From 2008 but just in: a cultural history of salt by Jakob Vogel. Any pointers to other cultural histories of substances are very welcome.
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Testing ways to mount heater wire that will hopefully not result in tripping the fuses.
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Today I encountered this 1958 edition of Korzybski's 1933 proto-cybernetic magniloquent magnum opus: I've come across references to his work often enough to not hesitate too long, even though I don't think we'll become good friends.
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So this book is finally out: a great study of the life of a scientific film about fluid dynamics that was made almost exactly a century ago by Ludwig Prandtl in Göttingen.
#LudwigPrandtl #MarioSchulze #SarineWaltenspül #SystemsThatMatter
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Yesterday was the opening of the first ever Research Days organized at KASK&Conservatorium in Ghent, loosely structured around the topic of play. The image is bad picture of Luanda Casella's great presentation during the first panel.
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From 2016 already, but just arrived and super relevant to my current concerns; looking forward very much to having more time to read again in a week or so...
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In a week, I will give a lecture-performance under the title "The Salt Transistor", sharing some of my research for the installation #79 that I hope to produce in the coming year as a response to a commission by Werktank in Leuven.
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During the time of the exhibition my book "Liberate the Machines !" is also for sale at the CWB.
#DeepFields #DialoguesWithMachines #SystemsThatMatter #LiberateTheMachines
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But perhaps I should read it first..
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Lo and finally behold: this somehow cute-looking but still untested see-through oven !
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Whole new dimensions of fiddlyness; finally managed to pass those weird and stiff high-temperature and high-voltage resistant wires through several layers of that soft and brittle ceramic fiber board without causing too much damage.
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Visiting the collection center of the Ghent University Museum with students of the minor ArtScience.
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Finished also the software for the much needed oven controller and it all seems to work as expected. Next step will be to finish building that oven...
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Finally got around to finishing the hardware of this much needed oven controller. Tomorrow I hope to finish the software and if the fuses arrive I can even test...
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Being into real artificial crystals now - not virtual - I really should reread it.
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Not the first time I'm late to a party, but those texts by Derrida from the early 1970s are really great.
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So far in this research project I have not produced any images or texts of note, but I did build a number of niche power supplies and thermostats. (This one is getting there).
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Somehow I didn't expect a 1907 book by Otto Lehmann on liquid crystals to have plenty of small and beautiful colour images.
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DIY-ing this was perhaps not a great idea from the start, but once I was sure, I might as well finish it.
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Things always take more time, but at least the measuring and displaying of temperatures up to 1200 C seems to now work in principle.
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In the mail this beautiful booklet by Ernst Haeckel on "Crystal Souls, Studies on Inorganic Life". Like cybernetics, but without the concept of feedback and 30 years too early; the text aims to close the gap between crystallography and psychology.
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Reading Anne Alombert made me want to read more Derrida; super lucid as well as maddeningly obscure, but also adressing some of the main themes that attracted me to cybernetics.
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Very happy I was able to see a small but precious exhibition of some of the 'pierres figurées' collected by Roger Caillois. At the École des Arts Joailliers in Paris.
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Due to previous life choices I find myself building this cute see-through oven prototype. A whole new level of fiddly: unfamiliar and funny materials and none of my familiar construction methods allowed due to risk of meltdown.
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Today the mailman brought these two beautiful booklets, from 1907 and 1921. Both are by Otto Lehmann, the first scientist to study liquid crystals.
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Today I learned some things about thermocouples and how to measure high temperatures. Hard to test anything at this stage though.
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