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…
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…
texts’sound Subjective reflexion: the person, which i’m seeing in the mirror, is not the one, whom the others see. walking between the texts(-to-speech). generating the new meaning during this eternal walk. the walk is generating itself. (11.11.2020) The useful information, derived from the text, is not related to the text’s meaning. text has its own energy…
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…
What is the barrier between object and agent? Double bass not performed on, but enacted upon Where is the autonomy of the self, of the double bass? Create a system, a loop, a feedback, between the double bass, the agents, and some kind of exciter How does the exciter interact with the agents? Do they…
Autonomie Project 1 – self Begin with the smallest possible impulse An identity A single sound The sound is processed The processed is processed The processed sound becomes the self Again A new identity