Re: [NetBehaviour] Performance talk at Brunel University London

[Johannes Birringer]

dear all:
please join us for the first autumn 2019 event in our Performance Research 
Seminar series, featuring

Alan Sondheim (Providence, Rhode Island)

"Somatic Ghosting"

Wednesday October 23:  5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Drama Studio, Gaskell Building 048 (Cleveland Rd)
Brunel University London



Alan Sondheim will explore the somatic - bodies in relation to music making 
(possibly demonstrating this live, also talking about the dutar and Uyghurs 
(and showing a video of his dutar playing, with Azure Carter singing 'Human 
Smoke'), and then open that up to the grit of the body in relation to altered 
mocap - show/talk about video - then into the material from virtual worlds, the 
‘America piece’, as well as those pieces where the land changes "losing" the 
avatar. The talk may also veer into discussing refugees, genocides, a far cry 
from the safety of digital / virtual representation – and what to do with 
brutality, strongmen – when nothing makes sense in the political theatre and we 
are working w/in the senseless. Sondheim will also address the ideas of 
malleability input /transformation / output- in relation to 1. 
Constraints--what bodies do--reading the inputs and outputs - 2. Related to 
gamespace--edgespace—blankspace - 3. Related to real bodies, bodies under 
stress--the analogic, idiotic real.

Bio
A pioneer of the virtual, Alan Sondheim has worked for decades across music, 
sound and the visual. Drawing on a range of sources from his lexicon of digital 
objects and artefacts, this presentation will tour the territories and 
interzones of his practice, staking out ideas and sharing his unique 
perspective on our twenty-first-century conditions. Sondheim's books include 
the anthology Being on Line: Net Subjectivity (1997), Disorders of the Real 
(1988), .echo (2001), Vel (Blazevox, 2004-5), Sophia (Writers Forum, 2004), The 
Wayward (2004) and "Writing Under" (2012), as well as numerous other chapbooks, 
ebooks, and articles. His video and filmwork have been widely shown. Sondheim 
was an Eyebeam resident. He co-moderates several email lists, including 
Cybermind, Cyberculture and Wryting. In 2012 he was a presenter and active 
participant at the CyPosium, a one-day online symposium on cyberformance. He is 
the developer of the concept of codework wherein computer code itself becomes a 
medium for artistic expression. His poetico-philosophical writings deal with 
the notion of embodiment and presence in cyberspace,

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Forthcoming talks:

Wed, Nov 13, 2019: 15:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Kareem Khubchandani (Theatre, Tufts University)
“B1nary C0des: Dancing Dichotomies in Bangalore's Gay Nightlife”

Wed  Nov. 27, 2019  5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Anna Semenova-Ganz  (Universität Hamburg)
“Performativity of things and their material regimes”

Entry is free

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Research Seminar Coordinator: Johannes Birringer
Contact: +44 (0)1895 267 343
Check our series at:  http://people.brunel.ac.uk/dap/ResearchSeminarSeries.html
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[NetBehaviour] Review from London of the shortwave release -

[Alan Sondheim]

Review from London of the shortwave release -

https://www.lowcompany.co.uk/products/short-wave-anomalous-recordings-1991

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Floppy Totaal: Double Density

[Max Herman via NetBehaviour]

I like floppy disks too!  I have all my old ones saved and am shopping for an 
external floppy drive.  Low-cost and less stress.  


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Subject: [NetBehaviour] Floppy Totaal: Double Density

Apologies for cross-posting!

Hi there,

Floppy Totaal: Double Density is 
just around the corner and we couldn't be more excited. On Saturday, the 19th 
of October Floppy Totaal will present a special 
double program at Varia (Gouwstraat 3, 3082BA 
Rotterdam), packed to the brim with contemporary floppy culture of all sorts 
and shapes.

Starting at 14:00, there will be a free live recording and publishing workshop 
by Floppy Kick Records. The subsequent 
evening program, which has an entry fee of 5 euro's, comprises performances by 
Kisszántó and 
Eoforwine, presentations and conversations 
with Joak and Jason 
Scott and a long distance video 
contribution by Michael Ridge.

The emphasis of this evening lies on the concept of the floppy disk as comfort 
food in a "future/present shocked" digital age. In what way does working with 
floppy disks help us cope in a time preoccupied with "new" media and planned 
obsolescence? Does the floppy disk hold more content than just 1,44 MB of data? 
Join us to find out!

With love,

Floppy Totaal
https://varia.zone
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[NetBehaviour] Floppy Totaal: Double Density

[Lídia Pereira via NetBehaviour]

Apologies for cross-posting!

Hi there,

Floppy Totaal: Double Density  is
just around the corner and we couldn't be more excited. On Saturday, the
19th of October Floppy Totaal  will present a
special double program at Varia  (Gouwstraat 3,
3082BA Rotterdam), packed to the brim with contemporary floppy culture of
all sorts and shapes.

Starting at 14:00, there will be a free live recording and publishing
workshop by Floppy Kick Records . The
subsequent evening program, which has an entry fee of 5 euro's, comprises
performances by Kisszántó  and Eoforwine
, presentations and conversations with Joak
 and Jason Scott
 and a long distance video
contribution by Michael Ridge .

The emphasis of this evening lies on the concept of the floppy disk as
comfort food in a "future/present shocked" digital age. In what way does
working with floppy disks help us cope in a time preoccupied with "new"
media and planned obsolescence? Does the floppy disk hold more content than
just 1,44 MB of data? Join us to find out!

With love,

Floppy Totaal
https://varia.zone
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Limassol communication structures

[Max Herman via NetBehaviour]

Hi Alan,

I agree about the communication-matrix aspect of this type of image.  Water is 
the ultimate communication matrix for organic phenomena, since it is essential 
for DNA to do its writing, copying, mutations, permutations, comparisons, 
deletions, etc.  Leonardo focused a lot on these kinds of attributes of water.

Hence the situation of the organic life as well.  The use of proscenium 
(landscape) as opposed to portrait view is also an element worth notice.  These 
are simple but relevant aspects of "environment" contrasted with "individual."

For me the sea urchins image was a reflection or contemplation on a different 
image, a compare/contrast so to speak on the two images, specifically my 
January_1_Website from long ago:

https://web.archive.org/web/20091028064327/http://www.geocities.com/genius-2000/January_1_Website.GIF

Which was itself a simple permutation out of the single circular logo, perhaps 
prompted by what I saw below when printing out paper copies of the logo (which 
I did in order to bring the logo out of digital space and onto paper-space for 
device-free distribution, its URL 
"www.geocities.com/genius-2000" on the 
reverse side):

https://web.archive.org/web/20091028065324/http://www.geocities.com/genius-2000/dark_pixels_15.jpg

Marine life is very interesting for its communication aspects, which differ a 
lot from land animals.  Leonardo once compared the whole sum of human 
knowledge, history, potential, and future possibilities to a giant sea monster 
kind of like a whale.  This may be one of the reasons he included water in the 
background of many paintings, as well as the land which was being eroded and 
reshaped by the water.  Water was like a medium for events to exist in, like 
timespace, but also accompanied by human consciousness in the same medium i.e. 
"all wrapped up with it."

I recently saw a quote by Cajals, the first neuroscientist who drew a lot of 
neurons by hand, saying "As long as the brain remains a mystery so will the 
universe, for the universe is a reflection of the brain."

I also started reading Gregory Bateson yesterday for the first time on a 
friend's recommendation.  He wrote in Mind and Nature (1979), page 21, the only 
page I have read as yet:

 "So the immediate task of this book is to construct a picture of how the 
world is joined together in its mental aspects.  How do ideas, information, 
steps of logical or pragmatic consistency and the like fit together?  How is 
logic, the the classical procedure for making chains of ideas, related to an 
outside world of things and creatures, parts and wholes?  Do ideas really occur 
in chains, or is this lineal (see Glossary) structure imposed on them by 
scholars and philosophers?  How is the world of logic, which eschews 'circular 
argument,' related to a world in which circular trains of causation are the 
rule rather than the exception?
 "What has to be investigated and described is a vast network or matrix of 
interlocking message material and abstract tautologies, premises, and 
exemplifications.
 "But, as of 1979, there is no conventional method of describing such a 
tangle.  We do not know even where to begin.
 "Fifty years ago, we would have assumed that the best procedure for such a 
task would have been either logical or quantitative, or both.  But we shall see 
as every schoolboy ought to know that logic is precisely unable to deal with 
recursive circuits without generating paradox and that quantities are precisely 
not the stuff of complex communicating systems."

I found page 21 by opening the book randomly and picked it because it had the 
word "explicit" italicized (which reminded me of Bohm and provides a potential 
linkage), and also included the word "network" which is found in the other key 
books I'm working with these days (Sporns, the Austin which is also from 1979, 
and Calvino).  Calvino in Six Memos from 1985 even says "vast net" (this is 
translated, I'm curious what his original Italian was) in reference to the 
novel-as-such as well as to each person, each life, and the universe or world 
in its entirety.

Another key bit or byte of information of critical immediate importance 
regarding Bateson's question of logic is the new revolution in mathematics from 
the last few years which is replacing "equality" with "equivalence," the latter 
being much more suited to the network nature of reality and of course mind too 
-- indeed to any and all "complex communicating systems," which certainly 
includes humans but also all DNA-systems, as well as "communicating" systems 
like systems chemistry (the revolution now overturning the RNA-world theory of 
the origin of life with the chimera-driven systems chemistry model), systems 
biology, quantum physics (especially the works of Lee Smolin), and well frankly 
most everything that evolves events in time-space.