Oral History

A speculative oral history imagining the present and future society in which denizens of Code Societies 2020 want to live.

Oral history project, interviews and transcriptions by Neta Bomani, narration by Code Societies students, teachers and organizers; additional transcriptions by Shea Fitzpatrick and Tsige Tafesse. Made with support from Are.na.

Char Jeré and Lina Chang

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• January 09, 2020
• Brooklyn Public Library, 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11238
• This interview was conducted in response to the following class(es):
• Introduction to Code Societies by Melanie Hoff, neta bomani, emma rae norton and Taeyoon Choi.
• People, cyborg, thinking, mistakes, library, stuck, afro, fractilism, representation, talking, laptop, human, reading
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Simone Browne and Tsige Tafesse

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• January 11, 2020
• New Inc, 231 Bowery fl 2, New York, NY 10002
• This interview was conducted in response to the following class(es):
• Surveillance Studies by American Artist and Simone Browne
• Surveillance, technology, supremacy, oral history, trust, memory, Ethiopia, family, decay, thinking, moments, life, space, game, stories, bubbles, hologram
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Markov chain poetry reading

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• January 13, 2020
• School for Poetic Computation, 155 Bank St, New York, NY 10014
• A poetry reading during part two of the class Computational Exploration of Magical and Divinatory Language taught by Allison Parrish. Before reading the poem, participants generated a markov chain with Python based off of a divination deck compiled in a data spreadsheet by participants.
• Allison Parrish, Adina Glickstein, Alonso Castro, Amber Officer-Narvasa, Andreas Jonathan, César Neri, Char Jeré, Char Stiles, Christina Entcheva, Cy X, Eliseo Rivera, Elizabeth Perez, emma rae norton, Holly Meadows-Smith, Ladipo Famodu, Lina Chang, Mehrnaz Rohbakhsh, Melanie Hoff, neta bomani, Shea Fitzpatrick, Sophie Kovel, Tina Nguyen
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The Unfinished Sentence

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• January 14, 2020
• School for Poetic Computation, 155 Bank St, New York, NY 10014
• A poetry reading during the class The Unfinished Sentence: Algorithmic Text Generation taught by Kameelah Janan Rasheed. Before reading the poem, participants created algorithmically generated texts with a variety of text generation tools.
• Adina Glickstein, Alonso Castro, Amber Officer-Narvasa, Andreas Jonathan, César Neri, Char Jeré, Char Stiles, Christina Entcheva, Cy X, Eliseo Rivera, Elizabeth Perez, emma rae norton, Holly Meadows-Smith, Ladipo Famodu, Lina Chang, Mehrnaz Rohbakhsh, Melanie Hoff, Shea Fitzpatrick, Sophie Kovel, Tina Nguyen
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Andreas Jonathan, Eliseo Rivera and Tina Nguyen

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• January 16, 2020
• School for Poetic Computation, 155 Bank St, New York, NY 10014
• Summary: This interview was conducted in response to the following class(es):
• Computational Exploration of Magical and Divinatory Language (Part 1) by Allison Parrish
• The Fuzzy Edges of Character Encoding by Everest Pipkin
• Spirituality, church, gender, sexuality, future, intimacy, critical thinking, space, practice, dogma, parents, community, future, growing
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Black Mirrors: Reimagining Race, Technology and Justice

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• January 17, 2020
• Location: School for Poetic Computation, 155 Bank St, New York, NY 10014
• A full recording of Ruha Benjamin's Black Mirrors class.
• People, space, system, wavelengths, hospitals, possibilities, taglines, names, Black, racism, technology, design, code, social, algorithm, racist, company, idea
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Alonso Castro, César Neri, Char Stiles, Ladipo Famoudu, Mehrnaz Rohbakhsh and Sophie Kovel

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• January 17, 2020
• Soft Surplus, 366 Devoe St, Brooklyn, NY 11211
• This interview was conducted in response to the following class(es):
• Black Mirrors: Reimagining Race, Technology and Justice by Ruha Benjamin
• Community, neighborhood, cybernetics, racism, friendship, acceptance, fluidity, feminism, ideology
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Elizabeth Perez and Melanie Hoff

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• January 21, 2020
• School for Poetic Computation, 155 Bank St, New York, NY 10014
• This interview was conducted in response to the following class(es):
• Cybernetics of Race/ism and Sex/ism by neta bomani and Melanie Hoff
• Motherhood, birth, doula, milk, reproduction, children
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Spatial poetry reading

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• January 22, 2020
• School for Poetic Computation, 155 Bank St, New York, NY 10014
• A poetry reading during the class Space is an Ecology of Our Systems taught by Dan Taeyoung. In reading the poem, participants followed the following instructions:
1. If nobody says anything, clap
2. When someone claps, say “bless you”
3. When you hear “bless you,” say “and also with you”
4. When you hear, “and also with you,” say “Gesundheit”
5. If you don’t hear a clap, say “it’s too quiet”
6. If you hear, “it’s too quiet,” say “listen”
7. If it’s too noisy, say “ouch”
8. If you hear “ouch,” stop doing or saying anything
• Adina Glickstein, Alonso Castro, Amber Officer-Narvasa, Andreas Jonathan, César Neri, Char Jeré, Char Stiles, Christina Entcheva, Cy X, Dan Taeyoung, Eliseo Rivera, Elizabeth Perez, emma rae norton, Holly Meadows-Smith, Ladipo Famodu, Lina Chang, Mehrnaz Rohbakhsh, Melanie Hoff, Shea Fitzpatrick, Sophie Kovel, Tina Nguyen

Amber Officer-Narvasa, Christina Entcheva and Shea Fitzpatrick

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• January 22, 2020
• School for Poetic Computation, 155 Bank St, New York, NY 10014
• This interview was conducted in response to the following class(es):
• Between Me and You: Encryption, Proxies, VPNs and Privacy by Harlo Holmes
• Capitalism, society, world building, stairs, autonomy, question, code, future, organizing, class, exercise, subway
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