Really very over-excited at the prospect of seeing you in London at the ICA - Alan
It's just sooooo good! Let's get a posse along :) On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 2:30 AM Alan Sondheim <sondh...@panix.com> wrote: > > > ICA Conglomerate 'Somatic Ghosting' > > http://www.alansondheim.org/ica5.png > http://www.alansondheim.org/ica5.rtf > > the longer i work on the project/talk for the London ICA, the more > complex everything becomes; now i'm thinking of 'talking on the > fly' - moving from image to image, piling on ideas; i have nothing > definitive to say about any of this; any saying is inadequate, is > necessarily going to fail. i can't come up with grand schemes or a > clear organization; it's yet another form of splatter semiotics; > there's too much to consider, and literally the devil's in the > details in any case; in the play of images, videos, texts, sounds, > performances. it's going to be a mess. i move among things like > Meiji images of Perry, through blizzards, Gray Barker, distorted > motion capture, treatise signatures by Native Americans with early > Rhode Islanders, supercollider musics, theory, dance, song, > codework, and experimental local and online virtual worlds. i'm > sure to be leaving something out. it's a morass, melange, mess, > misery, microbiome, murmuration, and mumbling of ideas which are > always already wrong, futile, nonsensical, as idiotic as the real, > whatever, whomever, wherever, whenever. so here we are in a history > that refuses history, that spreads like a frictionless fluid on the > degree zero debris zero world of nonsense i seem capable of > generating when i have everything and nothing to say. comments > welcome, meanwhile i'll look forward to climbing up and down at > least one of the Thames stairs that reach the river in one of the > more industrial areas, i hope you'll join me. (it's not that i > don't like myself, it's that i like you better.) > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- Co-founder & Artistic director of Furtherfield & DECAL Decentralised Arts Lab +44 (0) 77370 02879 *Furtherfield *disrupts and democratises art and technology through exhibitions, labs & debate, for deep exploration, open tools & free thinking. furtherfield.org <http://www.furtherfield.org/> *DECAL* Decentralised Arts Lab is an arts, blockchain & web 3.0 technologies research hub for fairer, more dynamic & connected cultural ecologies & economies now. decal.is <http://www.decal.is> Furtherfield is a Not-for-Profit Company limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales under the Company No.7005205. Registered business address: Ballard Newman, Apex House, Grand Arcade, Tally Ho Corner, London N12 0EH.
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