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My weekend of structured randomness

Posted by: krisdoublek on: August 4, 2009

Potential words:
-excitation/ excited
- radiated
- complicated
-vibration
- natural
- spectrum
- Martin D-28
- sinusoidal
- mechanical
- acceleration

Points to consider & after our catch up

Posted by: krisdoublek on: September 22, 2008

Here is a summary of my meeting with Petra last week:
What are we doing?
–> We are mapping: Karate –> Performance –> Performative Program
- Think about “embodiment within experience” – the body’s memory.
- Interruption of reality or flow by presumtion. The use of visualisation and habitual “triggers” linking the concepts of improvisation and rehersed movment via [...]

Cardiff/ Miller

Posted by: krisdoublek on: September 5, 2008

Link to the Sydney Biennale Page
Last Friday, I went to Pier 2/3 to check out the Sound Installation by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller. This work was a world premier called “The Murder of Crows”. It consists of 100 speakers, envelloping the viewer/ listener into the artwork allowing them to experience the physical and [...]

getting a grip on autopoiesis

Posted by: krisdoublek on: September 2, 2008

Not knowing where to start… I decided to get a better understanding of this very interesting term that Petra said last week: autopoiesis.
I looked up ‘poiesis’ and this is the definition that I thought put it in simple enough terms:
Poïesis is etymologically derived from the ancient Greek term ποιέω, which means “to make”. This word, [...]

On the weekend…

Posted by: krisdoublek on: August 31, 2008

http://holisticdesignecology.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/autopoiesis-morphic-resonance-and-emergent-properties/

Autopoiesis… scratching the surface

Posted by: krisdoublek on: August 27, 2008

Taken from the link: http://www.paulparboteeah.com/autopoiesis.html
Before Autopoiesis
Before the concept of autopoiesis was developed, Maturana and Varela were trying to determine what made something living. Whilst it is easy to class something as living or dead, it is difficult to say what characteristic of living beings (e.g. mammals, fish or insects) make them living. With the example [...]

Evolving Sonic Environment III

Posted by: krisdoublek on: August 25, 2008

I was looking through my mailbox and I found some old links that I had used for research for Design Programming. “Evolving Sonic Environments” is a project by Usman Haque (whose work I love) and Rob Davis
Rob’s documentation for the project is here
Summary sourced from the documentation of the collaborators:
The aim of “Evolving Sonic Environments” [...]

http://www.woostercollective.com/

Posted by: krisdoublek on: August 19, 2008

Ulrike Gabriel – Breath

Posted by: krisdoublek on: August 13, 2008

http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/breath/

Update

Posted by: krisdoublek on: August 13, 2008

Nothing much to update… just that I have started reading and realising with each new chapter that there is so much work to do. I started with “The Prosthetic Impulse” because “Material Thinking” wasn’t available in the Scitech Library. No Prob. Since there is so much available that I had my hands full before even [...]