We are archivists, since we have to be. We don't have choice. This decision is already made, or determined by the contemporary technological condition. The ubiquity of information in digital, calculable forms has created a new situation of work and exploitation, we entered an endless process of data production, and then we also enter an endless black hole of data navigation. [ more ] about Archivist Manifesto by Yuk Hui
Workshop I
Birkbeck University, London
25 May 2013, 12 – 6 pm
Presentations:
At last we have video documentation from Mute's night of talks, noise and music investigating the abstract power of algorithms and celebrating the launch of Mute Vol 3 #4 - Slave to the Algorithm
[ more ] about Mute Vol 3 #4 - Slave to the Algorithm Video Documentation
Here is the extended version of Feminine Aesthetic as Feminist Aesthetic: Incorporation of the Affectivity Sensibility.
Writing on Dry Wipe, an online exhibition for Nottingham Contemporary, led me to expand this in closer relation to the organisation of identity, after networks. The original short version (from which the extended version was made) can be found here.
Image used in this post is from the amazing boothbitch.tumblr.com. [ more ] about Extended Version of Text 'Feminine Aesthetic as Femininist Aesthetic'
In this text, 'Three Group-Related Problems' from Desert Islands and other texts, Gilles Deleuze pays tribute to his friend and co-author, Felix Guattari. Using the opportunity to raise central problems of mediation within and between selves, activists, groups, militants, groupuscules, analysts and individuals, Deleuze explores the 'hope and despair' following May '68 and the legacy of some of its experiments in collective subject-formation [ more ] about We Are All Groupuscules
– We are looking for three people/projects to work with the Post-Media Lab for our coming theme: [ more ] about 3 Research Fellows »Life vs. Object, Comrade Things and Alien Life«
Several of the discussions and presentations from HAIP 2012 are now available over on Youtub, see below or follow the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W337ows7zNY&list=PLeh2lmJO7FLCYqu1M1RBSkhgE4UZCppiv
„Don't forget: the archive!“ : Collecting Non-Archives for the Post-Media Condition
workshop/roundtable april 25th/26th (+phase out on 27th) @ Post-Media Lab (CDC)
For ‘Don’t Forget the Archives’, we are assembling projects which re-imagine the function formerly performed by ‘archives’. What was the archive in the first place and what can it be in the future-present? Everything is of interest: from deliberately non-archivable practices to ad-hoc and dangerous archives, to collections of tools and filters, archives of desire, imagination, enunciation and the never-achievable reconstruction of the ultimate, authoritative, comprehensive ‘cultural archive’. There is no list of criteria for entry into our temporary repository, as every post-media archive exists as a function of the endeavour it traces. We expecting anything, everything, nothing. This roundtable should be nothing more and nothing less than an attempt to investigate the arts of re-construction – of the embedded traces and shared resources of collective practice. [ more ] about Post-Media Archives (I)
Welcome to the Post-Media Lab – a collaboration between Leuphana University and Mute Magazine. The Lab is focused on the potential for 'post-media' practice, drawing upon Felix Guattari's concept of social and medial assemblages which unleash new forms of collective expression and experience. It is centred around a supported programme of visiting fellows – artists, technologists, film-makers, theorists, post-media operators – and the production of a series of associated, international public events and publishing projects.
