[-empyre-] rehearsal of a network - [week 4]
Shu Lea Cheang
shulea at earthlink.net
Tue Jun 26 15:13:13 AEST 2018
many thanks for Virginia's garden tips..
and to Jaromil, so bitcoins failed, and the blockchain is taking over
the art market?
Speaking of art-
a few projects that started Mycelium Network Society
RADIO MYCELIUM by Martin Howse
https://fo.am/radio_mycelium/ (a workshop at FOAM in 2011, will also be
at STWST48x4/ARS this september)
Azucena Sanchez' Narco Cultivos that tracks Mexico's drug trafficing
network with behavior patterns of physarum polycephalum.
http://azusnz.com/narco-cultivos/
The T-shroom project by Kartina Neiburga and Art bureau OPEN (Ilze Black)
http://open.x-i.net/tsene/index2.html
The gorgeous Spore Print Film Series by Anna Schime of Buffalo
http://www.a--a.org/project/spore-print-film-series
https://vimeo.com/85092290
Taro's Myco-Logick
https://stwst48x2.stwst.at/myco-logick
and Saša Spačal's (from Ljubljana, supported by Kapelica gallery) series
of mycophonic works
https://mycophone.wordpress.com/mycophone_unison/
After all, MNS wants to connect local network nodes who would cultivate
artists who work with fungal stuff....
over
sl
On 25/06/18 20:37, Shu Lea Cheang wrote:
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>
>
> ok
>
> on how mycelium/mushroom as a figure ... the mycelium cult would wants
> to dive in and argue forever , but quickly, we quote-
>
> My mecelium network is nearly immortal, only the sudden toxification
> of a planet or the explosion of its parent star can wipe me out… all
> my mycelial networks in the galaxy are in hyper light communication
> across space and time. - Terence McKenna, The Mushnoon speaks
>
> I believe that mycelium is the neurological network of nature.
> Interlacing mosaics of mycelium infuse habitats with
> information-sharing membranes. …..The mycelium stays in constant
> molecular communication with its environment, devising diverse
> enzymatic and chemical responses to complex challenges. - Paul
> Stamets, Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
>
> We are stuck with the problem of living despite economic and
> ecological ruination….. Neither tales of progress nor of ruin tell us
> how to think about collaborative survival. It is time to pay attention
> to mushroom picking. Not that this will save us— but it might open our
> imaginations. - Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, The mushroom at the end of the
> world : on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins
>
> This answers back to [week 1] how we got started... interesting we
> flash back to the 90s here..
>
> bring up all nodes and bolts... loosen and to be fastened...
>
> damn, and dollyoko are finger tight!!
>
> over
>
> sl
>
>
> On 25/06/18 20:06, warkk wrote:
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>>
>> Thanks for the links, Alice. I started reading but Nick Land came up
>> so i stopped reading immediately. I never took him to be
>> state-of-the-art theory. Others might find the space interesting but
>> its just not for me. Reaons given here:
>> https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3284-on-nick-land
>>
>> Patrick is i think pointing us both back to the nineties but also
>> forward, and i think that's a good note to hit before anyone starts
>> getting into a nostalgic vein. I think its more about bracketing-off
>> what networks came to be in the two consolidations of the power of
>> what i call the vectoralist class. The first was around 2000, with
>> the rise of corporate forms built on nothing but IP. The second came
>> a decade later, with the commdification not just of information but
>> also of the social network itself.
>>
>> Patrick also asks why the mushroom as a figure. I don't really
>> understand how this part works, but it is the bit i find intriguing:
>> that mushrooms have 36,000 genders, or something like that. Maybe Shu
>> Lea's introduction of the mycelium into discussion will encourage me
>> to get a layhumans' grasp on how that works. It seems just at first
>> sight to be be an interesting thought-image of how protocols might
>> work otherwise.
>>
>> mw
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 1:10 PM, patrick lichty <p at voyd.com
>> <mailto:p at voyd.com>> wrote:
>>
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>> As someone who would call himself postcybernetic rather than
>> postinternet,
>> I agree with Dollyoko nd Ken. The spaces for intereaction were
>> highly
>> heterogenous and diverse, and Honestly, I find the postinternet
>> discourse
>> relatively bland by comparison, as a lot of what it talks about
>> is reference
>> to postcybernetic/cyberdelic. MOOs, MUDs, Even back to nets of
>> online
>> communities (Thing, Compuserve, Delphi, Fidonet, Usenet) was
>> amazing. In
>> many ways it seems like the corporate stacks combined with
>> academic FOMO has
>> created a tremendous amount of conservatism compared to the crash
>> theory
>> days of the Krokers.
>>
>> In many ways, I think our era of risk aversion and its pruning of the
>> rhizome is indicative of the relationship between culture and
>> capital. As
>> art fairs and consolidating gallery culture, as well as the
>> struggle (in my
>> mind) to figure ourselves out more as Postmodernism fractured
>> into the
>> Speculative Turn, the notion of the rhizome has turned into
>> reality bubble
>> foam that generally swirls under megacorporate umbrellas.
>>
>> This is why I love things like Dina Karadzic's FUBAR bunch, and
>> Shu Lea's
>> work the other year at the Leonore residency, but I also wonder
>> why the
>> notion of the mycorhizome is so strong these days as opposed to the
>> strawberry patch (Deleuze), is it a subliminal signifier of fruit
>> and decay
>> and rebirth?
>>
>> Also very interested in t-shroom discussion.
>>
>> Love from the desert
>> (also apologies for the typos - my current computer has a very flaky
>> keyboard)
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: empyre-bounces at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au
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>> warkk
>> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2018 4:13 PM
>> To: soft_skinned_space <empyre at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au
>> <mailto:empyre at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au>>
>> Subject: Re: [-empyre-] rehearsal of a network - [week 4]
>>
>> Alan is quite right to stress how extensive the options were for
>> online
>> encounters in the 90s, beyond the handful i named. The larger
>> point might
>> still be that knowledge of any of that world is fairly thin these
>> days.
>> There are a few period accounts. dollyoko mentions Marshall's
>> Living on
>> Cybermind. Julian Dibbell wrote a book about LambdaMoo. There's a
>> new book
>> by Claire Evans called Broad Band that has good brief accounnts
>> of Echo and
>> The Word and is focused on innovations in computation by women.
>>
>> Of course one could ask whether the linear prose form of the book
>> is the
>> best or even a necessary way of documenting such things. I think
>> of the book
>> as an instance of what dollyoko calls "successionist servers."
>> Its hard to
>> keep them out of Amazon, one of the biggest vectoral class
>> enterprises of
>> our time, but they will at least 'run' independently of that
>> proprietary
>> environment.
>>
>> A book is a concentrated swarm whereas online communication tend
>> to default
>> to dispersed ones....
>>
>> dollyoko has some great language for an ongoing project: secessionist
>> servers, intentional family, open family platforms, vernacular
>> approaches to
>> infrastructure. (To just pick a few that i think go together with
>> the themes
>> Shu Lea suggested).
>>
>> Maybe its a good thing that 90s cyberculture experiments ended up
>> largely
>> invisible and excluded from history, as now it might be time to
>> be rather
>> discreet about the possibilities uncovered then. Maybe it was a
>> good thing
>> for mycelium that it was largely invisible for so long, as nobody
>> figured
>> out how to monetize it.
>>
>> mw
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 2:16 AM, <dollyoko at thing.net
>> <mailto:dollyoko at thing.net>> wrote:
>>
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>> >
>> > dear shu lea and empyreans
>> >
>> > yes, finger fucking across platforms and waters, deep code
>> luscious
>> > moon brown stem the shadow of a venetian blind on summer body in
>> > borrowed loft wiping sweat, not swiping left (write left alt
>> write)
>> > Floodnet!
>> >
>> > i'm immersing eyes into this generous mycelial conversation today
>> > feeling the tendrils of one hundred minds
>> >
>> > 'powerful poetic gestures'
>> > 'alternate sentiences'
>> > 'the incomputable'
>> > 'nature is not a system'
>> > 'break all separations'
>> > 'imps fuelling the real'
>> > 'vernacular approach to infrastructure'
>> > 't-shroom as family heritage and long-living family member'
>> > 'i have a vast genetic network in me'
>> > 'we begin to think like a forest'
>> >
>> > how to extend the intentional families we (of a certain age)
>> created
>> > in the 90s [while perhaps reading Bruce Stirling's Dead Media
>> list, or
>> > skiving off to PMCMoo or RiverMOO when LambdaMOO was down] before
>> > other 'we(s)' were born
>> >
>> > Jonathan Marshall's book 'Living on Cybermind' might be one
>> answer to
>> > Ken's Q about how to capture the non-linear threaded lives
>> >
>> > i've been returning to build at LambdaMoo since around 2013,
>> prompted
>> > by projects such as Networked Art Forms and Tactical Magick Faerie
>> > Circuits - instigated by the wonderful Nancy Mauro-Flude, and
>> (equally
>> > wonderful) Furtherfield's Beyond the Interface... I'm not sure
>> what
>> > the mycelial potential of such old platforms might be, I suspect
>> > there's something though...... for example, a nascent project I'm
>> > doing with Virginia Barratt and Alice Farmer takes as it
>> starting point:
>> >
>> > -----------------------------------
>> >
>> > "A multi-platform artwork comprising a LambdaMOO environment
>> > (multi-user domain object-oriented), performing avatars,
>> improvised
>> > performance, experimental hypertext fiction, cryptokitties on the
>> > (ethereum) blockchain, and a hand-bound XenZine. The subject is
>> the
>> > construction of intentional family beyond blood and kind.
>> >
>> > We revisit LambdaMOO as a site for gender non-conforming
>> > subjectivities to explore the production of xenofam and
>> xenobodies,
>> > outside of social re-production, and bring those practices to bear
>> > upon the "real". Only a few years after the emergence of the WWW,
>> > social networking habits were harnessed and stratified into
>> machines
>> > for the production of social capital and new affective forms of
>> > extractivism within the paradigm of info-capitalism. Yet the
>> outlier
>> > LambdaMOO is still maintained by a small phreak family as a
>> working
>> > experiment, an enclave among other secessionist servers (caves,
>> > sinkholes, hackpads, labyrinthine clouds) carving out space to
>> platform
>> lives of creative resistance, blasphemy and joy.
>> >
>> > The performing avatars, the unholy trinity of Witchmum, Mum 2.0
>> and
>> > Precocious Meme Savant, have cooked, co-habited and coded as
>> > becoming-kin to instantiate xenofam, building affective bonds
>> through
>> > which datablood flows. This queered approach to extensible and
>> open
>> > family platforms generates intentional spaces for the
>> reconfiguration
>> > of blood ties beyond blood types, and another mode of hexing
>> Capital."
>> >
>> > --------------------
>> >
>> > I want to write more, but I need to buy bread as I can't wait
>> the 12
>> > hours for the wild yeasts to do their thing.
>> > I will try to attract some xenofeminist and other spores this way
>> > while thinking about how Ken's 'we no longer have roots, we
>> have aerials'
>> > might take a mycelial turn
>> >
>> >
>> > Warmly, to all
>> > doll fingers + witch thoughts, perhaps a spell cast from and to
>> this
>> > conversation, tomorrow
>> >
>> >
>> >
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