http://www.xxn.org.uk/ 2012-05-18T17:27:06-05:00 http://www.xxn.org.uk/ http://www.xxn.org.uk/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2012-01-12T16:53:13-05:00 http://www.xxn.org.uk/doku.php?id=artificial_fulgurites&rev=1326408793&do=diff This project explicitly acknowledges aleatory contingencies for its resolution as it attempts the creation of what can be inexactly termed “a new crystallography”. A mix of minerals derived from computers including copper, iron ore, lead, magnesium, magnetite, silicon was prepared for embedding at various sites as part of The Suffolk Psychogeophysics Summit 2011 in anticipation of both mundane and spectacular methods of harnessing colossal electrostatic discharges to create artifical fulgurites … text/html 2011-11-21T15:03:39-05:00 http://www.xxn.org.uk/doku.php?id=conservation_death&rev=1321909419&do=diff [Death: Urs Lang. Nurse: Erin Sims.] video made as part of presentation comparing conservation to being a handmaiden (of teleology) against entropy shown at the Chersonesos, Ukraine in 2004 whilst working on conservation of ancient stelae for Chersonesos Heritage Authority and Univ. of Texas. text/html 2011-12-29T13:09:25-05:00 http://www.xxn.org.uk/doku.php?id=decrystallization&rev=1325185765&do=diff Suppose a system consists of two containers holding a total of 10 blue molecules and 10 red molecules. There is only one way in which the molecules can be arranged so that all 10 blue ones are in one container, and all 10 red ones are in the other. On the other hand, there are a very large number of ways we can arrange to have 5 of each color in each container text/html 2011-07-26T06:04:24-05:00 http://www.xxn.org.uk/doku.php?id=ecosex_images&rev=1311678264&do=diff text/html 2009-09-11T14:11:14-05:00 http://www.xxn.org.uk/doku.php?id=emf&rev=1252696274&do=diff emf generator 1. 1] creation of complex emf field, rather than field strength, for anomalous experience induction through prolonged exposure [15-20mins] of brain temporal lobes, following Persinger et al. magnetic waveform simulated by 'replaying' data collected from site of anomalies/emf magnitudes [eg. haunted site/Peenemunde] - data converted into 16bit file and played back through two wound coils [eg. 100 turns of 1200mm and 200 turns of 800mm wheels. below 50,000nT]. text/html 2012-02-10T10:12:45-05:00 http://www.xxn.org.uk/doku.php?id=incompatible_images&rev=1328890365&do=diff images of in/compatible_material from Transmediale text/html 2011-02-21T15:34:32-05:00 http://www.xxn.org.uk/doku.php?id=lsm_notes&rev=1298324072&do=diff towards liquid-state-machine <http://www.transmediale.de/content/medienwerkstatt-berlin-liquid-state-machine> 1] magnetite ferrofluid can be found in computer disk drive seals “Ferrofluids can be suspended in water or in an organic fluid. A typical ferrofluid is about 5% magnetic solids, 10% surfactant, and 85% carrier, by volume. One type of ferrofluid you can make uses magnetite for the magnetic particles, oleic acid as the surfactant, and kerosene as the carrier fluid to suspend the partic… text/html 2011-07-26T06:41:05-05:00 http://www.xxn.org.uk/doku.php?id=nohup_bowartsopen&rev=1311680465&do=diff [nihal yesil] ClaudiusMaximus <http://claudiusmaximus.goto10.org> Eaten By Children <http://www.myspace.com/eatenbychildren> Geraldine McEwan <http://gerimcewan.blogspot.com> Jonathan Kemp <http://xxn.org.uk> Nihal Yesil <http://www.nihalyesilstudio.com> text/html 2011-10-18T14:30:23-05:00 http://www.xxn.org.uk/doku.php?id=nohup_bowartsopen_documentation&rev=1318966223&do=diff audio recording by ClaudiusMaximus live performance made by real time manipulation of combinations of: brass, calcite, copper, copper sulphate, direct current, hydrochloric acid, iron ore, lead, magnesium powder, magnetite, methylated spirits, propane gas, quartz, sand, sulphuric acid, silicon carbide, silver, 4093, and 74HC integrated circuits text/html 2011-06-21T17:14:38-05:00 http://www.xxn.org.uk/doku.php?id=nohup_flyer&rev=1308694478&do=diff Chemical/Crystal/Geologic/Animal/Meat/Heat/Opto/Enochian Performance Night Thursday March 10th 2011, Clapton, London E5 8BQ 8pm-late £4 rough bar documentation links evil moisture <http://schoolofmeatcutting.free.fr/> john bowers <http://www.onoma.co.uk/tonesucker.html> text/html 2011-09-30T11:20:13-05:00 http://www.xxn.org.uk/doku.php?id=noise_noise.26.08.11_video&rev=1317399613&do=diff text/html 2011-10-18T18:49:43-05:00 http://www.xxn.org.uk/doku.php?id=noise_noise_26.08.11_documentation&rev=1318981783&do=diff live performance made by real time manipulation of minerals from computers including: calcite, copper, copper sulphate, iron ore, lead, magnesium, magnetite, quartz, silica sand, silicon carbide, silver, in combination with direct current, fire, hydrochloric acid, a pyroelectric infrared sensor, sulphuric acid, and 4093, 40106, and 74HC integrated circuits at noise=noise text/html 2010-04-10T03:21:56-05:00 http://www.xxn.org.uk/doku.php?id=notebook&rev=1270887716&do=diff The idea of a machine proving theorems in logic, and the idea of using logic to understand what a machine was doing ... this double relationship began to inspire me because it was clearly not very simple. The relationship wasn't just an inverse relationship “I bite you and you bite me”: the computer says: “I will automate your logic” and the logic says “I will tell you what your programs mean”. These are two different relationships. [from <http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/users/mfb21/intervie… text/html 2010-11-06T06:01:31-05:00 http://www.xxn.org.uk/doku.php?id=object_versioning&rev=1289041291&do=diff Closely following on from Fuller and Haque's interrogation of architecture <http://uvs.propositions.org.uk/> 1] “What lessons, if any, can architecture learn from software development, and more specifically, from the Free, Libre, and Open Source Software movement?” <http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/free-sw.html> text/html 2012-04-21T09:03:54-05:00 http://www.xxn.org.uk/doku.php?id=openlab_fulgurites&rev=1335017034&do=diff Artifical fulgurite made at openlab London 08.10.2011 9kv 0.25amp neon transformer + hi-tension cables used to arc through pure silica sand for creation of artificial fulgurites [low quality video] with thanks to openlab, Ryan Jordan, Nihal Yesil, and Tom Harry. text/html 2011-08-14T05:53:51-05:00 http://www.xxn.org.uk/doku.php?id=testtest&rev=1313319231&do=diff ok, i found out why the upload wasn't working and fixed it. Now you can chose the way you want to upload the videos. Also please take a look at the two examples, the first one embeds the video and the second one creates a link to the video. ---rw as see from diff. between embedded and linked jk_bow.ogg, script for embed resizes - any way of stopping that? - jk text/html 2012-02-24T12:02:49-05:00 http://www.xxn.org.uk/doku.php?id=the_dulling_of_greasy_eyes_and_moons_in_the_red_putrid_mud&rev=1330106569&do=diff video footage by Joanne Seale (many thanks!) - impressionistic video by Joanne: <http://vimeo.com/35598719> performance presentation, noise_noise.theory event, London, 19.01.2012 3x cassettes/tape players, micro-furnace w. graphite crucible, malachite, copper, hydrochloric acid, cast iron mortar and pestle, steel plate, pyroelectric infrared sensor, red light text/html 2012-04-01T04:22:53-05:00 http://www.xxn.org.uk/doku.php?id=the_politics_of_experience&rev=1333272173&do=diff The Politics of Experience An exhibition by Basil Olton 18:30pm, April 12th 2012, Nohup, Studio 22, 38-40 Upper Clapton Road, London, E5 8BQ with opening night performances by Jonathan Kemp and Ryan Jordan The Politics of Experience oscillates between image, movement and stillness. Inspired by R.D. Laing and Walter Benjamin, The Politics of Experience sets out to demonstrate and highlight the unavoidable nature of difference through the experience of an event, the mediation of sculpture and… text/html 2012-05-14T19:55:31-05:00 http://www.xxn.org.uk/doku.php?id=xxn&rev=1337043331&do=diff [The Crystal World][The Crystal World] images by Tamami Iinuma 2012 ---------- latest Festival Belluard Bollwerk International, Fribourg, Switzerland, 29.06.-07.07.2012 The future of matter: Thinking Matter Through, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil 23-24.05.2012 text/html 2009-12-15T09:43:29-05:00 http://www.xxn.org.uk/doku.php?id=zombie&rev=1260891809&do=diff re. simulation and consciousness arguments Baudrillard: The Perfect Crime The only suspense left is that of knowing how far the world can de-realize itself before succumbing to its reality deficit, or how far it can hyper-realize before succumbing to its reality surplus (that is, when the world, having become more real than real, will fall under the blow of total simulation