MachineMachine /stream - tagged with noise http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com Peter Krapp: Noise Channels: Glitch and Error in Digital Culture (2011) http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4169 To err is human; to err in digital culture is design. In the glitches, inefficiencies, and errors that ergonomics and usability engineering strive to surmount, Peter Krapp identifies creative reservoirs of computer-mediated interaction. Throughout new media cultures, he traces a resistance to the heritage of motion studies, ergonomics, and efficiency, showing how creativity is stirred within the networks of digital culture. ]]> Wed, 23 May 2012 09:46:17 -0700 http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4169 Is Chernobyl a Wild Kingdom or a Radioactive Den of Decay? http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/04/ff_chernobyl//is-chernobyl-a-wild-kingdom-or-a-radioactive-den-of-decay-wired-magazine-wiredcom Is Chernobyl a Wild Kingdom or a Radioactive Den of Decay? : http://t.co/kh6tlzxk #hybrids #mutants #nature #thezone ]]> Fri, 20 Apr 2012 07:36:29 -0700 http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/04/ff_chernobyl//is-chernobyl-a-wild-kingdom-or-a-radioactive-den-of-decay-wired-magazine-wiredcom Madmen Bittorrent Edition http://vimeo.com/20465929/madmen-bittorrent-edition

Video comprising one episode of Madmen incompletely downloaded from the internet via bittorrent. The video has been linearly edited, no digital effects were used and all jump cuts and repeats are in the corrupted file.

The video captures an episode of the popular TV show in the act of being shared by thousands of users on bittorent. The video simultaneously acts as a visualisation of bittorrent traffic and the practice of filesharing and is an aesthetically beautiful by product of the bittorrent process as the pieces of the original file are rearranged and reconfigured into a…

]]> Sat, 14 Apr 2012 18:01:40 -0700 http://vimeo.com/20465929/madmen-bittorrent-edition Arthur Schopenhauer on Noise http://www.noisehelp.com/schopenhauer-quotes.html/arthur-schopenhauer-quotes-on-noise-studies-in-pessimism-essay "On Noise" by Arthur Schopenhauer: http://t.co/Tczuzobr cc @hollypesty ]]> Tue, 13 Mar 2012 04:20:24 -0700 http://www.noisehelp.com/schopenhauer-quotes.html/arthur-schopenhauer-quotes-on-noise-studies-in-pessimism-essay The New Bleak: Trauma, Haunting And The Cultural Obsession With Darkness http://thequietus.com/articles/07838-the-new-bleak/07838-the-new-bleak

Perusing the avalanche of best-of lists leading up to the New Year, the most interesting releases seemed to me to be of the sluggish and spooky sort. (Sometime in mid-November, it got to the point that I seriously started suspecting records marked as 33rpm.) Upon its release (on Valentine’s of all days) Pitchfork’s Joe Colly described Tim Hecker’s Ravedeath 1972 as “a dark and often claustrophobic record” that “is by no means about prettiness or tranquility.” Rip Empson of XLR8R called Hype Williams’ One Nation “the musical expression of a 48-hour sleepless walkabout.” Brian Kolada’s Resident Advisor review of Raime’s Hennail ep notes the prevalence of “darkened pools of reverb” summoning “a gloomy horror-flick vibe.” George Bass of Drowned In Sound portrayed Andy Stott’s recent works as “dark, twisted house”. Abeano’s Rhian characterized The Haxan Cloak’s music as “creepy”, “eerie”, and “bewitched”. Massive Attack and Burial’s “long dark collaborative effort” invokes “the gloomiest moments ever”, according to Sam Hockley-Smith of The Fader. Charlie Hale wrote in the pages of the Quietus of how Oneohtrix Point Never’s Replica opens on a heavenly note before it “dives off to somewhere far darker”. And looking toward promising upcoming recordings from moody labels like Kranky, Hyperdub, Tri Angle, and Blackest Ever Black, there’s not much light glimmering at the end of the tunnel. All of this begs the question: why so glum, chums?

]]> Wed, 29 Feb 2012 03:37:08 -0700 http://thequietus.com/articles/07838-the-new-bleak "Models of communication are…not merely representations of communication but representations for..." http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/17947545876 “Models of communication are…not merely representations of communication but representations for communication: templates that guide, unavailing or not, concrete processes of human interaction, mass and interpersonal.”

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James Carey, Communication as Culture: Essays on Media and Society

The Shannon and Weaver Model - The Late Age of Print

 ]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:21:08 -0700 http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/17947545876 Cross-section of a tree played like a record on a turntable http://boingboing.net/2012/01/19/cross-section-of-a-tree-played.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter/cross-section-of-a-tree-played-like-a-record-on-a-turntable-boing-boing Cross section of a tree played like a record on a turntable (via @boingboing) http://t.co/GRnvPszB ]]> Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:54:06 -0700 http://boingboing.net/2012/01/19/cross-section-of-a-tree-played.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter/cross-section-of-a-tree-played-like-a-record-on-a-turntable-boing-boing On the trail of the wild and wonderful @Horse_ebooks http://splitsider.com/2012/01/the-ballad-of-horse_ebooks/the-ballad-of-horse-ebooks-splitsider On the trail of the wild and wonderful @Horse_ebooks : http://t.co/QYGn0092 #fb ]]> Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:06:45 -0700 http://splitsider.com/2012/01/the-ballad-of-horse_ebooks/the-ballad-of-horse-ebooks-splitsider Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island http://machinemachine.net/text/research/a-mark-on-crusoes-island

This mini-paper was given at the Escapologies symposium, at Goldsmiths University, on the 5th of December

Daniel Defoe’s 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe centres on the shipwreck and isolation of its protagonist. The life Crusoe knew beyond this shore was fashioned by Ships sent to conquer New Worlds and political wills built on slavery and imperial demands. In writing about his experiences, Crusoe orders his journal, not by the passing of time, but by the objects produced in his labour. A microcosm of the market hierarchies his seclusion removes him from: a tame herd of goats, a musket and gunpowder, sheafs of… ]]> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 09:50:14 -0700 http://machinemachine.net/text/research/a-mark-on-crusoes-island Digital Decay (2001): by Bruce Sterling http://variablemedia.net/pdf/Sterling.pdf/digital-decay-2001-by-bruces-quotentropy-requires-no-maintenance-entropy-has-its-own-poetryquot-httptcoa87gldl-x #Digital Decay, 2001: by @bruces "Entropy requires no maintenance. #Entropy has its own poetry." http://t.co/A87gLDL #x ]]> Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:59:32 -0700 http://variablemedia.net/pdf/Sterling.pdf/digital-decay-2001-by-bruces-quotentropy-requires-no-maintenance-entropy-has-its-own-poetryquot-httptcoa87gldl-x Michel Serres's Milieux http://www.stevenconnor.com/milieux/ There is a Yiddish expression used in London which always gives me a little jolt of pleasure whenever I hear it. ‘In mitten drinnen’ corresponds to German ‘In mitten darin’, which means ‘in the middle of it’ or ‘in the middle of things’. Actually, in common use, the phrase might be more idiomatically rendered as ‘right in the middle’: though this is a bizarre-enough phrase in itself. If it is really right in the middle, dead centre, as we also sometimes say, then why does the word used to signify this seem to have a list, in etymologically leaning to… ]]> Tue, 02 Aug 2011 04:49:58 -0700 http://www.stevenconnor.com/milieux/ Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean http://machinemachine.net/text/ideas/kipple-and-things

This is paper (more of an essay, really) was originally delivered at the Birkbeck/London Consortium ‘Rubbish Symposium‘, 30th July 2011

Living at the very limit of his means, Philip K. Dick, a two-bit, pulp sci-fi author, was having a hard time maintaining his livelihood. It was the 1950s and Dick was living with his second wife, Kleo, in a run-down apartment in Berkley, California, surrounded by library books Dick later claimed, “They could not afford to pay the fines on.”

In 1956, Dick had a short story published in a brand new pulp magazine: Satellite Science Fiction. Entitled, ]]> Sun, 31 Jul 2011 10:28:32 -0700 http://machinemachine.net/text/ideas/kipple-and-things RAWTunes.exe 10.4.2 http://machinemachine.net/text/arts/rawtunes-exe-10-4-2

I’ve released a single.

Yes me, a music single.

It’s 99p on iTunes:

RAWTunes.exe 10.4.2

[soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/11755787" params="show_comments=true&auto_play=false&color=073642" width="100%" height="81" ]

But is it noise-art or just digital sinister?

]]> Fri, 22 Jul 2011 04:46:39 -0700 http://machinemachine.net/text/arts/rawtunes-exe-10-4-2 The Essence of VHS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt5LOmKhjco&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:01:03 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt5LOmKhjco&feature=youtube_gdata Digital Autonomy http://art-research.co.uk/digital-autonomy-a-reponse-to-hito-steyerl

“Is an ephemeral image, a moment in a streaming video, a thing? Or if the image is frozen as a still, is it now a thing? Is a dream, a city, a sensation, a derivative, an ideology, a decay, a kiss? I haven’t the least idea.”

Extract from David Miller, Materiality : An Introduction [1]

In A Thing Like You and Me, Hito Steyerl plays out her ongoing obsession with the copy, skirting briefly over her wider, yet more implicit concern: the digital. Echoing the work of Bruno Latour, Steyerl acknowledges the materiality by which… ]]> Sat, 11 Jun 2011 04:02:00 -0700 http://art-research.co.uk/digital-autonomy-a-reponse-to-hito-steyerl/is-an-ephemeral-image-a-moment-in-a-streaming-video-a Cory Arcangel Goes Old School http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/06/artseen/webbed-outcory-arcangel-goes-old-school Arcangel’s conflicted relationship  with technology drives his artistic practice and pervades Pro Tools, the artist’s first solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. At 33, Arcangel will be the youngest artist ever to receive an entire floor for new work. The exhibition features product demonstrations of mostly outdated technologies Ataris, Commodores, Pen Plotter Printers, to express suspicions about contemporary digital culture. The show is conspicuously absent of the Internet, ironic given Arcangel’s prolific body of web-art: no YouTube mash-ups of Lolcats playing Schoenberg, or digitally altered photographs morphing Paris Hilton into Macaulay Culkin and vice versa, or browser-based… ]]> Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:11:05 -0700 http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/06/artseen/webbed-outcory-arcangel-goes-old-school Loving the Ghost in the Machine: Aesthetics of Interruption http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=312 In science fiction, ghosts in machines always appear as malfunctions, glitches, interruptions in the normal flow of things. Something unexpected appears seemingly out of nothing and from nowhere. Through a malfunction, a glitch, we get a fleeting glimpse of an alien intelligence at work. As electricity has become the basic element of the world we live in, the steady hum of power grids and their flowing immaterial essences slowly replacing the cogs and cranks of everyday machinery, the ghostly rapport has also relocated into the domain of current fluctuations, radio interference and misread data.

Early telegraph experimenters… ]]> Sat, 09 Apr 2011 02:17:47 -0700 http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=312 “Primal Sound” by rainer maria rilke http://kaganof.com/kagablog/2008/12/19/%E2%80%9Cprimal-sound%E2%80%9D-by-rainer-maria-rilke/ it must have been when i was a boy at school that the phonograph was invented. at any rate it was at that time a chief object of public wonder; this was probably the reason why our science master, a man given to busying himself with all kinds of handiwork, encouraged us to try our skill in making one of these instruments from the material that lay nearest to hand. nothing more was needed than a piece of pliable cardboard bent to the shape of a funnel, on the narrower round orifice of which was stuck a piece of impermeable… ]]> Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:10:15 -0700 http://kaganof.com/kagablog/2008/12/19/%E2%80%9Cprimal-sound%E2%80%9D-by-rainer-maria-rilke/ Infinite Glitch.com http://infiniteglitch.com/ Every day an incomprehensible number of new digital media files are uploaded to hosting sites across the internet. Far too many for any one person to consume. Infinite Glitch is a stream-of-conciousness representation of this overwhelming flood of media, its fractured and degraded sounds and images reflecting how little we as an audience are able to retain from this daily barrage.

Infinite Glitch is an automated system that generates an ever-changing audio/video stream from the constantly increasing mass of media files freely available on the web. Source audio and video files are ripped from a variety of… ]]> Wed, 09 Mar 2011 06:50:45 -0700 http://infiniteglitch.com/ Post-Digital Aesthetics and the return to Modernism http://ian-andrews.org/texts/postdig.html What is it that constitutes (a) post-digital art, and how can it be thought in terms of aesthetic theory – or even post-aesthetic theory?

In one sense, post-digital(1) refers to works that reject the hype of the so-called digital revolution.  The familiar digital tropes of purity, pristine sound and images and perfect copies are abandoned in favour of errors, glitches and artefacts.  And in another sense (as in the term post-modernism) it refers to the continuation or completion of that trajectory.  Post-digital music incudes a number of sub-genres: glitch, clicks & cuts, microsound, headphonics, etc.  All are,… ]]> Sun, 27 Feb 2011 05:57:48 -0700 http://ian-andrews.org/texts/postdig.html