A super interesting book looking at authors such as Kant and Goethe as precursors of thinking about the inorganic, which is a great and refreshingly oblique angle on the kind of things I was reading two years ago ("Kant's Organicism" by Jennifer Mensch for instance), and completely in line with the current (and still failing) crystal experiments.
(Many thanks @ueb_team161 for that great pointer !)
#WolfgangHottner #ImmanuelKant #Goethe #79 #SystemsThatMatter
From 2008 but just in: a cultural history of salt by Jakob Vogel. Any pointers to other cultural histories of substances are very welcome.
Testing ways to mount heater wire that will hopefully not result in tripping the fuses.
Today I encountered this 1958 edition of Korzybski's 1933 proto-cybernetic magniloquent magnum opus: I've come across references to his work often enough to not hesitate too long, even though I don't think we'll become good friends.
So this book is finally out: a great study of the life of a scientific film about fluid dynamics that was made almost exactly a century ago by Ludwig Prandtl in Göttingen.
#LudwigPrandtl #MarioSchulze #SarineWaltenspül #SystemsThatMatter
Yesterday was the opening of the first ever Research Days organized at KASK&Conservatorium in Ghent, loosely structured around the topic of play. The image is bad picture of Luanda Casella's great presentation during the first panel. Today I will be trying out a lecture performance at 17h, tomorrow I will be in a panel discussion with Kate Fletcher and Lambros Malafouris, moderated by Anca Uşurelu.
#schoofofartsgent #OtherSemiconductors #79 #SystemsThatMatter
From 2016 already, but just arrived and super relevant to my current concerns; looking forward very much to having more time to read again in a week or so...
In a week, I will give a lecture-performance under the title "The Salt Transistor", sharing some of my research for the installation #79 that I hope to produce in the coming year as a response to a commission by Werktank in Leuven.
#OtherSemiconductors #79 #SystemsThatMatter #Werktank
#SchoolofartsGent
The marvelous exhibition "Deep Fields" at the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles in Paris is still up for two weeks, including my installation #71.1 from 2019.
Curated by Félicie d’Estienne d’Orves and Olivier Schefer, in synergy with Stéphanie Pécourt.
During the time of the exhibition my book "Liberate the Machines !" is also for sale at the CWB.
#DeepFields #DialoguesWithMachines #SystemsThatMatter #LiberateTheMachines
Building things takes time, but we're getting there.
Joost Rekveld