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Joost Rekveld
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artist trying to learn from machines.
site: https://joostrekveld.net
research: https://labyratoire.joostrekveld.net
mastodon: https://assemblag.es/@joost_rekveld
location: BXL
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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · Jul 8
The "Liberate the Machines!" book is starting to be available so I made a page for it even if it hasn't had a launch moment yet.

#LiberateTheMachines! #DialoguesWithMachines #SystemsThatMatter #AnalogComputing #MediaArchaeology
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An overview of the various methods to artificially grow crystals, from 2014.

#OtherSemiconductors #79 #SystemsThatMatter
November 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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The current earworm: the beautiful saz semai in makam Isfahan by Mustafa Nuri Bey.

#isfahanmakamı
November 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Brussels-South station yesterday; few trains and very few people due to the strikes.

#bxl
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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The proceedings of the first symposium on the history of semiconductors, held in 1979 when most of the people involved in the beginning were still around.

#OtherSemiconductors #79 #SystemsThatMatter
November 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Fortunately I was able to repair this fairly scary 1KV power supply.

#Spellman #OtherSemiconductors #79 #SystemsThatMatter
November 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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A beautiful faslı in makam Isfahan published by Şamlı İskender in 1922.

#Şamlıİskender #IsfahanMakamı
November 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Hurrah for mushrooms !

#Hurrah #Hourra #Hoera #Ура #好哇
November 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Very nice exhibition 'Uncharted' in Iselp in Brussels, curated by Camilla Colombo of Ohme. Pictured an intriguing work by Noémie Goudal.

#IselpBrussels #OhmeProjects
November 20, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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A nice exhibition by Vivien Roubaud in Le Pavillon in Namur.

#VivienRoubaud #LePavillonNamur
November 19, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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A fairly scary 24V in 1KV out power supply taken from a mass spectrometer.

#79 #OtherSemiconductors
#SystemsThatMatter
November 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Today I was introducing ArtScience approaches to a nice and interesting group of PhD candidates researching chirality-induced electron spin selectivity: I am more familiar with talking to artists about science than the other way around !

#ArtScience #CISS #CISSE #Ohme #BrIAS #ULB #SystemsThatMatter
November 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...

Super cool!!
We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Today we are revisiting some of these (golden ?) oldies.

#ArtScience #ArtAndScience #GyorgyKepes #SystemsThatMatter
November 16, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Very nice to be able to see some outcomes of the clay PCB workshop at Creative Coding Utrecht yesterday. This is a project on decolonizing hardware by Stefanie Wuschitz and Patrícia Reis, sourcing materials locally as much as possible.

#clayPCB #SystemsThatMatter
November 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Crystals in the mail ! Ten supposedly almost perfect cubic crystals similar to those used in the 1930s experiments that I am attempting to replicate/reenact.

#79 #OtherSemiconductors #SystemsThatMatter
November 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Revisiting the 'autonomously grown' images made by chemist Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge in 1855.

#SystemsThatMatter
November 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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When you are using the "AI" framing, does the way you talk about "AI" carry water for the Sam Altmans of the world? That is, are you helping to paint a picture of their tech as inevitable, all powerful, and/or anything other than commercial products?

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November 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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First time using git directly to upload the results of a day of coding to a repository and it is so much more straightforward than the overcomplicated git plugin that I used before.

#79 #OtherSemiconductors #SystemsThatMatter
November 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Coming Friday, the 14th of November will see the launch of my book "Liberate the Machines!" at Creative Coding in Utrecht.

#LiberateTheMachines! #DialoguesWithMachines #SystemsThatMatter #MarloesDeValk #CreativeCodingUtrecht #MechanismsCommonToDisparatePhenomena
November 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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A very interesting (first) visit to the crazy large nano-electronics research complex of imec in Leuven.

#imecLeuven #79 #OtherSemiconductors #SystemsThatMatter
November 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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And look what I found for zero money at the Basler Bücher Brocky.

#Goethe #FarbenLehre #SystemsThatMatter
November 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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In the mail from Shenzen/Fenggang/凤岗镇: scary-looking HV connectors.

#OtherSemiconductors #79 #SystemsThatMatter
November 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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restofworld.org/2025/philipp...
Japanese convenience stores are hiring robots run by workers in the Philippines
Filipino tele-operators remotely control Japan’s convenience store robots and train AI, benefiting from an uptick in automation-related jobs.
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November 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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I am reviving my email newsletter after a year of silence ! If you subscribe here, you may be just in time for the upcoming one:

www.joostrekveld.net?page_id=1423

#SystemsThatMatter
November 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Very interesting paper from 1983, for Tuesday's 'Vibrant Matter' seminar.

#VibrantMatterSeminar #SystemsThatMatter
November 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM