[spectre] xxxxx_news 2008/9

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1] real code @ StudioUSF, Bergen saturday december 6th 12 - 24

http://www.1010.co.uk/org/piksel2008.html

2] xxxxx_peenemünde publication pre-order

http://1010.co.uk/org/xxxxx_peenemuende.html

3] xxxxx_micro_research [Berlin] // 2009

http://www.1010.co.uk/org/xxxxx_micro_research.html

4] is-land audio, text and image release on FSS

http://www.freesoftwareseries.org/

http://www.1010.co.uk/org/is-land.html


** details:

*** 1] real code @ StudioUSF, Bergen saturday december 6th 12 - 24

real code @ StudioUSF, Bergen saturday december 6th 12 - 24

real code [xxxxx_at_piksel_2008] aims to begin construction in Bergen
of a new world operating system making use of material, language and
descriptive means (aka. software). code relates both to a necessarily
hidden communication system (world revelation, rationalism as an
island) and to a novel way of examining the world. reflection is
encouraged in both directions. sample activities, such as measurement
of intensities, cutups, practical endophysics, real world disaster
analysis and biologic intervention are proposed below for an event
which builds and defines itself to some degree in isolation. Bergen
thus becomes an island of magic composed of smaller islands (a fish
farm, for example).

invited international participants include Otto E. Rossler, pioneer of
chaos theory research and endophysics, Jessica Rylan, renowned sound
artist and analogue electronics constructor, and Julian Oliver,
augmented reality coder, amongst many others [see below].

coded slogans:

1] un coup de dés...  a roll of the dice will never abolish chance,
but such minimal techniques can be used within a form of light
playback head constructivism (after W.S Burroughs). several dice
throws allow for re-editing of last year's documentary (a new
xxxxx).//every revolution is a throw of the dice

2] no input/no output.

3] the electric postman will leap from island to island in the
southern ocean and extricate their minds from their erratic labyrinths

4] zu <—> auf 

code invisibility: 

the latest xxxxx_at_piksel marks a return to code precisely when code
can be considered as the least visible object of study; it does occur
to ask the question of how this may have happened.

island formation:

island implies isolation and magic, a programmatic listing of TEMPEST
islands. isolation, a water barrier or border surrounding the land; a
white sea head separates the many clotted islands. for there can
hardly be just one island, some singular island existing in a vacuum,
with absolutely no manner of communication, in a sense also of
adjacency with a continuum of spumy water and further islands.

bridges/fjords/channels: 

between live coder and pragmatised user, physical carrier and protocol
(itself forming the communication channel) - invisible code on an
equally coded physical strata. Literature is thus a peculiar geologic
activity.

sample activities:

life coding, enclosure or island formation, [re-]construction of
systems of communication and of novel protocols, fish farming,
measurement (of electromagnetic and other intensities), writing
[literature], making diagrams, psychogeographic unmapping, chemical
and biologic experimentation, cooking, film documentary

invited participants and what they may or may not be doing on that day:

Oswald Berthold: software radio, measurement and mapping of EM
intensities, piping, new protocols

Nik Gaffney: cooking lab, microwave studies, new protocols

Vincent Van Uffelen, Beatrice Fazi, Caroline Heron, Joao Wilbert:
historical channel and cable reconstitution

Martin Howse: EM scrying, white noise, film editing, un coup de dés, cutups

Eleni Ikoniadou: phantom coding, examination of ghosted computation,
island hopping and connection

Jonathan Kemp: bicycle wheel EM field generation, iron ore Edison
studies, fireworks

Maja Kuzmanovic: cooking lab, microwave studies

Julian Oliver: steganography, Python code expansion, silentTV, data forensics

Alejandra Perez Nunez: transmission, TV broadcast, RAW interviews

Jessica Rylan: simulations theory, lightwave communication, singing

Otto Rossler: practical endophysics, discussion of mute sperm whale
communication, impending technocratic disaster analysis

Grzesiek Sedek: phantom coding, examination of ghosted computation,
island hopping and connection

Danja Vasiliev: literal pipes, shared communications systems, terminal
VJ

Eva Verhoeven: phantom coding, examination of ghosted computation,
island hopping and connection

//real code is open to the construction and participation of all
present at piksel08 code dreams.

*** 2] xxxxx_peenemünde publication pre-order

xxxxx_peenemünde presents documentation, archive material and original
research resulting from the first series of working groups in
Peenemünde conducted in early 2008. This speculative event, described
in the work, was projected as an intense, conspiratorial expedition
and meeting within a key, historical location. xxxxx_peenemünde
actively examines a fiction which presents a dark heart of
technology (as evidenced by electromagnetic practice), and a vivid
relation to both entropy and ecology.

With contributions and participation from:

Tatiana Bazzichelli, Oswald Berthold, Federico Bucolossi, Ewen
Chardronnet, Alejo Duque, Kathrin Guenter, Martin Howse, Jonathan
Kemp, Martin Kuentz, Bjørn Magnhildøen, Alice Miceli, Gaia Novati,
Alejandra Perez Nunez, Julian Oliver, Otto E. Rossler, Jessica Rylan,
Horia Cosmin Samoïla, Gordan Savicic, Andrei Smirnov

And with many thanks for support to: Stephen Kovats and all at
Transmediale, Historisch-Technisches Informationszentrum (HTI)
Peenemünde

xxxxx_peenemünde is only available from xxxxx_micro_research [Berlin],
Linienstrasse 54 in person or by electronic means:

http://1010.co.uk/xxxxx_peenemuende.html

Print quality PDF: http://plot.bek.no/~xxxxx/pmprint.pdf

enquiries: m at 1010.co.uk

*** 3] xxxxx_micro_research [Berlin] // 2009

Announcing the launch [January 2009] of xxxxx_micro_research [Berlin];
an independent research centre focusing on the expanded construction
and experience of free software and open hardware within an markedly
interdisciplinary context.

The field of research can be described as the active examination and
questioning of technology, and the investigation of the novel means of
description put forward by both software and hardware. These concerns
expand to cover science and art domains with an emphasis very much on
investigating a radical, new discipline which both fields
elaborate. Alongside free software and open hardware, concrete
research topics include science as fiction, practical endophysics, the
politics and ontology of electromagnetic phenomena, and the novel
discipline of digital forensics.

Research activities include an extension of the last two years'
workshop series, monthly salons, micro-residencies, an experimental
event in June, POD publication of research findings and development of
software (artistic OS) and hardware (scrying).

Applications are invited for both workshop construction and
micro-residencies (conventional postal systems or W.A.S.T.E as
preferred channels).

xxxxx_micro_research [Berlin] will be supported in 2009 by
Hauptstadtkulturfonds.

xxxxx_micro_research [Berlin], Linienstrasse 54, Berlin 10119

U2, Rosa-Luxemburg-Pl. U8, Rosenthaler Pl.

Telephone: 3050187482.

http://1010.co.uk/org/

*** 4] 4] is-land audio, text and image release on FSS

http://www.freesoftwareseries.org

http://www.1010.co.uk/org/is-land.html

http://www.archive.org/details/xxxxx-is_land