Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right

Rosa MenkmanLjubljana, Haip 2008.

http://rosa-menkman.blogspot.com

Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right - Ana DiFranco



In-between manifesto

2 1. We are not goal-oriented 2. We react to the Spirit of our Time (Zeitgeist)

3. We celebrate the perceived accident [via the destructive qualities of the void]

4. We make meaning through our imagination [via the constructive qualities of the void]

we do have a goal, but we are not goal oriented. To us, there is no absolute goal. The dominant goal is progress. This goal is always at the horizon. Therefore, our goal lies within the here now: we aim to develop a consciousness of the mechanisms of this goal oriented society.

by Lievnath Faber, Tim van der Heijden and Rosa Menkman

the Zeitgeist of Flow

In the in-between manifesto we argueagainst:

- The linear approach to life

- A pre-patterned flow of technology and its content (Society of the Spectacle)

- The freshness fetish

Today we are back to the quest of the Renaissance: reality through immediacy. holy grail is Holodeck of Star Trek. We take a stance against the binary and linear approach to life. In the binary and linear system, technology is no longer a means but has eventually become a goal in itself.We feel that today, one is, without realizing, caught up in a linear flow of technology and its content. Flow is constructed within the capitalist world and the ’Society of the Spectacle’. In this preprogrammed, patterned flow, one has lost control and ones active choices are being suppressed by political powers at work. A characteristic of the flow is the freshness fetish, through which we perceive the need to be on top of every development.We want to recapture our agency and regain the power of choice again.In order to recapture our agency, we must create an awareness of the flow.

Silly example of flow

Speedrunning: 5:00 by Andrew Gardikis

Accident

Virilio: Every technology has its own accidents. These accidents also have positive consequences; they are necessary to knowledge because they open up possibilitiesfor discussing a systems internal politics.

Therefore, we need to systematically distort communication

http://www.onoci.net/virilio/pages_uk/accidents/liste.php?th=1&rub=1_3

Conventions establish themselves over long periods of time. The computer is programmed to work perfectly, this is whydeviation is often perceived as an error or an accident



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We celebrate the perceived accident via the destructive qualities of the void

The void is a lack of meaning: it is the place where the message of the medium is destroyed.

One way is the technique of the glitch

In the void one is triggered to reflect upon the conventional frames, to criticize the flow, which we have taken for granted and through which we are conditioned to take part of the spirit of our time.

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Hard to define with words that follow a certain order.

My definition of digital glitch art: a sign of a break of the conventional flow in a system, which often results in a perceived accident (in a technical, social and/or economic sense.)

Coded Ruins

Jodi: <$BlogTitle$> (2007)Gijs Gieskes: Sega-Mega-Drive-1 (2007)Goto80: HT Gold (2008)Sven König: Download finished! (2007)

Knowledge is often conveyed in predefined, pre-formatted ways. Jodi shows that blogger is an assemblage of discourses and that the error is socially constructed.<$Blogtitle$> resides at the boarder of sense and nonsense, system and non-system, truth and interpretation. Therefore, it is on the “Line of flights”It show the interior politics of the medium and gives us a way to reterritorialize environment and ourselves.

The works of Gijs and Goto80 can both be understood within the lines of detournement: they repurpose parts of the original.This generates a form of machine poetry that redefines the hardware or software.

Sublime

The sublime is a counter form of aesthetics; a negative pleasure.

John Dennis 1693 "delight that is consistent with reason mingled with Horrors, and sometimes almost with despair"

The sublime is the feeling that something will happen, despite everything, within this threatening, disastrous void.

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818)

“the mist represents the uncertainty of the future, created by the tension between the old monarchical institutions and the new political thought.”

Caspar David Friedrich

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Main question of Haip: Hacktopia: an utopia or dystopia?

is there a to glitch art: utopia or dystopia?

Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right

Education

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