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[17th November 2007 in Bergen, Norway] A speculative 12 hour life coding event (organising hardware and software): Saturday 17th November 2007 as part of the Piksel festival in Bergen, Norway.
PIKSEL07
"*chaos and benevolence* Nice title for a talk, it's about endophysics the world as an interface.
I'm afraid of hearing my own breath.
In not an artist - you'll realise how clumsy I am, in fact I think we all are artists.
I'm not ashamed for this reason to be here. It's other reasons i am afraid of."
-Otto Roessler 2007
The Panamanista's are about the crummiest people in the hemisphere -
I understand the Venezuelans offer competition -
but I have never encountered any group of citizens that brings me down like the canal zone civil service.
You cannot contact a civil servant on the level of intuition and empathy.
He just does not have receiving set, and he gives out like a dead battery.
There must be a special low frequency civil service brain wave.
The service men don't seem young. They have no enthusiasm and no conversation.
In fact, they shun the company of civilians.
The only elements in Panama I contact are the hip spades and they are all on the hustle.
William s. Burroughs & Allen Ginsburg. _The Yage Letters_ (1975: 4). San Francisco: City Lights Books.
Act 01
Room is chaotic time is out of joint. On the white board is written:
chaos ===> determinism noise ===> random they're opposite!
Jessica Rylan gives a talk about audio representations of chaos chaotic systems. Differential equations. J.C. Sprot, a writer from choas theory wrote, a book titled 'Chaos and time theory analysis'.
Extreme sensitivity to initial conditions, you can predict the future, but then your predictions start to fail.
We are building a circuit that exhibits chaos but then you build a circuit that doesn't exhibit chaos.
(the closer you get the further it recedes from view)
x is a voltage that is changing with time x is a function of time.
A voice asks "shouldn't we be studying chaos on an analogue circuit; rather than a computer representation of chaos?"
Windows of chaos and windows of stability.
While the guests quietly make their circuits of chaos, the room slows down into a smooth flow................................)
Act 02
LUDIC SOCIETY present
Bon jovi interface windows ludic.fallicy
Third life pleasure play with yourself (suitcase) homebrew buzzwords.
look partly on the table : look partly on the screen
Assmeblage Mannuel De Landa, existing parts parallel, this is game tech consumer open source c_++ elements.
The wave of the wavelann clouds defining tagging, a 2nd wave of RFID tags, each wall is your game console.
User movement. the fetish of this toy gadgetry, to read the waves and then the play can start.
She's playing life/ aesthetic circuit board perception
Act 03
Buzzing of the room, we caught up with time, people do their thing.
Fluids | vicerality | chemical concoction | Global warming > bring a gold coin = Global warming attempt to shift the world interface via magic.
Time Trouble, turbulence magnetic pendulum >
"Please be careful". Can you get the centre of it or maybe just come closer?
He tries to stop himself; it's subtle. He tries to destroy himself > but i guess that's part of the game.
Collection of material soul and spirit. It's not about measuring or values but playing with ideas.
If they get to close they just get mad.
You're always free to play around with the things. I'll tell you a story...Some material that comes out of the realm of the ghosts.
We work with basic physical ideas to try and lift it to another level, not physics, not meta-physics but behind that.
Select water, add some coins and sounds generate.
These are sticks for eating. The soup dragon is doing her job. We compare this heat with some ice. A rossler attractor, to enrich the whole thing.
We are totally amazed by candles this transition from something solid to something immaterial. Transforming this heat into a signal, into something physical into something metaphysical, to play with the ice.
We reach another level. First coupling and then with the attracting, I tried to bend these letters xxxxx.
ACT 04
WELCOME Otto Roessler
On the periffery someone with a buzzcocks T-shirt silently throws his weight around. Ambient suspicion rises.
Fondle a life coder who is making a map on a wall of words and circuits with plastic tape.
WELCOME Otto Roessler:
"The louder the microphone the lower my voice gets, we were in a universe, while the second half of my soul is the topic of this talk.
I am afraid I don't know if there is anything in the second half"
*chaos and benevolence*
"Nice title for a talk, it is about endophysics the world as an interface. I'm afraid of hearing my own breath. In not an artist - you'll realise how clumsy I am infact, I think we all are artists. I am not ashamed for this reason to be here. It is other reasons I am afraid of."
"In an edition of 1968 Rene Descartes, I found in an old bookstore some pages were marked by ears and I learned very much from these marked pages with the flipped ears. I had not known by Rene Descartes-"
I feel that every human person is allowed to make theory. Having one, a theory, means that you believe to know something that no one else in the world may know.
The whole world might be changed, persons are very dangerous people by definition. 1636 Rene Descartes. I am not a specialist, I am just a human being, a theory of person hood. It is not close enough to chaos to delve into it right now.
A few remarks... I find the way out again, it might be a trap to which I just fell.
Otto Continues:
"There is another world, everyone can make a theory. About a smile there are not many theories, about a smile it is not easy to talk about it.
Just out of the blue without being prepared that someting like this might happen. Laughter and smile are two activities that are very close. Strangely human species laugh and smile are on one scale. All our animal relatives keep a neat divide between them.
Chimpanzies make a wide open mouth, display silent, is the silent bared teeth display (Dog crys we hear but not laugh or is that barking).
Reunited with a friend the smile of bonding is when they smile. Bonding I will breifly mention its one feature which modern society seems to have forgotten.
That it exists bonding as a feature as a feeling that is deep and strong and rewarding in modern society it is sexuality and atrracting which is nonsense.
Ethology is just looking at animals and how they behave and finding rules and making sense out of it.
Just a perosn talking about subjective experience many constructs he found are all scientifically sound and valid".
Otto Dreams: "I am the laziest person in the world, I'm lying on a medow and doing nothing. The bees are all around me, but then sometimes I do nothing and I see something strange that is science. A sadist with pity.
If people love someone too much, they have to die because it destroys the democarcy.
Hemlock. Why did socrates stay and drink the poison? Lack of humility?
and Otto continutes...The essence of science is lack of knowledge, not knowing what will come out. Its intuition. Cartesian meditations on the abyss of consciousness. Reductionism - machine theory of the universe, on the other hand the treasure, the gift character of the consciousness. Edmond Hussel - cartesian meditations. Decartes combined sharp mathematical thinking, being humane, consiousness being a gift. Now is a gift too of the moment. Science doesn't know this somehow. as there is no machine to measure *NOW* why we are in a particular now at this very moment, now one can tell this situation is like an incubus situation, someone is sitting on your back and forcing you. This is essentially this question of Religion. He combined religion with science. You have to have these two parts of being human. Suspicion of benevolence, Jan Sabrino. I want him to go on publishing. *all animals are autistic*---> no one ever contradicted this statement, they are just smile blind, mirror competance - put yourself in position of the other, which only some animals can do. Magpie can talk. Galatic export human competant animals.
Dreamtime; string theory... Stephen Hawkins biggest smiler on the planet string theory 1970s.
Hawking evaporation - smallest level of matter. Everyone is happy, looking forward to the mini-theory of little black holes next may 2008. Movie.
Are chimpanzees people? I love BBC horizon. 97% of all people are opposed to the LHA. After 50million years the planet, the internet is a higher intelligence.
Smiling galaxy and the planet. Volitile sperm whale has the biggest brain on earth, dolphin has a brain more sophisticated than the human brain.
They come together and put their heads together.
Touch: compasion or benevolant humans have invented evil. The sperm whales they are all buddahs, the soul of the animals is the creator himself.
ACT 5
NULLPOINT *pornographic code working group*
social networks user generated content. Would_be_media whores. Essentially for people who know nothing about code.
Reproduce yourself, reproduction without procreation has a lot to do with porn.
Digitally develop myself and learn ventriloquism. Ready made codes *Pimpmy profile.com*
Endlessly replicate yourself in these networks bot_girls. Hack the code of pornography. Sexual needs and wondering. The people don't give a critical insight because they don't use, so there is a gap.
Demographic differences between myspace and facebook users, down market demographic writers on facebook middle-class encroachment of professional life capitalism in an obnoxious fashion narcissism sth-London authenticity.
Act 06
Stuart and Jessica stage a talk show. Life coders and associated people attempt to hack some porn, they come togehter placing their heads like dolphins +add wine.
But the streaming interview show host girl clarifys the gender role play. She is desperate to not play and equates code work with pure seriousness. Dangerous Move.
Crashcendo ===>
Jessica channels Judy Garland from her circuit box ===> Jessica keeps channelling Judy Garland from her circuit box. Jessica keeps channelling Judy Garland from her circuit box. Jessica keeps channelling Judy Garland from her circuit box.Jessica keeps channelling Judy Garland from her circuit box.Jessica keeps channelling Judy Garland from her circuit box.Jessica keeps channelling Judy Garland from her circuit box.Jessica keeps channelling Judy Garland from her circuit box.Jessica keeps channelling Judy Garland from her circuit box.
Life coder/s quit.
Afterword
Cloaked with an atmosphere of impending doom, this ends with a defiant breath of survival. Genuine sense of agony and ecstasy results of such an experience experiment, string arrangements, and creepy samples all laid out like a splattered painting of black paint. Devastatingly beautiful...It's not a pretty affair in the normal sense of the word, but its honesty is. Although hard to take. This is proof art can be used as a saviour. No one ever set out to do that here. This wasn't an art event, then or was it. *Experimental code-bent* would probably describe it. Alchemistry, spoken over the disrobe, beat off or beat them till today.
A cold gray season but the desolation of northern wintertime is nothing compared to the sonic devastation of the final execution.
"*" rolls in like a toxic fog; bells toll, strings groan, phantom, staring at voids in screens phones ring, aether is down aeather is up, an engine refuses to start, and then a voice comes in like a last prayer before the ship goes down.
When the music stops for a moment, her unaccompanied delivery reminds me of .... but there's none of tune's hallucinatory humour, only palpable anguish.
Then the crew lurches back into gear, all sampled scrapes and backwards tone-drizzle, and a fire and brimstone preacher bubbles up through the mix.
Streaming crew outside smoking and patting each other on the back. /dev/null/