-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.
micro_research is active worldwide and is supported by workshops, performances such as Final Session, substrat and earthvoice, exhibitions and the sales of ERD eurorack modules.
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events/releases
- Becoming geological: the evening of... v2_, Rotterdam, 5/01/2023
- Becoming geological: the exhibition v2_, Rotterdam, 24/11/2022-8/1/2023
- Becoming geological: the publication available now
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 - 2018-22
Tiny Mining book launch, Hopscotch Reading Room, Berlin. 23.9.2022postponed!- 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 2016
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