User:Steven Rushton/LensbasedMethods

ara’s interview of Steve, raw material: (439 words)

First version: Lately I've been working on a wiki called the fabulous loop de loop it's about a particular discourse around cybernetics which is the science of feedback systems yes that's my initial and that takes a lot of a lot of hassle it's OK I'm happy for it to do that next question please I'm making it because originally the text started as a PhD and then it took on the wiki form which seemed to be appropriate for the subject because the subject is about feedback and have one how the action informs the subsequent action and that was happening with the text so the wiki was the best way to contain that the form of the weekly was the best way to contain that and I've been working with wiki is quite a lot in this course and with the ex-pub students and I wanted to find a way of extending my skills in using the wiki well a few years ago now I started the group of research group called signal noise in London and that conducts that composed artists and academics and curators and we organised a series of events around the idea of feedback and around these ideas of cybernetics which originated in the 1940s and became very influential until the 1960s and more or less ubiquitous in SoC today how is it different distressingly similar to other things I have done it seems to be a little obsession of mine that I've been hammering away at over over decades now I think there is a difference in the depth of knowledge that I have if I look back at the first things I wrote on this subject and generally what I've been interested in is how this idea of feedback which is an engineering concept became a cultural concept so that now we all give each other feedback on various different devices that was my original observation and my original interest in researching it so so so really I think the fabulous loop the loop is is much more of a I could demick sort of document in the other things I did different sources I think changing to the wiki format was a very significant difference because that changed a lot of the way I organised the things I'd written previously and it changed what I subsequently wrote because then suddenly I had a form which I could get have an overview of which gave me a particular structure so those are the two significant thing so reasons that I was the most significant thing wiki thank you and now my