''[[http://xxn.org.uk/doku.php?id=decrystallization|decrystallization]] 2-day workshop with [[http://xxn.org.uk|Jonathan Kemp]] and [[http://ryanjordan.org/home.html|Ryan Jordan]], London, May 27th - May 28th 2011 ''

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[[http://xxn.org.uk/doku.php?id=decrystallization|decrystallization]] began from the premise that while life itself starts from aperiodic crystals that encode infinite futures within a small number of atoms, the digital crystallization of the flesh by capital limits these futures to the point of exhaustion. 

If computers and the minerals from which they are made are considered as equally crystalline, then their decrystallization is only possible through the introduction of vigorous and noisy positive feedback loops.

In **Day One** of the workshop participants destroyed laptop boards/components to recover some of their component minerals including copper/gold/silver through executing various volatile chemical processes. Although activities like these are often scaled to consolidate capital on **Day Two** the workshop participants playfully repurposed the recovered minerals in novel arrays for the final nights salon event of gold/silver drinks and lo-no amp performances by the participants and invited guests.

=== Day One ===

''Destroying computer boards''

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''Using Aqua Regia (nitric/hydrochloric acid mix) to recover gold from pcbs''

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''Using Electrolysis to recover gold from pins and connectors''

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''Using hydrochloric acid/chlorine bleach + sodium metabisulphite to recover gold from black electrolytic residues ''

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''Using nitric acid to recover gold from cpus''

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=== Day Two ===

''Redoxing silver from cpus in nitric acid with iron''

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''Constructing/testing coherers made from different metal filings''

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''Making/testing crude semi-conductor oscillators from copper/cuprous oxide''

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''Re-purposing gold and silver to make colloidal drinks''

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''Evening salon of lo-no amp performances from re-purposed metals/minerals made in workshop''

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[[http://material.xxn.org.uk/doku.php?id=decrystallization:images|full image archive]]

selected large images [[http://material.xxn.org.uk/doku.php?id=decrystallization:documentation|documentation]] 

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all images by [[http://nihalyesilstudio.com|Nihal Yesil]], [[http://1010.co.uk/org|Martin Howse]], and [[http://cassandras.multiply.com/|Fabianne Borges]]