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Written by Joost Rekveld on 2025-01-29 at 20:28

Just in ! There are quite a few smaller texts written by Whitehead that are not often quoted and I've certainly not (yet) read them all.

[#]AlfredNorthWhitehead #SystemsThatMatter

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Written by Joost Rekveld on 2025-01-28 at 13:41

A bold book I encountered two weeks ago, unaware that such ideas existed: dismissive of both the neodarwinian synthesis and epigenetics, since biological processes are fundamentally stochastic. How would this translate into evolutionary algorithms ?

[#]EvolutionaryComputing #83 #SystemsThatMatter

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Written by Joost Rekveld on 2025-01-27 at 14:59

Hybridization in progress ! I had not done this for a loooong time, but I really enjoy prototyping like this.

[#]HybridComputing #AnalogComputing #83 #SystemsThatMatter

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Written by Joost Rekveld on 2025-01-23 at 20:38

A recurrent problem of preparing a seminar is that there are so many things that would be interesting to read...

[#]OtherMachines #SchoolOfArtsGent #SystemsThatMatter

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Written by Joost Rekveld on 2025-01-22 at 20:33

Alexandre Grothendieck mentioned the "New Alchemists" as an inspiration when he abandoned his mathematical career for ethical reasons.

[#]AlexandreGrothendieck

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Written by Joost Rekveld on 2025-01-22 at 20:31

The 'New Alchemists' were a collective pioneering small scale, ecological systems, looking for sustainable alternatives to big tech and other forms of monoculture. Very uncomfortable to read 50 year old texts that discuss fossil fuel addiction.

[#]OtherMachines #NewAlchemists #SystemsThatMatter

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Written by Joost Rekveld on 2025-01-21 at 12:51

Preparing the upcoming "Other Machines" seminar at KASK in Ghent. An appropriate moment to revisit this one, from 2014. (There is also an English translation that was published in 2020).

[#]OtherMachines #LowTech #PhilippeBihouix #SystemsThatMatter

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Written by Joost Rekveld on 2025-01-20 at 14:06

This score was published around 1920, and corresponds very closely to this great recording from around the same time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffYFVTSq7bs

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Written by Joost Rekveld on 2025-01-20 at 14:04

Attempting to apply the techniques learned in Murat Aydemir's 'Tanbur Metodu' to the playing of this Gülizar Peşrev. The piece is commonly ascribed to Gazi Giray Han (1554-1607), composer and Tatar warlord, probably the only composer ever to lay siege to Moscow.

[#]gülizarmakamı

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Written by Joost Rekveld on 2025-01-17 at 11:36

I may be bringing (digital) gear to enable the performance of live visuals.

It would be awesome if the (entirely accidental) alphabetical order could be maintained, but that may be too much to ask. Suggestions very welcome via pm !

[#]mediaarcheology #mediaarchaeology

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Written by Joost Rekveld on 2025-01-17 at 11:35

Dear all, I hope to embark on a small US tour in the spring, so far with dates in Boston, Buffalo, College Station and Dallas. Between those last two I still have a gap in my schedule from Thursday the 27th to Sunday the 30th of March, would anybody have a suggestion for a place to screen my most recent film or give a talk or - even better - both, preferably in Texas or in a state not far from Texas ? 1/2

[#]mechanismscommontodisparatephenomena #analogcomputing #cybernetics #dialogueswithmachines

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Written by Joost Rekveld on 2025-01-16 at 15:46

A view of the studio in October 2020 that didn't make it into the book, this was during the making of my film "Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena; #59".

[#]mechanismscommontodisparatephenomena #analogcomputing #liberatethemachines! #dialogueswithmachines

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Written by Joost Rekveld on 2025-01-15 at 16:09

Tracing more previous owners of equipment in my studio for the "Liberate the Machines!" book. This Tektronix FG501 function generator from the early 1970s came from Intermedics, a pacemaker manufacturer. Finally something not related to the military.

[#]liberatethemachines! #dialogueswithmachines

[#]mediaarcheology #mediaarchaelogy

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Written by Joost Rekveld on 2025-01-14 at 17:57

From the "Liberate the Machines !" book: an adder module from one of the first commercial analog computing systems, manufactured by George Philbrick Researches in the early 1950's. From my own collection, picture by Isabelle Vigier.

[#]analogcomputing #dialogueswithmachines #liberatethemachines!

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Written by Joost Rekveld on 2025-01-13 at 18:32

The bottom monitor shows the driving oscillation, the top one shows the output of the chaotic system (a few days later I managed to get results that looked like the Ueda plots).

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Written by Joost Rekveld on 2025-01-13 at 18:07

Selecting images for the 'Liberate the Machines !' book: this is from August 2017 when I first encountered chaos in an analog computing patch. I was trying to reproduce the system that Yoshisuke Ueda used in 1961.

[#]analogcomputing #yoshisukeueda #dialogueswithmachines #liberatethemachines!

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Written by Joost Rekveld on 2025-01-12 at 15:45

Getting back into working on #83: algorithmically evolving analog computing patches to produce HD electronic image sequences. Trying to channel the specific anarchistic potential of evolvable hardware into the production of images.

[#]evolutionarycomputation #analogcomputing #systemsthatmatter

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Written by Joost Rekveld on 2025-01-11 at 16:02

Do I know anybody who posts to different social media platforms from Python for instance ?

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Written by Joost Rekveld on 2025-01-11 at 11:04

I was happy to encounter this book last Thursday: a biography of Édouard Branly. He was the inventor of the coherer, one of the first semiconductors, essential for the invention of radio. A device whose working principles are still not fully understood, one and a half century later.

[#]ÉdouardBranly #PhilippeMonodBroca #mediaarcheology #mediaarchaeology #systemsthatmatter

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Written by Joost Rekveld on 2025-01-09 at 19:51

"From video feedback to generative AI: on recursivity in the arts and media". A crap picture of a great doctoral defense by Violaine Boutet de Monvel, with a stellar evaluating committee at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, with Antonio Somaini, Larisa Dryansky, Guillaume Soulez, Marie-France Chambat-Houillon, Ina Blom and Térésa Faucon. I learned many things.

[#]videoart #feedback #artificialintelligence #dialogueswithmachines

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