Re: [-empyre-] digital Objects and MEMORY

2014-10-28 Thread Mark Marino
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thanks, Quinn, I'd like to pick up this question of digital objects as memory aid or receptacle, specifically the role of or status of computer source code. For the past eight years, I have been working in the realm of Critical Code

Re: [-empyre-] Digital Objects // PROCESS : What is a digital process?

2014-10-28 Thread Anaïs Nony
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear all, I would like to address a special thanks to Alexander, Quinn, Dani, Ben, and John for discussing together the notion of process. It was very valuable and I hope to continue to exchange further with you on that topic. I would

Re: [-empyre-] Digital Objects // PROCESS : What is a digital process?

2014-10-24 Thread Alexander Wilson
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- I’m sorry John and Anais about not responding to your comments. I receive the “digest” version of the list, and was referring to the online archive for responses. But it seems your messages got truncated there, so I had not read them:

Re: [-empyre-] Digital Objects // PROCESS : What is a digital process?

2014-10-23 Thread Anaïs Nony
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi all, I would like to respond to Alexander’s fruitful post as well as to share some considerations raised by Quinn’s invitation to dig more into the so-called algorithmic information theory. My first thought concerns the feedback

Re: [-empyre-] Digital Objects // PROCESS : What is a digital process?

2014-10-23 Thread Alexander Wilson
--empyre- soft-skinned space--​Thanks Ben and Quinn for your responses. ​ I would like to address certain points raised. Ben is interested in the link I was alluding to between discretization and the digital. It seems to me the movement from the prediscrete

Re: [-empyre-] Digital Objects // PROCESS : What is a digital process?

2014-10-23 Thread Anaïs Nony
--empyre- soft-skinned space--(here is the missing part of my earlier contribution. thank you) One suggestion I would like to discuss is that the feedback loop seems to deal with processes of selection not only based on complexity and randomness (a shared

Re: [-empyre-] Digital Objects // PROCESS : What is a digital process?

2014-10-22 Thread Ben Roberts
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Thanks to Anaïs, Ashley and Quinn for inviting me to take part in this discussion. Just to pick up a point in Alexander's very productive post. I am interested in the connection Alexander is forging between discretization (in

Re: [-empyre-] Digital Objects // PROCESS : What is a digital process?

2014-10-22 Thread Quinn DuPont
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Such a rich and complex post, with many points of resonance to earlier posts! I think Alexander’s reference to Chaitin’s “Omega” number really needs some underlining, since I suspect most of us aren’t too familiar with the concept. I

Re: [-empyre-] Digital Objects // PROCESS : What is a digital process?

2014-10-22 Thread John Hopkins
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- On 22/Oct/14 17:13, Quinn DuPont wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- Such a rich and complex post, with many points of resonance to earlier posts! I think Alexander’s reference to Chaitin’s “Omega” number

[-empyre-] Digital Objects // PROCESS : What is a digital process?

2014-10-20 Thread Alexander Wilson
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello to everyone on the list. Thanks to our hosts for organizing this discussion (and for inviting me). I've just caught up on the discussion sthus far. I thought I'd give a go at the first question proposed: What is a digital process?

Re: [-empyre-] Digital Objects // PROCESS : What is a digital process?

2014-10-20 Thread John Hopkins
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- FYI on the topic of digital art algorithms, etc, there's a great talk by my friend Dr. Frieder Nake, a radical German pioneer in the field, talking about early algorithmic work in the 1960s -- he's an engaging and empathetic speaker

[-empyre-] Digital Objects. Week 3. PROCESS

2014-10-19 Thread Anais Nony
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear group, Thank you all for your incredibly rich contributions, you made this past two weeks so fascinating as we try to unpack collectively the potential of digital objects. I would like to circulate the introduction for our third

Re: [-empyre-] Digital Objects

2014-10-13 Thread dragan.espenschied
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Now, with this being said - As Chun (2008) has discussed, and as Kristie and Dragan commented in their closing remarks (I think), despite the cascading complexity of the digital, and the dispersed apparatus that props it up, digital

Re: [-empyre-] Digital Objects

2014-10-11 Thread sally jane norman
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear Ashley, all good question indeed - I'm wondering whether looking at Thrift and Dewsbury's non-representational theory mightn't offer some useful insights? This entails focus on practices and relations (across human and non-human

Re: [-empyre-] Digital Objects

2014-10-09 Thread Ashley Scarlett
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear --empyre-- members and invited discussants, Thank you for an engaging start to this month's conversation! I have a bit of a follow-up question that I feel engages several of the entries thus far and that, I hope, might get us

[-empyre-] Digital Objects

2014-10-08 Thread Dragan Espenschied
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear empyre, thank you very much the invitation to participate in this discussion. In my work as a conservator of digital art (mostly internet art), I am often confronted with the term 'object'. On the Digital Preservation 2014

[-empyre-] empyre DIGITAL OBJECTS october introductions

2014-10-06 Thread Ashley Scarlett
--empyre- soft-skinned space--*Welcome to October, 2014 on --empyre-- soft-skinned space: * *DIGITAL OBJECTS * Moderated by Quinn DuPont (CA), Anais Nony (FR), and Ashley Scarlett (CA) with invited discussants to include: Ange Albertini (US); Dragan Epstein (DE);