ad undas http://noemata.net/adundas/
AD UNDAS is a social network service using the sea as medium. The network uses messages in bottles as the main communication. More than connecting and interacting with other people, as in Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc., ad undas aims at a dislocation of representation (people, time, space), and an uncycling of events, as a breakthrough from semi-closed web circuits towards a widening perception of communication and state of affairs, expressed in the three-fold strategy of listening, gleaning, and littering. Breakthrough saturday 27th June 2009 The second server of ad undas network -"vibrate 'tourists'"- will be launched saturday 27th June 2009 as part of the Breakthrough event distributed across Berlin locations, inter-network and radio space, organized by _____micro_research [Berlin]. Read more at http://1010.co.uk/org/breakthrough.html Server is setup for sending and receiving messages in the Mediterranean Sea. Communication with the server is done via this website, the Breakthrough event interface/IRC, and the physical location. The event is documented live with webcams, and communication feeds and logs. Go to the event page at http://noemata.net/adundas/breakthrough/ deep thoughts Ad undas, latin: to the waves. Expression used in relation to failure and loss. Here the term is used also in another sense, of a communication layer on a lower level (than failure and loss), likened to an UDP datagram protocol(2) in some sense in its stateless, unreliable service, often used in streaming applications; though here the destination doesn't have to be specified; actually in our use nothing have to be specified. More than stating merely with mcluhan the medium is the message this might implement a physical W.A.S.T.E protocol (pynchonian and/or the file sharing network application).(3) While the network application WASTE uses strong encryption to ensure that third parties cannot decipher the messages, here the encryption is performed by the medium itself - instead of message encryption we have medium encryption - J.L. Borges writes about two labyrinths, one of them being a desert, and Chuang-Tzu (Zhuangzi) uses the expression "hiding the world in the world"(9) - steganography as non-steganography(10). In the Pynchon W.A.S.T.E. communication system messages are distributed via trash bins (today called 'recycle bins'), which turns around ideas of form&content/text&context and other epistemological pairs; and here to the extent of uncycling them - one might then call it an 'uncycle bin', breaking the loop of medium/message, message/trash, failure/loss, sort of a hole, or another - deeper, primordial? - layer more in accord with the informè (formless) of Bataille, rejecting ideas of both form and content and the futility of thinking within them (and about the formless itself).(4) Thus suggesting 'ad undas' also to mean to 'let go' (ressentiment, bad faith, master-slave) or to 'let be' and its janus-sided no will/will to nothing of the last man (robinson crusoe)(5); or the last will of no man (breakthrough, displacements, islands)(6); or again the negative as the strengthening element, glue, in (social) relations/communication, looking at communication from the unperspective of the formless, or the sea, which is already one, as if leaving communication redundant or reflective as with the Solaris sea(7). technology The network protocol of ad undas consists of the methods listening, gleaning, and littering. * listening. a passive, receptive state of being sensitive to surroundings, to the degree of being immersed and displaced, reflected, even lost, delirious. interpretation of incoming messages - what is a message? - turning it towards another implementation of a paranoiac-critical machine(11) - of which the first one might have been eniac, the first general-purpose electronic computer. the ability of the brain to perceive links between things which rationally are not linked. The listening asks what is a message (paranoia) to ask what is a message is to ask about the medium (critical). Dalí described the paranoiac-critical method as a "spontaneous method of irrational knowledge based on the critical and systematic objectivity of the associations and interpretations of delirious phenomena". see ganzfeld procedure below. * gleaning(12). the gleaning layer is built on top of the listening layer, collecting left-overs, marine debris(13) that appears significant to the network regarded as messages from the sea. the paranoiac-critical listening layer, expanding the conventional message data packet, is listening for unforseen communication in unspecified formats. Gleaning takes place as the messages appears as messages via the detour of the paranoiac-critical listening medium. messages are picked up, collected, computerized if possible and finally made public to reach a unique receiver. the listening/gleaning operator is called an 'uncorker', an uncorking of messages in regard to gleaning, and an 'uncorking of form' within the listening layer. * littering. sending messages to the sea. one the one side the law might call this littering, on the other side a W.A.S.T.E. protocol deliberately distribute its messages as litter as a form of encryption. a littering operator is called a 'corker', as in corking messages, and when it comes to the form layer (listening) it is viewed as as an uncycling of events. a corker is uncycling events, an uncorker is recycling them. vibrate 'tourists' The sea shore setting as a ganzfeld, complete field, of sky, horizon, sea... the divide line of main european cultures apollean/dionysian, a uniform gravitational line - an event horizon for rationality, soft noise, unpatterned sensory stimulation... with the ganzfeld effect(14) the brain amplifies neural noise in order to look for the missing visual signals. The noise is interpreted in the higher visual cortex and give rise to hallucinations. when it comes to listening, or to the abstract function of understanding and interpretation it would give rise to messages as an recycling of events. "in a typical ganzfeld experiment(15) a 'receiver' is left in a room relaxing in a comfortable chair with halved ping-pong balls over the eyes, having a red light shone on them. The receiver also wears a set of headphones through which white or pink noise (static) is played." ganzfeld experiments have yielded results that deviate from randomness to a significant degree, and that these results present some of the strongest quantifiable evidence for telepathy to date.(16) "The term breakthrough describes a sudden shift in understanding or technologies, and, finally, a clearing (Lichtung), an entry into unknown and unmapped territories. An enclosure is breached allowing access to another, totally unforeseen state or space. Communication is thus implied, a new form of exchange, perhaps between two otherwise unconnected domains, between the living and the dead, between many worlds. What does the sheer possibility of a breakthrough imply for communication between the past and the future?"(17). Space tourism could be done with ganzfeld uncycling as opposed to a Space Opera and the Sea Org's eternal return of the same. W. Burroughs on scientology(18)- "There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought". Extreme social networking: members of the Sea Org sign an employment contract with the organization for one billion years. Sea Org members, in accordance with Scientology beliefs, are expected to return to the Sea Org when they are reborn. The motto of the Sea Org is, "Revenimus" or "We Come Back" in Latin.(19). Burroughs' "vibrate 'tourists'" - dislocation of the traveller and the private subconsciousness, an uncycling of the organization of thought, islands, ad undas versus revenimus, the tourist of a ganzfeld vibrates in the absence of returns. you start off in something familiar, like this banal sea send and social network cycle of status updates and what's on your mind streams of consciousness already breathing exhaustion and bored tourism, into an unsettling and unpatterned vibration of neural noise stimulation, the paranoiac-eniac-critical-schizophreniac soft machine - listen, glean, litter - background noise to foreground figure, the psychoanalytical gleaning of failures or uncycled messages, grounded. Aural, tactile media: materialized, not visual. one might view the ganzfeld as tactile, as a materialization of thought, more than 'noemata' the ridiculous organizational object of thought, in its absence of returns. the aural field or its ganzfeld would also yield the tactile, as opposed to the visual detachment. the dislocation of tourists, uncycling the visual and private sea, seen as a deceptive perspective meetingpoint, a point of view, one finds the aural, vibrations, even more, or less, dislocated through listening, through the tactility of unpatterned matter, number and mass, gleaned and littered as lost and found unforseen communication. ad undas is part of the project "Internet killed the video arts, Nerve endings : Neverendings, Stream of conscious nets / Dreams of consciousness, I am from the gaps in my thinking" supported by Art&Technology @ Norwegian Cultural Council. footnotes 2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Datagram_Protocol 3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASTE 4 http://radicalart.info/informe/ 5 nietzsche-deleuze: the truth-sayer: all is vain - to will nothing - no will - will to nothing - the man who wills to go under 6 http://1010.co.uk/org/breakthrough.html : The term breakthrough describes a sudden shift in understanding or technologies, and, finally, a clearing (Lichtung), an entry into unknown and unmapped territories. An enclosure is breached allowing access to another, totally unforeseen state or space. Communication is thus implied, a new form of exchange, perhaps between two otherwise unconnected domains, between the living and the dead, between many worlds. What does the sheer possibility of a breakthrough imply for communication between the past and the future? 7 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_(novel) : The planet, called Solaris, is covered with a so-called "ocean" that seems to really be a single organism covering the entire surface. The ocean shows signs of a vast but strange intelligence, which can create physical phenomena in a way that science has difficulty explaining. The alien mind of Solaris is so inconceivably different from human consciousness that all attempts at communication are doomed (the "alienness" of aliens was one of Lem's favourite themes; he was scornful about portrayals of aliens as humanoid). 9 But if you could hide the world in the world, so that there was nowhere to which it could be removed, this would be the grand reality of the ever-during Thing. --Book VI: Part I, Section VI, 6. Other translations: i) You think you do right to hide little things in big ones, and yet they get away from you. But if you were to hide the world in the world, so that nothing could get away, this would be the final reality of the constancy of things. ii) Hiding something small within something larger might seem like the appropriate thing to do, yet anything could still be carted off. If a man were to hide everything in the world within the world, there would be no place left for anything to be removed to. Living things are already constantly in this great situation. 10 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography#Digital_steganography - "Image of a cat extracted from above image" - how to put the cat in the tree, disappearing chesire cat. 11 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoiac-critical_method 12 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleaning 13 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_debris 14 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganzfeld_effect 15 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganzfeld_experiment 16 Dean I. Radin (1997). The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena. HarperOne.ISBN 0-06-251502-0 17 Breakthrough workshop, _____-micro research [berlin] http://1010.co.uk/org/breakthrough.html 18 William Burroughs: Ali's Smile - Naked scientology. 1972 19 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Org _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
