the end it is about harnessing the 'powers of nature' to defeat 'invaders that intend to destroy our civilization' or even protect US oil prospectors in an unspecified Arabic country. Another proud member of the class of phenomena that are their own caricature.
#ColdWar #Comics #SystemsThatMatter
A strange rabbit-hole brought me to the stereotyped world of cold-war-era comics. "Nature Boy" at first seemed a bit different, with its vaguely Taoist references and ancient Greek gods, but in
So today I kludged this low-pass filter on to the temperature sensor input to get rid of the unwanted signals and now it works fine. Next will be dealing with overshoot..
#Thermocouple #OtherSemiconductors #79 #SystemsThatMatter
It turns out that coils of 220V heater wire are also quite powerful emitters of electromagnetic waves, and that heavy-duty temperature sensors are also excellent antenna's.
Browsing some corporate publications, not sure this particular one from 1939 succeeded in conveying the 'romantic' dimension.
#OtherSemiconductors #79 #SystemsThatMatter
See on Mastodon for the rest of the post and links, can't with yet another (stupid) character limit:
assemblag.es/@joost_rekveld/116427364668801792
This beautiful saz semai in makam Rast was composed by the Ottoman-Armenian composer Kemani Tatyos Ekserciyan, or Tatyos Efendi, or Թադեոս Էքսէրճեան (1858-1913).
#kemanitatyosefendi #tatyosefendi #tatyosexserciyan #rastmakamı
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I didn't expect the history behind that slogan to be so interesting !
matter of fact, no day passes that modern chemistry doesn't help make life happier and more complete for them - and for you."
#SystemsThatMatter
the phrase was later hacked to refer to LSD.
But the original is quite trippy on its own merits: "Neither Amos nor Susie realized how chemical research had touched their lives that day. The shiny car, the rayon dress, and the movie film - all resulted from the work of chemists. As a
The first ad from 1935 that used Du Pont's famous slogan "Better Things for Better Living ... Through Chemistry". Introduced as part of a campaign to dissociate the brand from WWI chemical weapons production, by showing chemistry as a force for good. And of course
A bit of oven development in progress...
#OtherSemiconductors #79 #SystemsThatMatter
It will run until the 17th of May and it will feature the first gallery-type showing of my "Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena; #59".
#MechanismsCommonToDisparatePhenomena #DialoguesWithMachines #SystemsThatMatter
This Thursday the 16th of April will be the opening of a great exhibition at Various Artists in New York which includes analog electronic image explorations by Greg Zifcak, Sara Hornbacher, Blinn & Lambert, Jen Kutler | Jonas Bers , Phil Baljeu, Anton Rickets and myself.
Thanks @neural-mag.bsky.social for the nice review !
neural.it/2026/04/joos...
Drilling for rock salt in Germany, early 19th century.
#OtherSemiconductors #79 #SystemsThatMatter
This beautiful saz semai in makam hicazkâr was composed by Kanuni Edhem Efendi (?-1900), a not so well-known composer (and not the same person as Santuri Edhem Efendi, a generation later) who left us appr. 12 instrumental pieces.
#KanuniEdhemEfendi #HicazkârMakamı
Sound (later Interfaculty ArtScience, now gone). And it was pretty early in the history of Stroom too...
#1 #InterfacultyImageAndSound #ArtScienceInterfaculty #DickRaaijmakers #FransEvers #Stroom
Clearing out some of the family archives, found this invitation to what may have been the first public presentation of my work in February 1991. It may also have been the first public presentation of the Interfaculty Image and
European governments in the face of unbelievable rhetoric. Relieved that there was no nuclear armageddon last night in Iran, but I'd rather be relieved that those men are in the jail where they belong.
#bxl
Experiencing a strong disconnect between the explosion of flowers in our small garden in Brussels and the war crimes that are still being perpetrated in Iran, Gaza and Lebanon by governments that are officially our allies, accompanied by a deafening silence of
A not so great and especially a very partial/incomplete picture of a(nother) great makam workshop last weekend, by master tanbur player Muray Aydemir and this time also by master singer Bekir Ünlüataer, hosted by Istanbur in Mannheim.
#istanbur #murataydemir #berikunluataer
Next week the friendly people of Mount Analogue Art + Cinema in Seattle will be showing two programs with eight of my films. This includes some of my first experiments and also the latest: "Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena; #59".
#experimentalcinema #mechanismscommontodisparatephenomena
I had never heard of the artist Sascha Wiederhold. This is a tiny fragment of his massive painting "Jazz Symphony" from 1927. At the excellent Kunsthalle Mannheim.
#saschawiederhold
years ago ("Kant's Organicism" by Jennifer Mensch for instance), and completely in line with the current (still failing) crystal experiments.
#WolfgangHottner #ImmanuelKant #Goethe #79 #SystemsThatMatter
A super interesting book looking at authors such as Kant and Goethe as precursors of thinking about the anorganic, which is a great and refreshingly oblique angle on the kind of things I was reading two
Several screenings coming up, in Seattle, New York, Zagreb, The Hague, Ghent, Basel, and with some other ones still in the pipeline...
(picture is a still from my film "Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena; #59" from 2023).
#experimentalcinema #MechanismsCommonToDisparatePhenomena
It is quite a famous piece, so there are many great recordings, but I find this one by the composer himself to be very special:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aets...
