{"id":41982,"date":"2025-02-04T12:02:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T11:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/?p=41982"},"modified":"2025-08-04T14:49:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T12:49:02","slug":"sallys-helpers-a-distributed-lament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/sallys-helpers-a-distributed-lament\/","title":{"rendered":"Sally\u2019s Helpers \u2013 a distributed lament"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"project":[451,862,867],"project_type":[817,725,731,743],"class_list":["post-41982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","project-web-residencies","project-calls-2024","project-tools-for-citation","project_type-web-residencies","project_type-formats","project_type-web-residents","project_type-themes"],"acf":{"bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","custom_color_css_variable":"","content_type":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<em>Sally\u2019s Helpers \u2013 a distributed lament<\/em> by Anisha Baid will be a web-based text editor and a tool for rethinking citation as an embodied, multisensory practice. Rooted in Baid\u2019s performance <em>Sally\u2019s Helper,<\/em> this project interrogates the feminized history of computer labor, drawing on the story of Sally, an office secretary \u00bbmodel user\u00ab at Xerox PARC in the 1970s. By archiving moments of innovation in typing \u2013 from early typewriter prototypes like the Francis Typewriter (modeled on a child\u2019s piano) to typing aids like Mavis Beacon \u2013 this platform positions citations as live annotations in the history of human-machine interaction.\r\n\r\nThe software will act as a collaborative compositional space, transforming keystrokes into piano notes and creating a sonic score alongside textual output. Appearing as a web-based text editor, the program will produce a piano note for every keystroke the user enters, followed by the text output. Visual and design elements will focus the writer\u2019s attention on rhythms, pace, and pauses within the writing process. This tool invites users to cite through gesture, sound, and sensation, building a living archive that questions what it means to cite histories, bodies, and machines while foregrounding the interplay between text and labor. During the web residency, Baid wants to design this web program and create a framework for interaction to produce a distributed lament, a score for figures like Sally, lost in the footnotes and annotations of interface history.\r\n\r\nThe web project will be presented as a web-based text editor that produces a piano note for each keystroke alongside text output. Rooted in a footnote about Sally, the first model user, this platform rethinks computer work as an embodied practice."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_cta","bgcolor":"has-bg-blue","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"cta_link":{"type":"url","value":"https:\/\/webresidencies.akademie-solitude.de\/sallys-helpers","title":"","target":false},"cta_txt":"Sally\u2019s Helpers \u2013 a distributed lament","cta_button_txt":"VISIT WEB RESIDENCY PROJECT"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<p class=\"is-size-6\">Copyrights: The text and image on this page \u2013 unless no other rights holders are expressly named \u2013 are published under the terms of the \u00bbCreative Commons Attribution\u00ab \u2013 License CC BY-NC-ND Version 4.0: <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/\">creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/<\/a><\/p>"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41982"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42729,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41982\/revisions\/42729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project?post=41982"},{"taxonomy":"project_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_type?post=41982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}