[NetBehaviour] from the future

[Alan Sondheim]

from the future

http://www.alansondheim.org/P1110590.JPG
http://www.alansondheim.org/fromthefuture.mp3
http://www.alansondheim.org/P1110588.JPG

*/ignore below. it's my usual patterning: "in the future"/"in the
past" . it's useless. it takes up space. it's a literary curiosity,
that's all. there's nothing else to it. but the urgency in the
voice occasioned by supercollider modification in real time, use of
echo, as if spreading from future at t1 to t2 then reversed - the
rush of the urgency into the past, the spread occasioning a form of
gathering in the present - unrecognizable, in turmoil - an alien
presence which has no known countenance - that's something else
again and so the dis/ease / disease spreads, violently and wayward
and untoward and contrary - roiling in reverse - what happens to
gravity then - what flies - what doesn't. so the voice in the
present which comes from the future - _protrudes_ from the future -
that's something else again, and before we pass judgment on
ourselves and others which should make certain we comprehend what's
occurring from a rough distance that even now is collapsing upon us.
raise high the roofbeam; it shall not stand - and listen, as if you
were swallowing the world.

---

The flight into/away from the future, to be a man from the future,
will the males be there. It is always a gift from the futures, and
among them, horizons. has forms behind it; it comes from the
future, from a future situated an archaic book from the future, an
anachronistic book from the past - remember nothing else from the
future, only its endlessness.& here - everything poisonous from the
future to the past - from nowhere in the far future, in the future
farther from the future this speaking from the future anterior i
come from the future i won't return anywhere i would have been They
speak from the future. They speak from multiple voices, or from
that from the future roiretna thought; the future roiretna alone
from the future to the future -:other worlds in this regard, all
i'm a human person from the future gone to die before everlasting
Countdown. This is written from the future to the past. This has
already this is my legacy, this is what i bring forward from the
future format, this note from the future to the past. you. a
premise to build a promise from the past (physical) books from the
past. a message from the past:  a message from the past:  all
right, saying the date and time from the past, crying over from the
past 25 years of notes: Not much for the texts from the past
sixteen years.. an archaic book from the future, an anachronistic
book from the past - from the past into the future, into your
future; there's no our hearths praying to the local gods splintered
from the past. We can introjected into and from the past and
future. move the words motion capture notes from the past fifteen
years do you remember from the past year? Sensory impressions,
visual stimuli. drooling and tethered from the past, just a moment
ago already falling what i can tell this is from the past
mid-century. and i've seen among all of us. Ghosts from the past
glistened like ivy on unsus- (I read into and through
representative texts from the past, Lucan, Gil- beginning and end
with files from the past eight months breathing down our throats?
Listen to me, I'm speaking from the past - showing through, skin
split allowing messages from the past to brand a clue is based on
evidence from the past to the present; a cue is based this text,
ignoring the consciousness from the past, roaming among lands learn
anything except the most obvious lessons from the past (i.e. war
please help me; I'm speaking from the past." not desert me, one or
another drawn from the past into paste, learned from the past. alan
says: this is from the past. the past is broken. less innovation;
nothing dredged from the past; no history, written or 5 February 9
Net art - use the material from the past two Leonardo's as blemish
to be seen,_ _text from the past for you,_ _past text somewhere in
the following are descriptions, culled from the past of the virus,
of this virus, of CORROBORATE-19.

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Re: [NetBehaviour] a literature project

[Max Herman via NetBehaviour]

Some obscure but interesting stay-at-home findings.

I found this today in a new book I'm reading by John Kabat-Zinn, Meditation is 
Not What You Think (2018), introduction xxix-xxx:

"It turns out that we all have, lying deep within us, in our hearts and in our 
very bones, a capacity for a dynamic, vital, sustaining inner peacefulness and 
well-being, and for a huge, innate, multifaceted intelligence that goes way 
beyond the merely conceptual.  When we mobilize and refine that capacity and 
put it to use, we are much healthier physically, emotionally, and spiritually.  
And much happier.  Even our thinking becomes clearer, and we are less plagued 
by storms in the mind.
"This capacity for paying attention and for intelligent action can be 
cultivated, nurtured, and refined beyond our wildest dreams if we have the 
motivation to do so.  Sadly, as individuals, that motivation often comes only 
when we have already experienced a life-threatening disease or a severe shock 
to the system that may leave us in tremendous pain in both soma and psyche.  It 
may only come, as it does for so many of our patients taking the MBSR program 
in the Stress Reduction Clinic, once we are rudely awakened to the fact that no 
matter how remarkable our technological medicine, it has gross limitations that 
make complete cures a rarity, treatment often only a rear-guard action to 
maintain the status quo, if there is any effective treatment at all, and even 
diagnosis of what is wrong an inexact and too often woefully inadequate 
science."


For comparison, this passage from Marvin Minsky, Society of Mind, (1988) p. 80, 
also read today for the first time:

"And as for what we call 'intelligence,' my view is that each person who can 
speak coherently already has the better part of what our heroes have.  Then 
what makes genius appear to stand apart, if we each have most of what it takes?
"I suspect that genius needs one thing more: in order to accumulate outstanding 
qualities, one needs unusually effective ways to learnIt is those hidden 
tricks of mental management that produce the systems that create those works of 
genius
"Finally, an awful thought: perhaps what we call genius is rare because our 
evolution works without respect for individuals.  Could any tribe or culture 
endure in which each individual discovered novel ways to think?  If not, how 
sad, since the genes for genius might then lead not to nurturing, but only to 
frequent weeding-out."


Finally this from Duncan Watts, Small Worlds, (1999), pp. 221-222, read today 
for the first time:

"In summary, the introduction of the topologies of Part I to games of 
cooperation seems to have a significant impact on both the emergence of 
cooperative behavior in a homogeneous population and the evolution (or, more 
accurately, preferential reproduction) of cooperative strategies in a 
heterogeneous population.  Unfortunately it is difficult to draw much in the 
way of generally applicable lessons from this, except that in the case of 
Generalized Tit-for-Tat strategies, cooperation tends to do worse in poorly 
clustered graphs such as random graphs.  This seems to be because cooperation, 
as defined by the Prisoner's Dilemma and strategies like Tit-for-Tat, relies 
for its success upon a group of cooperators banding together against the evils 
of an uncooperative world and scoring points by cooperating with each other.  
Once a few defectors can infiltrate this seed, by way of shortcuts, then the 
fledgling cooperation rots from the core out and collapses.  In the context of 
the evolution of strategies, however, this does not always seem to be the case, 
as (recall Fig. 8.13) cooperation seems sometimes to evolve preferentially in 
small-world (but not random) graphs.
"There is, however, a more positive spin to this story: for at least some range 
of h, cooperation does just fine in a small world (although not in a random 
one).  This may have implications for organizational design, where both the 
efficient transmission of information and generally cooperative behaviour are 
advantageous to an organization's performance.  Solving optimisation problems 
like this by varying the connectivity of networks is not an approach that has 
received much attention, but it may turn out to be useful in a whole range of 
applications."




From: Alan Sondheim 
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 12:27 PM
To: Max Herman via NetBehaviour 
Cc: Max Herman 
Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] a literature project


personally, I hate the word 'genius.' it blocks, it's doxa, it rides
poorly, it eliminates, it effaces, it touches too much on issues of class,
if not race, gender, who does the defining, mensa, iq text biases, etc.
2020 or not. the same for every year. too loaded, perhaps too
unintelligent itself, when we're slowly adapting to the splendid variety
of lie, AI and NI in the cosmos?

best, Alan

On Fri, 27 Mar 2020, Max Herman via NetBehaviour wrote:

[NetBehaviour] Utterings next Tuesday

[Annie Abrahams via NetBehaviour]

Hi all,

Next Tuesday the second time we will do our thing with Utterings. We are a
group: Annie, Curt, Daniel, Constança, Derek and Nerina.
Here is the who what and how on our website https://utterings.hotglue.me


If you are interested in attending as a listener please send a private
email to one of the members and you will be invited.

and ongoing every week
Distant Movements Wednesday 16h Paris time (CET, UTC+1)
Distant Feelings Friday 16h Paris time (CET, UTC+1) )
Sessions of 15 min. You are welcome!
https://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2020/03/19/intra-rompre-rupt/

Please stay safe
Annie
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[NetBehaviour] Collective Health as a Really Beautiful Artwork

[Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour]

Dear All,

Cassie Thornton is currently on residency at Furtherfield to work on her
collective healthcare artwork called The Hologram. This is part of our 2020
Love Machines programme (most of this is currently in the Covid-19 mutation
tank- more on this another time). Some of you have already been talking
with her.

Her newsletter introduces the project and links to the research that
informed the project - drawing on Greek integrative healthcare and social
solidarity movement  that grew up in response to the refugee crisis in the
Agean
https://tinyletter.com/Feminist_Economics_Department/letters/collective-health-as-really-beautiful-artwork

I urge you to sign up to the newsletter and I hope that some of you will
want to add your experimental and network-curious gifts to the work.

warmly
Ruth

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[NetBehaviour] How is everyone?

[Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour]

Dear All,

It is so good to hear from you all - you ex-lurkers and regulars far and
wide.
Your accounts are stimulating, inspiring and (at least sometimes)
heartening.
Please don't stop.

Warmly
Ruth



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Re: [NetBehaviour] Spring 2020 collection - Undocumented events and object permanence

[Bjørn Magnhildøen via NetBehaviour]

Thanks, Ruth, glad you enjoy it, nice to hear!

-- Bjørn



On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 1:36 PM Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour <
netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:

> So much to enjoy here Bjørn: )
> including this from our very own M
> https://noemata.net/ueop/work.php?no=246
>
> I especially appreciate the poetic (non-enterprise) performance and
> framing of the blockchain based certification of the existence of the work.
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 12:05 PM Bjørn Magnhildøen via NetBehaviour <
> netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
>
>> Undocumented events and object permanence
>> - An online exhibition series thematizing documentation, conservation,
>> (false) memory, (art) object, phenomenology, and blockchain certification.
>>
>> The Spring 2020 collection is ready!
>>
>> https://noemata.net/ueop/1-20.php
>>
>> The exhibition contains 63 works submitted between January and March 2020.
>>
>> Participating artists
>> Acoustic Mirror, Bruce Barber, Arlen Barrera Leyva, sohil bhatia,
>> Lawrence Bird, Alessa Brossmer, Ana Buigues, Cyborg Art Collective, sajjad
>> dadpour, desire_direct, Reynald Drouhin, Jõrn Ebner, Siegmar Fricke /
>> Pharmakustik, Mr. G, Benna Gaean Maris, Marko Gaertner, Diana Galimzyanova,
>> Max Herman, Max Herman & Michael Szpakowski, Jinu Hong, Brenda Hutchinson,
>> Danielle Imara, marcela jardon, Yejin Stephany Lee, Jan Robert Leegte,
>> Zhongkai Li, Tatjana Macic, Aaliyah Marsh, Konstantina Mavridou & Silvia
>> Gatti, Zsolt Mesterhazy, Jeff Ostergren, Bya de Paula, Milos Peskir, Daniel
>> Pinheiro, pitscher, Theodora Prassa, Stefanie Reling-Burns, Natallia
>> Sakalova, SLIDERS_lab [Frédéric Curien, Jean-Marie Dallet], Alan Sondheim,
>> Anthony Stephenson, Elle Thorkveld, Christian Tiedeman, Jordan Topiel Paul,
>> Jurgen Trautwein, A. P. Vague, Thomas Valianatos, Emilio Vavarella, Juri
>> Wennekes, Paul Wiegerinck, William Wolfgang Wunderbar, and [anonymous]
>>
>> The collection is notarized and certified on the bitcoin blockchain with
>> the hash key of the zip of the collection embedded in the transaction. It
>> means there's a public stamp referring to it, a proof-of-existence, since
>> the hash-key is unique. So, the undocumented events and objects of the
>> collection are then nonetheless proven to exist, which was partly the
>> point, to assert an existence of the otherwise non-documented and
>> non-documentable. In various degrees the works reflect this. In other
>> words, blockchain is used as an archive, museum or a similar function for
>> conservation of works, but without containing or revealing them - its only
>> function is to certify their existence when asked.
>>
>> Priest: Although it is midnight I see the form of a man, a faint form, in
>> the light there. If you are spirit, who are you?
>> Spirit: I am the ghost of Tsunemasa. Your service has brought me.
>> Priest: Is it the ghost of Tsunemasa? I perceive no form, but a voice
>> from a recording.
>> Spirit: It is the faint sound alone that remains.
>> Priest: O! But I saw the form, really.
>> Spirit: It is there if you see it.
>> -- Tsunemasa Noh play
>>
>> Note the spirit's uncertainty as to his own success in appearing. The
>> priest wonders if he really saw anything. The spirit affirms that 'The body
>> was there if you saw it.'
>>
>> Next edition will be the Summer collection, with a deadline in 20 June. A
>> call for it will be sent out later.
>>
>> For more info
>> https://noemata.net/ueop/
>>
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>
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Re: [NetBehaviour] NetBehaviour Digest, Vol 852, Issue 1

[Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour]

Hi Danielle! really love the video you put up - not only surreal but with
an uncanny music all its own - Genius!
(Hope that works!)
Best! , Alan

On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 5:26 AM Danielle Imara via NetBehaviour <
netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:

> Re: Max and Alan, Genius and 2020
>
> 'Genius' and the 'year 2020' are connected because they are meaningless
> definitions,
> aiding our navigation of pre-agreed structures and systems.
>
> “That is genius!” Is a way ‘genius’ can be used that you might hate less,
> Alan.
>
> Meanwhile, here is a brief video, one of a series responding to being at
> home with nowhere to run, and how surreal it all is
> https://vimeo.com/401292914
>
>
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>>1. a literature project (Max Herman)
>>2. Re: a literature project (Alan Sondheim)
>>3. Re: How is everyone (Johannes Birringer)
>>4. holding (Alan Sondheim)
>>5. Re: How is everyone (tac...@riseup.net)
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>> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 17:14:13 +
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> While processing the current year's events, I've been reminded of an old
>> (and not very good) literature project I did long ago.
>>
>> This in turn has led to some thoughts about a potential new project.
>> Maybe this is one way I process literature and experience, to ask what is
>> going on now, then ask what from the past might be relevant, then ask what
>> future events might be the same, different, desirable, possible, etc. in an
>> ongoing cycle of comparison, review, and revision.
>>
>> The hypothetical new project doesn't fit the standard definition of a
>> literature project at first glance, but might have subtler relations to
>> some aspects of past literature (like say the haiku, koan, riddle, or folk
>> tale).
>>
>> I don't know at all if I will "do" the project, or want to, or if it even
>> can be done, or if it should be done; or, if it should be done, how, and by
>> whom; or if it is even possible for there to be a "done" and a "how" and
>> "by whom."  But the hypothetical literature project I'm thinking of could
>> be named "what is genius 2020?"  Its full textual extent could be three
>> questions: "What do you think about the concept of genius?  What do you
>> think about the year 2020?  How do you think the concept of genius and the
>> year 2020 are related?"
>>
>> In my life I've found often that asking too many questions, being too
>> questioning, can be a false path that leads me to misjudgments and bad
>> consequences.  Sometimes being of a simple and non-questioning mind is very
>> important for me to retain balance, perspective, and context.  Following
>> group conventions, the ebb and flow of human sentiment in which we all move
>> albeit in different places and ways, can also be beneficial in its own
>> right.  I certainly don't know the answer to these dilemmas.
>>
>> I suppose that being too "answering" can also be a source of terrible
>> imbalance!
>>
>> I wonder now if it would be better to ask just one question rather than
>> three:  "how do you think the concept of genius and the year 2020 are
>> connected?"  (This seems more concise, but I find the somewhat magical
>> pattern of three more reassuring.)
>>
>> Perhaps we are all asking and answering this question in our own way, if
>> not in these exact terms, the best we can all the time anyway.  What is
>> going on?  What does it mean?  How should I be?  Perhaps it is best left as
>> a personal and internal question, a mystery in the ancient sense of
>> something to contemplate calmly, quietly, and slowly, a question generally
>> unspoken and unanswered but no less alive and well for being in that subtle
>> form.
>>
>> Very best regards,
>>
>> Max
>>
>> +
>>
>> genius (n.)
>> late 14c., "tutelary or moral spirit" who guides and governs an
>> individual through life, from Latin genius "guardian deity or spirit which
>> watches over each person from birth; spirit, incarnation; wit, talent;"
>> also "prophetic skill; 

Re: [NetBehaviour] NetBehaviour Digest, Vol 852, Issue 1

[Edward Picot via NetBehaviour]

I think I might like the one in the bath better, actually - because 
there's less sign of what's happening 'below the horizon'. But they're 
both great!


Edward


On 28/03/2020 11:29, Danielle Imara via NetBehaviour wrote:

Actually this was the link I meant to add https://vimeo.com/401291760 !

Apologies for adding to admin

On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 at 11:23, Danielle Imara > wrote:


Re: Max and Alan, Genius and 2020

'Genius' and the 'year 2020' are connected because they are
meaningless definitions,
aiding our navigation of pre-agreed structures and systems.

“That is genius!” Is a way ‘genius’ can be used that you might
hate less, Alan.

Meanwhile, here is a brief video, one of a series responding to
being at home with nowhere to run, and how surreal it all is
https://vimeo.com/401292914


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   1. a literature project (Max Herman)
   2. Re: a literature project (Alan Sondheim)
   3. Re: How is everyone (Johannes Birringer)
   4. holding (Alan Sondheim)
   5. Re: How is everyone (tac...@riseup.net
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Hi all,

While processing the current year's events, I've been reminded
of an old (and not very good) literature project I did long ago.

This in turn has led to some thoughts about a potential new
project.  Maybe this is one way I process literature and
experience, to ask what is going on now, then ask what from
the past might be relevant, then ask what future events might
be the same, different, desirable, possible, etc. in an
ongoing cycle of comparison, review, and revision.

The hypothetical new project doesn't fit the standard
definition of a literature project at first glance, but might
have subtler relations to some aspects of past literature
(like say the haiku, koan, riddle, or folk tale).

I don't know at all if I will "do" the project, or want to, or
if it even can be done, or if it should be done; or, if it
should be done, how, and by whom; or if it is even possible
for there to be a "done" and a "how" and "by whom."  But the
hypothetical literature project I'm thinking of could be named
"what is genius 2020?"  Its full textual extent could be three
questions: "What do you think about the concept of genius? 
What do you think about the year 2020?  How do you think the
concept of genius and the year 2020 are related?"

In my life I've found often that asking too many questions,
being too questioning, can be a false path that leads me to
misjudgments and bad consequences.  Sometimes being of a
simple and non-questioning mind is very important for me to
retain balance, perspective, and context.  Following group
conventions, the ebb and flow of human sentiment in which we
all move albeit in different places and ways, can also be
beneficial in its own right. I certainly don't know the answer
to these dilemmas.

I suppose that being too "answering" can also be a source of
terrible imbalance!

I wonder now if it would be better to ask just one question
rather than three:  "how do you think the concept of genius
and the year 2020 are connected?"  (This seems more concise,
but I find the somewhat magical pattern of three more 

Re: [NetBehaviour] Spring 2020 collection - Undocumented events and object permanence

[Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour]

So much to enjoy here Bjørn: )
including this from our very own M
https://noemata.net/ueop/work.php?no=246

I especially appreciate the poetic (non-enterprise) performance and framing
of the blockchain based certification of the existence of the work.


On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 12:05 PM Bjørn Magnhildøen via NetBehaviour <
netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:

> Undocumented events and object permanence
> - An online exhibition series thematizing documentation, conservation,
> (false) memory, (art) object, phenomenology, and blockchain certification.
>
> The Spring 2020 collection is ready!
>
> https://noemata.net/ueop/1-20.php
>
> The exhibition contains 63 works submitted between January and March 2020.
>
> Participating artists
> Acoustic Mirror, Bruce Barber, Arlen Barrera Leyva, sohil bhatia, Lawrence
> Bird, Alessa Brossmer, Ana Buigues, Cyborg Art Collective, sajjad dadpour,
> desire_direct, Reynald Drouhin, Jõrn Ebner, Siegmar Fricke / Pharmakustik,
> Mr. G, Benna Gaean Maris, Marko Gaertner, Diana Galimzyanova, Max Herman,
> Max Herman & Michael Szpakowski, Jinu Hong, Brenda Hutchinson, Danielle
> Imara, marcela jardon, Yejin Stephany Lee, Jan Robert Leegte, Zhongkai Li,
> Tatjana Macic, Aaliyah Marsh, Konstantina Mavridou & Silvia Gatti, Zsolt
> Mesterhazy, Jeff Ostergren, Bya de Paula, Milos Peskir, Daniel Pinheiro,
> pitscher, Theodora Prassa, Stefanie Reling-Burns, Natallia Sakalova,
> SLIDERS_lab [Frédéric Curien, Jean-Marie Dallet], Alan Sondheim, Anthony
> Stephenson, Elle Thorkveld, Christian Tiedeman, Jordan Topiel Paul, Jurgen
> Trautwein, A. P. Vague, Thomas Valianatos, Emilio Vavarella, Juri Wennekes,
> Paul Wiegerinck, William Wolfgang Wunderbar, and [anonymous]
>
> The collection is notarized and certified on the bitcoin blockchain with
> the hash key of the zip of the collection embedded in the transaction. It
> means there's a public stamp referring to it, a proof-of-existence, since
> the hash-key is unique. So, the undocumented events and objects of the
> collection are then nonetheless proven to exist, which was partly the
> point, to assert an existence of the otherwise non-documented and
> non-documentable. In various degrees the works reflect this. In other
> words, blockchain is used as an archive, museum or a similar function for
> conservation of works, but without containing or revealing them - its only
> function is to certify their existence when asked.
>
> Priest: Although it is midnight I see the form of a man, a faint form, in
> the light there. If you are spirit, who are you?
> Spirit: I am the ghost of Tsunemasa. Your service has brought me.
> Priest: Is it the ghost of Tsunemasa? I perceive no form, but a voice from
> a recording.
> Spirit: It is the faint sound alone that remains.
> Priest: O! But I saw the form, really.
> Spirit: It is there if you see it.
> -- Tsunemasa Noh play
>
> Note the spirit's uncertainty as to his own success in appearing. The
> priest wonders if he really saw anything. The spirit affirms that 'The body
> was there if you saw it.'
>
> Next edition will be the Summer collection, with a deadline in 20 June. A
> call for it will be sent out later.
>
> For more info
> https://noemata.net/ueop/
>
> The project is organized by Noemata.
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