[NetBehaviour] Slide and Preciousness of Description

2017-09-14 Thread Alan Sondheim 



Slide and Preciousness of Description

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Cars in parking lot, swaying camera, foreground shifts, just a
couple of times, sloppy conceptualism. It's poorly done. It
reminds me of when you cum hard and develop that headache on the
right side of the brain and it's hard to focus. But the cars get
away from that, away from what happens when you're climbing
stairs fast and that ringing in your ears blocks everything you
might hear normally, the ground sways from under you, your eyes
recede and everything's moving around. That's an issue in this
fake affine geometry as if there were a stable world outside the
window, one in which the cars behave as if they were clean and
proper, and everyone obeyed the law. What's here when it shifts
seems to be the same as what's there; the window frames (there
are no secrets here) frame the parking lot, 'you lot of cars,'
more or less a momentary arrangement on a plateau on this
particular planet. The clean and proper body (Kristeva) ex-tends
into the technological, car and camera machinery, and what you
yourself witness here, the presence of the screen, that fixation
which sutures over everything, body and chora and phenomenon as
well.

So one, myself, shifts perhaps four meters to the left or right,
depending on the vector, carrying what in film theory might be
considered an apparatus, holding the frame, creating this video
on the run or slow walk. The clouds are from Hurricane Irma,
exhausted remnants; they create a pall (" To become vapid,
tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or
taste; as, the liquor palls.") over the scene, which transforms
into the murmur of nostalgia just beneath the surface of the
pavement where the cars reside.

Everything of a size reminiscent of the living resides within
these spaces and movements; so much is forgotten, eliminated,
literally and quietly banned to the dustbin of history. So
the flat plane of the world veers and whirls, in and out of
focus; there are moments of ecstasy here that dissolve like ink
in water, water in ice, ice in glass, glass in quartz and
diamond. This is poetic fancy, but what drives one to film or
video cars more or less stationary (look, there's one going),
the camera in footstep's arcs, and above all, those black or at
least dark brown frames breaking up the scene, and returning all
of this peregination back into daily life.

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[NetBehaviour] AlgoMech Symposium on Unmaking, Sat 11th Nov 2017, Sheffield UK

2017-09-14 Thread Alex McLean 
*AlgoMech - Festival of Algorithmic and Mechanical Movement*

SYMPOSIUM ON UNMAKING

11th November 2017
Old Post Hall, Sheffield Institute of Arts
http://algomech.com/2017/events/unmaking-symposium/

This symposium puts forward Unmaking as a form of resistance. The taking
apart of technology - whether algorithmic or mechanic - is a step in
reaching new understanding, whether cultural, historical, or technical. The
focus on movement in this process, for example through choreographic,
musical, textile, or political action, provides common language for
discussion across disciplines. The symposium is convened by the PENELOPE
project, where the mythological figure of Penelope from Ancient Greece
provides a universal paradigm of unmaking.

Registration: £17.50 including lunch.

Discussion will be lead by:
- Ellen Harlizius-Klück
, weaver,
mathematician
- Laura Sillars , curator
- Ernest Edmonds , computer artist

Other participants include:
 - Amy Twigger-Holroyd , reknitter
- Emma Cocker , writer-artist
- Flavia Carraro ,
anthropologist of technology and science
- Naomi Kashiwagi , visual and sound
artist
- Christian Faubel , autonomous
systems researcher, media artist
- Sarah Kenchington ,
mechanical orchestrator
- Amanda Ross , weaver-musician
- Dave Griffiths , live coder, generalist
- Giovanni Fanfani ,
classical philologist
- Alex McLean , software artist, live coder

More information and tickets:
  http://algomech.com/2017/events/unmaking-symposium/

Part of the Festival of Algorithmic and Mechanical Movement
8-12th November
  http://algomech.com/

AlgoMech is co-funded by Arts Council England, European Research Council
and PRS Foundation
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[NetBehaviour] "Bodily Extensions and Performance" Special Issue of JPADM out now

2017-09-14 Thread Marco Donnarumma 
[apologies for any x-post]

Dears,

I'd like to bring to your attention this brand new issue of the Inter.
Journal of Performing Arts and Digital Media focused on "Bodily Extensions
and Performance", published by Routledge.

http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpdm20/13/2?nav=tocList

Guest edited by Sita Popat and Sarah Whatley, this Special Issue "raises
critical questions about the nature of extended bodies and body-technology
practices. The six essays are concerned with the lived experiences of such
bodies, highlighting processes of incorporation and hybridity (Donnarumma),
influence and exchange (O’Brien), blurring and entanglement (Wilson),
shifting identities (Riszko), destabilisation and metamorphosis (Stępień)
and defamiliarisation of the everyday (Sobchack)."

It's particularly exciting to have here a contribution by Vivian Sobchack,
with a phenomenological analysis of choreographies for "one, two and three
legs".


In my own contribution - "Beyond the Cyborg" - I speak of the cultural and
artistic importance of accepting and understanding body-technology
hybridity; also offering an excursion into how is it to physically,
psychically and cognitively perform with an AI software in my latest
performance Corpus Nil.

If any of you is interested in my essay, but is faced with a nasty paywall,
feel free to PV me and I'll be happy to provide with my own author copy.

Wishing you well,

--
Marco Donnarumma, Ph.D.

*Performing bodies, sound and machinesUniversität der Künste Berlin*
http://marcodonnarumma.com

Next
Oct 5-14 | Amygdala MKI @ Close, Never Closer, UdK, Berlin
Oct 27 | Ominous live @ Holzmund, Berlin
Nov 28 | Amygdala MKI @ Retune Artist Lab, Hub Berlin

New Essay
"Beyond the Cyborg: Performance, attunement and autonomous computation"


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[NetBehaviour] dammed

2017-09-14 Thread Alan Sondheim 



dammed

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& torn open by consonants, dammed by punctuation. & there's no
end to it; & the house live under water, dammed chute. & now
think anger had been there, impeded, considering the future
here, & considering the dammed, & then dammed into the shape of
reservoirs, uneasy dreams transformed into my dammed-up, my
held-back, my repressed.

& the labor of my mind, dammed up, cauterized, neurotic,
effaced, & the house lived under water, a chute torn open by
consonants, effluents, dammed by punctuation. & there's is no
end to it, the capital lost, even to continue, & locked, &
gathered & roiled.


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