[spectre] The Crystal World: Algorithms, Inhuman Speed and Complexity.

[marc.garrett at furtherfield.org]

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The Crystal World: Algorithms, Inhuman Speed and Complexity.

Rob Myers reviews an experimental exhibition by Martin Howse, Ryan Jordan
and Jonathan Kemp. As they recrystalise the mineral content of computers
with a Ballardian twist in "The Crystal World" at The White Building in
London, walking distance of the 2012 Olympic stadium in post-industrial,
post-regeneration London.

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/crystal-world-algorithms-inhuma
n-speed-and-complexity

"Our contemporary technological society is founded upon computers that are
highly ordered sets of minerals. The Crystal World sets out to stem the
flow by reversing the action, and extracting the minerals to build its own
systems. The exhibition followed on from a 5-day intensive public
laboratory, extracting minerals from computers and re-crystallising them
through experiments. The exhibition took the experiments from the
laboratory as base creations, as the starting point for a living
experimental exhibition." 


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