GLI.TC/H 20111 Reader[r0r] (2012)

A selection of texts from authors and artists about digital decay, signal interruption, system collapse, and failure.

GLI.TC/H is a physical and virtual assembly of artists, hackers, moshers, dirty mediators, noise makers, circuit benders, p/h/i/l/o/s/o/p/h/e/r/s, and those who find wonder in that which others call broken.

GLI.TC/H is an annual international noise && [dirty] new-media event/conference/symposium/festival/gathering for makers and breakers.

With contributions by Tom McCormack, Curt Cloninger, Jon Satrom, Nick Briz, Rosa Menkman, Iman Moradi, Hannah Piper Burns, Evan Meaney, Channel TWo, Mez, Jon Cates, Matthew Fuller, JODI, Alexander Galloway, A Bill Miller, Laimonas Zakas, Iman Moradi

Editors: Nick Briz, Evan Meaney, Rosa Menkman, William Robertson, Jon Satrom, Jessica Westbrook
Publisher: Unsorted Books, February 2012
ISBN: 978-4-9905200-1-4
Copy<it>right license, copying/sharing is encouraged/appreciated
61 pages

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GlitchBlog, GlitchBlog (Archived)
GlitchWiki
project’s Kickstarter page

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Sher Doruff: The Translocal Event and the Polyrhythmic Diagram (2006)

This thesis identifies and analyses the key creative protocols in translocal performance practice, and ends with suggestions for new forms of transversal live and mediated performance practice, informed by theory. It argues that ontologies of emergence in dynamic systems nourish contemporary practice in the digital arts. Feedback in self-organised, recursive systems and organisms elicit change, and change transforms. The arguments trace concepts from chaos and complexity theory to virtual multiplicity, relationality, intuition and individuation (in the work of Bergson, Deleuze, Guattari, Simondon, Massumi, and other process theorists). It then examines the intersection of methodologies in philosophy, science and art and the radical contingencies implicit in the technicity of real-time, collaborative composition. Simultaneous forces or tendencies such as perception/memory, content/expression and instinct/intellect produce composites (experience, meaning, and intuition- respectively) that affect the sensation of interplay. The translocal event is itself a diagram – an interstice between the forces of the local and the global, between the tendencies of the individual and the collective. The translocal is a point of reference for exploring the distribution of affect, parameters of control and emergent aesthetics. Translocal interplay, enabled by digital technologies and network protocols, is ontogenetic and autopoietic; diagrammatic and synaesthetic; intuitive and transductive. KeyWorx is a software application developed for real-time, distributed, multimodal media processing. As a technological tool created by artists, KeyWorx supports this intuitive type of creative experience: a real-time, translocal “jamming” that transduces the lived experience of a “biogram,” a synaesthetic hinge-dimension. The emerging aesthetics are processual – intuitive, diagrammatic and transversal.

Doctor of Philosophy, SMARTlab Programme in Performative New Media Arts, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, University of the Arts, London
288 pages

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PDF (Appendix “The KeyWorx Interviews: Transcripts of Interviews and Conversations with KeyWorx Artists”)

Pool (2011-2012)

“Pool is a platform dedicated to expanding and improving the discourse between online and offline realities and their cultural, societal and political impact on each other.”

Contributors: Absis Minas, Andreas Ervik, Andrew Norman Wilson, Ann Hirsch, Anne de Vries, Billy Rennekamp, Bunny Rogers, Caitlin Denny, Casey A. Von Gollan, Constant Dullaart, Daniel G. Baird, Devin Kenny, Duncan Malashock, Erik Stinson, Eugene Kotlyarenko, Gene McHugh, Ginger Scott, Harry Burke, Isabel Gylling & Matthew Ferguson, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Jennifer Chan, Jimmy Chen, Joanne McNeil, Jordan Tate, Joshua Simon, Karen Archey, Kate Steciw, Katja Novitskova, Leo Merz, Louis Doulas, Marisa Olson, Martin Jaeggi, Nicholas O’Brien, Patrick Armstrong, Riyo Nemeth, Robert John, Robert Lorayn, Ry David Bradley, Ryan Barone, Samuel Riviere, Sofia Leiby, Timur Si-Qin, Tom Moody, Wyatt Niehaus

Editor: Louis Doulas
Contributing editors: Absis Minas, Ria Roberts, Sofia Leiby
PDF design: Rasmus Svensson
Pool can easily be physically distributed and stocked at any gallery, shop, library, etc. by simply downloading each month’s PDF issue and printing.

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