Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮Stumbled across a beautifully illustrated book about Communications among various portable Amstrad computers (and a dusty DECmate) in The Wee Museum of Memory in Edinburgh 📚
https://www.livingmemory.org.uk
J. A. JonesNew three-part publication set presenting a comprehensive system-theoretical framework for the structural reconstruction of the Voynich Manuscript:
Monograph: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19410209
Entry Note: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19410808
Executive Summary: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19410495
Author ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-1546-7234
#Voynich #AcademicResearch #SystemsTheory #Musicology #Archaeology #Philology #CognitiveScience #MediaStudies #DigitalHumanities
The Voynich Manuscript: A Systematic Reconstruction of Its Motoric Notation System and Acoustic Function
This monograph presents a comprehensive structural reconstruction of the Voynich Manuscript (Beinecke MS 408) based solely on its observable formal properties. Using a systemic, transcription‑independent analytical framework, the study demonstrates that the manuscript does not encode linguistic, cryptographic, botanical, medical, or cosmological content. Instead, it constitutes a functional, multimodal system integrating modular motoric sequences, cyclical diagrammatic architectures, layered operational structures, and resonance‑based dynamics. The analysis identifies the manuscript as a bimanual motoric notation system whose internal logic corresponds to the technique of a Gothic harp with a double‑string bordun. Glyph sequences function as modular action units; diagrams provide cyclical and spatial form models; iconographic elements depict bodily coordination, acoustic resonance, and regenerative procedures. Together, these components form a coherent operational ecology for the execution of structured acoustic and motoric processes. The study situates the manuscript within a premodern workshop environment involving multiple scribes, embedded in a socially coordinated acoustic practice rather than a textual or symbolic tradition. This contextualization supports the manuscript’s authenticity and explains its multimodal, practice‑oriented structure. The monograph offers the first internally consistent explanation of the manuscript’s architecture, providing a reproducible analytical method, a functional classification, and a complete reconstruction of its structural logic.
Petr NuskaProfessor / Associate Professor (Tenure Track) in Visual Culture
University of Lapland, Rovaniemi
Tenure-track position in visual culture within the Faculty of Art and Design, focusing on research, teaching, and leadership in media, visual communication, and digitality. Open at Associate Professor (5-year TT) or full Professor level depending on experience.
📍 Rovaniemi, Finland
Deadline: 26/04/2026
NeuralNew Neural issue #78 Voices, Humans, Machines is hot from the press, a special issue, featuring an exceptional artist intervention: “VOICE_ERASE.PY”, a limited edition poster with code by Robin Rimbaud / Scanner, as well as the Sussura Luce sound art festival catalogue, created in conjunction with the issue.
> https://neural.it/issues/neural-78-voices-humans-machines/
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Interviews:
Machine Listening
Tomomi Adachi
Erin Gee
Pedro Oliveira
#neuralmag #neuralmagazine #musicreview #electronicmusic #experimentalmusic #analoganddigital #soundart #netart #aiart #artificialintelligenceart #artandtechnology #artinstallation #artsci #artscience #artsciencetechnology #audiovisualart #digitalart #digitalcultures #mediaart #criticaltheory #mediatheory #newmediaart #technoculture #artmagazine #welovemagazines #arttech #artandtech #mediastudies
The Internet is CrackFrom Isolated to Connected
Extremist beliefs didn’t disappear—they found each other. Online spaces made it easier for fringe communities to grow, validate themselves, and spread their ideas.
The full episode looks at how platform design, incentives, and disinformation reshape public conversation.
Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/6n1fQqdu5Gw
#Fedi #DigitalEthics #Disinformation #MediaStudies #TechAccountability
Max BonhommeNouveau papier sur HAL ! https://hal.science/hal-05564515v1
"Réel ou symbolique. Le bruit des images techniques" dans Georges Didi-Huberman et Peter Geimer (dir.), Message ou bruit ? De la lisibilité des images, Paris, Éditions de la MSH / Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art (coll. Passages), à paraître 2026/2027.
Où il est question du bruit de Perlin, du bruit en photographie et de l'IA.
C'est le pre-print (sans les images pour l'instant).
Robert HeinzePublikation! Ich habe ja schon einmal angedeutet, dass ich ein paar Überlegungen zur Stimme im Radio/des Radios angestellt habe, aus Anlass eines Literaturberichts zur Globalgeschichte des Radios. Jetzt OA aufgeschaltet in der aktuellen Ausgabe der @nplreview.bsky.social :
https://www.neue-politische-literatur.tu-darmstadt.de/article/5453/galley/5911/download/
@histodons
#radio #geschichte #globalgeschichte #mediastudies
Not All Voices Are Equal Online
The web promised more democratic conversation—but power, profit, and platform design still shape who gets heard.
In our episode with Alice E. Marwick, we explore how social movements push back, why bad actors thrive, and why meaningful discourse remains so difficult.
Watch the full discussion here:
https://youtu.be/6n1fQqdu5Gw
#BruceSterling*This woman's very genuine expertise in 100+ year old silent film is serving her well here. #mediastudies #deadmedia #deadAI
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The Communication History exhibit at the National Museum of Scotland is fantastic. The material culture of telegraph, assistive tech and disability, undersea cables and telephone booths, Minitel terminals and the BBC micro.
https://www.nms.ac.uk/collections/departments/science-technology/technology
#minitel #history #museum #mediastudies #communication #retrocomputing
