From the 1862 series "Mécanisme de la physiologie humaine" by Guillaume Duchenne de Boulogne, at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris. #electrostimulation #systemsthatmatter

Reading these feels like catching up a tiny bit with my lack of ever reading Simondon (or any philosophy for that matter) in a collective setting. #Simondon #JeanHuguesBarthélémy #SystemsThatMatter

Brussels this afternoon, close to Gare du Midi. #bxl

The first day with rainy autumn weather and I couldn't help getting lost inside the folds that Tanburi Ali Efendi draped around makam Nişabur. What a piece ! #nişâbur ##nişâburmakamı #TanburîAliEfendi

I uploaded some short video documentation of the light installation #31(RGB) that I made with Gerard Holthuis in 2001. https://video.joostrekveld.net/w/3HNpfmSnaQXtp3AvZ9aosq (photo by Hein van Liempd) #lightart

Last week in Mannheim I encountered this great 2003 reprint of the 1928 German edition of Georgius Agricola's "De Re Metallica" originally from 1556, an early reference on the art, science, philosophy and economics of mining and chemistry. #GeorgiusAgricola #DeReMetallica #SystemsThatMatter

These two books are interesting to read through each other: Cairns-Smith in 1985, explaining his theory that life may have first evolved in (micro-)crystals before carbon-based substances took over, and the Belgian pre-science-fiction ('merveilleux […] [Original post on assemblag.es]

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Visited BASF Ludwigshafen today, 200 chemical plants on 10 square km, an important place in the history of chemistry, inventor of audio tape, producer of 15% of drink bubbles wordwide, of most citrus and lavender smells, pigments, foams and much more, one of the […] [Original post on assemblag.es]

Preparing not only for the upcoming tanbur/makam workshop, but also for the one after that... #muratAydemir #IsTanbur #artconnects.be #darülelhankülliyatı #pencgah #pençgâhmakamı

Finally all the tools are working (or at least for long enough to be useful), but for now the experiment still isn't... What bit of tacit knowledge am I still missing ? #otherSemiconductors #79 #TheSaltTransistor #SystemsThatMatter

Some of the individuals generated during the (very basic) helicopter-seeds inspired hands-on evolutionary algorithms workshop today at the minor ArtScience at KASK. #schoolofartsgent #minorArtScience #evolutionaryAlgorithms #systemsThatMatter

Xkcd 1732 was made ten years ago, but we're still _exactly_ on the "current path", which is, without exaggeration, the doomsday scenario. If we can't get the needle to move only a tiny bit over a decade, we need to be a lot louder apparently. For full accessible […] [Original post on mas.to]

In between all the other stuff I did manage to prepare for version seven of my setup, combining the approach of version five with some wisdom acquired through version six. #othersemiconductors #thesalttransistor #79 #systemsthatmatter

Yuk Hui's talk at V2 some days ago made me want to reread this little book by Gilles Chatelet, and especially the furious rant against the chaos theorists that it contains... from 1998. #gilleschatelet #vivreetpensercommedesporcs #systemsthatmatter

Yuk Hui at the 45th anniversary festivities at V2 in Rotterdam. #v2 #yukhui #stillunstable #systemsthatmatter

Trying... #otherSemiconductors #79 #SystemsThatMatter

So with version six we did get to 500 degrees (again) today, without breaking or melting anything, so that is great. But by now I have learned that a more important question is whether that can be done reliably.. Still far from certain and even a bit unlikely […] [Original post on assemblag.es]

Always interesting (and intense) to prepare a new seminar; this year's title is "Zombies, Machines and the Fabric of Life", and we will be reading texts by Vandana Shiva, Jessica Riskin, Hannah Arendt, Evelyn Fox Keller, Carolyn Merchant, Kalindi Vora, Sarah […] [Original post on assemblag.es]

In a week I will have to honour to take part in the festivities around the 45th anniversary of V2_ in Rotterdam. As part of the subtheme 'Unstable Tools' I will be interviewed by Arie Altena about stabilities and instabilities in the relationship to our […] [Original post on assemblag.es]

Almost ready for testing version six ! #otherSemiconductors #TheSaltTransistor #79 #SystemsThatMatter

There are many beautiful saz semaileri in makam Hüseyni, bit I don't quite understand why the one by Kemençeci Nikolaki (18?? - 1915) is not played more often. #kemençeciNikolaki #hüseynimakamı

In other news this friendly 'Red Admirable' was doing its thing just outside of the bedroom window this morning. #bxl

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117253629967855195 It is really interesting to see how articulate the discussions among mathematicians are when it comes to AI.

Aaaaaaand finally all pieces managed to fit together, so in principle we're ready to try out reproducing the Salt Transistor experiment. Let's hope that if it fails, it at least fails in an interesting way ! #otherSemiconductors #TheSaltTransistor #79 #SystemsThatMatter

Finally getting around again to causing some actual progress towards version five ! #otherSemiconductors #TheSaltTransistor #79 #SystemsThatMatter

"We do not intend to claim the Millennium Prize for this result." is ....something. I wrote at some point how in the social norms of mathematics research there seems to be a level of respect for PhD student projects by senior people: hearing that X's student is working on problem A, prof Y has […]

@Marloezovic US sanctions policy scares European internet sector Background Tech Internet service providers have become afraid of US intervention. The U.S. has recently been using terrorism sanctions as a means to take websites off the air. “I have informed the […] [Original post on waag.social]

The attentive viewer will have noticed that I more information about the planned retrospective programmes of my films at Cinema Nova in Brussels the coming weekend has not been provided; Due to previously unplanned renovation works Nova is opening a few weeks […] [Original post on assemblag.es]

As A/I has to cease operation, the importance of stopping this happening again increases. Re: Disabling of the autistici.org domain name by PIR From a letter by the President of the Italian Chapter of the Internet Society "we find these actions incompatible with dot org claiming to be the safe […]