Adam Procter: Recent Episodes
Adam Procter
I am a designer-practitioner-researcher at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK. I designed and run the BA (Hons) Games Design and Art programme, a progressive games course utilising indie style collaborative projects to build new types of games, games for purpose, games as art and highly employable students. The central output of my own practice led research is nodenogg.in. nodenogg.in is a digital canvas for multiplayer thinking used within Art & Design studio based education. nodenogg.in is part of a wider practice of building “Tools for Thought” (Rheingold, 1985) coupled with the process of thinking-through-making (Ingold, 2013). The way we convey, make, and represent the information generated and presented in a community of practice have a direct impact on the various co-created outputs. Our ideation and thoughts are directly affected by the tools we use (Culkin, 1967). As we extend the boundaries of our physical selves into the machine, we must consider the implications for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights within the posthuman. AFC Wimbledon fan and owner, flat hierarchy, co-operative loving evangelist.
THe way people use devices seems to me… moving further and further away from the way a lot of software wants you to function. From hiding export options, to completly hidden gestures or swipes that are anyones guess, even moving my URL bar from the top to the bottom without asking… thankfully firefox iOS offers a preference and may have even onboard the option to change, not safari
I decided to try wavelength to record an audio narration of one of my blog posts and then copied the resulting code and deleted the extra post. I will try and do this for my long form posts at least. I liked the idea from a substack I saw today and of course accessibility.
Audio Version
From Feb I will be the brand new Interim Head of an also brand new Department of Art & Media Technology at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.
Hopefully if successful I will be able to make it a more permanent role (application and interview dependant)
But from Feb to August I will still be Programme leader for BA Games Design & Art so I will be pretty busy however I have plans…
At the end of Jan I should have internally submitted my PhD text and come the end of March be waiting on my viva dates hopefully end of Easter / early summer so come Sept I will finally officially be Dr. Procter.
So if things go to plan I could be a Doctor running a new department with some exciting approaches to technology and humans from October.
As anyone who has read my blog or knows me I am very keen to push back on big tech, surveillance capitalism and this is something that has been my conversation piece to enable me to be given the interim role so embedding ethical and humane technology thinking and criticality in the new Department will be fundemental.
The Department already has amazing staff and students and a brilliant set of programmes of study.
Combine this with new structures and new programmes to come starting in earnest in October 2022 it is all pretty exciting.
Much hard work to come but it feels like an exciting new chapter awaits.
Of course I’ll keep people up to date on my blog if it all falls apart 🤣😬 or not 😊🙌
Onboarding via zoom screen share was a little bumpier than expected maybe @manton worth revisiting this to help win over people. If I was thinking I should have loom recorded the screen anyway @mrmurphy is now up and running
This is the same micro cast as the last post but this time I took the wav file from Audio Hijack that was direct from my microphone, dropped this into logic added a couple of chapter markers and used forcast to encode and add art work.
Marcus Mumford on BBC Radio 5 this morning talking about how AFC Wimbledon is a beacon in running a sustainable football club with the recent round of fund raising via the ploughlanebond.com
Also noted in wavelength playback doesn’t use AirPods but then oddly does when you hit share but not when you play in app or the post playback.
Here is a quick microcast of me talking to myself in Discord - testing Discord to Audio Hijack to OBS to Twitch! 💥 Interesting and did work @JohnPhilpin also solved the echo thing in my mucking about you need the thing to look like (see attached)
Clip 6 - wondering why wavelength cuts me off and why facebook doesn’t even allow copy and paste of public posts
Wavelength was updated and I also talk about our games graduate showcase on now and in London in July
winchester.games youtu.be/8O_xh-ea-…
Day 2 of the oneweb sprint. Off the cuff thoughts and notes for Clip 3 of my new microcast on microblog.
Monday was day 1 of my involvement in a 5 day sprint ending this Thursday. We are tasked with building a prototype to enhance the universities digital campus specifically that for prospective undergraduate students. Excited to see design thinking really touching our organisation level at the University of Southampton.
Not episode one but clip one of my new microcast hosted on micro.blog at discursive.adamprocter.co.uk
Added audio on my upgraded MB account, using Wavelength and iOS built in microphone. Also testing audio on timelines and hardware mute switch.