explorations

first thought and notes

What am I truly interested in?

re-using low (obsolete) tech implementation in new tech

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
working with limitations insight in daily processes
sharing & teaching "adaptive mentalities"
potential of low-tech / obsolete consumer electronics and media

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)

Post-digital publishing: the meaning of physical media formats and materiality

DIY publishing
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

The Pirate Book

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

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

Adam Harvey - more pixel=more data ?

Articles

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

User:Markvandenheuvel/research

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