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Sarah Cook: “Can’t log out” | Media Art Worlds conference (2018). A thorough presentation of the history of conceptual-to-internet-to-media-art. Side note: I shot and edited the video.

Tidal Club Helsinki “is a weekly open and freeform workshop, where we practise live coding programs together”. Heard from a good source that the spirit of the event is supportive and the community is welcoming.

Visited Pêdra Costas de_colon_isation parte III: the bum bum cream at the Museum of Impossible Forms last week. Costas was a good dancer and presented their work with confidencecraftiness. For me the performance made it clear that Abrahamic Folk have an obsession with discovering inner truths.

Updated these pages. Added new (old) entries to the portfolio section and new categories for the blog: Art writing (for critiques and analysis) and True story (for creative writing).

Bought a Dewalt DCD796D2-QW hammerdrill kit in preparation of a Union for Rural Culture and Education “Booth-Workshop” project in Pyhäjoki (in two weeks).

Cultural Significance of Cyberpunk (2019) Cuck Philosophy. A good overview with some new references. Got me thinking about crafts as an enclave (like cyberspace was) from were we can criticize capitalism from because crafts remains unpenetrated by it (because you can only hire or force skilled labor to produce things, but you cannot posses skills without transforming into a craftsperson #☭). Hackers are ultimately differentiated and valued for their craftiness.

[…] science fiction started to take the place of cultural theory. The genre itself was a breakdown of categories. […] human-nature with out the concept of wholeness […] breakdown of nature and humanity […] “Argument for pleasure in the confusion of boundaries and for responsibility in their construction.” -Haraway […] When there are no boundaries the cyborg takes pleasure in the construction of new ones […] cyberpunk today is not so much alive as it is undead.

I have to write this down to remember: There is an empty room, when we put a chair inside we loose our ability to see the emptiness. It’s not a room with a chair and emptiness, it becomes a room with a chair. For Derrida this is a case study of how binaries embed hierarchies in our perception (empty=bad/full=good). The emptiness of the room is still present but it’s subjugated by the presence of the chair. I think I hear this example in an episode of Philosophize This! #119 Derrida and Words (2018) Stephen West (Spotify link).

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[Fi] Zoovision: Kuntotarkastus

Zoovision visiirikypärän valmistumisesta on neljä vuotta ja tein laitteelle keväthuollon. Kypärä on ollut kovalla käytöllä. Kerrotun mukaan sitä hyödynnetään säännöllisesti Korkeasaaren eläintarhan tempauksissa ja yleisöopastuksissa. Tyhjiöimumuotin avulla valmistettu läpinäkyvä muovikuori on osoittautunut vankkarakenteiseksi mutta huoltoluukkujen kansien kiinnityskuminauhat olivat haperoituneet poikki ja kuoria kiertävä tiiviste hävinnyt. Laite on myös naarmuuntunut pohjasta, joten kiilotus ja puunaus teki sille hyvää.

Moro Katri,

Täähän on rakenteeltaan hyvässä kunnossa! Pahinta on naarmut, sain kiilotettua osan pois (kuumailmapuhaltimella) mutta syvemmät vekit jäi. Mulla on toi tyhjiömuotti vielä kellarissa, eli jos vaikka 2023 hujakoilla tehdään seuraava remontti niin silloin vois miettiä jos ton ala osan vitriiniosuuden vaihtaisi uuteen samanlaiseen. Voisin tuossa yhteydessä laittaa uuteen alaosaan taktiset kumitallat, jotta se ei naarmuunnu pohjasta.

Samassa yhteydessä vois myös laittaa tiivisteen ylä- ja alavitriinin väliin. Etralta löytyy esim “Ovitiiviste, T-malli”, joka vois ajaa asiaa mutta palataan siihen neljän vuoden päästä. Laitoin ulkotiivisteen kohdilleen ja kiristin sen paikalleen kunnolla. Korvasin kansia pitävät kuminauhat vahvemmilla. Puristusvoima on hyvä ja kannet pysyy kiinni mutta ne todennäköisesti haperoituu vuosien saatossa samallatavalla kuin edelliset.

Jos kumppareiden käyttöikää haluaa pidentää niin kannattaa säilyttää laitetta siten että kuminauhat ovat auki (ja sulkea ne vain käytettäessä, ettei ne veny). Tein tätä ajatellen suljetut ompeleet kansien keskelle (ne on pysyvästi kiinni, jolloin kansi säilyy vitriiniin kytkettynä). Laitojen kuminauhat saa auki kuten ennenkin.

Palaillaan muihin asioihin piakkoin,
Eero

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20190425

I’m giving up on samplers. During the past two months I’ve traded both my favorite samplers for analogue sound devices. I think this reflects a change in my understanding of sound. There are no samples, there is only sound (and sometimes sound refers to sound or invokes itself). Sounds cannot be “played back”, they can only be performed. Recordings and amplification of recordings, play with our perception of distance (scale) from the source, it is spacial (not temporal).

Newsfeeds are filling up with stories of people whose low performance in schools or work is eventually revealed to be a result of a rare form of learning disability. These stories seldom approach performance concerns from a structural (infrastructural) angle: We have build and operate in biased designs, which benefit able-bodied besserwissers. Dyslexia is natures gift to people combating top down design.

Past: Fear of failing at work. Present: Fear of failing a work. #☭

Every moment of a relationship, which is not couples council – Is the relationship.

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Easternational* (noun)

/ˈiːstənˈnæʃ(ə)nəl/

  1. Mobility and cultural activity between people and organizations that operate in European and West-Asian countries, which is deterrioralized by the shivering of the iron curtain (“No, it’s not about the money. Frieze London is of little interest to me and wines in Chișinău are much better. I’m more of an Easternational Artist”).
  2. Kinship manifested by people whose histories and present identities are deeply affected by the fall of Constantinople.
  3. Easternational Philosophy: A fringe of philosophical understanding which is know for a forthright critique of phenomenons of “development and progress”. It is rooted on the framework and lived experience of collapse as a state of being (best manifested by survivors of Chernobyl disaster). As a sociological investigation it studies guild caused by desires which could not be manifested (due to collapse). (“I never even wanted to have a microwave”).

* Term coined in a discussion with Andrej Polukord during the Performing the Fringe event in Stockholm. Moldovian views to contemporary easternational condition on Pietaris (new) blog atomipuutarha.blogspot.com (Finnish).