Joost RekveldJun 23

Super happy to finally hold a physical copy of my book. It will be out and available after the summer, please contact me if you are interested to review it or to organize an event around it.

#LiberateTheMachines! #DialoguesWithMachines #SystemsThatMatter #MediaArchaeology #AnalogComputing #ExperimentalCinema #MechanismsCommonToDisparatePhenomena

copublished with KASK&Conservatorium Ghent, designed by Isabelle Vigier, final editing by Bureau Doove.

Show threadJonasJun 23
@joost_rekveld
Love tje cover! Sorry for the daft question but what is it about?
Show threadJoost Rekveld

Great question @magnetic_tape !

For the time being I can offer the flaptext as a partial response:

Jun 23 at 12:43pmWeb
Show threadJoost RekveldJun 23
@magnetic_tape "This publication came out of the artistic research project Dialogues With Machines and narrates Joost Rekveld’s personal experience of such a dialogue while making the experimental film Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena; #59. During this process the dialogue changed, the notion of learning from machines changed, and Rekveld’s views on technology, mathematics, and media archaeology were also transformed as a result."
Show threadJoost RekveldJun 23

@magnetic_tape

“Our technical milieu is a collective product, a long-term external memory to which each generation contributes. We cannot act or think without it, and the design and development of our technology is therefore a form of politics that shapes our life-world, our planet and ourselves.

Show threadJoost RekveldJun 23

@magnetic_tape

... During this project, media archaeology became an approach to investigating this collective construction. Conversely, it led to an understanding of films, installations, talks, and writings as small gestures that may contribute to shaping it.”

Show threadJonasJun 23
@joost_rekveld
Thanks! Would the film be available to watch somewhere online by any chance?