-micro research/xxxxx - Martin Howse
micro_research/xxxxx is an artistic research platform exploring psychogeophysics and asking the question of where precisely the plague known as software executes.
As we cannot eliminate software all at once, we should leave nothing undone that might contribute to its falling into disrepute. To bore one hole after another in it, until what lurks behind it - be it something or a nothing - begins to seep through ...
[after Samuel Beckett]
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events/releases
- TRACT experimental vocal device
- earth/masq micro-publication
- RMtract as part of Portal Porting by Shu Lea Cheang at HdK, Munich February+ 2025
- ERD/ERD in N1 _ THE ELEMENTS ISSUE
- Becoming geological: the publication
- Tiny Mining: a handbook for internal extraction. EPUB
- UNEINS: Mystifying Oracle
- 10,000 summer solstice sunrise
works, projects and research
- ERD eurorack modules
- Tiny Mining 2019+
- heatsick 2018
- Test Execution Host 2018
- Radio Mycelium platform 2018
- Earth Observation Array (Treak Cliff) - EOAE-TC #2 Decay 2017
- Radio Mycelium Array (RMA) 2017
- Wormed Voice DIY post-human voice synth and workshop 2017
- worms.txt 2017
- Shift Register 2016-2018
- Dissolutions 2016
- Dissolutions residency and exhibition, OBORO and Perte de Signal, Montreal 7/9-10/12 2016: Research notes
- Dissolutions documentation: Field trips / Research / Ceramics (with Marko Savard) // Exhibition
- Sketches for an earth computer 2014/2015
- earthcodes: earthboot/construction of an earth computer + notes towards...
recent events - 2018-25
- orphans and voids, PL night at Roter Salon, Berlin May 31 2025
- CORE performance. Askeberga stone circle, Sweden, May 7th 2025
- Earth: three membranous and crystalline paths through psychogeophysics, Konstmuseet i Skövde, Sweden, May 6th 2025
- orphans and voids, Off Sight and Sound, Eastern Bloc, Montreal, March 20th 2025
- Tract workshop and performance, Parallel07, Vancouver March 12-15 2025
- orphans and voids, Tiny Noise, Nowhereland Wienerstrasse 36, Berlin, February 28, 2025
- Mycelium and Dust: Dispersed Fiction, Wuhan Biennale (2024-25)
- Artist in residence, Ruine HQ, Hannover (2024)
- Orphans and voids, KM28, Berlin (2024)
- Orphans and Voids, mdw, Vienna (2024)
- Mycelium and Dust: Dispersed Fiction 15/3-19/5/2024, CAC, Shanghai
- Tiny Mining, Een Fabriek, Netherlands (2023)
- We have always been geological, Transmediale, Berlin (2023)
- An evening of Becoming Geological, V2, Rotterdam (2023)
- Radio Mycelium workshop, Art Laboratory Berlin. 24-25.9.2022
- Open source body 2022, 28.9-22.10.2022, Galerie of the Cité internationale des arts, Paris
- Final Session 003, Panke Berlin. 5.10.2022
- Turfiction working group, Iceland 2022
- ICLI 2022, Lisbon
- metamorf conference 2022 Trondheim
- VOID Tenerife 2022
- Rotting Sounds Symposium 23/24.9.2021, Vienna
- Jardín satélite, curated by Gilberto González and Silvia Navarro Martín, TEA Tenerife 2021 - TEA.html
- Delci/particles workshop, Project ATOL, Ljubljana July 2021 - video documentation
- Radio Micelij workshop, Kersnikova, Ljubljana July 2021
- Tiny Mining launch and tutorial
- Residency Agosto Foundation 8-9.2020, Prague - activation.html
- Cancelled: Tiny Mining sweatshop 19-20.3.2020, v2, Rotterdam
- An evening of Im-Materials 5.12.2019, v2, Rotterdam
- Invisible Forces 19.10-8.12.2019, Art Laboratory, Berlin
- Just What Is It That Makes Today's Computers So Intriguing, So Nonsensical? 30.10.2019-30.12.2019, CAC, Shanghai
- Friends with Books 20-22.9.2019, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
- Are You Listening 24.9.2019 9PM, Arkaoda, Karl Marx Platz 16, Berlin
- TALK RE: TALK - 6.09.2019 STWST, Linz - open call
- Concerts Dispersés 13/6/2019
- The Final Session 003 - 13.04.2019 Solu, Helsinki
- In dialogue - 12.04.2019 Solu, Helsinki
- enrichment and depletion 29.03.2019+ Vienna
- circulation/corruption 28/29.03.2019 Vienna
- The Final Session 002 16.-3.2019 West Germany, Berlin
- reiheM – Martin Howse – The Final Session 001 22.02.2019 Cologne
- Wormed Voice DIY post-human voice synth and workshop 23-24.02.2019 Cologne
- Post-nature Taipei Biennial 2018 17.11.2018+ with Mycelium Network Society
- Device_Art festival 18.12.2018+, Zagreb
- Digital Trash 5.9-7.12.2018, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- Eternal Life magic candle release for August 2018
- Radio Mycelium workshop Linz, 8.9.18
- Field Notes 16-23.9.18 Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, Lapland/Finland
- Tuned City Messene 31.5-3.6.18 Messene
- Test Execution Host as part of machines will watch us die, 9.4-11.5.18, Holden Gallery, Manchester
- documentation of nearly all past events upto 2017
publications and articles
- Inferior Geology 2019
- Test Execution Host released October 2017
- Dark Interpreter – Provide by Arts for the hardnesse of Nature in Occulto Issue δ
- The Three Worms in Anguish Language 0.11.2015
- Returned to the Earth in Continent 4.2 2015
- Stack, Frame, Heap with Jonathan Kemp in Plants, Androids, and Operators
- Translation of Kittler's Electromysticism in Textures of the Anthropocene
- The body is evidence review of Forensis Mute
- Approaching the Inexplicable with Nik Gaffney published in PARN
- Link Editions: Diff in June published September 2013
- Review of Lem's Summa Technologiae Mute 2013
- Inter-Species Communication Platform in HOME MADE BIO ELECTRONIC ARTS. 2013
- Shifting the site of execution
- The crystal world with Jonathan Kemp Mute 2012
- Technology and the Plague: when stars often seem to fall, then it is a token that the air is infected...
- black planet: the world as paranoia and conspiracy
- the aether and its double: time is badly warped
- Steganographia in Mute.
- Free Time in Floss+Art.
- the xxxxx reader: inescapable!
- xxxxx_peenemünde: for Raketenmensch
- poor peenemünde: monkey island adventures
audio
- soundcloud: troweling
- is-land release on FSS: extremely oblique
- pipe on oretouKh: |
- gosub10: literal split
software
- https://github.com/microresearch
- steganography: hiding in the world
- gneve: a gnu emacs video editor seriously
- Gravity's Rainbow annotation software
- all older software
older projects
- pain registers: shifting the site of execution
- radio mycelium: inter-species fungal communication
- ptraces of death: it just got deader
- JEKYLL DIFF/XOR: Jekyll and Hyde
- psplague: process infection
- the container project: russian doll protocol
- data sedimentation: self display and HD pot throw
- psychogeophysics + Suffolk psychogeophysics summit 2011 + summit report 2010 + handbook v0.05
- detektors project: electromagnetic cartographics with Shintaro Miyazaki
even older projects
- island2: an island in memory
- scrying: EM divination
- _-micro research berlin 2007-2009: micro-workshops, micro-residencies...
- ap/xxxxx archive (2001-2008): instruction sets, crash, xxxxx
older resources
- technical notes and https://github.com/microresearch/notes/blob/master/tech_diary.org
- biologic research: EEG, GSR, plants and body
- geophysical resources: only the earth
- EM - electromagnetics
- collected annotations to Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow
- AVR microcontroller: hardware, programming
- data forensics
- KiCaD: from electronics schematic to production
- kirlian imaging: high voltage photographics
documentation
- Wormed Voice DIY post-human voice synth and workshop 2017
- Dissolutions Exhibition 2016
- Earth voice performances 2015
- Earthvoice workshop 2015
- Sketches for an earth computer 2014/2015
- Crystal Laser Feedback 2014
- WMMNA interview July 2014 concerning earth computing.
- Keynote text and notes for Occulted Energies, UNSW, Sydney August 2015
- Radius Sketchpad
- eContact! 16.4
- Interview Syntone, in French
- Carrier/Container/Detektor on The Radius Episode 56
- Salpêtrière on Relay project
- diana: a poem for...
- Composting the... review Wire magazine 2014
- ARTE documentary 2013
- Pholas Dactylus research 2013
- Enclosed Detection Environment 2013
- garage logs: log.pdf and log2.pdf 2012/3
- execution solo exhibition 2012
- audio earthcoding at transnatural 7.9.2012
- documentation from the crystal world at space 17.7-1.9 2012
- video substrate at ICA, 14.7.2012
- documentation from the crystal world at ctm.12 27.01-19.02 2012