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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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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 1m

that is true in several ways: Buchla said he wanted to make an analog computer for music people and I think that early Serge modules are even closer to analog computing. But the obvious link to synths is via ARP: Allan Pearlman worked for Philbrick before starting his own companies.

Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 16h

Today I voted (by post) in the Dutch parliamentary elections. Strange to vote in a country where I don't live, don't work, don't pay taxes, and where the politics seems to have gone off the rails quite some time ago.

#elections #verkiezingen2025

Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not really looking for analogue computers anymore but I could not resist this small one: a gorgeous Philbrick Researches RP-F manifold from around 1966. I have not yet checked if it is still operational...

#AnalogComputing #PhilbrickResearches #SystemsThatMatter

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 2d

See creativecodingutrecht.nl/en/calendar/... for more info !

Liberate The Machines, Booklaunch by Joost Rekveld | Calendar | Creative Coding Utrecht

What happens when we begin to see machines not as passive tools, but as active collaborators in shaping our world? On 14 November, CCU hosts the launch of Joost Rekveld’s new book Liberate the Machin...

creativecodingutrecht.nl

Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 2d

An early announcement of an event that will take place at Creative Coding Utrecht on the 14th of November: a conversation around my book "Liberate The Machines!" with Marloes de Valk, including a screening of my film #59.

#LiberateTheMachines! #DialoguesWithMachines #SystemsThatMatter

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 4d

A very intense and enriching makam workshop by Murat Aydemir in Mannheim.

#OttomanMusic #MuratAydemir #Istanbur

Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 5d

Before Alfred North Whitehead's 'Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness' there was William James' 'Vicious Intellectualism'.

#AlfredNorthWhitehead #WilliamJames #SystemsThatMatter

Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 6d

Great to finally meet Margit Rosen today and learn many things at the ZKM. Little did I realize that their care currently also extends to the 2018 reconstruction of Gordon Pask's 1967 interactive sculpture 'Colloquy of Mobiles'.

#ZKM #MargitRosen #GordonPask #PaulPangaro #SystemsThatMatter

Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 7d

I am very curious to read this book by William James from 1909, but now I am perhaps even more curious to know more about that "Ecological Physics Research Group" headed by Glen Schaefer 40-50 years ago.

#WilliamJames #PluralisticUniverse #EcologicalPhysics #GlenSchaefer #SystemsThatMatter

Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 10d

His English wikipage only discusses his military career as the Crimean Tatar Khan, his Turkish wikipage only discusses his poetry and music. In any case he seems to have been the only composer ever to attempt a raid on Moscow (in 1591).

Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 10d

The beautifully calligraphed name of 'Tatar' Gazi Giray Han (1534-1607) on the title page of this a bit more than a century old edition of his Mahur peşrev and saz semai.

#GaziGirayHan #MahurMakamı

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 11d

I knew of two types of capacitor that had the right to their own symbol, but this 1939 manual has six pages of symbols corresponding to different types.

#capacitors #79 #systemsThatMatter

Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 12d

I didn't realize Coursey was the technical director of Dubilier, the first commercial manufacturer of capacitors, which I believe is still in business 105 years after it was founded.

Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 12d

Just in: the long awaited 1937 sequel to the 1927 bible on capacitor production by Philip R. Coursey that I posted a while ago. Even more details, materials and production methods, but now zooming in on electrolytic capacitors.
#capacitors #electrolyticCapacitors #Dubilier #79 #SystemsThatMatter

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 14d

Pictured are some tests I made at the time on a dot matrix printer, which was certainly not a suitable medium for these rather fragile images; I ended up shooting the film on 16mm, frame by frame from a monitor. The software was written in FORTH and assembler.

#forth

Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 14d

I just realized that later today one of my first films, "IFSfilm" from 1991, will be shown in a programme put together by Martijn van Boven for the 25fps festival in Zagreb, under the title "Raw Data: The Origins of Digital Film".

#IFSfilm #25fpsFestival

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 14d

"Rat's nest" or "Manhattan Style" prototyping (or however one would like to call this particular hybrid variant) is fun to do and has something of a sculptural charm. Tomorrow we'll see if it actually does what it should do.

#79 #ManhattanStyle #prototyping #analogElectronics #SystemsThatMatter

Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 16d

He collected snowflakes on a black cloth and observed them under a microscope that had been imported from The Netherlands. Apparently these drawings triggered the development of hexagonal ornaments in Japan.

Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 16d

A sidetrack today; this is one page from the "Sekka Zusetsu" (雪華図説), a collection of 86 drawings of snowflakes made in 1832 by Doi Toshitsura, a local Japanese ruler.
#SekkaZusetsu #SnowCrystals #SystemsThatMatter

Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 17d

Preparing for an upcoming makam workshop by studying this beautiful buselik peşrev by Greek-Ottoman composer Kemençeci Nikolaki (? - 1915).

#KemençeciNikolaki #BuselikMakamı

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Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · 18d

The stagnation of physics

Physicists today need to jettison the all-too-attractive myth that they are uncovering the hidden reality of our Universe | by Adrien De Sutter (@adesut.bsky.social) aeon.co/essays/why-t... #physics #reality #philsky

Why the hunt for reality is an impossible burden for physics | Aeon Essays

Physicists today need to jettison the all-too-attractive myth that they are uncovering the hidden reality of our Universe

aeon.co

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 18d

What a great piece, thanks for sharing ! Interesting to compare with Pickering's "Constructing Quarks".

Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 19d

If phenomena were plentiful in nature, summer blackberries there just for the picking, it would be remarkable if experiments didn't work. But phenomena are hard to produce in any stable way."

Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 19d

" ... most experiments don't work most of the time. To ignore this fact is to forget what experimentation is doing. To experiment is to create, produce, refine and stabilize phenomena.

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 19d

Two intense days with nose in the books; almost done with preparing this year's seminar at KASK, entitled 'Vibrant Matter'.

Encountered this passage by Ian Hacking that describes the current state of my crystal projects quite well:

#SchoolOfArtsGent #VibrantMatter #SystemsThatMatter

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