Tmux2web2print (merged mind publishing)
| Tmux2web2print (merged mind publishing) | |
|---|---|
| Name | tmux2web2print (merged mind publishing) |
| Location | H&D Studio |
| Date | 2026/07/20 |
| Time | 14:30-18:30 |
| PeopleOrganisations | Karen Czock |
| Type | HDSC2026 |
| Web | Yes |
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This workshop was open for kids (8–12 years old). Our pedagogical assistant Ayke (NL/ENG) was present to support the children throughout the workshop. If you wanted to rsvp: send an email using this link. Information you share with us is used only for communication and discarded after the event. More in our Privacy text :)
How can we care for digital infrastructure together?
In this workshop, we slowly explored a shared terminal* by connecting to a shared server via SSH** as a way of maintaining a server collectively. We used tmux***, a tool that allows several people to merge into one user, navigating the command line collectively. Where people with different technical skills meet on a server, this setup requires slowness, patience and mutual understanding accross.
As we experimented together, our actions were automatically transformed into a live web publication—a conversation, a theatre script or documentation—which later was printed as a small zine.
Documenting what happens on the server is essential to share knowledge and enable each other, yet is often the first thing to disappear when something breaks or when there is too much to do. What happens if we make documentation a part of the maintenance process?
If you already had spent a lot of time in the terminal, with server maintenance or in collective work, you were warmly invited to bring your own practices, obscure commands or learnings about the relational aspects of maintaining shared digital infrastructure.
- a text-based way of interacting with a computer
- a way of connecting to another computer
- a way of connecting to another computer
Timeline: ideally around 3.5–4 hours!
- Introduction: Background/Skill levels (15 min)
- Basic concepts of the terminal, SSH (30 min)
- Creating SSH users, connecting to the server (15 min)
- Intro to tmux + setup (30 min)
- In groups (90 min)
- staring TMUX sessions
- Choosing an approach: exploring the server / trying out basic commands / discussing protocols / styling
- Printing
- Exchange about experiments and about experiences (30 min)
Material list:
- Participants: a computer
Access note:
- The workshop touched a lot of different technologies superficially (server, terminal, ssh, tmux, html, css) so it should be okay for you to stir in the unknown without in-depth explanations :)
Bio:
Karen Czock is a designer and programmer based in Hamburg, Germany, interested in collective infrastructures, their materiality and politics. In her work, Karen uses code as a tool for experimental publishing and collaborative learning.