Transcript of Episode 2 of TCI Transmissions: - - - Real Snail: Hello, welcome to the second episode of TCI Transmissions, an experimental soundscape of things that sound nice and might help you make other things. This episode is part of our Rhizome Seven on Seven series. We asked Rhizome series participants one question: How would you describe your website? Real Snail: Francis Tseng is a designer and software engineer working in simulation, machine learning, and games. Francis Tseng: My website is broken down into four sections. Real Snail: Petra Cortright is a creator and distributor of digital files, whether they be videos, GIFs, or JPEGs, using consumer or corporate software and platforms. Petra Cortright: My website is, like, rotting. It's just, like, in absolute decay. Real Snail: Sean Raspet is an artist and cofounder of non food, a company that makes algae-based meal bars. Sean Raspet: So let's see, I have two websites I guess. Real Snail: Yalda Mousavinia is a designer and co-founder of Space Cooperative, an organization that's currently working to create a decentralized space agency. Yalda Mousavinia: Wait, okay, I just wanna get this straight, so I'm just describing the website, and what I like or don't like about it? Okay. Real Snail: Tabita Rezaire is a French video artist, health-tech-politics practitioner and Kemetic slash Kundalini Yoga teacher based in Johannesburg. Tabita Rezaire: Okay. www.tabitarezaire.com. So you see ... Okay, I don’t know how to describe this. Okay. I'll try again. Real Snail: Some tried to describe in detail the visuals of their site, or the site they dream of having. Yalda: ideally, what it would look like is it's like the solar system, the planets are moving around, and then you can start to zoom in on the planet, you can choose Earth, and then, from there, different projects will branch out. Tabita: you’re in a background of Google sea and on this background you have two pyramids… you have labias ejaculating and when you click on this it's all my works. Petra: The HTML is just ... st's really wacko. Francis: The top section is kind of is like sort of a breakdown of who I am and what I do, what I'm interested in, what I've done in the past, and what I'm working on now. It's just meant to kind of give a really quick overview of I guess like where I am currently. Then I think at the very bottom is a section that's called Stalled and Unfinished projects, I think. Real Snail: Everyone agreed that websites are never perfect and some had ideas about how their websites could be improved Yalda: There are bugs, or there are a lack of features, like if you create a post in our forum, you won't really get any kind of notification that anyone replied, so few people have complained about that Petra: I haven't updated it for years and I just ... I never liked updating to begin with. Now it's just in like this permanent state of decay. Yalda: I'm like, "We need to improve this, that, or that." But, there's only so much you can do. Real Snail: Despite flaws in their website, some mentioned aspects they were proud of Petra: I think my style would be to just like make a new thing all together because I kind of like it just frozen in time. It's fun. I'll pay for the hosting or whatever, I'll keep it going Yalda: I do still love the way the homepage is because you can scroll down, and you can easily see the different ideas that we have come up with, or the architecture of how we have laid things out into programs, and projects, and using imagery to convey the different project ideas. Real Snail: Some described how their site shows their identity or their product’s identity Tabita: My website is a representation of my own trinity which is technology, spirituality, and erotic and how you can dwell into those powers and the science to connect, connect to yourself to make with others, connect with the universe, connect with the earth. That's my website. Sean: So what I've been spending more time on is nonfood, which is a company I co-founded with three other people we really see it as a future food for that reason. so were trying to make those future products now. And the website I think reflects a lot of that, of that ethos. Yalda: we wanted to make it more open so you can see everything that's going on, and then start to filter it out in the future. So, it's more ... It allows you to ... To find out of you really are passionate about the Moon, or Mars, or Earth, and for people to learn how we can actually connect the different technologies together. Real Snail: The transmission is now over. To learn more about the artists and the websites described visit the creative independent dot com. also keep an eye out for each of their TCI interviews coming out this week. signing off.