jonathan kemp

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====== introduction ======

Stack, Frame, Heap (SFH) is a series of interventions within the mined or
damaged environment, attempting to impose logical or computational
structures and production processes (underlying these) on this
geological landscape.

SFH re-situates some of computation's production processes (etching,
leaching, doping) and products within ruined quarries, mines and/or
suitable derelict landscapes. Research will also centre on
bi-directional parallels between computation and geological metaphors
(sedimentation, read write, sort operations)

[How to map this across techniques below eg. bootstrapping/energetic transformation, memory/sedimentation, geology, substrate transformation?]

====== techniques ======


===== transductions/energetic transformations =====

1] telluric earth battery: zinc, iron/copper electrodes (eg. Bain: 1 metre -> 1 volt) - northern electrode deeper than southern increases current. the deeper the site, the more the current.

2] harnessing photonic energy (crude embedded solar panels - cuprous oxide), photosynthesis, bioluminscence, radiotrophic fungi.

3] kinetic-piezoelectric (wind, movement of animals)


5] atmospheric/EM energy - antenna, conductor for lightning, above ground voltage differentials

6] environmental peltier (thermo-electric) - magnetic field generation && temperature differentials - ore layers (eg. manganese silicate) combined earth (telluric) batteries → thermo-emf ('cold/hot spots') - orig. peltier was bismuth/antimony and copper wires > make small rock ore versionings > add [cyano]bacteria (growth/species differentials according to temps?)


[and where to put storage of resources/energy or memory? also some kind of system of feedback/self-steering?]

===== substrate transformations =====

processes/elements stacked as layers/heaped together

1] bio-chelation or phytoremediation - using plants (Indian mustard, hemp, pigweed, alpine pennycress) to chelate/sequester heavy metals see http://www.pcbfab.com/waste-treatment/ && https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytoremediation
- stored in roots/stems/leaves or neutralized/vapours 
- see also: phytomining and hyperaccumulators (U-uranium-sunflowers?)
- any cross-ref. with the indole crowd - not as test meant more species-wise (eg.amanita muscaria) (measure non-external changes....) like strain, stain,
fermentation...... 

phytoforensics


4] accelerated weathering (rainwater channeling, pooling, steeping)(plastic suspened funnel over ground/ground sheet in depression)


2] bio-sump (construction in low/under earth w. filtration stuff sit layered on to surface/heap) - some kind of processing that outputs can be taken > rock mixes as filtration (leachpads?) to feed 
other experiments eg. through filtered liquid input

3] bioleaching of comp. waste (and other minerals/ores) copper, lead etc with fungi: Aspergillus niger (growing on onion skins), Penicillium simplicissimum (former produces organic (citric) acid) 

4] salt brine heaps, saltpeter garden beds [other heaps?]

5] rain (weak carbonic acid) reacts w. pyrite && chalcopyrite > acid solutions of sulphuric, ferrous, ferric, 
and copper sulphates - heaps/stacks using mine materials +/- foreign geo-imports

6] sorting, crushing, pounding, digging, stacking, heaping [see 5]

7] flows are manipulated through insertion of layers (plastic, semi-permeable), the etching of channels (miming the processor) between layers and distinct processes, the establishment of borders/containment

===== potential outputs =====

within:

1] a measurement which is part of the earth and becomes an expression acting on itself [???] 
- eg. ph changes > flora changes 

brought to:



3] visible changes in the landscape over time (earth, plants)



===== misc technical ideas =====

ptrace and insertion of software register values into the earth. a process buried in the earth in its unfolding. a register in the earth. inserting and retrieving comp signals into the earth - as digging, as electricity. 
(or stack from microcontroller, stack pointer position - can this be manipulated?)
jonathan kemp

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