hello, i’m agnes — I work as a technician and a lecturer at university of the arts london’s creative computing institute, and also work on games/writing/art-related things. I spend a lot of time thinking about how people develop a sense of agency in relation to technology. I recently came across the tadi web ‘slippy mindset’ page + thought it was a great articulation of something I often try to get across in my teaching and technical work — that there’s always more than one way to do something. I’m also really interested in collective knowledge structures and tools for describing/realising them — I’ve run a reading group for a few years now called the Knowledge Arrangement Reading Group (it’s an open group if anyone here wants to join) + am also an enthusiastic (if intermittent) wikipedia editor. right now, I’m doing a technical writing fellowship with Bellingcat around diverse satellite imaging indices, thinking a lot about ‘meta-methods’ for thinking about imaging as a physical process. I’m also just starting a research project around developing knitting software, and also learning to make DIY synths (in the autumn I’m going to run a ‘circuit diagram reading group’ at the CCI where we make synthesisers together from scratch). I think it’s really cool that this space exists! If anyone is based in london and wants to come visit the CCI / hang out and talk about coding things lmk 🙂

Hi Agnes, I’m London-based and I’d love to visit CCI, and I just saw that in recent KARG meetings you discussed Eleanor Rosch and Christopher Alexander who both represent topics I’ve immersed myself in for some time. Would be great to connect. Feel free to DM me. I also try to make it to most of the local FoC meetups @Maggie Appleton organizes about every two months.

Likewise, this CCI sounds brilliant, as an electronics person myself I'd love to dip in - plus, yes, hopefully we'll all meet in the FoC meetup!

Hey Agnes! The CCI looks fantastic! I’m based in London and would love to come visit. I also do a lot of work on knowledge representation / knowledge organisation, especially in relation to collective organising. KARG sounds right up my street! Also @Lu Wilson (tadi web) is in this Slack and also based in London.

oh amazing! glad you like the tadi web! come say hi at the tldraw office some time!

Um - is there a link to the CCI thing? I tried Google a couple of days ago but maybe I didn't try hard enough. @Agnes Cameron

it’s short for creative computing institute, it’s where I work 🙂

yes :) the meetup i mention is London Creative Coding and the next meetup will be announced soon! I'll be there giving a little intro