In the last edition of our online talk series, Italian sound artist Marta Zapparoli will share her experiences as sound artist working with satellite signals and radiowaves. As we also experimented with making and modding physical antennas as part of a hybrid system, we are excited to hear her experiences! The Inaudible is the hidden…
https://hubs.mozilla.com/acATgSH/autonomous-lobby After a period of intense work, we are opening the exhibition which will temporarily close our project. Across the past months, it appears that what we created as our metaphor visually is a fractal: similar ideas and artefacts re-appearing in different shapes, sizes, constellations. Despite the obvious limits it was exciting to re-purpose Mozilla…
On 03. July we enjoyed hosting an online talk with Damjan Jovanovic, who is an architect, software designer, game designer and runs the studio lifeforms.io. We talked about how the design of space influences human perceptions, how virtual spaces can employ different paradigms from physical ones, what worldmaking and architecture have in common, and we…
On 14. May we had the first talk in our series “Open Feedback Loop”. Our guest was Dario Sanfilippo, presenting (live from Sicily!) his ideas about autonomous complex systems in sound. We talked about emergence, the edges of chaos – how many edges does it have? – about the role of the composer-creator as “gardener”…
The more I think through it and work on it, the more it seems to me that music itself seems to be a system of systems, a sort of paradigm for systemic activity. From the ancient times on, music was considered the harmony of the spheres, an audible expression of the system of the whole…
I’m going to talk a bit about “Music on a Long Thin Wire”. I made it in 1977. It was my first sound installation. We know that Max Neuhaus was the first composer to have made sound installations, at least he coined the term. I think it’s fair to say that. I first imagined it…
taking selfies without the self. walking with an analog instant camera, I captured places where the word “self” was laid out in fragile, fleeting materials (leaves, paillettes) and then photographed during its slow decay. The idea of self concerning the human body is also connected to specific body parts: the eye, the hand, the face.…
Working on an art project about autonomy, I find myself constantly asking the question: how can I acknowledge the autonomy of materials, or certain processes, in shaping and creating an artwork? Should I resist the desire to interfere, to give form, shape and intent to something, rather leaving the output take its own form? One…
when we write about self, does writing change the object written about?does overwriting change my sense of self? my self-ish-ness? self written as a word is an object like many other objects. a combination of strokes on paper, bits in a storage, pixels on screen that create meaning by leaving imprints in my mind. is…
All concepts of autonomy call for a subject that determines autonomy in relation to it. The subject, the self thus appears as primary condition and starting point of an autonomous system or an autonomus relation. We have been asking ourselves: what and where is the self autonomous, and how can we describe or approach it…