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http://danielranalli.com/recent-work/snail-drawings-series

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Claude-Olivier Guay

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Mouth To Ear

The strange confluence of a moving speaker cone, modified microphones, muted low-frequency feedback and code, Mouth to Ear is a generative audio composition exploring the tonal possibilities of feedback combined with the element of chance in an unstable interaction of changing physical quantities.

Developed specifically for the Call & Response 3D sound system, the work plays with aspects of broadcast, reception, and reproduction around the human response to systems of communication and their pervasive signal networks.

Mouth to Ear is part of a series initiated by the piece Ear to Mouth and continuing with Light Loop, Oscillations in Love and Light and Garden of Signals. Presented in 13.1 channel sound.

‘Since many people feel compelled to broadcast, one finds oneself in a state of permanent receptivity’ – Siegfried Kracauer, 1927

jeremykeenan.info callandresponse.org.uk

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1+1=2 (2006) Blake Fall Conry Found machinery, calculator, paper. (12 x 4 x 4 inches)

1+1=2 (2006)  Found machinery, calculator, paper. (12 x 4 x 4 inches)  A motor is attached to a paper-fed calculator which prints on a single loop of paper. The motor drives gears which move an arm back and forth to repeatedly press the equals “=” button on the calculator. This action completes the equation “1 + 1” giving the next integer, which is simultaneously displayed on the calculator’s screen and printed on the loop. One cycle takes about ten seconds. Thus the calculator starts at one and counts upward by one, ad infinitum. Since the paper has been looped through the feed the calculator eventually prints over past computations, obscuring the printout. Only when the machine reaches a new decimal place (10’s, 100’s, 1000’s, etc.) does the left-most digit again become readable for a brief period. While the piece presents a statement on never-ending systems, we know that logically there must be an endpoint– the calculator will either cease to function, reach an incalculable number, or the power will be turned off. Thus the piece may more accurately be a description of the time required (or wasted) in carrying out its process, than about any theory of infinity.            

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Fossil Crusher (2013)

Blake Fall-Conroy

Aluminum, motors, gears, belting, rubber, misc. hardware, power supply. (approx. box dimensions 60 x 8 x 14 inches)  A slow-moving conveyor belt drops Devonian-age fossils into a crushing machine. The crushed fossils fall to the floor creating a pile of debris. The conveyor belt moves through one rotation in approximately 24 hours. New fossils are added to the conveyor daily.

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Every Recording of Gymnopedie 1 - Hey Exit

~60 versions of Satie’s Gymnopedie 1 timestretched to the length of the longest recording and overlaid

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“The writings of the computer genius and Internet hacktivist whose tragic suicide shook the world

In January 2013, Aaron Swartz, under arrest and threatened with thirty-five years’ imprisonment, committed suicide. He was twenty-six. But in his short life he had changed the world: reshaping the Internet, questioning our assumptions about intellectual property, and creating some of the tools we use in our daily online lives. He was also a leading critic of the politics of the Web.

In this collection of his writings that spans over a decade, Swartz displays his passion for and in-depth knowledge of intellectual property, copyright, and the architecture of the Internet. The Boy Who Could Change the World contains the life’s work of one of the most original minds of our time.”

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Recent years have seen a growing consensus in the philosophical community that the grandfather paradox and similar logical puzzles do not preclude the possibility of time travel scenarios that utilize spacetimes containing closed timelike curves. At the same time, physicists, who for half a century acknowledged that the general theory of relativity is compatible with such spacetimes, have intensely studied the question whether the operation of a time machine would be admissible in the context of the same theory and of its quantum cousins. A time machine is a device which brings about closed timelike curves—and thus enables time travel—where none would have existed otherwise. The physics literature contains various no-go theorems for time machines, i.e., theorems which purport to establish that, under physically plausible assumptions, the operation of a time machine is impossible. We conclude that for the time being there exists no conclusive no-go theorem against time machines. The character of the material covered in this article makes it inevitable that its content is of a rather technical nature. We contend, however, that philosophers should nevertheless be interested in this literature for at least two reasons. First, the topic of time machines leads to a number of interesting foundations issues in classical and quantum theories of gravity; and second, philosophers can contribute to the topic by clarifying what it means for a device to count as a time machine, by relating the debate to other concerns such as Penrose’s cosmic censorship conjecture and the fate of determinism in general relativity theory, and by eliminating a number of confusions regarding the status of the paradoxes of time travel. The present article addresses these ambitions in as non-technical a manner as possible, and the reader is referred to the relevant physics literature for details.