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-This is the public start page of my personal librarinth: an online scrapbook that I am using in the course of the research project 'Dialogues with Machines'. I am undertaking this project as a researcher in the [[http://kask.be/en/education/courses/media-art/|Media Arts Studio]] of the [[http://kask.be/en/research/|KASK Conservatorium / University College Ghent]], and I am pursuing a doctorate in the arts with it as part of the [[https://www.ugent.be/lw/kunstwetenschappen/en/research-groups/spam|S:PAM, Studies in Performing Arts and Media]] research group at the University of Ghent. My promotors are Christel Stalpaert and Edwin Carels.+This is the public start page of my personal librarinth: an online scrapbook that I am using in the course of the research project 'Dialogues with Machines'. I am undertaking this project as a researcher in the [[http://kask.be/en/education/courses/media-art/|Media Arts Studio]] of the [[https://schoolofartsgent.be/ee/en/research/|KASK Conservatorium / University College Ghent]], and I am pursuing a doctorate in the arts with it as part of the [[https://www.ugent.be/lw/kunstwetenschappen/en/research-groups/spam|S:PAM, Studies in Performing Arts and Media]] research group at the University of Ghent. My promotors are Christel Stalpaert and Edwin Carels.
  
 ===== research description ===== ===== research description =====
  
-A recently updated short description of my research goes as follows:+fairly recently (020221017) updated short description of my research goes as follows: 
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 +This research project started as an attempt to deal with a question that Socrates gets asked in his dialogue with Meno: how can we learn something we don't already know ? I have been exploring what I think is one answer, that new things can be learned in interaction with devices outside of us. It is an answer that interests me because what I have been calling a 'dialogue with machines' has been at the heart of my media-art practice for many years. But despite these roots, the aim of this project is not primarily to think about art; the aim is to clarify the concept of a 'dialogue with machines' and expand it to a view of technology that is also relevant outside of the arts. By focusing on the agency of technological artefacts in speculation and creation, I hope to contribute to a reflection on technology as something else than a tool to subjugate our planet and ourselves. 
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 +Practical work has focused on the room full of historic and recent analog computers that has been my studio for the past few years. I have been doing artistic experiments in a form of media-archeology serving two purposes that are almost opposites: I seek to illuminate aspects of current practices by going back to their origins, and I looks at the past as a rich and relatively accessible source of difference. The main artistic outcome of this will be the film "Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena; #59", a feature-lenght abstract animated science fiction film that looks at the experiences shared by humans and electronic circuits. During the cold war, the development of atomic weapons and their associated planetary surveillance systems produced our computing technology as a side effect. During the same period, in 1961, Edward Lorenz and Yoshisuke Ueda independently discovered deterministic chaos through their computing systems. In film #59, humans, aliens and devices vacillate between these poles of machinic chaos and planetary control. 
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 +In my reading and writing I am trying to articulate the sources of what can be perceived as an agency of machines and look at how a dialogue with machines can be a form of collaboration in which new representations appear. My approach is to focus on the question of what humans have hoped to learn from building physical, electronic models. My planned thesis will consist of four parts, the first of which is a detailed media-archeological study of the history of analog electronic computing and the history of the philosophical motivations behind the use of electronic and electrical analogies in physics and engineering. The second part enlarges the question of electronic modeling to cybernetics and the practice of making electronic models inspired by living organisms. I approach the role of material agency in such models by giving an overview of historical philosophical discussions around the concepts of function, modularity (related to completeness) and shielding (related to situatedness). Armed with these three concepts I articulate a critique of a number of utopian electro-chemical experiments done by the British cyberneticians Gordon Pask and Stafford Beer around 1961. They tried to tap into physical processes of self-organization in a series of early artificial intelligence experiments that triggered very interesting philosophical, artistic and technical responses. In the conclusion I try to draw conclusions from these utopian experiments by developing a view on materiality, media-archeology and the relation between humans and their technology, centered on the notion of 'liberating the machines'.\\ 
 +For this I am primarily leaning on the work of Isabelle Stengers, Andrew Pickering and Gilbert Simondon, with frequent appearances by Katherine Hayles, Georges Canguilhem and Bernard Stiegler. An important element in these reflections is the notion of abstraction as articulated by Whitehead: abstractions are not objects but decisions to focus on certain aspects of a situation and relegate other aspects to the background. This is a view on abstractions as performative, inherently ecological and non-anthropocentric, and the fundament of my thesis will be to look at machines in these terms. 
  
-Artists who work with technology often develop their own tools as part of the articulation of their aesthetic language. My research starts from the comparison of this process with the mutual transformations of devices, procedures, concepts and scientists that take place in a scientific lab. During the research period, I want to reflect on the mutual construction of tools and artist, as a way to take a conceptual and practical step in my work and position it more explicitly relative to recent developments in the exact sciences.\\ 
-Central to formulating such a position will be a reflection on the dialogue between humans and technology, focusing on the point where concepts and materials meet. As a starting point, I am reading about mathematics, where I am especially interested in ideas about embodiment and the material realizability of mathematics (Lautman, Chatelet, Rotman, Lakoff, Meillasoux), and more generally interested in learning more about mathematics as a repository of forms and modes of thinking (Zalamea, MacLane, Lochak). Other important tracks for reflection are the idea of the seemingly autonomous development of technological objects (Simondon, Ellul, Winner), ideas of material agency in science (Pickering, Rheinberger, Latour), ideas about the posthuman (Stiegler, Hayles, Haraway), non-human semiotics (Uexkull, Sebeok, Cariani) and implicit types of knowledge (Polanyi, Suchman).\\ 
-Practical work starts from the technologies of analog computing and electronic modeling. The short-term goal of this is to build an analog HD video synthesizer and make a series of works that give a voice to the physicality of the systems that produced them. The longer-term goal is to use the culture of analog computing and electronic modeling as a vantage point from which to explore the artistic potential of chemistry, nanotechnology and other technologies that deal with matter on the molecular scale.\\ 
-By engaging in a dialogue with devices and the cultures they are part of, I want to open a space of alternative technical possibilities. These are musical, poetic as well as utopian, and form a critique of a purely functional approach to technology.\\ 
  
  
 ===== presentations and publications ===== ===== presentations and publications =====
  
-  * presentation at Alchemy Filmmaker [[http://alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk/2017/symposium/|symposium]] in Hawick, Scottish Borders (March 2017) +  * presentation at Alchemy Filmmaker [[http://alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk/2017/symposium/|symposium]] in Hawick, Scottish Borders (March 2017). 
-  * [[http://arts.codes/articles/vol1/article5/article.html|article]] about analog computing in Arts.Codes online magazine (May 2017) +  * [[http://arts.codes/articles/vol1/article5/article.html|article]] about analog computing in Arts.Codes online magazine (May 2017). 
-  * presentation at the [[http://www.ens-louis-lumiere.fr/formation/recherche/actualites/au-fil-de-leau/12-13-octobre-2017-colloque-arts-filmiques-a-lens-louis-lumiere.html|symposium]] "Arts Filmiques et Expérimentations Optiques Contemporaines" at the ENS Louis-Lumière in Paris (October 2017)+  * presentation at the [[http://www.ens-louis-lumiere.fr/formation/recherche/actualites/au-fil-de-leau/12-13-octobre-2017-colloque-arts-filmiques-a-lens-louis-lumiere.html|symposium]] "Arts Filmiques et Expérimentations Optiques Contemporaines" at the ENS Louis-Lumière in Paris (October 2017).
   * [[https://iffr.com/en/2018/films/57|premiere]] of #57 at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (January 2018), and a [[http://www.joostrekveld.net/?p=2070|blogpost]] about #57.   * [[https://iffr.com/en/2018/films/57|premiere]] of #57 at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (January 2018), and a [[http://www.joostrekveld.net/?p=2070|blogpost]] about #57.
 +  * artist's talk at the Moscow International Experimental Film Festival (September 2018).
 +  * [[https://vectorhackfestival.com/guests/rekveld/|keynote and artist's presentation]] at the VectorHack Festival in Zagreb and Ljubljana (October 2018).
 +  * [[https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/film/dialogues-with-machines-joost-rekveld?program_id=11851256|Film programme]] curated for the Eye Film Institute in Amsterdam (November 2018).
 +  * artist's talk at the 'Golf' festival, Haarlem (December 2018).
 +  * artist's talk as part of the 'Memoires Vives' exhibition at the Zebrastraat, Ghent (January 2019).
 +  * artist's talk at the Digital Media Program of the Hochschule für Künste Bremen (January 2019).
 +  * exhibition of installation #71.1 during the Sonic Acts festival at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (February 2019).
 +  * artist's talk at Creative Coding Utrecht (May 2019).
 +  * exhibition of (partially reworked) installation #71.1 at iMal in Brussels. (November 2019)
 +  * seminar at the Center Leo Apostel (CLEA) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). (February 2020)
 +  * artist's talk at the Design Art Technology department of ArtEZ, Arnhem (May 2021)
 +  * artist's talk at the Institut für Musik und Medien, Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf (July 2021)
 +  * artist's talk at Media Arts Technology, University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) (October 2021)
 +  * Lasertalk Brussels at iMal, Brussels (December 2021)
 +  * artist's talk at the Design Art Technology department of ArtEZ, Arnhem (April 2022)
 +  * artist's talk at the Collegium Helveticum, Institute for Advanced Studies, Zurich (May 2022)
 +  * exhibition of video and in-progress analog computer plots at the exhibition "Wave: Moonshot Part Three", Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen (July-September 2022)
 +  * artist's talk at the Vectorhack Festival in Zagreb (October 2022)
 +  * try-out screenings of my film "Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena; #59" (2023, 79 minutes, 2K DCP) at the Vectorhack Festival in Zagreb and Šibenik (October 2022)
 +  * try-out screening of my film "Ueda's Shattered Egg, Prologue to #59" (2023, 14 minutes, 2K DCP) at the "Eureka!" event in the Beatrixpark, Amsterdam (October 2022)
 +  * artist's talk at the Dutch Film Academy in Amsterdam (November 2022)
 +  * artist's talk at the Digital Media Program of the Hochschule für Künste Bremen (November 2022).
 +  * screening/performance of "Ueda's Shattered Egg, Prologue to #59" (2023, 14 minutes, 2K DCP) during the opening night of the Inscience Science Film Festival, Nijmegen (March 2023)
 +  * artist's talk during the "Shifting Cosmologies: More Than Human XR" lunch series, V2 Lab, Rotterdam (May 2023)
 +  * try-out screening of my film "Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena; #59" (2023, 79 minutes, 2K DCP) at the Anifilm animation film festival in Liberec, Czechia (May 2023)
 +  * artist's talk "Dialogue with the Tool", Tetem, Enschede (May 2023)
 +  * premiere of my film "Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena; #59" (2023, 79 minutes, 2K DCP) at Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam (May 2023). A review by Dana Linssen (in Dutch) can be found [[https://filmkrant.nl/artikel/joost-rekvelds-mechanisms-common-to-disparate-phenomena-59/|here]].
 +  * artist's talk "Liberate the Machines !", live visuals performance and screening of film "Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena; #59" at Conflux festival, Rotterdam (June 2023)
 +  * screening/performance of "Ueda's Shattered Egg, Prologue to #59" (2023, 14 minutes, 2K DCP) during the "Obviously Unthinkable  #6, the Art of Cold War Science" event at iii in The Hague (September 2023)
 +  * presentation "Tending to Machines" during the "Alien Organicisms" panel at the 2023 conference of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, in Tempe, Arizona (October 2023)
 +  * screening of "Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena; #59" (2023, 79 minutes, 2K DCP) at the Light Matter Film Festival in Alfred, New York (November 2023) A review by Michael Sicinski can be found [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/mechanisms-to-59-93233800|here]] or [[https://kemono.su/patreon/user/14177788/post/93233800|here]] and a shorter review can be found [[https://st.letterboxd.com/film/mechanisms-common-to-disparate-phenomena-59/|here]].
  
 ===== this librarinth ===== ===== this librarinth =====
  
-The idea and form of this librarinth are inspired by the [[https://libarynth.org/|libarynth]] that has grown as part of the activities of [[http://www.fo.am|FoAm]], who describe it as: "a hybrid between a library and a labyrinth, a maze of pages in various stages of completion. It is a deeply intertwingled collection of documents, notes and randomness".+The idea and form of this librarinth are inspired by [[http://www.fo.am|FoAm]][[https://libarynth.org/|libarynth]]. They describe it as: "a hybrid between a library and a labyrinth, a maze of pages in various stages of completion. It is a deeply intertwingled collection of documents, notes and randomness".
  
-For nowthere is not much to see here, as I have just started on this research project, and also because I am still navigating the question of how to reconcile my desire for openness and sharing with the need for a walled garden where ideas can safely unfoldParts of this garden will open up soon and will be listed below, other things will find their way to my [[http://www.joostrekveld.net|blog]]. Eventually, all that is here will become public. If you are really interested, you can try asking for guest access, which will open [[guest start|this door]] for you.\\+After five years, I am still navigating the question of how to reconcile my desire for openness and sharing with the need for a walled garden where ideas are allowed to be fragileOver time the issue has also arisen that the pages on this site contain the material for several potential articles or other publications, so sharing before writing and publishing those has become a less obvious thing to do. So far, the path of least effort and resistance has been to just keep everything private, but not without regrets. The idea is that parts of this garden will open up and be listed below, other things will find their way to my [[http://www.joostrekveld.net|blog]]. Eventually, all that is here will become public.\\ 
 +If you are one of those with guest access, your password will open [[guest start|this door]] for you.\\
 You can always contact me [[http://www.joostrekveld.net/?page_id=1243|here]]. You can always contact me [[http://www.joostrekveld.net/?page_id=1243|here]].
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