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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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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Two intense days with nose in the books; almost done with preparing this year's seminar at KASK, entitled 'Vibrant Matter'.

Encountered this passage by Ian Hacking that describes the current state of my crystal projects quite well:

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Nice end-of-academic-year presentations of the minor ArtScience at KASK: ten very different projects inspired by objects from the collection of the Ghent University Museum. One example is this 'phosphenes diary' by Febe de Kegel.

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So today most of the "Liberate the Machines!" book was finally printed and thanks to Isabelle Vigier it looks fantastic ! Just after the summer it should be available through regular channels and a launch will follow.

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That was a very nice evening in the Kunsthal in Ghent yesterday;

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(picture by Isabelle Vigier)

A glass jar containing a mussel in a transparent liquid. The handwritten card on top of the jar reads "Fauna Belgica, Mytilus Edulis, L. 1758, Mossel, Filibranchia Mytilidae".

One of the personal highlights of today's visit to the Ghent University Museum collections was this mussel in formaldehyde.

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A black and white postcard showing a lady with closed eyes and her hands before her shoulders with the palms down. Between her hand we see a floating glass object with liquid. According to the description in French: " ... Miss Tomczyk, medium, lifting a test tube without contact." The postcard is also publicity for "Le Courier Spirite Belge".

Today we visited the University Museum Ghent with a group of students. Such a cool place !

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Today was a nice day of the first ever intermediate presentations of the new ArtScience minor programme at KASK School of Arts in Ghent that started 2.5 months ago:

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A pile of books, including "The Technological Society" by Jacques Ellul, "L'age des low tech" by Philippe Bihouix, "The Xenofeminist Manifesto" by Laboria Cuboniks, "Au temps des catastrophes by Isabelle Stengers, "Parallel Minds" by Laura Tripaldi, "Fully Automated Luxury Communism" by Aaron Bastani, "Hou het klein" by E.F. Schumacher, "Scientific Realism" by Nicholas Rescher, "White Skin, Black Fuel" by Andreas Malm and the Zetkin Collective, "Machines as the Measure of Men" by Michael Adas and "The Book of the New Alchemists".

A recurrent problem of preparing a seminar is that there are so many things that would be interesting to read...

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The cover of the (original) French edition of Philippe Bihouix "L'age des low tech, Vers une civilisation techniquement soutenable". Paris: points. Written in 2014. Translated into English and published as "The Age of Low Tech, Towards a Technologically Sustainable Civilization". Bristol University Press.

Preparing the upcoming "Other Machines" seminar at KASK in Ghent. An appropriate moment to revisit this one.

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