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Zachary De Santos
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I'm going to start this as a clean slate, I'm not sure if I'll be discussing the technological augmentation of humanity now, or simply looking at how the speed of the internet affects my confidence. I'm working on an instrument which allows people in different spaces to communicate gestures as a live broadcast. I'll be learning how this affects me as a viola player and designer as I improvise my way through this time capsule and go through another learning curve based on current technology.
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    This is a first attempt at mapping in software, interfaced with a cheap homemade imitation of mind-control hardware using wii remote embedded in a cycle helmet, while improvising on the Viola.
    The field recordings were made on the Llyn Peninsular in Wales UK and on the tram in Vienna on the way to visit the grave of Gustav Mahler. Recorded this summer, intended for a prototype in audio maps for networked exploration of places in online virtual soundscapes and in performance. 2 simultaneous 'sound-maps' each containing 25 field recordings are mixed from Left Right Up Down commands from the head.
    I'm interested in the simulation of several thoughts at once and how mind control hardware ( http://www.emotiv.com/ ) can cope with plural thinking i.e the ability to mentally visualise impossible things and make them into controllers for digital art.

    Plural thinking from yza3.0 on Vimeo.
    Recorded at Risk of Shock on 10-10-2010, University of Wales Bangor.

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    What is the viscosity of the democratic system?

    I think I have just learned how it feels to drown. March 13 at 10:49am


    Genetics over multiple generations and Fluid Simulation

    More on this later.



    As we move through each day, and things around us are changing we must each and everyone of us realize one important thing. We each have a chance to make sense out of our ancestors suffering by being a part of that change. Our lives, our actions can make sense out of thousands of years of suffering if we will only take a stand. Not only can we vindicate the lives that came before but we can ensure that the lives that come after will no longer suffer as our ancestors, or even as we ourselves have. I don't know about you, but for me that is a very empowering thought! :-)

    -DeLong March 6 at 7:21pm IRL-Time

    On the other hand we are being encouraged by proxy to use a treadmill to create that change, a blend of reflex and incentive for the 'working' class. We should be allowed to decide for ourselves what is healthy, that is our right.

    This future thinking buffer has lead me to consider that one click per day is healthy.
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    -By Cyntel.


    The House Of Argos (where people go to find out what may be going down)

    Ode to a lost dancer
    the dream of peace stripped
    though it costs them everything.
    others dream of wars
    they can not win.

    "Life is no one"
    somehow shout
    language
    who can not remember.

    the sister fall
    the heat of cruelty.
    separates chauvinism
    with early substance.

    "No one should die
    just to be alive. "
    and become bloodthirsty
    without being able to look back.

    flying pieces of the hero
    it's blood and discipline.
    break in the mystery
    names have been forgotten.

    Some call for revenge
    with the new name of justice
    some only machined
    exorcise the terror.

    dawns on the border
    bored with innocence
    breaks of a machete
    much dignity.

    there is no god suburbs
    own god to save
    there is no god suburbs
    own god to save.

    Posted by Christian M May 12, 2010 Spanish Original Text

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    I have been trying out a few of my lives on facebook and suddenly remembered the war which is on Comedy, Conflict, and Discipline. I thought sharing this may highlight some thoughts on what will make us laugh in some distant future.
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    Choreography for dual-line Kite Ballet requires some knowledge on the problems of physical issues where the kite strings can become tangled, a team of kite enthusiasts may practise a sequence of kite moves with a meter stick to see if there would be any problems with cross-wires and human obstacles.



    Music is Static (2D).

    e.g mirrored diamonds

    Mirrored maths to attain unique descriptors : Trajectory X 6 0 11 2 2 2 2 0 Y 0 4 0 2 2 2 2 5

    x= 25! 25/5=5
    y= 17*

    X 3212(9X1)2123 which is 17*
    25 - 2 1 2 3 = 17

    Simulation based on trajectories dependent on the Nylon-Crossing Barrier;



    Music can be Semi-Dynamic, reactive (to the nth dimension).



    Not dependent on the Nylon-Crossing Barrier;



    No Sonification (from which point numbers are more interesting than technology).
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    This represents my mission for the rest of the year, it is a fully functioning fridge floating around in space, except that I will be mainly using nylon and polyester to create my data-shield.


    My data-shield has been positioned to allow me the furthest distance from the browser interface that I physically can, but allow me to also access educational materials and to quench my day to day curiosities.

    My time will be spent interfacing with the synthetic fabrics and I will output data to the web via html5.

    I don't know what the raw data is for, but I hope sometime in the future it will become a sustainable way of living, as I like working away from the PC.

    I can also animate my fridge in a 3D universe and interchange the backgrounds.
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    Occupy the Future

    I found the facebook page through a friend.


    https://www.facebook.com/occupythefuture?ref=ts&sk=wall#!/occupythefuture?sk=wall
    The page was fresh up, and it was defined as a "community". I tried my hardest to take part in the "community". But all my comments were auto-deleted. This is simply a feature on facebook front end pages. It made me laugh to think I was trying to communicate with it. Doh!

    I'd like to thank spacecollective members for being a supportive real-time community.

    The occupythefuture website may be a good synapse for the present. We may need to share with them something of the problems of future-visualisation and we may be able to contribute progressively with them through our discoveries. I don't quite understand how they work yet.

    Their resource page is pretty good!
    http://occupythefuture.org/resources/

    My worry is we are primates, and we take on too much too soon by nature.

    Complexity is always first to defend. It is also first to attack. Nature understands this and sends individuals out of the swarm to check around a bit.

    Architecture is timeless, the architect did not think so much about themself when they designed the structure and placed it in an environment. The architect had to think of all the people who may visit this timeless object and decide what language they may be speaking.

    Whoever stated their point this week I agree. This is a very mighty movement indeed!

    After poking about a bit I have come to decide this is in no way time for coded language, except for drama and entertainment. We need to be honest and brave and reach out for peace and unity, with the most complex and fascinating architecture we can possibly achieve.


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    pbw


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    ‎"I'd encountered the idea that we were all cyborgs once or twice before, but usually in writings on gender or in postmodernist (or post postmodernist) studies of text. What struck me in July 1997 was that this kind of story was the literal and scientific truth."

    - Andy Clark

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    http://www.seroquelxr.com/

    Wow I just took 150mg of slow release seroquel XL for the 2nd day in a row and can no longer visualise my words and emotions as an abstract visual sign language, only retaining the ability to practice my handwriting in my head. Instead the data looks like one diagonal line, like a mower trying to start up but it won't start. The shit has hit the fan and I am using it to cope. What is this telling me? The affect is in no way subtle. I will keep practising over the short phase that I self medicate while transferring my behaviours to athletic and stamina based.

    This comes at a time of output for me, the output which I am glad for, but the seasons will do what the seasons will do.

    PeaC


    Ah no here comes a message...

    y X y = 0
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=Ibal6pcERS0

    About half way through Kreidler's lecture he shows a project where he samples 7.5 thousand tunes in 33 seconds and takes the paperwork to court in a van laden with paper, it is quite special.

    So sampling other people's music to 'break new ground in music' is finally legal (in the UK so I hear). What is the next taboo for the underground scene, what rules can be broken in a cool way these days?

    What we need is a secret agreement between 2 hidden minds to have exact opposing agendas that through drifting breezes affect law, mentality and keep us in a constant state of opposition, so that we can base taboos upon them, and get a kick out of breaking those rules, it is a constant energy loop dependent on such fickle principles that could change at any moment, just when you are expecting to succeed.

    What we so easily reject is the notion that these two minds exist not as brains but within the walls of our very language and that this form of intelligence is not so much a choice but an anchor for all of us, within the bottleneck to true intelligence.

    My Neo-music

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