Hi Randall, For me, a responsible for this second, it's partly about technological time - the leap second is a product of our technology, and our dependency on it. What time do we live in, how do we measure ourselves, does a "day" have something to do with the earth, or rather with atoms? There's an enstrangement here, in the sense of a technological other, cracks in the production of time, comparable to a glitch esthetic, certainly a glitch event on a global scale. Another point, the precarity of the digital - in what sense does it exist if it's so easily transmutable, deleted, lost, in spite of its insistent, prevalent massiveness (which feels like a mockery and hubris at times). In a way, playing back the same existential conditions onto what it proposes us, staging an event which is questioning itself if it's an event or not - if it is significant or not, or what an event is in a mediated world of concurrent timelines fighting for your one second of attention - because did it really happen if not mediated? The ambivalence has interested me, technically, philosophically. Unix systems doesn't implement leap seconds, from what I read, they just repeat the last 59th, so in that sense the event actually didn't take place on the website (running on unix) - one of the works of the festival actually investigated this through a "network performance". In reality the festival was broadcasting for an hour, previewing work before the leap second event at 23:59:60 where I tried to show all the works within one second - it looked and sounded like an explosion... - regards, Bjørn
On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Randall Packer <[email protected]> wrote: > This project totally escapes me. Alan, what is this all about? In one > second please. ;) > > On 6/30/15, 8:07 PM, "Alan Sondheim" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > >Alan Sondheim > >Just now > > > >Alan Sondheim > >Just now > > > >Alan Sondheim > >Just now > > > >just participated in the Leap Second Festival 2015 - this was fantastic! > >go to > >http://noemata.net/leapsec26/live/ for more! > >Live - Leap second festival 2015 - Skuddsekundfestivalen 2015... See More > >Live - Leap second festival 2015 - Skuddsekundfestivalen 2015 > >noemata.net > >Like Comment Share > > > >Alan Sondheim > >Write a comment... > >Live - Leap second festival 2015 - Skuddsekundfestivalen 2015 > >noemata.net > >Like Comment > >Share > > > > Alan Sondheim > > Write a comment... > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >NetBehaviour mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >
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