Nobodies-for.bots II
Name	Nobodies-for.bots II
Location	Todays Art - Bleyenberg Floor 1
Date	2018/09/22
Time	14:00-18:00
PeopleOrganisations	André Fincato, Cristina Cochior, Genevieve Costello
Type	Meetup
Web	Yes
Print	No

From the Turing Test to the Amazon Mechanical Turk, role-playing has represented a significant force in furthering the ideology of technological innovation.

Nobodies-for.bots is a quick and dirty workshop by Hackers and Designers, where participants are put inside a thriller-scenario and must play it out with the other participants: humans and bots alike. This is an exploration in reality-making and collective-being in a pan-usership and truths-rich era.

The workshop kicked off with simple role play exercises to develop the characters and set the scene. Participants plugged in their own text lines into the bots’ code as part of co-character and plot development that would unfold IRL via the messaging application Telegram. Then we played out the narrative, making a collective and kaleidoscopic story with characters that reflect upon decision making amongst new kinds of kin.

hackersanddesigners / nobodies-for.bots-II / readme.md

nobodies-for.bots-II

Intro

todaysart festival 2018, Den Haag.

References

MUD

Setup

download and install a text-editor (atom, visual studio code, etc.)
git clone git@github.com:hackersanddesigners/nobodies-for.bots.git-II or download the github repo
set up python (we are going to use python 3.6):
- download python 3.5.6 from here
- or:
  - install xcode: xcode-select --install (ref)
  - install homebrew: /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" (ref)
  - setup PATH: add export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH to ~/.profile (ref)
  - install python 3.6: brew install python3
run python to test everything works as expected: python3

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