Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
Any creative pursuit is like solving an endless puzzle. You don’t know where to start because there are no edges.
#creativity

Frank Chimero, Interview with Ryan and Tina Essmaker, (The Great Discontent, Aug. 2013).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
But if you work on something a little bit every day for seventeen years you’re gonna end up with something really substantial
#work

Kenneth GoldSmith, An Idea of the Avantgarde, (SNYK Radio).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
Carry the heart,
Pull the soul to its feet,
Use triggered time,
To sift the grief,
Lift joy up high,
And long for more,
Feed it to the world
#human

Poem by Renate Meyer


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
It’s not our job, Thoreau argues, to fix the world … time is limited, but you can’t be a party to it, you can’t participate in the injustice
#responsibility

Maciej Cegłowski, Thoreau 2.0, ( XOXO Festival 2013).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
In searching for truth be ready for the unexpected, for it is difficult to find and puzzling when you find it.
#truth

Heraclitus, quoted in Paul Auster’s The Invention of Solitude.


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
If I am only for myself, what am I?
If not now, when?
#self

Attributed to Hillel, Referred to in Richard Stallman’s introduction to the Emacs text editor.


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
The web isn’t magic. It’s not some faraway place we just ‘connect’ to, but a vast and complex system of computers, connected by actual wires
#web

James Bridle, How to see through the cloud.
via Jeremy Keith.


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
I think the mobile revolution was only possible because we have had this chance to connect our devices and sync our devices.
#web

Bastian Allgeier, Let’s build a better web, (border:none conference 2013).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
But this network, the web, built on the Internet, is also good for human beings. It’s inhabited by bots, but we can use it to our own ends
#bots

Jeremy Keith, Of Time And The Network.


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
I felt liberated by the broader idea that services like Twitter, Facebook and… would be representations of me, rather than “me, elsewhere”
#identity

Chloe Weil, Hipster.


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
And as the web expands its reach into our lives we need to completely understand the responsibility we hold at our fingertips.
#web

Mike Monteiro, How Designers Destroyed the World, (Webstock 2013).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
Anything that is this pervasive, when handled irresponsibly, carries with it the power to destroy us all.
#responsibility

Mike Monteiro, How Designers Destroyed the World, (Webstock 2013).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
No one sets the terms for your technology other than you.
No terms = distractions everywhere.
More tech won’t fix that.
You must choose.
#DistractionFree

Frank Chimero, Tweet, (@anotherny).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
And I think if you just start start thinking about money, or dollars as votes, (you know) maybe you’ll change some of your behaviour
#responsibility

Jason Fried talking with Jeffrey Zeldman, The Big Webshow, (Mule Radio).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
Poetry isn’t currently a driver of culture but a symptom.
#poetry

Darren Wershler, Best Before Date, What if the poetic has left the poem ?, (Alienated).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
Poetry as we know it—sonnets or free verse on a printed page—feels akin to throwing pottery or weaving quilts.
#poetry

Kenneth Goldsmith, The Writer as Meme Machine, (The New Yorker).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
activities that continue in spite of their cultural marginality.
#poetry

Kenneth Goldsmith, The Writer as Meme Machine, (The New Yorker).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
…the dark matter of modern textuality is informational writing: memos, business letters, status updates, forms, executive summaries, lists,
#conceptualism

Darren Wershler, Best Before Date, What if the poetic has left the poem ?, (Alienated).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
We deserve an art that is the equal of our information age. Not one that parrots the age’s self-assertions or modes of dissemination,
#neo-conceptualism

Seth Kim-Cohen, Against Ambience, (Amazon).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
but an art that is hyper-aware, vigilant, active, engaged, and informed.
#conceptualism

Seth Kim-Cohen, Against Ambience, (Amazon).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
web pages, reports, RSS feeds, classified ads, indices, catalogues, “how to” manuals and countless other hybrid “information genres” that we habitually ignore.
#neo-conceptualism

Darren Wershler, Best Before Date, What if the poetic has left the poem ?, (Alienated).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
Everything since Courbet has been retinal, that is, you look at a painting for what you see, you add nothing intellectual about it,
#conceptualism

Marcel Duchamp, BBC Interview, (1968).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
Conceptualism is a symptom of a smooth-faced crisis of the Zeit, in which systems exist to perpetuate themselves as systems
#conceptualism

Vanessa Place, Poetry is dead, I killed it, (Poetry Foundation).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
And, as I have said before, what conceptualism does do, is kill not the author, but the text itself.
#conceptualism

Vanessa Place, Poetry is dead, I killed it, (Poetry Foundation).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
The writing is inert, formerly utilitarian, now deformed into nothing but an aesthetic object. All mirrored surface, no reflected soul
#conceptualism

Vanessa Place, Poetry is dead, I killed it, (Poetry foundation).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
At the end of 2001, I caught a glimpse of an echo in time. In that way, this echo-time was adding an extra dimension to linear time itself.
#time

Samuel Vriezen, Detemporalizing.


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
Well you start out decentralised, you centralise for efficiency, technology changes, and then you decentralise again.
#decentralised

John Chidgey, Pragmatic #2, (Pragmatic Podcast).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
and I developed this feeling of you know what
I’m not gonna get pessimistic or optimistic
I’m not gonna feel positive or negative
#trolls

Oliver Reichenstein, Dealing with Negativity, (TEDx, Athens 2012).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
about people attacking me. I just try to find out what easy really that they want to say and maybe I can learn something from that
#trolls

Oliver Reichenstein, Dealing with Negativity, (TEDx, Athens 2012).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
designing a typeface is like taking LSD or something it’s like you you see letters from really close you zoom out
#typography

Oliver Reichenstein, Dealing with Negativity, (TEDx, Athens 2012 ).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
and then you know you’re like whoooah that’s a beautiful shape you’re on the upper side of the o but down here …
#typography

Oliver Reichenstein, Dealing with Negativity, (TEDx, Athens 2012).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
maybe I have to zoom it in you know and like if aaah even if I had this it’s a little bit tiny, ooh, now it’s good, no it’s not good
#typography

Oliver Reichenstein, Dealing with Negativity, (TEDx, Athens 2012 ).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
and you do that and you completely forget time
#typography

Oliver Reichenstein, Dealing with Negativity, (TEDx, Athens 2012 ).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
Thinking about how the world will look like in 50 or 100 years from now, we might not need typography in the way that we need it today.
#typography

Oded Ezer interviewed by Debbie Millman, Design Matters, (Design Matters Podcast).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
I try not to think
if I … is too many thoughts in my mind
then the , I get disturbed and I cannot concentrate on the music
so I try not to think
#presence

Jaki Liebezeit, Jaki Liebezeit & Burnt Friedman, (Unseen Recordings).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
ne-gheak-om-eb-je-ghem-dyat-em
#security

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Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
User #1,722,335,467
#identity

Twitter User# for @zwttropera)


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
DILLWEED
#TurningPoint

Cabel Sasser, Panic, (XOXO Festival 2013).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
Typotranslation:

       DAG1            MONER
100N              RINO
 )-:       HERBER    AMC
                    ZOOB
    22W CREW

#typotranslation

Mathieu Tremblin, Tag Clouds “Rue de Gaillon” (2010), (via pietmondrian.com, via Kulturtechno @_Kreidler).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
worldviews_punctualitys
misjudgment_strum
eddys_dodge
solstices_fifes
Beaujolais_unjustifiably
isotherms_interlocks
doxology_teatimes
riotously
_Scud
paling_landlords
knockabout_skinflints
OToole_Superglue
volcano_resewn
casseroling_rumble
nubs_imprudences
Tharps_interbred
geezers_disturbing
#identity

Brett Terpstra, (Potentially) funny random filenames for Bash scripts, (BrettTerpstra.com).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
…and, in my moments of doubt
I’ve told myself firmly.
If not me, who?
If not now, when?
#self

Emma Watson, HeForShe, (UN Women 2014 )


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
This being human is a guest house
every morning
a new arrival
a joy
a depression
a meanness
some momentary awareness comes in
an unexpected visitor
#poetry

Rumi, The Guest House, translation by Coleman Barks, (As read by Paul Ford as part of his talk at XOXO Festival 2014).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
life is occurring mediated by technology all the time now
and as a result
if you want to examine culture you have to know technology
#media

Alexis Madrigal, Humans and Technology, (Radio National, Australian Broadcasting Corporation).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
difficult but important: either we and the technology that we build work against the systems that prolong inequality or we perpetuate them.
#responsibility

Mandy Brown, Hypertext as an agent of change.


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
the system is a social technical thing
the design of the technology and the design of the social piece of it
absolutely intimately linked
#web

Sir Tim Berners Lee, How the World Wide Web just happened, (The Do Lectures).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
Of course an autonomous weapon can carry out a war crime—if its programmers instruct it to do so.
#responsibility

Mandy Brown, Tweet
// “The notion that technology created by flawed, biased humans is somehow free of those biases is extremely dangerous”—@aworking library.


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
and if you want to examine technology you have to understand some of the cultural side of things
#media

Alexis Madrigal, Humans and Technology, (Radio National, Australian Broadcasting Corporation).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
all media are extensions of some human faculty
mental or physical
the wheel is an extension of the foot
book is an extension of the eye
#medium

Marshall McLuhan, Marshall McLuhan Speaks (1968), (In Wilson Miner’s talk When We Build, 2011).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
speed of internet content churn that bit in the film DEMOLITION MAN where future-people chair-dance & sing along to old advertising jingles
#stream

Warren Ellis, Internet Memes as Folk Songs, (Morning Computer).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
the extension of any one sense displaces the other senses
and alters the way we think
the way we see the world
and ourselves
#medium

Marshall McLuhan, Marshall McLuhan Speaks (1968), (In Wilson Miner’s talk When We Build, 2011).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
The links themselves form this huge mass of critical review
which is actually how the web works
#CriticalReview

Sir Tim Berners Lee, How the World Wide Web just happened, (The Do Lectures).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
HUNTING
Objects in mirror are closer than they appear
GRABBING
Go slowly. Respect others.
COMPILING
Look both ways
PUBLISHING
You can’t just stop
#words

Paul Soulellis, Performing publishing.
Dan Eden, Mouth Words, Brain Words.


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
||:a minor:||
#space

Space Age: A Game of Cosmic Adventure.


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
Reading things aloud gives our brain a chance to parse things…
You let your mouth do the remembering
while your brain does the understanding
#words

Dan Eden, Mouth Words, Brain Words.


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
memes as internet folk songs, requiring Alan Lomaxes or Cecil Sharps to go out into the field to collect them before they vanish from memory
#collecting

Warren Ellis, Internet Memes as Folk Songs, (Morning Computer).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
At times of change, the learners are the ones who will inherit the world, while the knowers will be beautifully prepared for a world which no longer exists.
#learning-knowing

Alistair Smith, (In Wilson Miner’s talk When We Build, 2011).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
I saw some price tags fluttering on light fittings in the wind today. They were like prayer flags, offering acquisitive material happiness
#poetry

Jill Richards, Tweet, (@jillyrichards).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
…they also want you to just apparently be
in the moment
Don’t worry about what happened 5″ ago
Those pictures are dead to you
Don’t look back!
#thelongnow

John Siracusa. Accidental Tech Podcast #93.


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
spherical_directional
immersion_removal
interior_surface
contact_distance
subject_object
affect_intellect
temporal_spatial
to_from
living_dead
#against

Ashley Fure, New Conceptualism: A Dead End or a Way Out?, (Panel discussion, Darmstadt 2014).
Seth Kim-Cohen, Against Ambience, (Amazon).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
It superimposes the scene in front of you
onto your paper
but you can also see your hand
and so you can basically trace
real life in real time
#NeoLucida

Golan Levin & Pablo Garcia, NeoLucida, (XOXO Festival 2014).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
if I can move the edges
both edges
then they can go where I want
I can go backwards and forwards
#movement

David Hockney, A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China or Surface is illusion but so is depth. (A Film by David Hockney and Philip Haas).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
How do you make yourself present?
You go back.
Go back to things you’ve made before, long ago
Go back to places once visited, almost forgotten
#presence

Craig Mod. Lesson, (The Manual, Issue 4).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
the scroll is a different kind of picture
you see it in a different way
it ‘s really a picture without edges in a normal sense
#memory

David Hockney, A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China or Surface is illusion but so is depth. (A Film by David Hockney and Philip Haas).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
I had gone back… …and for the very first time, saw where I was in the present.
#time

Craig Mod. Lesson, (The Manual, Issue 4).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
…people write on FB that they’re making coffee.
No.
Everything written in present tense is already past-tense.
It’s a constructed present.
#present

Caspar Eric, Politiken, (Aug. 12 2014).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
“One is not condemned to a perpetual present… one is here because one has remembered to be here.”
#present

Tony Tost. Invisible Bride, p. 46, (Louisiana State University Press, 2004).
Referred to in: Thomas Basbøll, A Revision of Solitude?, (Research as Second Language).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
1/ “our students have become folk anthropologists, speaking out about the impossibility of singularity, the shared quality of discourse,
#shared

Susan D. Blum, The Internet, the Self, Authorship and Plagiarism, (The University of Notre Dame).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
The “revision of the logic of solitude”… may be driven by technology. That doesn’t mean that we are “condemned” to lose ourselves.
#solitude

Thomas Basbøll, A Revision of Solitude?, (Research as Second Language).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
2/ the reality of fragments of texts incorporated into every utterance (or written document) and the collective nature of cultural creation”
#shared

Susan D. Blum, The Internet, the Self, Authorship and Plagiarism, (The University of Notre Dame).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
Learning is the accumulation of small bits of information by a community who work together to gather, refine and challenge each other’s assumptions.
#learning

Mandy Brown, Hypertext as an agent of change, (@aworkinglibrary).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
An “18C model of the self and author [which assumes] a singularity and essence that [is] fixed, unchanging and in some ways isolated.”
#self

Susan D. Blum, The Internet, the Self, Authorship and Plagiarism, (The University of Notre Dame).
Quoted in: Thomas Basbøll, A Revision of Solitude?, (Research as Second Language).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
»Die übersichtliche Darstellung vermittelt das Verständnis, welches eben darin besteht, dass wir die ›Zusammenhänge sehen‹.«
#understanding

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, § 122, (via @reichenstein).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
when every one knows a little about a great many things,
it becomes increasingly difficult for anyone to know
…what he is talking about
#knowing #learning

T.S. Eliot, The sacred wood; essays on poetry and criticism, ( New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1921 ).
via @KStreetHipster


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
“a conversation represents not so much a break with solitude,
but a newer form of solitude,
a revision of the logic of solitude.”
#shared #solitude

Tony Tost. Invisible Bride, p. 46, (Louisiana State University Press, 2004).
Quoted in: Thomas Basbøll, A Revision of Solitude?, (Research as Second Language).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
And when we do not know,
or when we do not know enough.
we tend always to substitute emotions for thoughts
#knowing #learning

T.S. Eliot, The sacred wood; essays on poetry and criticism, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1921).
via @KStreetHipster


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
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. ·. · ‘\ J)fll UJJ I ~”-“L ~ V ‘-’ u • , .._ ‘-’ .._
#drama

Kenneth Goldsmith @kg_ubu on Twitter: The #NSA is writing the best poetry today [PDF].


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
anecdotes
asides
books
comments
essays
guides
how-tos
manuals
musings
notes
opinions
stories
thoughts
tricks
tips pro and not-so-pro
So many, many words
#ReadWrite

Owen Gregory, The web is read/write, (Full Cream Milk).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
There are artists making work that involves the acing out of a procedure
in a narrative fashion
in a kind of performance between web and print
#performance

Alessandro Ludovico, Networks As Agents in the Clash Between Personal and Industrial Post Digital Print, (Off the Press: Electronic Publishing in the Arts)
// See also: Frank Chimero, Web Press & Too Good To Be Buried.


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
…a “transduction” between media in printed web works: mixing, lending and embedding digital pro cesses into traditional print…a hybrid
#performance

Paul Soulellis, Search, compile, publish.
// See also: Stripped Sunsets


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
Patchwriting: “copying from a source text and deleting some words, altering grammatical structures, or plugging in one synonym for another”
#writing #self

Rebecca Moore Howard, Standing in the Shadow of Giants, (Amazon).
Quoted in: Thomas Basbøll, Against Patchwriting, (Research as Second Language).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
It’s the “immeasurable gap between two things as they transition or pass into one another.”
#transduction

Paul Soulellis, Performing publishing, (Performing publishing. Infrathin tales from the printed web).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
“Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul’s evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.”
#inertia

Steven Pressfield, The War of Art.
via Debbie Millman, Design Matters, (Design Observer).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
Patchwriters are faking their linguistic competence, and they must be told that that is what they are doing,
#writing #self

Thomas Basbøll, Against Patchwriting, (Research as Second Language).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
The world is going on, parachutes dropping from the sky, and I’m talking with my wife about the trash can or about putting up new curtains.
#weltschmertz

Paul Ford, Lesson, (The Manual Issue 4).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
In light of the scope and scale of NSA’s E.O. 12333 SIGINT operations e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, and other “selectors” were tasked
#surveillance

NSA PDF
via @kg_ubu.


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
If you see someone doing something they shouldn’t do, just stare at them hard on the screen and they’ll probably stop it.
#surveillance #PerceptualField #MorphicResonance

Rupert Sheldrake, The Extended Mind: Recent Experimental Evidence, (Google Tech Talks).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
And I said to him “Does that work?” and he said “Sure, I do, see it almost everyday.”
#surveillance #PerceptualField #MorphicResonance

Rupert Sheldrake, The Extended Mind: Recent Experimental Evidence, (Google Tech Talks).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
the overall error rate was extremely low.(b} .(3) -P. L. 86:::’3Š6 Š………………………………………. .(b) •(.’3) -50 USC 302
#surveillance

NSA PDF
via @kg_ubu.


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
As soon as I put the camera on it I turned it into this surveillance thing
#NewAesthetic #surveillance

James Bridle, Exploring the New Aesthetic, (James Bridle & Libby Heaney @RCAIED 30 Oct 2014).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
Wittgenstein famously said we that “we make ourselves pictures of the facts.”
(htag:#understanding (htag:#knowing #learning

Thomas Basbøll, How to Make a Picture of a Fact, (Research as Second Language).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
How to get into the museum?
The top door window,
immediately a floor down
There’s a mirror placed at an angle
that has to be moved away first
#dream

Rudiger Meyer


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
I suggest…
the image you’re seeing is where it seems to be.
It’s in your mind, but it’s not in your brain.
It’s projected out.
#PerceptualField #MorphicResonance

Rupert Sheldrake, The Extended Mind: Recent Experimental Evidence, (Google Tech Talks).
// See also: @kristianleth


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
New Media as the Aesthetics that Accompanies the Early Stage of Every New Modern Media and Communication Technology
#NewMedia

New Media, Wikipedia.


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
The Renaissance scholar sits in a room & looks out of a window, and makes his picture. Fixed there with the window, he thinks of perspective
#perspective

David Hockney, Hockney on Photography, Conversations with Paul Joyce, (Jonathan Cape, London 1988).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
And then there’s the question of a big suitcase outside that also has to be brought in.
I’m in on the second attempt. To the rehearsal room…
#dream

Rudiger Meyer


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
New Media as the Mix Between Existing Cultural Conventions and the Conventions of Software
#NewMedia

New Media, Wikipedia.


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
I live my life in growing orbits…


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
I am sitting in a room, different from the one you are in now…
#space

Alvin Lucier, I am sitting in a room.


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
If the Chinese scholar-artist had a garden,
however small,
he’d want to walk in it,
so he would make his path so that he’d have a longer walk.
#perspective

David Hockney, Hockney on Photography, Conversations with Paul Joyce, (Jonathan Cape, London 1988).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
Sheldrake has this theory that there are fields which are outside our physical bodies, waves the memory can tune into.
#PerceptualField #MorphicResonance

David Hockney, Hockney on Photography, Conversations with Paul Joyce, (Jonathan Cape, London 1988).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
…in growing orbits which move out…


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
So he walks up the path of his garden and then goes and makes a picture of that garden, or the experience of walking in it.
#perspective

David Hockney, Hockney on Photography, Conversations with Paul Joyce, (Jonathan Cape, London 1988).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
New Media as Faster Execution of Algorithms Previously Executed Manually or through Other Technologies
#NewMedia

New Media, Wikipedia.


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
latitude 55.655113
longitude 12.513823
#place


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
He opens up the possibility that there might be collective memories, which can be picked up.
#PerceptualField #MorphicResonance

David Hockney, Hockney on Photography, Conversations with Paul Joyce, (Jonathan Cape, London 1988).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
( - — s-tt-ng -n - r—m )
#lucier


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
…which move out over this…


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
wondrous world,
#being


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
Modeling is creating a representation of a system (or process) that can be explored or used.
#modeling

Chris Grainger, Coding is not the new literacy.


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
…, around ancient towers and I have been circling for a thousand years.


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
We build mental models of everything – from how to tie our shoes to the way macro-economic systems work.
#modeling

Chris Grainger, Coding is not the new literacy.


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
( ……a room )
#lucier


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
I am circling around…


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
And I still don’t know if I am an eagle


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
or a storm
#being


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
And in doing this—this self-erasure and reinvention and re-reinvention and deliberate obfuscation—he finds the space, the permission, to create his sound.
#sound

Craig mod, On Permission, (The Manual, Issue 4).


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
…still don’t know if I am an eagle or a storm…


Zwitscher-Maschine @zwttropera
or a great song.”
#being

—Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours
via Kyle Steed, On Being.