Hi. Hi, good morning. And welcome to AMRO Day 3. So we're going to start today with three artists' presentations about their artistic practice on computing, but also production and everything in between. So I would like to invite Inari Rishiki to talk to us about making and making guidelines for unmade objects. Hey, good morning. I'm honoured to be here again after, well, six years since I was here last time. Well, this is, I'm going to talk about this, my PhD project. Well, it's in engineering. I think it's just easy to talk about it with the slides. So even those tech giants started to make those claims. Basically means, you know, it's this logo. and this is the first like carbon neutral Apple product Apple watch series 9 which was announced last September and of course there's no real way to make any sort of electronic device carbon neutral, so they use offsets. But then the EU is now, luckily, banning this kind of dubious claims for green advertising. And so probably next, this year, when they announce their products, there'll be no carbon neutral claims anymore. when they announce their products, there'll be no carbon neutral claims anymore. And when it comes to green advertising, I found this paper from 1995, which is quite an old paper from an American researcher. And in this paper, he talks about the sort of positioning in general when it comes to climate. And so what most people would fall into is something called environmentalism, which is somewhere between, it's basically primarily anthropocentric, which means human-centric, and also they don't want radical changes. So basically those people who say, well, if we introduce more electric cars, at the end of the day, then we may actually get out of this situation. But now what I'm focusing on is the opposite, well, kind of in the opposite spectrum, and it's called ecologism, basically the nature-centered, and it's more looking for more radical change. And in this paper, he describes all the different standpoints, and especially what I'm gonna read from the bottom part, like advertising, advocating green consumption is advocating more consumption, more technology, and more economic growth, all considered anathema to the ecological position. To ecologists, the only green advertising would be promoting their social political agenda, and the only green product is the one that is not produced. So I was especially looking for this claim highlighted in the yellow part and so I was very happy when I found this claim. So pretty much that's going to be all about my project. So my question comes now, is it possible to make a product that is not produced? So my answer is yes. Thank you. So the key concept here is that the country of origin, it sounds complex, but it's basically everywhere. So it's on your clothing tag, and it's basically made in somewhere. It's a book. It's a kind of a book. Well describes the current situation. And there's more like a formal version of this country of origin, which is called Protected Geographical Indication. It's a European Union labeling thing, especially for food and drink products. It looks something like this. Basically, whenever you wanna carry a name of a place in association with the product, then you have to sort of fulfill this criteria. It looks like something like this. And in the case of Austria, I sort of just randomly picked this list of extreme local produce. I have quite no idea what they really taste like or anything. But you find this on it, this thing. It's on it, right? And if you look more closely, then I have noticed this description about this wine that I got particularly interested in. It says basically at least 85% of the product, well, 85% of the grapes used in the wine has to come from the region in order to claim that something is made there. And then if you talk about, well, it's a hypothetical wine. If there's a wine made in Linz, and if 85% of the grapes were made in Linz, and then the rest of it is, for example, made in Sao Paulo, just so maybe, they don't even produce any grapes, even probably not. made in Linz. And then the rest of it is, for example, made in Sao Paulo. They don't even produce any grapes, even probably not. But you can still call it made in Linz. And if you kind of jump in the logic, but if you try to rephrase it, that if 85% is made in nowhere and if 15% is made in somewhere, then you can technically call it made in summer, then you can technically call it made in nowhere. They can make it into a technically non-produced product. And the thing itself, then the absence of production itself does not automatically qualify for an unmade certificate, which I'm kind of trying to promote with my PhD. So there needs to be at least two transformational moments of creative avoidance in the production supply chain. So that's like a key. So for instance, well, I'm going to talk about this at the Dutch supermarket, Jumbo. It's a formerly existed scheme called,, which means fresh is also very fresh. So basically, this is, for me, the only truly ethical way to source meat in an urban environment. So first, they have this, well, the chain and then, but basically they have this scheme. In their scheme, any products with the same day expiry date, you can just basically claim it for free. So just suddenly the supermarket space becomes, in a sense, a party becomes like a commons, and then basically anyone can pick up just anything. But then the reason why I used this scheme was what I call meat policing. So basically I didn't want to see any meat being thrown out. So that was the main motive to do this, to use this scheme for me. But in addition, I only did it 30 minutes before the closing time. So to make sure that I don't sort of take away any opportunities for the people who have less money than me. So that's sort of to make it more ethically kind of the, yeah. So this might remind one of this Japanese saying,. Originally from Japan. When the wind blows, the barrel maker becomes profitable. It's basically sort of a series of events, like seemingly unrelated, actually sort of, this only can sort of make up some sort of a supply chain. So if the wind blows, it blows up the sand, and the sand gets into the people's eyes, and then people back in the day became blind from this sound. And if you're blind back in the day, the only thing you could do was to play this instrument. And to make these instruments, they used back in the day cat skins. And as a result, there were less cats on the street, and then as a result, there were more rats on the street. And then as a result, there were more rats on the street, and they ate more barrels. So that's sort of how the more barrel was needed when the wind blew. And so basically, the idea of art making is trying to cause this to happen with intention. So that's the kind of rough description of what it is. And so this is a bit more advanced handmade object. It's my own energy drink actually. So I make energy drink from waste materials, which is, well, invasive plant. But I kind of heard about this rumor about this clean invasive plant. But I kind of heard about this rumor about this clean invasive plant. So invasive species is kind of culturally polluted in a sense, but then the, well in the Netherlands, since the water comes from underground, there's some sort of patches of sort of lands that are sort of not contaminated by chemicals. So if you also, you can find this plant in those fields, then you can effectively get clean invasive plants to start with. And if something is invasive, then it's also clean at the same time. You basically, this thing is qualified as the organically found produce. It's just what quality was, it's exactly the same. But since it's invasive, you're not allowed to farm it. So you cannot farm it. So you have to get it. So that's why you don't need to make effort for it. And I have a friend who works for this water company. So on a weekly basis, he goes to this field And I have a friend who works for this water company. So he, on a weekly basis, he goes to this field in the season so I just kind of jump into his car to get to this field near the Belgian border. And then I sort of store the ingredients in a sort of a farm fridge. So just in Rotterdam you find many things on the street. So just one of the things I claim. So this is what the label looks like and and uh and this is you know sort of this is a sort of a i was especially like intrigued by this uh the uh this object well it's like a it's fsc certified uh invasive plant so what happened was that this nature conservation organization in the Netherlands called the Stansbospeer, that everything that they have in their field is automatically FSC certified. It doesn't matter whether it's invasive or not much, it's just automatically everything is FSC certified. So it means that you get like sort of sustainable and invasive plants. So if you're trying to put this unmade certificate in the eco-label value spectrum that I made, and it's basically, in my understanding, these labels, the less footprint, the more value, basically. So since it's technically not made, so it has the lowest footprint, and so therefore this has the highest value. So that's sort of my theory. So if you have an energy drink, for example, and normally people want to pay probably about 450 or something like that. But once you place this label, then the price goes up to like a 20 euro per bottle. So it's like a kind of a suddenly starts to become like an art object. And actually, like last year, I sold like three crates of this drink. So just people are actually buying actually buying in batches. And where is this research situated? So there's this very emerging world of the unmaking without brackets. And this is the paper from 2021 by researchers from California. And it's about, well, okay, so back in the days, when you make something in 3D printing, the sole purpose of it was to make a perfect object that would last forever, and now that's changing, and apparently people are kind of already thinking way ahead of what would happen to those objects when they make something. So they try to basically sort of embed specific modes of sort of the decay actually in the process of the production when they even, yeah, and they already first make it. And they even use relevant materials to manifest those, the modes of decay as well. So that's, yeah, so that's one of the researches, but they're more kind of, the term is not defined perfectly yet, and so it just kind of still stays open. And how I came up with the term is that the, I basically read this Chinese, the science fiction novel called Embassy Town, written by China Bilbo, a British author. And basically, sort of at the end of it, I just kind of thought to myself that the, yeah, what we need is a kind of slight change rather than like a radical sort of shift in something. So I was kind of trying to think of myself, so how would I name it? So something like, I'm making or something like that. Then when I searched up on this ACM digital library, which is a repository for the digital related scientific researchers, and then I noticed that the number of papers shooting up like crazy since 2021. So it's now really kind of, I see that it's kind of becoming a news sort of subcategory in a sense. And then the, but now the, this one of the biggest conferences in this field called CHR, you read it like that. And it's happening in Hawaii. And then they're now also doing this workshop about unmaking, they call it sustainable unmaking or something. And yeah, this is the tools that I used to make this presentation. And yeah, well, I'm also running a workshop on how to make a hypothetical unmade object tomorrow. So just if you're interested, please check out the program. Yeah, thanks so much. you