xxxxx call 2007
xxxxx call for participation in a speculative 12 hour life coding event (organising hardware and software) to be held in Mid-November as part of the Piksel festival in Bergen, Norway:
Deadline for email submission: July 31st 12AM [midnight]
Life coding is a mapping of the descriptive means of hardware and programming onto the world. In this instance it includes the invention and construction of models and language to actively describe and code the event; instructing, structuring, re-structuring and constructing the 12 hours. Life coding is obviously influenced by the existence of programming, fiction, scripting and execution.
Participation is not limited to potential forms including:
The above will be assembled into shifts which move between hardware, interface and (life) code. Proposals should suggest which shift would be suitable. Proposed topics for shifts include open hardware in relation to control, the world as interface, material as question of substance (soft/hard), and the relation of technology, code and pornography.
Please submit an introduction to your area of research/practise as well as examples of projects, performances, texts, proposals for advanced participatory workshops, performative presentations, actions, interactions, interventions and email your entry to:
Further information on the event:
xxxxx 2007 is proposed and wilfully structured as a 12 hour life coding event within the context of previous xxxxx activities (Crash 2005, xxxxx 2006), and influenced by Plenum (collaboration with KOP, 2006).
xxxxx 2007 will exist as a major, inspired durational, performative event allowing for exchange and construction between invited international participants who truly exist on the bleeding edge of what could be termed contemporary Crash culture.
xxxxx 2007 expands software and hardware with a wilful emphasis on construction, an interface between theory and the active entry of making' in the world.
xxxxx 2007 as event manifests a free software-led, coded structure of self-organisation, and unique working groups. Although some of these events will be ongoing (for example several working groups, and background material), the 12 hours will be assembled by way of shifts.
With many thanks to BEK, Norway: http://bek.no
xxxxx list for life coding of events (ideas and announcements) and discussion of life coding practice.
Subscription: https://www.bek.no/mailman/listinfo/xxxxx
Life coding is a mapping of the descriptive means of hardware and programming onto the world, a concern with an interiority of the project of rationalism (the CPU) which can be expanded with reference to data sheets, instruction sets (for example) and an operating system in its widest (divine) sense.
Life coding is a concrete practice (code brut) with evident links to the science of endophysics (exteriority and ethics), Gnostic fiction (paranoia in language as fiction), electromystical activity, EM (electromagnetic) practice for city flaneur and critique of entropic world view economies.
xxxxx list activity is not limited to these activities and ideas - rather exploring a wider territory for this new practice.
With many thanks to BEK, Bergen, Norway for support.