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A Hostility Index

2021-06-17T23:46:28Z

Sophia:

{{infobox
| title = A Hostility Index
| artist = Benjamin de Boer & Sophia Oppel
| year = 2020
}}

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="vertical-align:bottom;"
| style="height:100px; width:580px; text-align:left;" |Glossary
[[Airspace]]∙
[[Conceptual Space]]∙
[[Cruel Optimism]]∙
[[Heterotopia]]∙
[[Hypermediation]]∙
[[Hostile Architecture]]∙
[[Hostile Web Architecture]]∙
[[Non-place]]∙
[[Perceptual Space]]∙
[[Region]]∙
[[Re/mediation]]∙
[[Representational Space]]∙
[[Situation]]∙
[[Transparency]]∙
[[Visual rest]]∙
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="vertical-align:bottom;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | * [http://www.sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" |

|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | [[File:4_copy.png|500px|options|caption]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | * [http://www.sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/page2.html]
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" | *[http://www.sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/page3.html]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
|}

View Recent Changes

2020-07-16T22:26:08Z

Sophia: /* A Hostility Index */

==Introduction==
view recent changes is a collaborative project featuring works by artists [[Oscar Alfonso]], [[Simon Fuh]], [[Matt Nish-Lapidus]], and [[Sophia Oppel]], in collaboration with [[Hearth]] - a Toronto artist-run space co-directed by [[Benjamin de Boer]], [[Rowan Lynch]], [[Sameen Mahboubi]] and [[Philip Leonard Ocampo]]. view recent changes presents an assemblage that considers the ways in which the human, digital, linguistic, machinic, vegetal and animal correlate. Hosted as a wiki, a platform that allows for communal contribution, the project foregrounds lateral hyperlinking and reflects on the possibility of a digital commons. This project considers how to circumvent the individualizing, commodifying qualities of online spaces to explore positive forms of relationality and intimacy.

This exhibition is presented as part of [https://2020.vectorfestival.org Vector Festival 2020] and has been graciously supported by Joe Lobko and Karen Powers via the Benjamin Hart Lobko Memorial Travel Award.

----
===[[Goose Cakes]]===
by [[Rowan Lynch]] & [[Simon Fuh]]

Goose Cakes deploys the digital as a site to consider our relationships with the non-human. The project is based on a series of field notes and writing compiled collaboratively throughout the months of quarantine as we attempted to learn more about geese in order to gift them a cupcake specific to their dietary needs and wants. This work will conclude with a live-streamed artist talk and goose feeding on July 19th, 2020.

Beginning with observation of geese near Wascana Lake in Regina, a man-made lake hosting a migratory bird sanctuary, the project followed Simon’s own COVID influenced migration to Toronto. The second half of this project was then marked by an active search for the geese in this second city, and an interest in the implications of the new patterns of movement COVID has introduced to our lives.

----

===[[A Hostility Index]]===
by [[Benjamin de Boer]] & [[Sophia Oppel]]

Sophia Oppel and Benjamin de Boer's navigable webspace examines online environments as sites of hostile architecture, manufacturing desire in the hyper-capitalization of online interfaces. A Hostility Index seeks to create the equivalent of a digital public space in which to loiter and consider the politics of the background, and the supposedly transparent or invisible.
----

===[[I’m not sure I remember all of our names / No estoy seguro en nuestros nombres]] ===
by [[Sameen Mahboubi]], [[Oscar Alfonso]] & [[I%E2%80%99m_not_sure_I_remember_all_of_our_names_/_No_estoy_seguro_en_nuestros_nombres#Relations|Relations]]

This project is a reflection on expectations and relationships: about the family members Oscar missed out on as a kid in Vancouver, of the friends he left to move to Toronto, and of all of the other folks who have entered, left, remained, or moved on, into so many other directions. Honestly, I’m not sure I remember all of our names. Living through a pandemic no one wants, he currently rents and owns nothing that can be called home, is still in school, and has no child. In Mexico City, he at least has his avocado trees. Relations were invited to provide stories for these trees by responding with narratives that connected with ideas of travel, diaspora, expectations, obsolescence, or stationariness. As with all diasporic storytelling, responses came from various unexpected sources: close friends, mentors, adoptive aunts, and the occasional hook-up. For now, and forever, our children they will be.

We would like to inform that the video-recording of these stories will be carried out over the course of the exhibition, due to the lamentabe accident caused by Avena (Oatmeal), my grandmother's cat, who trimmed the trees on their daily outing to the patio.

Stories will be added throughout the exhibition run.

----

Este proyecto es una reflexión sobre las expectativas y las relaciones, sobre los familiares que Oscar extrañó cuando era niño en Vancouver, de las amistades que dejó para irse a Toronto, y de todas las otras personas que han entrado, salido, se han quedado, o avanzado en tantas y otras direcciones. Honestamente, no estoy seguro en nuestros nombres. Viviendo en una pandemia la cual nadie quiere, él no alquila ni es propietario de nada que se podría llamar un patrimonio, todavía esta en la escuela, y sigue sin descendencia, en la Ciudad de México él a lo menos tiene sus arbolitos de aguacate. Se invitó a diferentes relaciones a compartir pensamientos para estos arboles, respondiendo con cuentos que sean relacionados con ideas del viaje, diáspora, expectativas, obsolescencia, o “stationariness” - el estar pausado, fijo, o estancado. Como suele ser con los cuentos diaspóricos, las respuestas provinieron de varios lugares inesperados: amistades cercanas, tias adoptadas, y la aventura occasional. por ahora y para siempre, nuestros niños serán

Queremos informar que la grabación en video de la lecturas de estos cuentos se hará sobre el transcurso de la exhibición, ya que tras un accidente lamentable los arboles fueron podados mientras salieron al patio para tomar su baño de sol, por Avena, la gata de mi abuela.

Cuentos serán agregados sobre el transcurso de la exhibición.

----

===[[I'm Feeling Lucky]]===
by [[Philip Leonard Ocampo]] & [[Matt Nish-Lapidus]]

[[What was gathered from the reservoir?]] by [[Philip Leonard Ocampo]]

[[Poems of Relation]]

Using an image recognition relations dataset as the basis for automated found image assemblage, I'm Feeling Lucky creates unique real-time image sets for each of the 15000+ in the dataset. The set of terms is laid out on a single page as links, flowing to fill the screen. Each link leads to a collage/assemblage of images found through using the phrase as an image search, and arranging the results. [[Matt Nish-Lapidus]], in collaboration with [[Philip Leonard Ocampo]], addresses the human labour behind machine learning, specifically aggregated data-sets that quantify and itemize the different types of relationships between objects/subjects in images online. I'm Feeling Lucky considers (and unravels) the linguistic poetics of code, and address the implications of addressing the human on an in-human scale.

View Recent Changes

2020-07-16T22:25:57Z

Sophia: /* A Hostility Index */

==Introduction==
view recent changes is a collaborative project featuring works by artists [[Oscar Alfonso]], [[Simon Fuh]], [[Matt Nish-Lapidus]], and [[Sophia Oppel]], in collaboration with [[Hearth]] - a Toronto artist-run space co-directed by [[Benjamin de Boer]], [[Rowan Lynch]], [[Sameen Mahboubi]] and [[Philip Leonard Ocampo]]. view recent changes presents an assemblage that considers the ways in which the human, digital, linguistic, machinic, vegetal and animal correlate. Hosted as a wiki, a platform that allows for communal contribution, the project foregrounds lateral hyperlinking and reflects on the possibility of a digital commons. This project considers how to circumvent the individualizing, commodifying qualities of online spaces to explore positive forms of relationality and intimacy.

This exhibition is presented as part of [https://2020.vectorfestival.org Vector Festival 2020] and has been graciously supported by Joe Lobko and Karen Powers via the Benjamin Hart Lobko Memorial Travel Award.

----
===[[Goose Cakes]]===
by [[Rowan Lynch]] & [[Simon Fuh]]

Goose Cakes deploys the digital as a site to consider our relationships with the non-human. The project is based on a series of field notes and writing compiled collaboratively throughout the months of quarantine as we attempted to learn more about geese in order to gift them a cupcake specific to their dietary needs and wants. This work will conclude with a live-streamed artist talk and goose feeding on July 19th, 2020.

Beginning with observation of geese near Wascana Lake in Regina, a man-made lake hosting a migratory bird sanctuary, the project followed Simon’s own COVID influenced migration to Toronto. The second half of this project was then marked by an active search for the geese in this second city, and an interest in the implications of the new patterns of movement COVID has introduced to our lives.

----

===[[A Hostility Index]]===
by [[Benjamin de Boer]] & [[Sophia Oppel]]

Sophia Oppel, and Benjamin de Boer's navigable webspace examines online environments as sites of hostile architecture, manufacturing desire in the hyper-capitalization of online interfaces. A Hostility Index seeks to create the equivalent of a digital public space in which to loiter and consider the politics of the background, and the supposedly transparent or invisible.
----

===[[I’m not sure I remember all of our names / No estoy seguro en nuestros nombres]] ===
by [[Sameen Mahboubi]], [[Oscar Alfonso]] & [[I%E2%80%99m_not_sure_I_remember_all_of_our_names_/_No_estoy_seguro_en_nuestros_nombres#Relations|Relations]]

This project is a reflection on expectations and relationships: about the family members Oscar missed out on as a kid in Vancouver, of the friends he left to move to Toronto, and of all of the other folks who have entered, left, remained, or moved on, into so many other directions. Honestly, I’m not sure I remember all of our names. Living through a pandemic no one wants, he currently rents and owns nothing that can be called home, is still in school, and has no child. In Mexico City, he at least has his avocado trees. Relations were invited to provide stories for these trees by responding with narratives that connected with ideas of travel, diaspora, expectations, obsolescence, or stationariness. As with all diasporic storytelling, responses came from various unexpected sources: close friends, mentors, adoptive aunts, and the occasional hook-up. For now, and forever, our children they will be.

We would like to inform that the video-recording of these stories will be carried out over the course of the exhibition, due to the lamentabe accident caused by Avena (Oatmeal), my grandmother's cat, who trimmed the trees on their daily outing to the patio.

Stories will be added throughout the exhibition run.

----

Este proyecto es una reflexión sobre las expectativas y las relaciones, sobre los familiares que Oscar extrañó cuando era niño en Vancouver, de las amistades que dejó para irse a Toronto, y de todas las otras personas que han entrado, salido, se han quedado, o avanzado en tantas y otras direcciones. Honestamente, no estoy seguro en nuestros nombres. Viviendo en una pandemia la cual nadie quiere, él no alquila ni es propietario de nada que se podría llamar un patrimonio, todavía esta en la escuela, y sigue sin descendencia, en la Ciudad de México él a lo menos tiene sus arbolitos de aguacate. Se invitó a diferentes relaciones a compartir pensamientos para estos arboles, respondiendo con cuentos que sean relacionados con ideas del viaje, diáspora, expectativas, obsolescencia, o “stationariness” - el estar pausado, fijo, o estancado. Como suele ser con los cuentos diaspóricos, las respuestas provinieron de varios lugares inesperados: amistades cercanas, tias adoptadas, y la aventura occasional. por ahora y para siempre, nuestros niños serán

Queremos informar que la grabación en video de la lecturas de estos cuentos se hará sobre el transcurso de la exhibición, ya que tras un accidente lamentable los arboles fueron podados mientras salieron al patio para tomar su baño de sol, por Avena, la gata de mi abuela.

Cuentos serán agregados sobre el transcurso de la exhibición.

----

===[[I'm Feeling Lucky]]===
by [[Philip Leonard Ocampo]] & [[Matt Nish-Lapidus]]

[[What was gathered from the reservoir?]] by [[Philip Leonard Ocampo]]

[[Poems of Relation]]

Using an image recognition relations dataset as the basis for automated found image assemblage, I'm Feeling Lucky creates unique real-time image sets for each of the 15000+ in the dataset. The set of terms is laid out on a single page as links, flowing to fill the screen. Each link leads to a collage/assemblage of images found through using the phrase as an image search, and arranging the results. [[Matt Nish-Lapidus]], in collaboration with [[Philip Leonard Ocampo]], addresses the human labour behind machine learning, specifically aggregated data-sets that quantify and itemize the different types of relationships between objects/subjects in images online. I'm Feeling Lucky considers (and unravels) the linguistic poetics of code, and address the implications of addressing the human on an in-human scale.

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2020-07-16T00:50:50Z

Sophia:

Perceptual Space

2020-07-13T18:38:33Z

Sophia:

Perceptual space is space that is directly experienced in day to day life as a kind of physical configuration. This space is perceived in that it can be sensed directly, and is open to measurement, description, and physical scrutiny. Perceptual space is that of the building, the courtyard, the GUI. Attributes of this second element correspond to the [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/ '''representations of space'''] that are presented by specific societies in their specific forms of representation. This is the space made physically manifest by the planners, and is in turn arbitrarily represented by the conventional program of codes, maps and blueprints that conceived space consists of.

Lefebvre, Henri. The Production of Space. Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing, 1991.

Conceptual Space

2020-07-13T18:38:12Z

Sophia:

Conceptual space correlates to the spatial practices of a society (1). This term relates to the ways in which programs carry out in particular spaces in particular societies. It defines space that is designed, built, imagined, and imposed – as well as the ways in which people move about while navigating these spaces. This is the space of ideology and serves as the source for certain algorithms in control society that are carried out by machine learning due to its material, infrastructural gaze, this kind of space informs the perceptual work of architects, planners, [https://recentchanges.ca/I%27m_Feeling_Lucky AI] and commissioning rulers. The concepts formed in this strata of relations are in turn transformed into [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/page2.html '''blueprints'''], training data, maps, models, political monuments, and surveyor’s grids that dictate the development of built space (2).

1 Orum, A. and Xiangming Chen. (2003). The World of Cities: Places in Comparative and Historical Perspective. Blackwell Publishing, 1-59

2 Lefebvre, Henri. The Production of Space. Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing, 1991.

Representational Space

2020-07-13T18:37:37Z

Sophia:

Representational Space, otherwise known as [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/page3.html place], is space phenomenologically realized, actualized, and interpreted. Can Xue’s novel Five Spice Street delivers a grating portrayal of gossip ridden communal life on an otherwise nondescript small street in an unnamed country (1). The circuit of derision and eventual praise demonstrates how that setting, the houses, shops, doorways, rooms, windows, and mirrors refract, distort and exhaust the inhabitants’ ability to speculate about a newcomer named Madam X, whose potential as a [https://recentchanges.ca/File:Mirror_plane_normal.png refractive index] for the biases and fears of a guarded community is pushed to its limits.

Processes of identification and categorization can therefore be seen as indicators of the space's potentiality of becoming a place. While space is considered the immaterial medium of practice, place is the relationships formed by the active conceptualization of this notion of space itself- [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/page3.html '''the park'''], the bar, the bathhouse, the neighbourhood.

Online spaces that possess the potential to become places are those that support consensual, critical yet democratic contribution, unrestricted access to information, and foster open source experimentation with and subversion of technology (2). Beyond social media apps, community forums, group chats, programming and wiki resources are excellent examples of internet places, as they foster communal and individual situations. The most hospitable of these places actively fight against hostility by supporting enjoyment of rights and encouraging pleasure and play, and actively seek to dismantle oppressive forms of control. Even online, space is turned into place through processes of identification, categorization, deliberate transformation through collaboration and contestation, and semiosis (3).

1 Xue, Can. Five Spice Street. Yale University Press, 2009.

2 APC. Feminist Principles of The Internet. APC WRP, 2016.

3 Lefebvre, Henri. The Production of Space. Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing, 1991.

Representational Space

2020-07-13T18:36:31Z

Sophia:

Representational Space, otherwise known as [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/page3.html place], is space phenomenologically realized, actualized, and interpreted. Can Xue’s novel Five Spice Street delivers a grating portrayal of gossip ridden communal life on an otherwise nondescript small street in an unnamed country (1). The circuit of derision and eventual praise demonstrates how that setting, the houses, shops, doorways, rooms, windows, and mirrors refract, distort and exhaust the inhabitants’ ability to speculate about a newcomer named Madam X, whose potential as a [https://recentchanges.ca/File:Mirror_plane_normal.png refractive index] for the biases and fears of a guarded community is pushed to its limits.

Processes of identification and categorization can therefore be seen as indicators of the space's potentiality of becoming a place. While space is considered the immaterial medium of practice, place is the relationships formed by the active conceptualization of this notion of space itself- [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/page3.html the park], the bar, the bathhouse, the neighbourhood.

Online spaces that possess the potential to become places are those that support consensual, critical yet democratic contribution, unrestricted access to information, and foster open source experimentation with and subversion of technology (2). Beyond social media apps, community forums, group chats, programming and wiki resources are excellent examples of internet places, as they foster communal and individual situations. The most hospitable of these places actively fight against hostility by supporting enjoyment of rights and encouraging pleasure and play, and actively seek to dismantle oppressive forms of control. Even online, space is turned into place through processes of identification, categorization, deliberate transformation through collaboration and contestation, and semiosis (3).

1 Xue, Can. Five Spice Street. Yale University Press, 2009.

2 APC. Feminist Principles of The Internet. APC WRP, 2016.

3 Lefebvre, Henri. The Production of Space. Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing, 1991.

Perceptual Space

2020-07-13T18:35:20Z

Sophia:

Perceptual space is space that is directly experienced in day to day life as a kind of physical configuration. This space is perceived in that it can be sensed directly, and is open to measurement, description, and physical scrutiny. Perceptual space is that of the building, the courtyard, the GUI. Attributes of this second element correspond to the [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/ representations of space] that are presented by specific societies in their specific forms of representation. This is the space made physically manifest by the planners, and is in turn arbitrarily represented by the conventional program of codes, maps and blueprints that conceived space consists of.

Lefebvre, Henri. The Production of Space. Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing, 1991.

Conceptual Space

2020-07-13T18:34:05Z

Sophia:

Conceptual space correlates to the spatial practices of a society (1). This term relates to the ways in which programs carry out in particular spaces in particular societies. It defines space that is designed, built, imagined, and imposed – as well as the ways in which people move about while navigating these spaces. This is the space of ideology and serves as the source for certain algorithms in control society that are carried out by machine learning due to its material, infrastructural gaze, this kind of space informs the perceptual work of architects, planners, [https://recentchanges.ca/I%27m_Feeling_Lucky AI] and commissioning rulers. The concepts formed in this strata of relations are in turn transformed into [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/page2.html blueprints], training data, maps, models, political monuments, and surveyor’s grids that dictate the development of built space (2).

1 Orum, A. and Xiangming Chen. (2003). The World of Cities: Places in Comparative and Historical Perspective. Blackwell Publishing, 1-59

2 Lefebvre, Henri. The Production of Space. Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing, 1991.

A Hostility Index

2020-07-13T18:29:52Z

Sophia:

{{infobox
| title = A Hostility Index
| artist = Benjamin de Boer & Sophia Oppel
| year = 2020
}}

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="vertical-align:bottom;"
| style="height:100px; width:580px; text-align:left;" |Glossary
[[Airspace]]∙
[[Conceptual Space]]∙
[[Cruel Optimism]]∙
[[Heterotopia]]∙
[[Hypermediation]]∙
[[Hostile Architecture]]∙
[[Hostile Web Architecture]]∙
[[Non-place]]∙
[[Perceptual Space]]∙
[[Region]]∙
[[Re/mediation]]∙
[[Representational Space]]∙
[[Situation]]∙
[[Transparency]]∙
[[Visual rest]]∙
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="vertical-align:bottom;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | * [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" |

|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | [[File:4_copy.png|500px|options|caption]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | * [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/page2.html]
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" | *[http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/page3.html]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
|}

Conceptual Space

2020-07-13T17:41:30Z

Sophia:

Conceptual space correlates to the spatial practices of a society (1). This term relates to the ways in which programs carry out in particular spaces in particular societies. It defines space that is designed, built, imagined, and imposed – as well as the ways in which people move about while navigating these spaces. This is the space of ideology and serves as the source for certain algorithms in control society that are carried out by machine learning due to its material, infrastructural gaze, this kind of space informs the perceptual work of architects, planners, [https://recentchanges.ca/I%27m_Feeling_Lucky AI] and commissioning rulers. The concepts formed in this strata of relations are in turn transformed into blueprints, training data, maps, models, political monuments, and surveyor’s grids that dictate the development of built space (2).

1 Orum, A. and Xiangming Chen. (2003). The World of Cities: Places in Comparative and Historical Perspective. Blackwell Publishing, 1-59

2 Lefebvre, Henri. The Production of Space. Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing, 1991.

Representational Space

2020-07-13T17:39:39Z

Sophia:

Representational Space, otherwise known as place, is space phenomenologically realized, actualized, and interpreted. Can Xue’s novel Five Spice Street delivers a grating portrayal of gossip ridden communal life on an otherwise nondescript small street in an unnamed country (1). The circuit of derision and eventual praise demonstrates how that setting, the houses, shops, doorways, rooms, windows, and mirrors refract, distort and exhaust the inhabitants’ ability to speculate about a newcomer named Madam X, whose potential as a [https://recentchanges.ca/File:Mirror_plane_normal.png refractive index] for the biases and fears of a guarded community is pushed to its limits.

Processes of identification and categorization can therefore be seen as indicators of the space's potentiality of becoming a place. While space is considered the immaterial medium of practice, place is the relationships formed by the active conceptualization of this notion of space itself- the park, the bar, the bathhouse, the neighbourhood.

Online spaces that possess the potential to become places are those that support consensual, critical yet democratic contribution, unrestricted access to information, and foster open source experimentation with and subversion of technology (2). Beyond social media apps, community forums, group chats, programming and wiki resources are excellent examples of internet places, as they foster communal and individual situations. The most hospitable of these places actively fight against hostility by supporting enjoyment of rights and encouraging pleasure and play, and actively seek to dismantle oppressive forms of control. Even online, space is turned into place through processes of identification, categorization, deliberate transformation through collaboration and contestation, and semiosis (3).

1 Xue, Can. Five Spice Street. Yale University Press, 2009.

2 APC. Feminist Principles of The Internet. APC WRP, 2016.

3 Lefebvre, Henri. The Production of Space. Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing, 1991.

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2020-07-13T17:35:48Z

Sophia:

Co-option of dreams

2020-07-13T16:28:17Z

Sophia: Created page with "==A Dream== I open my apartment door and walk down the stairs to check the mail. I find an envelope for me behind some flyers and coupons for Domino's Pizza. Its from my work..."

==A Dream==

I open my apartment door and walk down the stairs to check the mail. I find an envelope for me behind some flyers and coupons for Domino's Pizza. Its from my work, which is funny because I just received mail from them yesterday.

I go back to my room and open the envelope and pull out a cheque folded in half. This is even funnier because the mail I got from them yesterday was a cheque! I unfold the cheque and nestled inside the fold is another piece of paper. I unfold it, noticing how it was folded eight times. It is another cheque! The first cheque is for $109.40 and the other cheque is for $56.00. I look past the cheques in my hands and there on my table was the one I got yesterday, for $237.57.

When I woke up I tried to calculate how many hours I would have to work to make the dream money. Six hours and .8 for the first and three and a half for the second one. I check the cheque on my desk and sure enough, the number matched.

Visual rest

2020-07-13T16:27:31Z

Sophia:

A sensation of ease and relaxation experienced when viewing calming content, visual rest in digital environments is often co-opted by streaming and hosting platforms to scrape user data and disengage subjects.

The crisp white background of many social media interfaces acts as a numbing mechanism to ease image consumption, while re-deploying colonial architectural tenants that link whiteness and hygiene. Even the content held within this sterile space, largely zombie formalist and minimalist design, are discrete objects heavy with this logic of rendering the subject disengaged.

Dreams were often seen as the final space separate from capital, however work dreams and stress dreams are common. The neoliberalization of visual rest is a form of hostility. We see the [[co-option of dreams]] as a kind of co-opting of rest space - the insomniac dream is preoccupied with future proofing.

Conceptual Space

2020-07-13T15:25:38Z

Sophia:

Conceptual space correlates to the spatial practices of a society (1). This term relates to the ways in which programs carry out in particular spaces in particular societies. It defines space that is designed, built, imagined, and imposed – as well as the ways in which people move about while navigating these spaces. This is the space of ideology and serves as the source for certain algorithms in control society that are carried out by machine learning due to its material, infrastructural gaze, this kind of space informs the perceptual work of architects, planners, AI and commissioning rulers. The concepts formed in this strata of relations are in turn transformed into blueprints, training data, maps, models, political monuments, and surveyor’s grids that dictate the development of built space (2).

1 Orum, A. and Xiangming Chen. (2003). The World of Cities: Places in Comparative and Historical Perspective. Blackwell Publishing, 1-59

2 Lefebvre, Henri. The Production of Space. Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing, 1991.

A Hostility Index

2020-07-13T15:24:43Z

Sophia:

{{infobox
| title = A Hostility Index
| artist = Benjamin de Boer & Sophia Oppel
| year = 2020
}}

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="vertical-align:bottom;"
| style="height:100px; width:580px; text-align:left;" |Glossary
[[Airspace]]∙
[[Conceptual Space]]∙
[[Cruel Optimism]]∙
[[Heterotopia]]∙
[[Hypermediation]]∙
[[Hostile Architecture]]∙
[[Hostile Web Architecture]]∙
[[Non-place]]∙
[[Perceptual Space]]∙
[[Region]]∙
[[Re/mediation]]∙
[[Representational Space]]∙
[[Situation]]∙
[[Transparency]]∙
[[Visual rest]]∙
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="vertical-align:bottom;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | * [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" |

|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | [[File:4_copy.png|500px|options|caption]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | * [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index2/]
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" | link 3
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
|}

File:4 copy.png

2020-07-13T15:21:25Z

Sophia:

A Hostility Index

2020-07-13T15:20:52Z

Sophia:

{{infobox
| title = A Hostility Index
| artist = Benjamin de Boer & Sophia Oppel
| year = 2020
}}

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="vertical-align:bottom;"
| style="height:100px; width:580px; text-align:left;" |Glossary
[[Airspace]]∙
[[Conceptual Space]]∙
[[Cruel Optimism]]∙
[[Heterotopia]]∙
[[Hypermediation]]∙
[[Hostile Architecture]]∙
[[Hostile Web Architecture]]∙
[[Non-place]]∙
[[Perceptual Space]]∙
[[Region]]∙
[[Re/mediation]]∙
[[Representational Space]]∙
[[Situation]]∙
[[Transparency]]∙
[[Visual rest]]∙
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="vertical-align:bottom;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | * [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" |

|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | [[File:4.png|450px|options|caption]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | * [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index2/]
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | link
|}

A Hostility Index

2020-07-11T17:11:37Z

Sophia:

{{infobox
| title = A Hostility Index
| artist = Benjamin de Boer & Sophia Oppel
| year = 2020
}}

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="vertical-align:bottom;"
| style="height:100px; width:580px; text-align:left;" |Glossary
[[Airspace]]∙
[[Conceptual Space]]∙
[[Cruel Optimism]]∙
[[Heterotopia]]∙
[[Hypermediation]]∙
[[Hostile Architecture]]∙
[[Hostile Web Architecture]]∙
[[Non-place]]∙
[[Perceptual Space]]∙
[[Region]]∙
[[Re/mediation]]∙
[[Representational Space]]∙
[[Situation]]∙
[[Transparency]]∙
[[Visual rest]]∙
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="vertical-align:bottom;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | * [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" |

|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | [[File:8.png|350px|options|caption]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | * [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index2/]
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | link
|}

A Hostility Index

2020-07-11T17:05:40Z

Sophia:

{{infobox
| title = A Hostility Index
 
| artist = Benjamin de Boer
| text = Sophia Oppel
|
}}

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="vertical-align:bottom;"
| style="height:100px; width:580px; text-align:left;" |Glossary
[[Conceptual Space]]∙
[[Perceptual Space]]∙
[[Representational Space]]∙
[[Non-place]]∙
[[Region]]∙
[[Hostile Architecture]]∙
[[Hostile Web Architecture]]∙
[[Airspace]]∙
[[Cruel Optimism]]∙
[[Transparency]]∙
[[Visual rest]]∙
[[Situation]]∙
[[Heterotopia]]∙
[[Re/mediation]]∙
[[Hypermediation]]∙
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="vertical-align:bottom;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | * [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" |

|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | [[File:8.png|350px|options|caption]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | * [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index2/]
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | link
|}

A Hostility Index

2020-07-11T03:14:28Z

Sophia:

{{infobox
| title = A Hostility Index
| artist = Benjamin de Boer & Sophia Oppel
| year = 2020
}}

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="vertical-align:bottom;"
| style="height:100px; width:580px; text-align:left;" |Glossary
[[Conceptual Space]]∙
[[Perceptual Space]]∙
[[Representational Space]]∙
[[Non-place]]∙
[[Region]]∙
[[Hostile Architecture]]∙
[[Hostile Web Architecture]]∙
[[Airspace]]∙
[[Cruel Optimism]]∙
[[Transparency]]∙
[[Visual rest]]∙
[[Situation]]∙
[[Heterotopia]]∙
[[Re/mediation]]∙
[[Hypermediation]]∙
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="vertical-align:bottom;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | * [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" |

|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | [[File:8.png|350px|options|caption]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | * [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index2/]
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | link
|}

A Hostility Index

2020-07-11T03:03:10Z

Sophia:

{{infobox
| title = A Hostility Index
| artist = Benjamin de Boer & Sophia Oppel
| year = 2020
| text = Glossary against the Microplastic Gulp of Logic
| link1 = [[Conceptual Space]]
| link2 = [[Perceptual Space]]
| link3 = [[Representational Space]]
| link4 = [[Non-place]]
| link5 = [[Region]]
| link6 = [[Hostile Architecture]]
| link7 = [[Hostile Web Architecture]]
| link8 = [[Airspace]]
| link9 = [[Cruel Optimism]]
| link10 = [[Transparency]]
| link11 = [[Visual rest]]
| link12 = [[Situation]]
| link13 = [[Heterotopia]]
| link14 = [[Re/mediation]]
| link15 = [[Hypermediation]]
}}

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="vertical-align:bottom;"
| style="height:100px; width:580px; text-align:left;" |Glossary
entry 
entry
:::::entry
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="vertical-align:bottom;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | * [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" |

|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | [[File:8.png|350px|options|caption]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | * [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index2/]
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | link
|}

A Hostility Index

2020-07-11T02:59:25Z

Sophia:

{{infobox
| title = A Hostility Index
| artist = Benjamin de Boer & Sophia Oppel
| year = 2020
| text = Glossary against the Microplastic Gulp of Logic
| link1 = [[Conceptual Space]]
| link2 = [[Perceptual Space]]
| link3 = [[Representational Space]]
| link4 = [[Non-place]]
| link5 = [[Region]]
| link6 = [[Hostile Architecture]]
| link7 = [[Hostile Web Architecture]]
| link8 = [[Airspace]]
| link9 = [[Cruel Optimism]]
| link10 = [[Transparency]]
| link11 = [[Visual rest]]
| link12 = [[Situation]]
| link13 = [[Heterotopia]]
| link14 = [[Re/mediation]]
| link15 = [[Hypermediation]]
}}

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="vertical-align:bottom;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |Glossary
entry 
entry
:::::entry
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="vertical-align:bottom;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | * [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" |

|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | [[File:8.png|350px|options|caption]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | * [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index2/]
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | link
|}

A Hostility Index

2020-07-11T02:56:45Z

Sophia:

{{infobox
| title = A Hostility Index
| artist = Benjamin de Boer & Sophia Oppel
| year = 2020
| text = Glossary against the Microplastic Gulp of Logic
| link1 = [[Conceptual Space]]
| link2 = [[Perceptual Space]]
| link4 = [[Representational Space]]
| link3 = [[Non-place]]
| link5 = [[Region]]
| link6 = [[Hostile Architecture]]
| link7 = [[Hostile Web Architecture]]
| link8 = [[Airspace]]
| link9 = [[Cruel Optimism]]
| link10 = [[Transparency]]
| link11 = [[Visual rest]]
| link12 = [[Situation]]
| link13 = [[Heterotopia]]
| link14 = [[Re/mediation]]
| link15 = [[Hypermediation]]
}}

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="vertical-align:bottom;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | Glossary
entry 
entry
entry
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="vertical-align:bottom;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | * [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" |

|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | [[File:8.png|350px|options|caption]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | * [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index2/]
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | link
|}

A Hostility Index

2020-07-11T01:44:45Z

Sophia:

{{Infobox
|title = A Hostility Index
|artist = Benjamin de Boer & Sophia Oppel
|year = 2020
|text = Glossary
|link1 = [[Conceptual Space]]
|link2 = [[Perceptual Space]]
|link3 = [[Representational Space]]
|link4 = [[Non-place]]
|link5 = [[Hostile Architecture]]
|link6 = [[Hostile Web Architecture]]
|link7 = [[Airspace]]
|link8 = [[Cruel Optimism]]
|link9 = [[Transparency]]
|link10 = [[Visual rest]]
|link11 = [[Situation]]
|link12 = [[Heterotopia]]
|link13 = [[Re/mediation]]
|link14 = [[Hypermediation]]

}}

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="vertical-align:bottom;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | * [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" |

|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | [[File:8.png|350px|options|caption]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | * [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index2/]
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | link

A Hostility Index

2020-07-07T22:02:58Z

Sophia:

{{Infobox
|title = A Hostility Index
|artist = Benjamin De Boer & Sophia Oppel
|year = 2020
|text = Glossary
|link1 = [[term]]
|link2 = [[term]]
|link2 = [[term]]
}}

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="vertical-align:bottom;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | * [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" |

|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | [[File:8.png|350px|options|caption]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | * [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index2/]
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | link

A Hostility Index

2020-07-07T00:51:21Z

Sophia:

{{Infobox
|title = A Hostility Index
|artist = Benjamin De Boer & Sophia Oppel
|year = 2020
|text = Glossary
|link1 = [[Link to Essay or Other Writing]]
|link2 = [[More Writing]]
|link2 = [[More Writing Again]]
}}

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="vertical-align:bottom;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | * [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" |

|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | [[File:8.png|350px|options|caption]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | * [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index2/]
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | link

A Hostility Index

2020-07-06T18:13:25Z

Sophia:

A Hostility Index

2020-07-06T18:12:53Z

Sophia:

A Hostility Index

2020-07-06T18:08:51Z

Sophia:

A Hostility Index

2020-07-06T18:04:40Z

Sophia:

A Hostility Index

2020-07-06T18:04:05Z

Sophia:

A Hostility Index

2020-07-06T18:02:53Z

Sophia:

{{Infobox
|title = A Hostility Index
|artist = Benjamin De Boer & Sophia Oppel
|year = 2020
|text = Glossary
|link1 = [[Link to Essay or Other Writing]]
|link2 = [[More Writing]]
|link2 = [[More Writing Again]]
}}

* [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/]

* [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/]

* [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/]

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" | Its from my work, which is funny because I just received mail from them yesterday.

|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | I go back to my room and open the envelope and pull out a cheque folded in half.
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | [[File:8.png|450px|options|caption]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" | I unfold the cheque and nestled inside the fold is another piece of paper. I unfold it, noticing how it was folded eight times. It is another cheque!
|- style="vertical-align:bottom;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | The first cheque is for $109.40 and the other cheque is for $56.00. I look past the cheques in my hands and there on my table was the one I got yesterday, for $237.57.

| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | When I woke up I tried to calculate how many hours I would have to work to make the dream money
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" | Six hours and .8 for the first and three and a half for the second one. I check the cheque on my desk and sure enough, the number matched
|}

A Hostility Index

2020-07-06T18:01:49Z

Sophia:

{{Infobox
|title = A Hostility Index
|artist = Benjamin De Boer & Sophia Oppel
|year = 2020
|text = Glossary
|link1 = [[Link to Essay or Other Writing]]
|link2 = [[More Writing]]
|link2 = [[More Writing Again]]
}}

* [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/]

* [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/]

* [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/]

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | I open my apartment door and walk down the stairs to check the mail.
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | I find an envelope for me behind some flyers and coupons for Domino's Pizza.
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" | Its from my work, which is funny because I just received mail from them yesterday.

|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | I go back to my room and open the envelope and pull out a cheque folded in half.
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | [[File:8.png|450px|options|caption]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" | I unfold the cheque and nestled inside the fold is another piece of paper. I unfold it, noticing how it was folded eight times. It is another cheque!
|- style="vertical-align:bottom;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | The first cheque is for $109.40 and the other cheque is for $56.00. I look past the cheques in my hands and there on my table was the one I got yesterday, for $237.57.

| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | When I woke up I tried to calculate how many hours I would have to work to make the dream money
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" | Six hours and .8 for the first and three and a half for the second one. I check the cheque on my desk and sure enough, the number matched
|}

File:8.png

2020-07-06T18:01:16Z

Sophia:

A Hostility Index

2020-07-05T22:28:07Z

Sophia: /* follow the link and scroll */

{{Infobox
|title = A Hostility Index
|artist = Benjamin De Boer & Sophia Oppel
|year = 2020
|text = Glossary
|link1 = [[Link to Essay or Other Writing]]
|link2 = [[More Writing]]
|link2 = [[More Writing Again]]
}}

* [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/]

* [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/]

* [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/]

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | I open my apartment door and walk down the stairs to check the mail.
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | I find an envelope for me behind some flyers and coupons for Domino's Pizza.
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" | Its from my work, which is funny because I just received mail from them yesterday.

|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | I go back to my room and open the envelope and pull out a cheque folded in half.
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | [[File:Mirror_plane_normal.png|450px|options|caption]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" | I unfold the cheque and nestled inside the fold is another piece of paper. I unfold it, noticing how it was folded eight times. It is another cheque!
|- style="vertical-align:bottom;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | The first cheque is for $109.40 and the other cheque is for $56.00. I look past the cheques in my hands and there on my table was the one I got yesterday, for $237.57.

| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | When I woke up I tried to calculate how many hours I would have to work to make the dream money
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" | Six hours and .8 for the first and three and a half for the second one. I check the cheque on my desk and sure enough, the number matched
|}

Sophia Oppel

2020-07-04T22:57:22Z

Sophia:

Sophia Oppel is an artist and researcher born and based in Tkaronto/Toronto. Oppel’s work addresses the insidious positions of embedded power in networked infrastructures, and its manifestations in embodied experience. Oppel received her BFA from OCAD University and is currently a co-director of Bunker 2 Gallery, and a Master of Visual Studies candidate at the University of Toronto. Oppel has exhibited in Ontario and internationally, including shows at Crutch Contemporary Art Center, Toronto, InterAccess, Toronto, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, and Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm. 
http://sophiaoppel.com/

Sophia Oppel

2020-07-04T22:53:32Z

Sophia:

A Hostility Index

2020-07-04T22:13:12Z

Sophia:

{{Infobox
|title = A Hostility Index
|artist = Benjamin De Boer & Sophia Oppel
|year = 2020
|text = Glossary
|link1 = [[Link to Essay or Other Writing]]
|link2 = [[More Writing]]
|link2 = [[More Writing Again]]
}}

== follow the link and scroll ==

* [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/]

* [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/]

* [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/]

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | I open my apartment door and walk down the stairs to check the mail.
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | I find an envelope for me behind some flyers and coupons for Domino's Pizza.
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" | Its from my work, which is funny because I just received mail from them yesterday.

|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | I go back to my room and open the envelope and pull out a cheque folded in half.
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | [[File:Mirror_plane_normal.png|450px|options|caption]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" | I unfold the cheque and nestled inside the fold is another piece of paper. I unfold it, noticing how it was folded eight times. It is another cheque!
|- style="vertical-align:bottom;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | The first cheque is for $109.40 and the other cheque is for $56.00. I look past the cheques in my hands and there on my table was the one I got yesterday, for $237.57.

| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | When I woke up I tried to calculate how many hours I would have to work to make the dream money
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" | Six hours and .8 for the first and three and a half for the second one. I check the cheque on my desk and sure enough, the number matched
|}

A Hostility Index

2020-07-04T22:08:57Z

Sophia:

{{Infobox
|title = Title
|artist = Artist Name
|year = 2020
|text = more info/material/etc
|link1 = [[Link to Essay or Other Writing]]
|link2 = [[More Writing]]
|link2 = [[More Writing Again]]
}}

== follow the link and scroll ==

* [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/]

* [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/]

* [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/]

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | I open my apartment door and walk down the stairs to check the mail.
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | I find an envelope for me behind some flyers and coupons for Domino's Pizza.
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" | Its from my work, which is funny because I just received mail from them yesterday.

|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | I go back to my room and open the envelope and pull out a cheque folded in half.
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | [[File:Mirror_plane_normal.png|450px|options|caption]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" | I unfold the cheque and nestled inside the fold is another piece of paper. I unfold it, noticing how it was folded eight times. It is another cheque!
|- style="vertical-align:bottom;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | The first cheque is for $109.40 and the other cheque is for $56.00. I look past the cheques in my hands and there on my table was the one I got yesterday, for $237.57.

| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | When I woke up I tried to calculate how many hours I would have to work to make the dream money
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" | Six hours and .8 for the first and three and a half for the second one. I check the cheque on my desk and sure enough, the number matched
|}

A Hostility Index

2020-07-04T21:56:43Z

Sophia:

{{Infobox
|title = Title
|artist = Artist Name
|year = 2020
|text = more info/material/etc
|link1 = [[Link to Essay or Other Writing]]
|link2 = [[More Writing]]
|link2 = [[More Writing Again]]
}}

== follow the link and scroll ==

* [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/]

* [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/]

* [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/]

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | I open my apartment door and walk down the stairs to check the mail.
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | I find an envelope for me behind some flyers and coupons for Domino's Pizza.
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" | Its from my work, which is funny because I just received mail from them yesterday.

|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | I go back to my room and open the envelope and pull out a cheque folded in half.
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | [[File:Mirror_plane_normal.png|600px|options|caption]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" | I unfold the cheque and nestled inside the fold is another piece of paper. I unfold it, noticing how it was folded eight times. It is another cheque!
|- style="vertical-align:bottom;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | The first cheque is for $109.40 and the other cheque is for $56.00. I look past the cheques in my hands and there on my table was the one I got yesterday, for $237.57.

| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | When I woke up I tried to calculate how many hours I would have to work to make the dream money
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" | Six hours and .8 for the first and three and a half for the second one. I check the cheque on my desk and sure enough, the number matched
|}

A Hostility Index

2020-07-04T21:55:03Z

Sophia:

{{Infobox
|title = Title
|artist = Artist Name
|year = 2020
|text = more info/material/etc
|link1 = [[Link to Essay or Other Writing]]
|link2 = [[More Writing]]
|link2 = [[More Writing Again]]
}}

== follow the link and scroll ==

* [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/]

* [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/]

* [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/]

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | I open my apartment door and walk down the stairs to check the mail.
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | I find an envelope for me behind some flyers and coupons for Domino's Pizza.
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" | Its from my work, which is funny because I just received mail from them yesterday.

|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | I go back to my room and open the envelope and pull out a cheque folded in half.
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | [[File:Mirror_plane_normal.png|options|caption]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" | I unfold the cheque and nestled inside the fold is another piece of paper. I unfold it, noticing how it was folded eight times. It is another cheque!
|- style="vertical-align:bottom;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | The first cheque is for $109.40 and the other cheque is for $56.00. I look past the cheques in my hands and there on my table was the one I got yesterday, for $237.57.

| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | When I woke up I tried to calculate how many hours I would have to work to make the dream money
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" | Six hours and .8 for the first and three and a half for the second one. I check the cheque on my desk and sure enough, the number matched
|}

File:Mirror plane normal.png

2020-07-04T21:52:57Z

Sophia:

File:4.png

2020-07-04T21:50:29Z

Sophia: Sophia uploaded a new version of File:4.png

== Summary ==
one way mirror diagram

File:4.png

2020-07-04T21:48:14Z

Sophia: Sophia uploaded a new version of File:4.png

== Summary ==
one way mirror diagram

A Hostility Index

2020-05-07T19:46:29Z

Sophia: Created page with "== follow the link and scroll == * [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/] * [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/] * [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/] {| c..."

== follow the link and scroll ==

* [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/]

* [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/]

* [http://sophiaoppel.com/hostility_index/]

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | I open my apartment door and walk down the stairs to check the mail.
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | I find an envelope for me behind some flyers and coupons for Domino's Pizza.
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" | Its from my work, which is funny because I just received mail from them yesterday.

|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | I go back to my room and open the envelope and pull out a cheque folded in half.
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | [[File:4.png|options|caption]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" | I unfold the cheque and nestled inside the fold is another piece of paper. I unfold it, noticing how it was folded eight times. It is another cheque!
|- style="vertical-align:bottom;"
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | The first cheque is for $109.40 and the other cheque is for $56.00. I look past the cheques in my hands and there on my table was the one I got yesterday, for $237.57.

| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | When I woke up I tried to calculate how many hours I would have to work to make the dream money
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" | Six hours and .8 for the first and three and a half for the second one. I check the cheque on my desk and sure enough, the number matched
|}

View Recent Changes

2020-05-07T19:46:15Z

Sophia: /* test page */

==Introduction==
What does it mean to live together in digitally mediated isolation? Recent Changes considers the potential of the internet as a public space for community gathering, while widening our understanding of ‘community’. As communicative operations move online, the entrenchment of disciplinary capitalist politics within these spaces becomes increasingly apparent. This project considers the ways we can circumvent the individualizing, commodifying qualities of our online spaces to explore otherwise positive forms of relationality, intimacy and solidarity.

Recent Changes is an online project consisting of projects by artists [[Oscar Alfonso]], [[Simon Fuh]], [[Matt Nish-Lapidus]], [[Sophia Oppel]] and [[Hearth]] - a new artist-run space in Toronto, co-directed by [[Benjamin de Boer]], [[Rowan Lynch]], [[Sameen Mahboubi]] and [[Philip Leonard Ocampo]].

----
===[[Goose Cakes]]===
by [[Rowan Lynch]] & [[Simon Fuh]]

[[File:Cupcake_Hand.jpg|200px|caption]]

Simon Fuh, in collaboration with Rowan Lynch, will deploy the digital as a site to explore the flora and fauna he is quarantined in proximity to in order to consider relationships with the non-human. This project will consist of a “goose cam” livestream broadcasting a section of Wascana Lake in Regina, a man made lake created by intentional flooding. The area hosts many Canadian geese, as well as an avian conservation centre.

----

===[[hostility index]]===
by [[Benjamin de Boer]] & [[Sophia Oppel]]

Sophia Oppel, in collaboration with Benjamin de Boer, will create a navigable webspace that examines online environments as sites of hostile architecture, manufacturing desire in the hyper-capitalization of online interfaces. hostility index seeks to create the equivalent of a digital public space in which to loiter and consider the politics of the background, and the supposedly transparent or invisible.
----

===[[DOB|DOB / Fecha de Nacimiento]]===
by [[Sameen Mahboubi]] & [[Oscar Alfonso]]

DOB / Fecha de Nacimiento involves reading to a small cluster of baby Avocado trees, using them as a proxy through which to inform Alfonso's relationship to parents, friends, and colleagues during a pandemic, particularly by drawing on the traditions of immigrant and diasporic relationships and oral history narratives (being told about who you are, about family, and about “somewhere” else).

Oscar Alfonso and Sameen Mahboubi will document the unfolding of Oscar’s relationship with his avocado trees by recording reading sessions with the plants.
Teaching the trees about the world and sharing stories from their own networks and relationships, organized into three conceptual streams. The wiki format allows for each recorded ‘story session’ to live independently in a communally built inter-connected network, while teaching them about themselves/providing a sense of identity.

----

===[[I'm Feeling Lucky]]===
by [[Philip Leonard Ocampo]] & [[Matt Nish-Lapidus]]

Using a image recognition relations data as the basis for automated found image assemblage, I'm Feeling Lucky creates unique real-time image sets for each of the 15000+ in the dataset. The set of terms is laid out on a single page as links, flowing to fill the screen. Each link leads to a collage/assemblage of images found through using the phrase as an image search, and arranging the results.

Matt Nish-Lapidus, in collaboration with Philip Leonard Ocampo, addresses the human labour behind machine learning, specifically aggregated data-sets that quantify and itemize the different types of relationships between objects/subjects in images online. I'm Feeling Lucky considers (and unravels) the linguistic poetics of code, and address the implications of addressing the human on an in-human scale.

View Recent Changes

2020-05-07T19:44:49Z

Sophia: /* hostility index */

==Introduction==
What does it mean to live together in digitally mediated isolation? Recent Changes considers the potential of the internet as a public space for community gathering, while widening our understanding of ‘community’. As communicative operations move online, the entrenchment of disciplinary capitalist politics within these spaces becomes increasingly apparent. This project considers the ways we can circumvent the individualizing, commodifying qualities of our online spaces to explore otherwise positive forms of relationality, intimacy and solidarity.

Recent Changes is an online project consisting of projects by artists [[Oscar Alfonso]], [[Simon Fuh]], [[Matt Nish-Lapidus]], [[Sophia Oppel]] and [[Hearth]] - a new artist-run space in Toronto, co-directed by [[Benjamin de Boer]], [[Rowan Lynch]], [[Sameen Mahboubi]] and [[Philip Leonard Ocampo]].

----
===[[Goose Cakes]]===
by [[Rowan Lynch]] & [[Simon Fuh]]

[[File:Cupcake_Hand.jpg|200px|caption]]

Simon Fuh, in collaboration with Rowan Lynch, will deploy the digital as a site to explore the flora and fauna he is quarantined in proximity to in order to consider relationships with the non-human. This project will consist of a “goose cam” livestream broadcasting a section of Wascana Lake in Regina, a man made lake created by intentional flooding. The area hosts many Canadian geese, as well as an avian conservation centre.

----

===[[test page]]===
by [[Benjamin de Boer]] & [[Sophia Oppel]]

Sophia Oppel, in collaboration with Benjamin de Boer, will create a navigable webspace that examines online environments as sites of hostile architecture, manufacturing desire in the hyper-capitalization of online interfaces. hostility index seeks to create the equivalent of a digital public space in which to loiter and consider the politics of the background, and the supposedly transparent or invisible.
----

===[[DOB|DOB / Fecha de Nacimiento]]===
by [[Sameen Mahboubi]] & [[Oscar Alfonso]]

DOB / Fecha de Nacimiento involves reading to a small cluster of baby Avocado trees, using them as a proxy through which to inform Alfonso's relationship to parents, friends, and colleagues during a pandemic, particularly by drawing on the traditions of immigrant and diasporic relationships and oral history narratives (being told about who you are, about family, and about “somewhere” else).

Oscar Alfonso and Sameen Mahboubi will document the unfolding of Oscar’s relationship with his avocado trees by recording reading sessions with the plants.
Teaching the trees about the world and sharing stories from their own networks and relationships, organized into three conceptual streams. The wiki format allows for each recorded ‘story session’ to live independently in a communally built inter-connected network, while teaching them about themselves/providing a sense of identity.

----

===[[I'm Feeling Lucky]]===
by [[Philip Leonard Ocampo]] & [[Matt Nish-Lapidus]]

Using a image recognition relations data as the basis for automated found image assemblage, I'm Feeling Lucky creates unique real-time image sets for each of the 15000+ in the dataset. The set of terms is laid out on a single page as links, flowing to fill the screen. Each link leads to a collage/assemblage of images found through using the phrase as an image search, and arranging the results.

Matt Nish-Lapidus, in collaboration with Philip Leonard Ocampo, addresses the human labour behind machine learning, specifically aggregated data-sets that quantify and itemize the different types of relationships between objects/subjects in images online. I'm Feeling Lucky considers (and unravels) the linguistic poetics of code, and address the implications of addressing the human on an in-human scale.