User:Markvandenheuvel/research

explorations

first thoughts and notes

What am I truly interested in? What makes my heart beat faster?

"When (obsolete) low-tech is being reinvented and placed in a current technological context"

• work together (compliment or critiques)
• low-tech & high-tech (remixing / reintroducing)
• how we can use it within today's frameworks?
• low tech: what we can open up and understand (?)

Let us think otherwise (or reflect ) on how we use technology today and how it affects us

ultimate reference: Tristan Perich - 1-bit Symphony https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZEXX9Yezjw

thoughts & notes:

• I am more interested in re-use instead of hacking: amateur, don't have to be an expert electronics (a matter of accessibility)
• what can yo do with it? how to approach it in a different way that was intended?
• broken tape simulator? LAME!!!!

why?

interests

• chipmusic (production, performing, publishing)
• lo-fi / lo-tech systems
• working with limitations
• sharing & teaching "adaptive mentalities"
• think about potential of low-tech (obsolete consumer electronics and media devices)
• experimentental (post-digital) publishing formats and media carriers

Research

mapping of overlapping theme's

low-tech: insight in inner workings

• current blackboxes are hard to comprehend create a distance to understanding technology (agency, authonomy) ?
• blackbox: inner workings and information technology concealed as a result of technological progress
• insight reflects on how we use technology today
• the meaning beyond the nostalgic: exposing the inner workings and potential to appropriate
• rethink somethings potential
• teaching/sharing: developing adaptive mentalities
• anachronisms

http://www.lwlvl.com/manifesto

hardware vs emulating/simulating?

• lo-fi: experiencing imperfection (materiality / texture / )
• lo-fi aesthetics: flaws
• working with limitations: why?
• experiencing materiality!
• How can we use the experience to reflect on our own workflows?
• affordances?
  • dub music emerges from discarded equipment
  • electronic music that and technical limitations

Media Archeology / Zombie media

• Zombie media: living dead of discarded electronic waste (re-use)
• Artistic method: DIY culture, circuit bending, harweare hacking
• out-of use (waste, consumed): resurrected to new uses contexts and adaptations
  • Zombie Media
  • chipmusic as a subculture: (This movement is about a return to the roots of the digital culture and an idea of the authentic.' )
  • giambare
  • tape, videotape, digital camera's, gaming consoles, media players, calculators, etc

hacking (breaking in) a certain regulated/prevailign system

• concept of T.A.Z
• emerging from a (political) urgency ( see the pirate book)
• 'piracy' music industry

A Dying Colonialism - Frantz Fanon (Algerian Radio Hack)

Publishing: the meaning of physical media formats and materiality

• DIY publishing
• expeimental formats
• excitement of recieving and sharing
• networks and interaction that are created due to (physical) sharing (political climate, no technological infrastructure in the past )
• history of underground DIY (music) publising (sneakernets, LA hardcore scene, zines etc)
• manuals, instructions, zines, floppy's, p2p, etc.
• post-digital publishing: why!

• • • The Pirate Book
    • Aspen Magazine

technological souvereignty

• craftmanship and custom worksflows
• outside big tech & commercial tools (mac with adobe &
• open source
• art & technology: made their own tools
• anti-consumerism
• How (commercial) software works and shaped our thinking!
• autonomy : how does software shape my artistic work?
• critical: why do we think users care?

economy: technological developments (materiality)

• fully explore something's potential instead of discarding it as waste
• capitalism / tech consumerism addiction
• creating an neccesity to look back instead of always look what's next
• electronic waste: consumer electronics (most toxic portion)
• planned obsolences: artificially decreasing life-span (black box, not engineerd to fix)
• conflict: old/collectable tech sold as retro/vintage when it's re-used for DIY porposes
• conflict: old tech sold as retro/vintage when it's re-used for DIY porposes (privilgged)

the materiality of (digital) information techology and media cultural objects

• code, data needs a physical material as a carrier
• ecological concequeces: materials, chemicals, etc
• digital networks are related to soil, air
• tech perpetual innovation vs perpetual distruction (

design education

• creating adaptive mentalities and autonomous
  • bottom up: (user approach: what do we need and how can we create that)
  • top down: powerusers for Google and Adobe
  • feminist technological approach: we need other terminology, etc

first notes and comments

notes from Aymeric:

• Jussi Parikka - Zombie Media (appendix)
• circuit as score (Derec Holzer)
• circular economy!
• trap! We are benefiting from big tech!?
• hobby can be a privilege (leftist privilege)

notes from Michael:

• talk about digital media is physical (its just boxed away)
• make digital media more physical
• affordances!
• critical on technology (agency, how much control)
• excitement of mail and physical carriers zines

possible outcome: > "a living, an evolving collection of knowledge, practices, objects, publications, and performances" -prototype / workflow -performance: create sound pieces/instruments and perform together -publication

references

Books

• 'Zombie Media (Appendix)' addresses the living deads of media culture

Articles

• Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism / Geert Lovink- The internet is effecting our emotions, behaviour and mindset

• Low Level Festival Manifesto low-tech beyond retro aesthetics

misrepresentation of micro music scene:

https://micromusic.net/public_letter_gwEm.html

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/mar/21/popandrock.shopping

https://www.wired.com/2003/11/mclaren/

permacomputing & sustainability:

• Viznut - Permacomputing - how to give computers a meaningful and sustainable place in a human civilization that has a meaningful and sustainable place in the planetary biosphere.

lectures & podcasts

The Real World of Technology: https://archive.org/details/the-real-world-of-technology/part-1.mp3

works & artistic practice

• FormaFantasma on electronic waste, materiality & ecological impact

publications

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspen_(magazine)