En-crip-ing Time
This entry shares En-crip-ing time, which is a crip infrastructure made in collaboration with Mariana Marangoni. With En-crip-ing time we made room for crip time in network time, now and in the future. Through this we questioned the intimacies and care needed to not only manifest, but maintain crip infrastructures like these. This work was presented at Mesh Festival, as well as an essay about it published with Brand-New-Life Journal.
The En-crip-ing time infrastructure is run on the Cozy-Cloud server as a way to crip the internal clock and background of the server. It does this by poetically cripping the cron jobs (deterministic maintenance jobs) of the server to be chronic jobs (indeterminate, indefinite and intimate care). In this creative inquiry making room for Mariana and I to make sense of our misfitting within the configurations of network time, to then imagine how we want to poetically hack it now to imagine crips beyond its limits.
Entries
Crip infrastructure live
This entry share the live work that can be accessed online. This work is constantly changing shape and form so each time you visit it, it will perform another iteration of the En-crip-ed poem.
Published essay
This entry shares the published essay around the work. It aims to bring together an accessible understanding of the technical steps needed to remake the work on your system, alongside the theoretical and conceptual ideas we have threaded throughout the piece.
Mesh festival talk
This entry shares the event page for the presentation of the work for mesh festival 2024. This talk was the first presentation of En-crip-ing Time and shares our initial iteration alongside many other great PhD research projects.
A cover image by Mariana for Mesh festival. This is in grey scale and has a glitchy background of a distorted noisy image with random numbers, letters and symbols in lines across it. On top of this in clear black writing on a white background are the words "En-crip-ing Time".
A snapshot of the live infrastructure and poem with the CSS working, as it will be different every time it is visited. The screen is filled with a mixture of fonts and placements in green, which hold different lines of the crip time poem. Here you can read lines like "A home for us together", "Of frictionless desire", as well as others. There are bright pink almost unreadable bits of text which highlight the en-crip-ed lines of the poem.
A web browser with the poem and its code showing side by side. Here I am sharing how in-between the lines of the code/poem there are comments reflecting on the crip times of care and intimacy that made this infrastructure possible.