The Art of the Accident

Collection of essays stating that the concept of “accident” contains not just the idea that each machine carries its particular form of disaster but also the suggestion that the old distinction between timeless form and time-dependent processes is becoming increasingly unclear. 

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Failure and malfunction are inherent in all technological products. In The Art of the Accident, the concept of “accident” contains not just the idea that each machine brings with it its own form of disaster but also the suggestion that in a world of network technologies the old distinction between timeless form and time-dependent processes is becoming increasingly unclear.
Ars accidentalis recognizes the creative potential of the accident, the fall, and the instability of digital media. The book maps the transformation of space, time bodies, machines and architectures through the conceptual and noninstrumental use of the computer.
The Art of the Accident includes essays and interviews from composer Dick Raaymakers, biologist Humberto Maturana, urbanist Paul Virilio, literary scientist Katherine Hayles, endophysicist Otto Rössler and computer scientist Steve Mann. It also contains a series of artistic interventions by people such as Knowbotic Research, Perry Hoberman and Diller Scofidio. This fully illustrated book takes a synthesizing approach towards intersecting practices in art and science, outlining the basics of an ars accidentalis.

Essays and Interviews

• Dick Raaijmakers: Right to Risk
• Paul Virilio: Surfing the Accident
• Steve Mann: Experiment is Accident
• Perry Hoberman: Mistakes & Misbehavior
• Marcos Novac: Next Babylon: Accidents To Play In
• Lars Spuybroek: Where Space Gets Lost
• Brian Massumi: Event Horizon
• Humberto Maturana: We Living Systems
• Otto E. Rössler: The World as an Accident
• Knowbotis Research + cF: IO_Dencies - Questioning Urbanity
• N. Katherine Hayles: How does it feel to be posthuman?

Artist Projects

• John Bain: The Mutant Data Orchestra
• Mark Bain: The Live Room - Transducing Resonant Architecture
• Bureau of Inverse Technology: Bit Plane and other BIT Products
• Călin Dan: Happy Doomsday!
• Diller Scofido: Jet Lag
• Timothy Druckrey: Why 2k Or
• Masaki Fujihata: Nuzzle Afar
• Perry Hoberman: Systems Maintenance
• Jodi: Oss/****
• Kit: COTIS
• Knowbotic Research: Io_Dencies
• Gunther Krüger: Compactor {The Machine}
• Ed van Megen: Asa: Access All Accidents
• Seiko Mikami: World, Membrane And The Dismembered Body
• Gebhard Sengmüller: Vinylvideo
• Debra Solomon: The_Living
• Tamás Walicsky: Sculptures
• Herwig Weiser: Zgodlocator
• Aaron Williamson: Hearing Things (The Oracle)
• Online Realities In 3d
• The Unreliable Deaf98 Website

Technophonia essays in sound -extracts of

The following articles are extracted from the Contemporary Sound Arts publication, Essays in Sound 2: Technophonia. CLICK HERE

Hard copies of this journal are available from bookshops or from Multipoint Distributors, PO Box 86 Eastern Mail Centre, Victoria, Australia 3110. tel 61-3-9872-6314, fax 61-3-9877-6319.

Extracts from Essays in Sound 2: Technophonia.

Table of contents

1. Introduction - Annemarie Jonson
2. Notes Towards Sound Ecology in the Garden of Listening - Virginia Madsen
3. Schizochronia: Time in Digital Sound - John Potts
4. RAFT - Ruark Lewis and Paul Carter; Alexandra Pitsis
5. Erotic Nostalgia and the Inscription of Desire - Allen S. Weiss
6. Lost in Space - Shaun Davies
7. Naum Gabo's Linear Constructions - Densil Cabrera
8. Before the Beep: A Short History of Voice Mail - Thomas Y. Levin
9. Exhibitions
10. Please, Please -- Identify Me! Yuji Sone: Works, Texts and Commentaries - Colin Hood
11. Who was that Masked Maus? - Norie Neumark
12. The Sound of a Dream - Niall Lucy

essay -gertrude stein and the sounded jouissant

Lifting Belly is often considered the central erotic work of Gertrude Stein's middle period...this love poem, associative in structure, consists of alternately cryptic and conversational fragments detailing elements of sounded spaces from within a domestic sphere. The language is jouissant. But the language of jouissance in Stein’s Belly works as a vocabulary of ecstasy that is far beyond the stable and mere pleasure of the body or the text. This ‘unform of language’, functions as ecstasy through sounded sound...

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essay- a little glossary of big whoppers

Language as stuff is pretty weird… it’s full of tropes, loops, gaps and double distenders (think garters). It makes up stories, does impromptu stand-ins and ‘performs’ for (other) objects… ha! a type of textural drive-by/asylum/squirm comedy when seen under the spotlight, it plies itself as culture in our bodies much like the ‘other’s other’ and goes marching on in the abstract, full of mis-meanings perversely masquerading as the true blue blue truth. Given that it lies along side it also lies, damn it, inside itself. Language, is busy displacing, disrupting and cutting off the depths and heights of how far a human and especially a woman can say or be said to go… show… say and perhaps, yes o dear… be. Its nothing personal its been said, but those limits are whoppers that stifle the Whopa’s of a gals oversized, abnormally normal, paroxysms of excitement and pleasurably pleasured ec-stas-y.

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