. Open source is for this cyberfeminist, a philosophy or just a pragmatic methodology to meet each other in the (digital) labyrinth.