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leaving Bremen after one of the most energizing workshops ever. so good to be back on a roll. inspiring conversations and interactions. crowded train, standing at the exit door for an hour, ipodding,...
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the script for a performance I did title: drawing technologies into a sustainable human practice: open source living 1.0 — Presence if you cannot hear, you must come close - there is a gap, an abyss,...
View Articlenetart 2004 – Ping Melody
The netart 2004 exhibition is opening tomorrow, well, today, as Tokyo is ahead of Arizona. Here’s the blurb posted as my curatorial commentary: where is netart? When invited to join this year’s netart...
View ArticleMambo Mail
looking deeply into the past, the query from Mambo Mail, Eskifjördur, Iceland surfaces with a vengeance. and with no apparent meaning. What is Mail-Art? Where is it from? What is it for? Where is it...
View Articleplaces, sounds, words
make a blitz into downtown to meet Sirpa and check out her exhibition in the Mission. we met nearby at her friend Alice’s home and drive down to the gallery, the Mission 17 Gallery. parking is a...
View ArticleThe GenerativeCollager
As a test-review for furtherfield neoscenes reviews a random online project by Sandra Crisp: Hmmmm. Recalling a review I did some years back for kunstnet in Oslo, it seemed interesting to pretend for a...
View Articlevholoce
another Furtherfield review: All phenomenon have the potential of being converted into infinite data-streams which become an archive of knowledge through which it is possible to organize social...
View ArticleIn The Presence of Networks: A Meditation on the Architectures of Participation
Architectures of Participation is a compelling phrase that attempts literally to frame a deeper fundamental of human existence. This text is a preliminary meditation on that existence and aspects of...
View ArticleThe Wild Surmise
Sue Thomas poses some interesting questions in her search for possible synergies between the cyber and the natural. it’s an open project — add you own answers on her site! Please describe where you...
View Articlenetart 2007 – Feraltrade
I was a co-curator again this year for the annual netarts.org 2007 awards. it was a tough year for finding fresh takes under our call for works: Embodied Praxis – Real Life 2.0 For those of us who use...
View ArticleGPS
so, back to the USA. for a short while. media hyped for Christmas selling. a section of the NY Times titled Circuits, about electronic gadgets as holiday gifts, is aimed to keep the techno-social...
View ArticleArt and Teaching Philosophy
ART Art, at its social core, is the trace of an engaged pathway. A pathway that conducts the circulation and exchange of creative human energies as they are attenuated by a vast range of mediative...
View ArticleThe Regime of Amplification: A Primer
I decide to release The Regime of Amplification: A Primer in advance of any hard-copy publication, with another chapter nearing its final stages, and several intermediate chapters forming more...
View Articlenetart 2008 – Conch
I spaced-out posting the netarts 2008 selections last November. here’s my brief jury comments: This year’s netart award was very difficult to close in on. The absolute volume and traffic of data on the...
View Articlenetart 2009 – VisitorsStudio
The following quick essay was for the last and final edition of the annual netarts awards from the Machida Museum in Tokyo: Grand Prize for this year, the online platform VisitorsStudio, is not a...
View ArticleSydney Non-Objective Gallery exhibition
[ed: An excerpt of drift was recently included in the Sydney Non Objective Catalogue and CD 2005-2010, SNO Gallery, Sydney, AU, 2010 (gallery catalog and audio CD) ISBN 978-0-9805877-3-9, Mar 2010]...
View ArticleThe End of the Road and The Onset of Dreaming
ed: This short note is the epilogue for the Migrating:Art:Academies: book. Because of the heavy-duty editorial tasks, I otherwise didn’t have time to write something more comprehensive on the ideas...
View ArticleThe Hybrid: This and/or That
1 The Hybrid: This and/or That 2 Abstract: This text is a meditation on the concept of hybridity and hybridization as a construct of our techno-social system that attempts to safely frame (chaotic...
View ArticleWindow Weather
[ed: this is extracted from my dissertation, so some things are unexplained. However, I didn't want to make large modifications, it's more a teaser on a novel definition of 'virtuality' and the...
View Articletech-no-madic meditations
On the road again / Going places I’ve never been / Seein’ things I may never see again / I can’t wait to get on the road again… — Willie Nelson This unfinished sketch of text, expelled in November...
View ArticleCLUI residency — Energy of Situation
Some final words on the residency period: Energy of Situation Rather than producing new material configurations of the energized world as a tool for individual continuance and relevance to the wider...
View ArticleSurfing the Gray Line
A sonopoetic exploration of space, sound and radio by Udo Noll The fiery aether, which has no weight, formed the vault of heaven, flashing upwards to take its place in the highest sphere. The air, next...
View ArticleChristmas of Old: Linn, Missouri
[Ed.: I hope you will enjoy this story written by my great-grandfather George's brother, Ebenezer Hopkins. Uncle Ebs was a Methodist circuit riding minister, both in Missouri and Washington State....
View ArticleThe (Tantric) Science of Sound
by Rooji Saluja In tantra, there exists an entire science that makes use of sound energy in spiritual practice. Mantras are sonic vehicles that encapsulate mystical energy and direct it towards...
View Articleimagination morte imaginez
One of my favorite Beckett pieces: No trace anywhere of life, you say, pah, no difficulty there, imagination not dead yet, yes, dead, good, imagination dead imagine. Islands, waters, azure, verdure,...
View Article1 + 1 = 3
This is the third acoustic.space report on selected actions and flows in the neoscenes occupation (nso) [1] network. Since the last report [2] in the acoustic.space Net.Audio issue two years ago, nso...
View ArticleOrdering the Dataspace
I sketch this essay while flying along in the dark at 250+ km/hour in one of the spacious new saloon cars on the last Friday evening ICE (InterCity Express) train between Hamburg and Berlin. For the...
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Nordic Nazi recollections
Hitler’s worldview included copious referencing of Nordic creation mythologies (thus his love of Wagner!), and as a consequence of this there developed strong pro-Nazi movements leading up to,...
View ArticleFor an Interactive Art – Ian Rawlinson
This essay, by London-based artist Ian Rawlinson, mentions a project I was involved with Clive Sall and Emma Davis called Outpost which appeared at the Venice Biennale (1995) and the Edinburgh Festival...
View ArticleParagraphs on Computer Art, Past and Present by Prof. (emer.) Dr. Frieder Nake
My old friend Frieder’s meditations on computer art are foundational as per his inimitable style of thought and expression. I am honored to present this text here on the tech-no-mad blog, though the...
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