STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS POSTER

The poster of the exhibition STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS by Jacob Sikker Remin. With a texts on pixels by me and Anders (and others) and some pixel art by Raquel. Also, a frame of Radio Dada is part of the pixel exhibition @ UAVM

gravitational radiation

my appearance is your canvas your quirks are your brush you drag it imperfections caused through decay all your wildness does not need to be tamed no need for acceptance the positive feedback there are no norms anymore Accidents between us communication flaws and frictions I did not mean to speak another language I did not mean to burn there is no acceptance there is nothing present only incineration i must face How to understand your devastation How to make paths through something I still not recognize ...I can only follow tides of madness I travel along, no more defined by time No more now or before I am on the spot, transforming within the real what were once possibilities is now faded gravitational radiation a new orbit has started

Destroying the bitmap, deconstructing the pixel.

Deconstructed pixel (heart) If you would follow stAllio, who has written a great and way more elaborate tutorial on this kind of image bending, then this effect would have to be called the TextEdit effect (because my method followed the rules of his Wordpad effect, but was executed in TextEdit). But apart from that TextEdit effect doesn't really sound nice, (or does it?) I think this kind of naming of an effect/bent is not sufficient, because the effect is not (just) dependent on the software but on specific changes in the code. Although it is a more general name, I think that the more general term 'image bending' (or data bending, yes mcfiredrill :), still works a lot better. How its done: open a BMP file in TextEdit (or wordpad, or... ), move some code from here to there and then save it.

From Weak Ties to Organized Networks

In March 2009 the Institute of Network Cultures brought 12 networks to Amsterdam for a week of getting things done. Aim of the Winter Camp was to confront the virtual networks with the real.

In the Winter Camp the networks focussed on questions like logistics, the handling of conflicts, politics, hierarchies, collaborations, finances, legal structures, copyright problems and dissemination within the different networks. Central issues were how the networks handled their scale in the past and how they would productively proceed being an active, strong network in the future (or why not). Today, most people take part in the many similar, big, controlled sticky bubbles called networks, that aggregate users and content through different channels within (and outside) the internet. As most of these virtual networks have emerged from a history of veteran cyberspace networks like the demoscene, insight could be gained by asking if these younger networks have similar dynamics as these old hand networks and what sort of political and institutional prehistory might be part of the continuum of political culture in these juvenile networks. Other, recurrent main questions that the Winter Camp dealt with were how to describe specific network models and how to write a network historiography.

At Winter Camp I did some interviews with networks that have ties with the demoscene (dyne.org and Goto10). These interviews are (amongst others) now published, together with other reports, registrations and interviews in a book called From Weak Ties to Organized Networks by the Institute of Network Cultures. You can order a free copy here. Together with the other publications of the Institute of Network Cultures this publication contributes to theory on how to study networks.

Editor: Geert Lovink. Editorial Assistance: Margreet Riphagen. Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam. ISBN: 978-90-78146-08-7.