Mastodawn

Cut a Möbius strip down the middle. Expecting two pieces, you get one, longer, with twice as many twists. The more you try to separate knowing from making – theory from practice, template from floor – the more surface there is to walk.

#anarchive #crafting #moebiusstrip #mathematics #appliedmathematics #reimaginingtechnology #patterns

https://anarchive.fo.am/fn/ag/dissecting_a_moebius_strip/

FoAM Mar 6

July 2024. A terrace in Istria. Tiles half-laid, some already fixed, a template that doesn't match the floor, an unanswered voice call from Brussels. 480 limestone pieces, CNC-cut from a shape proven mathematically a few months before. One constraint: no tile can be flipped.

Three months, a long hot summer to find out if the pattern held.

https://anarchive.fo.am/silver/spectres/

#aperiodic #tiling #spectre #anarchive #aperiodicmonotile #mathematics #appliedmathematics #reimaginingtechnology #patterns

IHC Mar 6

📖 @paulaalbuquerque is the author of the chapter ‘Glitching Colonial Film Archives Digital File Manipulation and Ecological Analogue Processing as Decolonial Anarchival Strategies,’ included in the book 'Slow Technology Reader', edited by Carolyn F. Strauss.

👉 https://valiz.nl/en/publications/slow-technology-reader

#Histodons #FilmArchives #Anarchive #Colonialism #ColonialFilms #Cinema #Arquivos #Colonialism #FilmStudies

fcr Dec 29

SMILE: SELL YOUR ARCHIVE
issue of the international magazine of multiple origins published by Pete Horobin, Dundee, Scotland, 1987

scanned and online for the first time:
https://archive.org/details/smile-sell-your-archive/

This zine from 1987 addresses an urgent issue that has only become more pressing in the meantime: How to preserve personal and non-institutional collections of DIY/small press experimental publications, zines, mail art, and similar materials?

Open letter by Pete Horobin, with replies by Robin Crozier, Simon Anderson, Robin Klassnik, John Furnival, Susan Young, Michael Leigh & Hazel Jones, Mark Pawson, Stewart Home, Stefan Szczelkun, Art Naphro, Keith Bates, Ben Allen, DJ at FOMT, Tony Lowes, David Jarvis, Eric Finlay, Barry Edgar Pilcher, Michael Scott & subsequent replies by Pete Horobin.

#mailart #smallpress #zines #anarchive #archives #neoism #smilemagazine

FoAM Nov 1

For the season when boundaries thin—

Organic Abstraction: a deconstructed photobook, an exhibition-in-a-box. Loose hand-cut cahiers in a slipcase. Images printed with iridescent ink, on contrasting paper textures, translucent sheets veiling the threshold between text and image.

Pages that stand upright, creating spatial interruptions. Images that sprawl across tables, shelves, altars – you choose the arrangements, the juxtapositions. The anarchiving continues in your hands.

From two decades of walking and watching, attending to lifeworlds on scales other than our own. Moss and oil slicks. Root networks, wave patterns, desert stone – organic forms photographed so intimately that micro and macro collapse.

Afterimages – not quite memory, not quite now. Double exposures where pasts and futures fold into unstable presents. Matter that looks back. Images that refuse to stay in their own time.

Continents meet in palm-sized cahiers. Conceived in late 2020 as a gift for those confined indoors by illness, weather, conflict.

https://fo.am/publications/organic-abstraction/

Part of FoAM's #Anarchive – experimental publishing as practice of care.

By Rasa Alksnytė, Nik Gaffney, and Maja Kuzmanović, introduced by Branka Benčić.

Limited batch, hand-assembled by the artists. For inquiries: [email protected]

FoAM Sep 10, 2025

What if weaving had kept its memory for weather and weight? What if code was written live? Electronics exposed?

Developed through studio visits with @thentrythis in Sheffield and Cornwall last autumn, three new texts from FoAM's Anarchive trace technology's minor paths and forgotten possibilities.

#anarchive #algorithms #pattern #reimaginingtechnology #weaving #coding #livecoding #tidalcycles #organisedatoms #jacquard #counterfactualcomputing

pascalebarret Jan 23, 2025

https://constallationss.hotglue.me/?ASMR
#constallations #asmr #anarchive @annieabrahams @alixdesaubliaux @alicelenay

ASMR

fcr Dec 17, 2024

- This concerns my own archive of materials from 1980s/1990s DIY cultural networks around Neoism, consisting mostly of zines, and pamphlets. I always wanted it to be public, but considered art institutions unsuitable due to restricted access to their archives, Neoism's distance to the art system, and vice versa the little art curatorial value and appreciation of such subcultural materials.

At the University of Dundee, efforts to preserve Pete Horobin’s (thematically and interpersonally related, archiving-as-daily-art-practice) Attic Archive led me to donate my archive there, trusting librarians for their understanding of cultural commons and alternatives to commercial regimes.

Longer story here: https://pod.thing.org/posts/2552034

#archive #anarchiving #anarchive #neoism

A question about the best way to ship a printing/zine archive [8 mo...

A question about the best way to ship a printing/zine archive [8 moving boxes weighing a total of 95 kilograms] from Rotterdam to Dundee/Scotland, to the crowd wisdom here. Commercial shipping seems to cost about 2000 EUR... Does anyone know of cheaper alternatives? Could someone transport it privately against reimbursement? The long story Some of you know that I have a large archive of materials (mostly zines, pamphlets and letters, but also self-published books, audio cassettes, video tapes and Super 8 films) from the DIY cultural networks of Neoism and related multi-use identity projects such as SMILE ("the magazine of multiple origins") and the Luther Blissett Project. This archive also includes the 1980s Neoism archive of my friend Graf Haufen who left it to me in the 1990s. It provided the material for various Neoist websites and the book 'A Neoist Research Project'. For a long time, I had been looking for a suitable place to make it available to the public. Art institutions w...

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TechnopoliceBXL-agenda Apr 2, 2024

Permanence bibliothèque

29 avril 2024, 17:00:00 CEST - GMT+2 - anarchive, 101 Rue Josaphat (Schaerbeek)

https://agenda.collectifs.net/events/7cf6dece-e113-4ed8-8198-add0e0e706c5

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29 avr. 2024, 17:00:00 - GMT+2 - anarchive, 101 Rue Josaphat (Schaerbeek) - Nos livres sont accessibles et empruntables à l'anarchive, les lundis de 17 à 19h, au 101 rue Josaphat à Schaerbeek.

TechnopoliceBXL-agenda Apr 2, 2024

Permanence bibliothèque

22 avril 2024, 17:00:00 CEST - GMT+2 - anarchive, 101 Rue Josaphat (Schaerbeek)

https://agenda.collectifs.net/events/c5272f92-5b08-4e84-a287-9c3ed6467205

Permanence bibliothèque

22 avr. 2024, 17:00:00 - GMT+2 - anarchive, 101 Rue Josaphat (Schaerbeek) - Nos livres sont accessibles et empruntables à l'anarchive, les lundis de 17 à 19h, au 101 rue Josaphat à Schaerbeek.