Eliza Ludd the Fog and the Shade
| Eliza Ludd the Fog and the Shade | |
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| Name | Eliza Ludd the Fog and the Shade |
| Location | NDSM |
| Date | 2019/07/17 |
| Time | 9:30-16:30 |
| PeopleOrganisations | Ollie George, Char Stiles |
| Type | Meetup |
| Web | Yes |
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1. A Luddite is a person who dislikes or is critical of technology, especially technological devices that threaten existing jobs or interfere with personal privacy. 2. Fog Computing is like Cloud Computing, but more local and ubiquitous. 3. Shaders are a way to produce real-time computer graphics. Shaders are written in GLSL which is the OpenGL Shading Language, a C-like programming language that allows you to code powerful graphics programs (aka shaders) directly on your computer’s graphics card.
In this workshop you were introduced to shader programming through a semi-fictional/SciFi narrative. In this journey we were set in the far future meeting as a new breed of Luddites in a post-Fog-Computing world.
We learnt about our roots as Luddites, our relationship with technology in the current situation where Fog Computing has already risen and fallen, and finally we will draft a manifesto, which will establish our take over of the deprecated Fog Network. We will explain Fog Computing as it is “analogous” to shader programming, with the goal of sending our manifesto across the Fog Network, with the help of Eliza Ludd. Who is Eliza Ludd you ask? Well, come to the workshop to find out!
A laptop is needed. No coding experience required Note that this workshop was happening in parallel to another one, you had to sign up!
remix culture did ned ludd ever exist? eliza eliza eliza how do we resist progress today? are hackers the new luddites? it’s very unforgiving can you redo what you just did but slow the following are from the book of shaders If I’m a pixel and I want to know what my color is from the previous frame that’s how we realise that computers are basically toothpicks It’s so loud I wanted to turn down volume, but it’s visual! FAT glitchhhhhhh but I don’t want to fat shame glitches though I just LOVE computers plug stuff into other stuff Try values until they work let’s think about the body of code as the body of Eliza the same way that Ned Ludd was a collective body technology replaced religion